Just popping in to tell you I'm ok, just lurking ATM. For those of you who've pm'd me worried Jayne and Anna thank you so much for you concern. I really am ok, just going through a quiet phase which I know is unheard of when it comes to me but don't worry, I'll find my groove soon.
OH Spring - You're lucky woman. I was about to enlist the help of others to make sure you were ok!!!!!!! I'm so glad you're ok & I wish I could be quiet sometimes.......... I really hope you find your mojo really soon because I'm missing you like crazy!!!
Sorry for such a quick one from me. Tomorrow is a super busy day. We have the girls Christmas performance in the morning and then I have enough time to head home, shower the girls & myself & get to the airport. 6 hour layover in Beijing is lovely (NOT!), so we will head into town for some dinner & then back to the airport for the 2 big flights home. Will be back in Perth at 3pm on Saturday. Yay!!!
Hi all - quick update....funny how things can turn around in a day. Got a phone call yesterday from the agent that's been helping us find a place to say one of the ones we got knocked back on had fallen through and the owner wanted to offer us a lease. Woooot!! The house is lovely, pretty much new, big and open and well, lovely! The yard however isn't great. It's pretty much a bare patch of poorly growing grass (pretty standard in that suburb though with very, very sandy soil) a storm water grate smack bang in the middle of the yard and no side fences, meaning the kids can get from the back to the front very easily. AND the owner is thinking of selling so is only offering a 3 month lease. Grrrrr. Despite all this, in our desperate state we decided to accept it, sorted the details of the lease and DH was to go in on Monday to sign. I was just about to transfer the holding deposit (like sitting at the computer, internet banking logon screen all ready to go) WHEN....the phone rings again. Its another agent in Port Stephens wanting to know if we'd found something yet. So I tell her yes and she said oh, Ok then. I ask her why she is calling and she said that the other house we applied for (which is our definite first choice, beautiful newish home, perfect yard, side access for boat etc) has also fallen through and although she is confident we would have been offered the lease, she hasn't got confirmation from the owner yet as they are in WA.
So.....what we decided in a flurry of phone calls all over the place was to sit tight until today, not pay our holding deposit on the first place and wait to hear about the second house which is much better suited to us and is a 6 month minimum lease. Now I am very nervous that we need to play this right or we could end up with no house again!!
AND....both houses are empty as of this weekend so it was on the cards that we'd move before xmas but thankfully our removalists are booked solid and can't do it till the 29th December....when we'll be on holidays with Mako and clan....aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhh!!
BUT we mulled it over and decided that we'd get DHs parents to be here while they packed us up on the 29th (not ideal but the best we could come up with), they will load us up on the 30th and then we will probably cut our holiday short a day or so (sorry Mako ) and be at the new place on the 31st when they unload us.
I will then have to come back to Sydney at some point in that week to finish up here and clean etc - although one of the mums at school has her own cleaning business and contracts to Dept of Housing...thinking of getting her to do the cleaning?????!!!!
Soooooo....that's us! I am learning to live with these levels of stress
Keep your fingers crossed for us for the second house girls! Although I see online today that two more 4 bedders have become available...always the way!!
I feel soooooooooooooo bad about letting down the girl with the first agency if we pull out of that lease She has been so helpful from first contact and I really wish I didn't have to muck her around. But like DH said, they had no hesitation in telling us no on Tuesday, the guy is only offering a 3 month lease (probably just to cover his mortgage until he sells) and we need to look out for our family first and foremost. It's her job, it's our life iykwim?
Don't even start me on the tenants for our place. Grrrrr. Will probably pop back in later about that once the first saga is sorted!
OK, so that wasn't so quick!! Sorry!
Jayne - You sound so happy and that makes me HAPPY! Living the life over there aren't ya?! Coffee dates and drivers! haha.
Lee - I'd also love to hear what happened if you're willing to share but understand it can be quite private I had a similar experience last year with a clairvoyant/tarot reader/whatever you want to call it with my best friend and to this day we still cannot say exactly what happened but our relationship has been back on track since that day after a very rocky few years and us nearly giving up on the friendship. So I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down And just an aside - this same lady told me we would buy a new car this year (random but true!), move house (true!) and that D would have some sort of a chest complaint (sadly, very, VERY true!) She also told me I would have another baby and she felt it would be a girl. Hmmmmmm! But I think she may have been picking up on our angel baby, I have always had a strong sense our tiny baby was a little girl
Mako - We will do our best to make Christmas a bit more fun this year.
And I think that's the biggest post I've done on BB in about 6 months!
Last edited by Willow; December 17th, 2010 at 07:15 AM.
Omg willow, what got into you?!!!! That was a massive post indeed. I've a feeling things are going to work out very well for you guys.
Spring, I miss you
Got to dash and get ready for a birthday party, running late. We visited Kelly and co on Friday, was so great to see them! Campbell is getting soooo big, and is super cute! Miss Jayne, I gave him a cuddle from you lol.
Arrrrrggggghhhhhhhh!!!! Trying to pack with 3 little people for two weeks away AND Christmas with the littlest one being a clingon is not fun. Was going yesterday and failed. Lack of night sleeping isn't helping. Neither is emotional fragility and the feeling like AF is going to return (right on 6 months again - Merry Christmas!!) Floor is covered in clothes to pack. Weather is going to range from wet at 15 degrees to dry and 30+ degrees!!!! So I need an entire wardrobe and warm stuff and all the bits and bobs you need for all of them. In the words of DH "they do have shops you know" but I feel so unorganised ..............
Once again, Michelle, I am in awe of what you manage to accomplish. I'm struggling to get two of us packed with DH following later. Not so much a time thing, but more a can't actually decide what I need to take. But I have decided I'm packing dirty clothing and washing at mum's when I get there. Too hard to try to get the washing done before I go!
Oh girls, HOW I hear you!!! I need to pack for all of us to go away (and camping at that...camping??!!) AND I need to have this place sorted because the removalists are coming in to pack us up while we're away (PIL will be here to hold the fort)...OMG the random things I keep thinking of....like I'll have to make sure I don't have a single item of dirty laundry because how do they pack dirty laundry (BW - I'm pretty sure I'll be taking mine to mum's too!!!) and I need to clean off the top of the fridge because....like, what do they do with that stuff that doesn't really belong anywhere but still needs to be packed????!!!!!
I have had two glasses of wine tonight (very unusual for me) and I am hopeful I will actually sleep tonight rather than lying awake all night with random thoughts racing through my head to the point of near panic attack!!!
Seriously - who's idea WAS this anyway???!!!
Michelle - You're amazing and don't you forget it.
ETA: Michelle - bugger! Haven't even checked the weather...off to BOM site now
Oh, and I forgot to say...obviously, we got the house!!! The one we wanted, DH signs the lease and picks the keys up on Tuesday
Last edited by Willow; December 19th, 2010 at 07:45 PM.
Looks like a fair bit of wet... not my idea of fun camping weather, but then for several years we camped at Easter (guaranteed to rain, and it did!) and if you are with the right company it's still possible to have a good time. Never done it with kids, though...
Well, my little boy is TWO! We've been trying to teach him to hold up two fingers when we ask how old he is, but he just seems a bit baffled by it all. It's been a great day, though. Tomorrow we leave DH behind and I go to catch up with my family... DH still says he won't come up until Christmas morning which sucks as we have decided to have santa visit Sam this year (santa will only leave something small, the main gifts will always come from us ) and it just seems so sad that DH won't be there to see the first thing on Christmas morning excitement. I guess I shall have to work on him from a distance.
Willow we'll be ok even if it does rain
Also Congrats again on getting that beautiful house..I'm so excited to have you living closer to me and also very excited that you guys are going to be camping right beside us on holidays
I say bring all your dirty washing with you..we also do that as I can't stand leaving it behind lol.
BW Happy Birthday to Sam once again. I hope he had a wonderful day.
Also thank you for thinking of me today..its been another tough one although I've tried to keep as busy as I possibly can.
Have a safe trip tomorrow and I hope you can talk your DH into coming up Christmas Eve so he can be there with you & Sam on Christmas morning.
Michelle I hope you've had some time to get things packed tonight too..I also hope you have a safe journey whenever you guys head off
I really should get off this thing and try and pack something..We're meant to be leaving Tuesday but we haven't even begun writing our lists of stuff to take and it hasn't helped with DH being unwell today..Hopefully he'll be right tomorrow and hopefully Sage & I don't come down with it
Hi lovelies, safe in Canberra for a few days - the ferry was good, despite 15 minutes sleep all night, urgh. At my brothers then down the coast on Thursday. I would love to elaborate more, but to be honest, just don't have the energy right now.... despite my session, things are still pretty tough right now - but I will say this - I was told "the hand of god will pluck me right out of my bubble" timing was "the autumn leaves".... so I was also given some tactics on how to survive my current situation - which was basically on how to deal with a difficult situation - very helpful, am trying to enact it! I am just realise how much I've been carrying this year, it's been a pretty cruddy year, not sure how different 2011 will be, but I will be aiming for improvement.
Michelle, Mako, Willow - I'm with you on the horror of packing, I really hated it trying to get out the door with 4 kids, not one ounce of fun in that at all.
Girls, am so tired, so will sign off - just wanted to say hello and wish you all the best for Christmas and the silly season in general....
Have arrived in Newcastle safely. Sam is so hyped up he's been puking... I'm hoping it's just over-excitedness, and not the fact that I gave him some regular cows milk this morning - we've had a nappy from hell early this afternoon, so I'm a little worried, but we'll see how it goes. Currently sitting in the dark trying to get him to go to sleep or at the very least calm down!
BW, has he had cow's milk before?? Horrid nappies was our biggest indication of dairy intolerance with L. Maybe wait a week or so and then try him again and see if there is a reaction - we did this a few times, left no doubt for us.
It's looking very likely we'll be heading away tomorrow so I'm going to wish you all a Happy Christmas.
For those of you who are planning to travel..please stay safe
I will do my best to try and work out my new present (when I'm allowed to have it lol) and will try and log on here and on FB if I can..Don't hold your breath though hahaha..I'm soooo not technically minded but will see how I go
Michelle I want you to know that you'll be in my thoughts during this time too and I'm sending you a great big Also Happy 2nd Birthday to Lily.
Willow, we normally give him lactose-free milk and he's fine. If we're out he'll have regular cows milk, but it's UHT milk (single serve cartons - fantastic!) and I have heard that some kids are fine with UHT milk but not regular cows milk from the fridge section. Today, I was giving him a bottle as we were leaving (to help him sleep in the car) and I used the last of his milk... wasn't going to open another carton as we were leaving, so I just made up the last 75mL or so with DH's regular cows milk... I thought that it would be such a small amount that it wouldn't cause an issue - but seeing your two year old spitting up like a baby when he's over excited and feral nappy from hell (which was the second poo for today, unusual in itself) when we arrived, I'm now not so sure. There's some evidence that he has teeth on the move again, so I guess we just watch and wait and maybe run another test when we get home and find out for sure. He's been sleeping really well since I got him down - I just need to get him out of the doorway and pop him in to bed with me soon... My sister thought that would be a good place to pop his flip out sofa for him to sleep until I could get the bed cleared off... problem being that getting into the room to clear it off is somewhat tricky!
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thank you so much for you concern. I really am ok, just going through a quiet phase which I know is unheard of when it comes to me but don't worry, I'll find my groove soon.
but thankfully our removalists are booked solid and can't do it till the 29th December....when we'll be on holidays with Mako and clan....aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhh!!
) and be at the new place on the 31st when they unload us.
I had a similar experience last year with a clairvoyant/tarot reader/whatever you want to call it with my best friend and to this day we still cannot say exactly what happened but our relationship has been back on track since that day after a very rocky few years and us nearly giving up on the friendship. So I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down
That was a massive post indeed. I've a feeling things are going to work out very well for you guys.
Trying to pack with 3 little people for two weeks away AND Christmas with the littlest one being a clingon is not fun. Was going yesterday and failed. Lack of night sleeping isn't helping. Neither is emotional fragility and the feeling like AF is going to return (right on 6 months again - Merry Christmas!!) Floor is covered in clothes to pack. Weather is going to range from wet at 15 degrees to dry and 30+ degrees!!!! So I need an entire wardrobe and warm stuff and all the bits and bobs you need for all of them. In the words of DH "they do have shops you know"
but I feel so unorganised ..............
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