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Yeah it seems that way Nic... and I came down here for the cooler weather... well not really, but it was a bonus. Goodluck Alyssa! hope she gets paid more than Verity did for her TV ad... she was only in the background though.. $175 for a full day's hanging around. Still it's a real thrill when the ad comes on TV! LOL verity's ad (for Strongbow Cider... she was a kid jumping on a trampoline in a 'cricket in the backyard at Mum's' scenario) was screened during the 2004 Rugby World Cup TV broadcast... so I watched the whole game just so that i wouldn't miss the ads! LOL
Shower time with Niall...
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Jess - sounds like a good party. We are planning on getting a pinata too - might have to prebreak it just so it works LOL!!
Amanda - Cody is clever and they look so cute spitting everywhere trying to do them!! Happy birthday to your mum too. Thats 5 people so far that have birthdays today.
IK - MIL always goes there as she gets free tea/coffee with her seniors card LOL!!!! They recently renovated it and the movies are quite cheap compared with Village. I used to go to Knox for the mums n bubs sessions and that was fun. They have the lights on low and they had a change table at the back and the sound was also lower. Will definately go and check out Boronia one. Thanks for the tip. My brother just went to see Blood Diamond and The Holiday and he said they were both fantastic movies.
Bath - I'm PML imagining Wade sticking his head up amongst the aggies!!! Mine have heaps of bees so he was lucky they didn't get him. I could imagine that being quiet fun playing in them. Good luck with Groundhog Day Slice #2! Let us know how it goes.
Nic - how cool about Alyssa. I hope she gets it. The weather is going to be ridiculous this week - 39 tomorrow. I was supposed to have Chelsea's immunisation done but I might give it a miss, I don't want to leave the house!!! DH has his first day back at work tomorrow - I am sure he would rather be at his mums swimming LOL!!! Chelsea's party is on Saturday and it was supposed to be 24 with a few showers, now its 32 with a few showers which means a humid, muggy day - GREAT. Missed your post earlier about Nixons hearing test - glad he did well.
Off to watch Nip/Tuck and I will pop back on later.
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Mel if you go to Big W you can buy the string pull ones. It's open at the top and the kids pull the strings to rip the bottom out!!!!!!! They really loved it even when Kate ripped three strings out, it dropped on thr ground anf toys and lollies went everywhere!
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Very slow in here today, not much to report here, just about to go and hang out some washing, yay how fun (not). Ok will be back soon.
hugs xoxo
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Well, just a yucky hot day here - meant to be like 40. Already 36 here, didnt realise and went to let Matisse in and get the washing off the line... Washing can stay out there until this evening!!
Kids just went to bed, they are so grumpy. Since Ryan left, they've been coming into my room at like 5am every morning... and they dont go back to sleep. Since im on here until ike 1am (and then reading in bed because i cant sleep until like 3am) im very tired... but just cant sleep. Everything just keeps running through my head...
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Hi Amanda, I've just come inside from hanging washing too... starting to warm up... have closed all the curtains so that the front part of the house is dark and cool.
Mel: is Marley's scalp continuing to improve?
Jess: Hope you've found somewhere cool today. The worst part about hot days is having to chase after toddlers isn't it? It's so much easier to cope with when they are immobile babies or older kids who know that slowing down is the best way to deal with the heat.... but that realisation doesn't really arrive until they are about 7 or 8 hey?
Sorry missed your post Simone... bed sounds like a good place for them to be during the hotest part of the day... hope they have long naps. Sounds like you need to fill your head with some other stuff to get your mind off your challenges... maybe try reading some inspirational self help books before bed? I can give you a long reading list if you want... it's not all heavy going... there's an excellent and funny one by John Cleese and a family counsellor that you might find interesting ATM.... it's really easy to read at that time of night and will give your mind something positive to dwell upon overnight if you wake up. I know it must be hard, but going to bed when the kids are asleep or at least by 10pm might be extra important at the moment Sim. Things are harder to deal with if you are sleep deprived.... plus your immune system will be affected by the extra stress... anyhow, you don't need a lecture. Good to hear things are nice and calm at your place today though :) Remember, baby steps!
Huge crash in Wade's room...
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Jess - i hope the infection is settling down. Im trying to think of more for my austprem birth story, but have had an awful headache from too much thinking and cant think straight right now...
Bath - Xander and declan have been pretty good today, just playing quietly with their thomas train set all morning, and i just put them both down for their day time naps, They've been up since stupid AM, so they should sleep for a couple of hours...
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nixon has been asleep for 2hrs now and still going! actually now wanting him to wake up as we have to leave here in about 20mins.
Bath- hope nothing was broken in Wade's room
Simone- if u cannot sleep at night, if u get all the kids down during the day maybe u should try and have a cat nap aswell, even if its just 20min or something, it really helps.
ive also got all the blinds etc shut trying to keep this aweful heat out. just about to put some washing out, will prob dry within half and hour.
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Once again Wade tried to climb up his shelves. They are taller than me and if the shelves were solid rather than supported by metal pins it would have tipped over on top of him. instead the shelves that he was standing on, and the ones below it just slid off the pins sending him and the toys to the floor. I can't stress enough how important it is to have safe shelving girls! You can't be everywhere and they WILL try to climb them, there's just no stopping them. So have wall unit shelving or ones on pins that will slide off. Don't just have a freestanding unit that's tall in their rooms.... it will crash down on them and could be tradgic!
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I'm thinking about just taking me and Allie (who just got out) into my bed and just reading a book, i cant sleep during the day, not matter how hard i try.
BBS, boys are playing around... Wish they would just GO TO SLEEP!
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Jess - thanks for the suggestion for the pinate, will head to Big W this week.
Amanda - its stinking hot down here today and my washing was dry in 1 hour this morning. Got two more loads to go out. Does washing ever end???
Bath - Marley's scalp is amazing! I have been rubbing it in morning and night and its just about gone. Only a couple of little spots but I am sure they will disappear soon. I have nearly run out of Rory's pharmacy cream which has been great too. I haven't put any cortisone on her for a few days now. Its been really good, but got a little red today. Glad to hear Wade is OK after his daredevil adventures. I agree, you have to be so careful with shelves or wallunits, bookcases etc.
Nic - its so typical that they sleep more when you don't want them too LOL!!! The heat tends to send them to sleep too. Stay cool!
Simone - don't stay up so late and try to get some rest. Bath's suggestion of some good self help books is a good one. Fill your head with positive things. Hope the kids chill out for you today.
Set my alarm to get up early today otherwise my day starts too late. Got up and had shower, put washing on and got kids organised then headed out to get some shopping. Poor Marley was dragged in and out of the car and into the Bjorn as I had to go to a couple of different places. Aldi have bananas for $1.99kg and they are rippers. Also got Chelsea a big sketch pad for $2 which she has been doing lots of drawings for me. Its so funny because she has never been able to draw faces before but recently everything has big eyes and a huge mouth! She wants to do her watercolours next. Got to go and get her 4 yo immunisation today. It's only 2 streets away from me, so hopefully the hot weather will keep most people away. She seems OK with it all at the mo, I told her we could go swimming afterwards - maybe thats whats keeping her calm.
Stay cool everyone.
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Hi all,
It looks like I've been lurking, but I haven't been - I posted in one thread and then my GF and her 2yo came over and I didn't close the browser! Anyway, I'm all caught up now on the thread.
Washing - trying to avoid going outside at all! I think MIL has our big antique laundry tub and I'd like to put Oscar in it, doh! She took it when we went away because she was going to hang all the washing that was in it for us at her place. There was another basket, too, and that one came back...but that's no good for splashing in!
Had a lovely catch up with my GF, we ate strawberries, dip, crackers, lychees, chockie bikkies...mmm!
Simone - it must be weird having all that free headspace, no wonder you're filling it with all sorts of thoughts! I agree, reading about how to turn negatives into positives is really helpful. If you can get your hands on 'The Journey', by Brandon Bays, it's a good read (my copy is still lent out, unfortunately!). I am glad that you have finally made the break you needed :)
Mel - at least you didn't take Chelsea on her birthday! Hope it's not too hot to walk to the clinic...
I'm going to put this sleeping boy down and make some phone calls to organise a few things before DP gets back tomorrow. It's like a race against time now! I've also been running around like a mad thing trying to find ways to reuse the water from the house into the garden. I'm washing my dishes at the end of the day, and then in a rectangle bucket, leaving the used water (if not too dirty) in that bucket and putting all the next day's dishes in that. When comes time to wash them, take them all out, put that water into a big bucket nearby, wash my dishes in new water and start again. The old water then goes into a bigger collecting bucket outside until I have enough that I can still carry the bucket and then disperse it into the garden. Sometimes this happens when it's dark already, but that's better because the water doesn't evaporate.
I'm going to see about reclaiming an old feed bin of mine that I left at my parents' that they don't use. I'm going to collect washing machine water and shower water in it and use that for the backyard - just bucketing it out over the natives (that's all that we have in the back, and some of them have carked it!). This year DP will install a greywater system. Can't wait for recycled water...although I'll probably be 70 when that happens...
I'm also not flushing the loo if it's only pee, but flush it when the loo paper starts to look like it needs to go somewhere (dont' need a blockage!). Showering with Oscar seems the way to go, too. I reckon that by implementing these measures I'm doing my bit for the water crisis. And I like the manual labour aspect - I'll have to do manual labour when we're on a farm, anyway!
Ok, better go and see to my list of things to do...
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IK - i keep one bucketload of water from the washing machien and tip a little bit into the toilet when i've finished - saves flushing!! Do you know that only using a half flush compared to a ful flush saves 17 cups of drining water?? :eek:
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A-ha! Thanks Sim - there's another idea I'm going to use right away! I've always wondered, since I was a kid, why there's perfectly good drinking water in the loo...
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Not a prob IK, glad to help you on your quest to save the earth ;)
Well, its officially hit 40 here, and im dying, i have such a headache... i hate hot weather - thats why i moved to melbourne (it always seemed to be so cold over here!!) Somebody was lying wen they broadcasted the weather report each night, i never saw any hot days...
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Sim, you never listened to the weather report in January! It hots up until March, typically. THEN it gets cold enough to wear funky winter gear ;)
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Buggar, i should've watched more weather reports!! Oh well, i just have to swelter here then...
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its about 43 here... our evap has been going full throatal all day but the house is still 29 and thats certain areas, ive tried shutting any doors that dont need the cool air (like the room i am sitting in right now!)
mel- i bought the nana's the other day from aldi $1.99kg Nixon is loving them! nice big ones too. i also got a full watermelon is was something like 0.99kg?? anyway thats nice too.
just caught up with our girlfriend and her twins, Nixon was facinated by them, as are most people! he is back asleep again, the heat does make him sleep more.
anyway gotta get out of this room too hot.
