IK - Burrinja is such a beautiful venue, we used to send clients there when I worked up in the hills. Rachel Berger is hilarious, sounds like a good night out! My god, you were out early! Tell us more about it, bet you had a good adrenalin rush LOL!!!
Rory - glad to hear the flight went well, how annoying about the delay! Chicken noodle soup would have been perfect for a horrible night like last night. Even better the next day!
Bath - LOL about "mothers helper", I love that term! Might have to use it myself. How cool about getting cheap cleanskins, once you find a good place, stick to it. I got the fairy lights at the Eumundi market when we went to Noosa. They have the fairy light inside the pinky red coloured flower. They had heaps of different types of flowers and were only $30. I try to find good bargains most of the time. Chelsea's room has an old bedside table from DH's nana (very shabby chic) and a desk which we made from laminated board from Bunnings and little cubes under it from Howards Storage World ($11 each), so it was heaps cheaper doing it this way than buying a proper desk and shelving etc.
Jess - great to hear from you. Your days sound pretty full on. Nice that the kids have got good activites to do. You are a good mum to drive them around everywhere! Can't believe Pat will be 1 next week.
Amanda - phone sounds great. Julie and IK gave some good advice on the Skype system, is that what you have? My GF (she lives in Qld) and I often chat for 3 hours, once a week. Its usually on $3 if we call after 7pm. Sorry to hear you are having a crappy day. I can totally understand why you are upset. Hopefully DH can understand where you are coming from. Its fine to take 2 of the boys but you are still left with 2 of them and the housework as you said. Maybe once he gets home, try to talk about it again. I hope you get your family time, I'm sure the boys would love to spend time with you and DH together. My situation is a bit different as DH works shifts but it still annoys me. Chelsea is going to a boys 5th bday party tomorrow (kinder friend) and I was really stuckf for buying a pressie! As a mum of boys I need your opinion - I got him a pair of Shrek the Third pj's, is this a good pressie? It was so hard to think of something, I looked a toys and was totally confused!!!!! Hopefully its OK.
Well Indian was delicious last night but the restaurant was packed and very noisy! We had a banquet and I just had one glass of wine. It was an early night and I was home just before 10pm, everyone was pooped! At least it wasn't pouring when I drove home. Got both my brothers and their partners and kids coming for dinner tonight. Prob just get Thai take away. My brothers GF is going on her first overseas holiday on Monday so its a bit of a farewell dinner. Chelsea is very excited that her cousin is coming to play. Off to put Marley to bed, make a cuppa and quickly read the paper before they arrive.
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