babies Born June 2006 #51

Maya - the adventure thing must be a June 19 thing cause Marley is a climber too!!! Just something else they have in common. She will climb anything. Chelsea can climb up our swing set and Marley has been trying desperately to copy her, with not much success. She hasn't yet fallen from any great height but she has no fear. I would have freaked out too if I had of seen something like that, thankfully DH is a bit more calm in those situations. So glad he is ok, and won't be jumping off anytime soon. That is fantastic that Oscar is dry overnight, I still feel like that is ages away!! Any more luck on the assignment front?? Everyone should be back from leave now. What a joke that was - would never happen with my students ;) Your new wheels sound perfect, and with all the mod cons!! You won't know yourself. My dear DH would never comment on my computer time...he woudn't dare LOL!!! I love lingerie shops!!! And good ones too. I will have to get to Upwey soon and we have to meet for coffee (and a stop at the fairy shop!) Work has been pretty busy, mainly chasing up all the naughty people who don't let me know if they want their offer ARGGHHH!!! If they don't want it - just say so! I am also organising two workshops for new students, and my coordinators just leave the agenda up to me, which can be hard work fitting everyone in to the times they want. It will be busy up until semester starts in a few weeks then things should calm down a bit.

Bath - you were brave getting on the trains after the week of chaos!!! You were lucky you didn't end up a victim of the mass cancellations. Melb Central would have been blissful, nice and cool. How did Wade go?? Bet he loved it. School shoes are so expensive. I paid $100 for Chelsea's last year and thankfully they still fit. They had that same deal in Myer last year. Child care for Niall sounds great, you deserve some more "you" time. Hope it all works out. And French class, how fun would that be? I haven't taken Marley to a movie yet, she probably wouldn't watch it unless it was Wiggles, her major obsession at the moment. I took Chelsea to the movies when she was 4 months old, then about 3. They have Mums and Bubs sessions at most cinemas on a particular day, first session and they have the lights on low, and the volume isn't as loud. I saw at Hoyts they have the "Half Pipe" cinema which has bean bags, wonder if they make alot of noise??? How was your holiday?

Well we survived the heat wave. I hope we don't have to do that again in a hurry!!! Chelsea is loving being a grade 1 girl and her teacher is just fantastic.

Is anyone going to watch the new Underbelly series next week? It looks good.

Best be off after this long post...night all

Congratulations Maya on reaching THIS milestone! :cheer:

Thanks, Bath! I feel like I got a mistaken invite to a VIP party! You are way too kind, thanks for your commentary there :hug:
Still here at home, haven't moved onto MiL's yet (later, probably, when it gets even hotter, to use the instant pool - my dad's house is a bit too risky to go use his pool, less escape routes and more bush). Osc doesn't even seem to notice the heat - he's such a mini-me! Except I can feel this heat. I can normally run pretty dry and function well, but I just told DP that on extreme days like this, I can tell when I've drunk heaps of water cos I feel like a newly oil-changed engine! I'm hydrated to the all get out and I feel fine :) And DP made me an iced coffee, so more water drinking to come...
How's everyone else going in the heat? How are the kidlets going - any complaints from them?

OMG here I was thinking my junies have been bvery quite when really you have all been very chatty on a new thread.... That will teach me for going away with a computer for a while...

I have enjoyed the brake though and have told myself that I will only spend a small amount of time on belly belly but today that has been blown out mof the window... but seeing its hot and we cant go out side incase we get blown away I think its ok... the kids are happy watching Dora ( who they can watch that show is beoned me but at least they are learning something...well kinda )

I have just read though all you pages, had a load to catch up on...

You will all be glad to know that even I am finding it hot today but seeing we dont have aircon or fans in a un-insulated house then I guess anyone would feel hot too... My sister asked if I wanted to go to the river near her house in Moorooalbark but I dont fancy driving thought the hill to get her place... not with all the srions I keep hearing...

Well my sister's wedding has been and gone but I havent got any photo's yet, have to get them from my family's camra's as BHL didnt take ANY should never have left it up to a man to take happy snaps for me....

Three days before the wedding my sister and her future DH had a huge blow out it was very nasty and some of the things he said about her and our family were truely discussing I have never in my life had anyone speak to me in this way before, and his family was no help either saying ruffly the same kinda things... ( basicly saying we are all hill billy scum and that my sister was nothing before he picked her up out of the gutter and made her what she is today... he even threated me and my other sisters life, and told her ( not the one he was marrying ) to get her stuff and get out of HIS house ( she came home from scottland to be a bridemaid ) and that we are never again to step foot in there again... ( this all happened at 12.30 am ) so I drove over to pick up my sisters but the bride to be wouldnt leave as she still loves him blar blar balr... So in the end all was forgiven on her behalf he said he was drunk and didnt mean any of it ( even though he put a few holes in the walls ) But for me things arent so sweet I dont like him I dont trust him or his family... we might have had to play happy familys on the wedding day but we all know that isnt what they were... Him and his family didnt speak a word to me as aprently I am a bad infulece on my sister beacuse when her FIL was tring to kick us out of the house so they could have some time together to sort it out I ask if he was going to leave them as well it lost the plot telling me I had no right to kick him out of his house ( ummm I think mit my sisters and his sons house not HIS )...

I worry for her I hope he has learn from this and want do it again.. This maybe because I have watch one too many midday movies in my time but this is ALWAYS how things start, 1 st with the lets not see your family lets not see your friends ( he does this ) then the you are nothing with out me ( he has said this ) then the holes in the walls ( he has done this ) and we all know what happens next, the way I saw that man come at me and my sister when we were waiting for our brother to pick us up I know he is caperble of the next step... even my sister said to me the next day he so wanted to hit us I just wish I let him so she wouldnt have married him... Now that is not how we are meant to think about our newest BIL....

Sorry I wasnt going to tell you all that I guess it's still bothering me....

Holy crap, Tali, that is just a recipe for disaster, and the meal sounds like it's nearly cooked :( She's in real trouble, even if things settle down for now - what about if they have kids? It will definitely start up again then, even if it stops for now. You guys are witnesses, too, so maybe word up the local plods about what happened so that it's not news to them when she gives them a call herself...and she will. It's bad enough when it's someone you know, but worse when it's your sister, I bet.
All you can do for her whilst she decides to stay with him is to make yourself available to her and stay the hell out of his way. You can probably take out an AVO or something against him for the threats? Everyone that was threatened could do this. Though it will isolate your sis more cos I bet she won't come visit you without him :( Mainly cos she won't be allowed. You are right on the money, she's in a real pickle and it's only going to get worse.
Would love to see pics of the wedding, only to see how you and the bridal party looked! Maybe the whole scenario is why your BHL didn't feel it important to photographically record the event?
Uninsulated house?? ARGH! I"m glad DP insulated our house last winter - we are a good 10 deg cooler inside than out for it. Too bad Oscar broke our spray water bottle last week, I could really have done with remembering to buy a replacement yesterday!!

Tali - have been wondering where you've been?? The wedding, forgot about that. That is just such disgusting behaviour from your BIL. Behaviour like that doesn't just happen out of the blue - he's prob been like that for a long time. How sad for your sister. And I can understand why you are worried for her. Apart from that was the rest of the wedding good? Def need to see pics. My DH always forgets to take pics, or if he does, they are bad ones, out of focus, heads cut off!!! I feel for you today, you poor things must be sweating - put some water in the bath and sit in that..cool down for a bit.

Maya - that wind out there is pretty ferocious! I have been praying that there are no fires up there today as this wind would be disatrous! Thanks for the reminder - drink more water. I am really hopeless at this, I never drink much of anything but I will go and fill my glass right now!

Chelsea and I took off for Knox this morning and it was so cold inside that Chelsea kept complaining that she was freezing! Different story when we got outside. It was getting really busy when we left, people retreating for the shops. DH took Marley for a swim while we were out, then we came home and he took Chelsea (Marley having a much needed sleep). We are going out for dinner to a friends tonight and thankfully they have refrigerated ducted air con - would have cancelled if they didn't LOL!!!! Our house isn't too bad, air con is on, blinds all closed, house nice and dark. After hearing poor Tali with no air con or fans - I'm never going to complain again!!! Kids are ok so far, they don't feel it too much. And the cool change is expected - and I hope it brings heaps and heaps of rain - please:pray:

Stay cool everyone!!

congratulations Maya on all those reputation points! i dont chat in enough threads, and i forget to give them to ppl too.
i read that melb had its hottest day on record since they started recording weather in the 1850's.
Today here was 42-43 and i did atupperware party where the lady did NOT have air con. it was horrible, the guests were so hot and bothered also, but atleast they had shoes off, singlets and skirts i had a shirt on that was literally stuck to my back yukk. tomorrow here is suppose to be worse thank god we got air con a few wks ago!
we were talking about our house in melb and how hot it would be, we got evap cooling but didnt work that fantastically and many rooms didnt get the coolness i cant fathem how hot it would be there now. and pg woman, far out i feel for every pg out there right now, i didnt cope well with the heat through pregnancy and wasnt even heavily pg with Nixon through summer.

Tali- oh man thats a recipe for disaster how horrible. unfortunatley i think it will not get better, maybe for a while but with a temper like that, a mouth so horrible and a family so degrading i think its all going to blow up at some stage....
Maya- far out Oscar, talk about heart attack. Nixon's not a dare devil, he'll give things a go but he wont go crazy. Tyron on the other hand OMG, he constantly has bumps, bruises, scrates etc over him from being a "fearless freddie" i shudder to think how many times we will end in ER with that child. I can see him being a pro snowboarder, skater, motorbiker or something, Nixon will be his number 1 fan but cant see him being AS adventurous.

Ty's new word is "Gah Gah" as in Madagascar!! and tonight he said "Dori" the fish from nemo. He's definatlye picking up speech quickly.

I was only thinking the other night that the Junie thread had not appeared in my subscriptions for a while, so I came investigating this morning to fin a new thread had started....................derrrr!

I will come back later today and catch up on everyone's news!

Things here are grand, Tori is TT for wee's but will still only poo in a nappy. Both kids are at a lovely little daycare 1 day a week as I have increased my work to 5 days a fortnight instead of 4. Back at work and have a delightful year 4 class this year, they are an awesome group of kids and I think that I am going to have a really good year. Liam has become daredevil boy and climbs everything in sight, and has started to 'talk' all day long, nothing much intelligible yet, other than "and Me" which he must say at least 10 times a day.

Anyway I had better go and get ourselves organised, we are off to an indoor playcentre today- will come back soon to catch up on everyone's news!

hi ja girls, I didnt know where else to type this so though who better than my junies...

Sence what happened on Saturday I have had the biggest feeling that I should move back to the hill, I know I should be feeling the opperset I should be feeling like running farther away rather than getting closer...

I feel at home on the hill when ever we drive up there I feel like I have come home I dont feel that way about berwick we want to move out of berwick ASAP we would be now if we could but been a rental we would have to brake contrat....

I feel a little weird writing this... But been a " hill billy " I love the bush, so be it its freezing up there but I am cold anyway its not like I would notice much more... I am not looking at deep into the hill like Ferny creek just around belgrave heights/south.... Both BHL and I hate living so close to our neighbours ( not that anyone even says hello anymore) and you can get half acre up there... we would look for rentals to start with... ( found one I love on real estate.com ) I think I am hoping to find that commuity sprit that is lacking so much here in Berwick....

sorry girls just drippling but do think its weird to want to move back onto the hill?

Maya I would just like to thank you again for everything you did on Sat keeping everyone informed and to have someone to answer all the questions we all had was just wonderful... so just thought I would let you know that I love ya chicky :loveshower:

its not weird to feel that way Tali. You can obviously see the strong communities banding together at the moment which a lot of suburbia doesn't always have.
we are lucky where we lived in Diamond Creek & where we live now we have lovely friendly neighbours, didnt get on top of each other but know they look out for you type thing.

Ive been doing what i can to donate some money, last night at our tupperware meeting we held an auction and in 15min raised about $1800. so they are going to do it again next week.
i raided all our piggy banks today and collected $80 and also going to give half of my managers cheque away when i get it next wk. a neighbour came door knocking today to collect money and i found a further $20 in gold coins.yet i still dont feel like its enough.
I know if i was still in D/Creek id be able to help the communities a lot more and feel pretty helpless up here.
Maya how you guys going?

Tali, I'm biased - of COURSE you should move to the hills again!! Like I said, it felt weird yesterday not to be here, sharing the same concerns and feeling as close to the victims without sharing their losses...this time. It's weird off the mountain. I went to visit my friend in the hospital Mel works at, and that was cool cos he's a firey and we talked firey stuff, and then had coffee with Mel (thanks! I owe you one - I really needed that!).
Nic - I'm doing ok, just having a good cry here and there and realising that people in my area are not prepared for superheated conditions, and weren't prepared on Saturday. I've put my hand up for strike teams, so I might get a run, but might not.
A wonderful lady who works part-time and volunteers part time for the ABA is organising store cards to be hand delivered to the Diamond Valley ABA group to buy underwear with. She's so amazing ordinarily (i've seen her do breastfeeding counselling and she's just so good!), and this just tops it!
Anyway, Oscar and I are developing siren-itis - our eary are pr!cking up instantly when the siren or pager goes off!

Tali - nothing wrong with wanting to be part of a community. Don't feel ashamed in feeling that way. Being part of a village is who we are and I hope that it comes to fruition for you...you guys deserve to be happy!

Nic - what you have done is such a lovely gesture and you should feel proud to have donated. Money is what they say they need and people are certainly giving it in droves. I am contemplating giving blood on Friday (never done it before!!!) and some friends and I have been collecting up baby things, blankets and one fantastic GF dropped over a huge bag of nappies and various toiletries such as tampons, pads, deodorant etc. Another friend is helping out at the Diamond Creek Community Centre where some of the victims are staying and she is going to take them in tomorrow afternoon.

Maya - you are more than welcome babe, you looked like you needed it and hope the chat cheered you up (laughing about our babies!!). If you do get a run, please stay safe. It is so amazing what people are doing to help out. Makes me very proud to be Australian, that "pitch in and help out" attitude.

Chelsea has been saying prayers everyday at school for the kids who have lost their toys. She even took out some of her soft toys and some books to give them. She thought it would be awful to have no books. Must be very hard for kids her age to understand what it all means.

Where has everyone gone again???? It's far too quiet in here!

Bath - finished reading The Declaration - OMG!!!! I loved it and I'm going out to buy the sequel. Have you read the second one? Can't wait. It was such an amazing book, had me almost in tears on many occasions. I hope our world never ends up like that.

Have any other girls read it yet? If not, do it!

Has anyone watched Underbelly 2? I was a bit of boob fest last night, but great show.

Must get back to work.

Good afternoon :) I've been thinking of you all... just keep getting distracted by other discussions and trying to keep my time online to a minimum... been looking for an update from Maya... got her sms on the weekend when the Dandenongs fires started... Good grief when I looked at the map I freaked when I saw how close it was to her!!! Sooo thrilled to hear it downgraded *phew*. And Tali: not strange to be want to be closer to your childhood village... I yearn for a return to mine as well... if there was a crisis there along the lines of the fires i would feel exactly the same.
Rory: been thinking of you too.... how's it going on the job front? No doubt you're working hard at home with your boys though!!! Nic: well done raising those funds for the fire victims :clap: I agree, money is the best way to go at this stage... that was very generous of you.
Mel: I'll have to find that thread I started in the books/reading BB forums... and put a link to it in here. Yep, I've read the sequel... it's more complex (writing style and plot) but still very good. I think it would currently be a bit beyond the ability of Verity to read (she read The Declaration) but she should be able to handle it in a year or so. It's pretty horrific in parts... be brave. It's called The Resistance... and fills in a lot of gaps from the past and takes the story further into the future. I think there's also room for a third book!

Gotta duck out for a sec... will add to this later... just wanted to post a bit while I could (to keep Mel company! ;) )

Thanks for keeping me company Bath ;)

The Resistance sounds great, can't wait to get stuck into it. Should I have a box of tissues at the ready??? I will have to wait until I have finished reading Twilight! After seeing the movie, I wanted to read the book and it hasn't disappointed me yet. On the downside, I find myself reading till 1am (DH is on nightshift so I have my bed to myself!!!), then having to get up for work at 6am - not a good idea!

Maya has gone on a holiday with Oscar and some friends beachside. A well deserved break I think after the fires. Her and her DP have been working very hard and I hope she has an awesome time!

Rory mentioned on FB recently that she was going for a job interview - hope she got it!

Back to work!

Hey all - got a job! Am working at The Just Group (we own just jeans, jay jays, etc). I am s full-time in house lawyer here and love it! Will post more later
ciao bellas

:happyforyou:

That's fantastic news Rory!!! Congratulations. Does that mean you will now have an endless supply of jeans LOL!!

Yes! I get 50% up to $2500 worth of clothing (ie: if I spend $1250 the company will pay $1250)!!