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Mel - glad Marley has relaxed back into herself :) You could even not mention the toilet at all and just ask her if she needs to wee - break it down to smaller steps, take out of the equation where she's going to wee and get her thinking about the feeling on needing to do it?
Rai was ace - not a big crowd at all (Sunday night Open Stage with Heath King was always packed - I've played to a bigger crowd in the same venue for just a few songs!), but the music was very good for the soul and I'm definitely a fan. Unfortunately, he didn't play my favourite song (of all the 7 or so that I've actually heard!) because the crowd was egging him for more upbeat songs, and this particular one is mellow, but melodically beautiful. Oh, well, will just have to buy his album and go see him in town next time!
Bath - how are the boys getting along? They're kind of the same age gap that Oscar and this little one will be, I think. I hope you had some fruit left after your penultimate post!
I've got an oil column heater going by my legs at the desk and the heater is cranking with firewood. I'm wearing a beanie, long sheepskin boots and a wool blend wrap (from my fave boutique, of course ;) )...just feeling unprepared for winter, mainly because of my maternity wardrobe shortcomings in terms of warm layers!
Oscar yelling for more pasts - pasta fiend...
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Time for a vent from me girls. I am over DH being down and depressed. It is awful for me to say it but I am really feeling like I maybe want to be down and have someone cheer me up instead of it always being the other way around. I know it is health making him feel this way and no doubt the atrial fibrilation drugs doing it but I am just so sick of it. I want my old, quick-tempered husband back, not this fragile person who gets moody. I keep saying to myself "in sickness and in health, in sickness and in health" but it gets so trying at times.
Ah well, vent over. Time to go and give him a snuggle and soldier on. He really is my Sun so I better go and orbit closely. Cheers girls :redface:
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:hug: Rory! You'll get your chance to rain on his parade ;) DP must be feeling the same as you do, but about me by now...feisty people having personality reversals... :(
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Hi lovely Junie ladies
Thought I’d pop in and say on my Junies birthday while he’s in quiet time (does this for around 45 mins since stopped sleeping in the day last Sept). I don’t think ive posted since Christmas – oops but have been lurking and seeing how you are all travelling.
Mostly good here, Will toilet trained in a few days over Christmas and night trained a few months ago so that’s all good – thanks to him wanting to be like Oscar so it wasn’t any skill on my part!
His troublesome-two attitude didn’t disappear at midnight when he turned 3 like I was hoping! He’s been a bit of a poo so far on his birthday s it’s quite hard to keep giving him his pressies when he’s really got the attitude going. I think he may not have slept too well last night as he came in for snuggles with us at 6.30am which usually means he’s been awake a fair bit before then, he suffers from nightmares sometimes, really awful ones like my dh used to (and sometimes still does) where horrible things happen in the room so a 3 year old wouldn’t know he was dreaming because it was in his room – so sad for him when it happens!
He will start going to 3 year old kindy on Friday – just 12 till 2.15 which is nightmare timing but they don’t have any spots in the morning slot. As he has never been away from me apart from 1 hour cr?che per week at the leisure centre and that was with Oscar, so he needs some experience alone before he starts proper kindy in Feb. He know’s one of the ladies there from a playgroup we go to so hopefully he’ll be OK.
I keep forgetting that he really is so young at just 3 as he has been speaking so well for so long and basically does everything Oscar does, sometimes I think we expect a bit too much so we will have to watch ourselves. He is such a sweety sometimes but with such anger issues! On the whole he is great and is quite an ‘easy’ bub.
Oscar is fine and enjoying school but doesn’t seem to play with other kids yet – hopefully he will soon. I’ve just finished doing the PPP to try and get some help with his behaviour – we’ll see how it goes!
Isla is super sweet and is crawling and cruising everywhere – trying to be wherever the boys are who are total ‘gods’ to her. Still waking lots through the nights for feeds, usually at least 3 which is such a killer, especially when at least once a week I get on of the boys in as well due to wanting loo/bad dreams/can’t sleep etc – she did have a great night the one before last when she slept through till 7.30 in the morning – I felt like a different person all day! Not complaining though, she is wonderful. I’ve also done the whole cloth nappy thing with her which is great – so wish I’d done it with my boys!
I’ve had plenty of visitors in the last few months – in’laws in April which was hell, won’t dwell on that, then my parents for all of May which was great – they were so helpful and James and I actually went out for a few meals and had some time just the two of us so that was lovely.
Mel – Wow at all that baking in one day – my tummy is rumbling now! Good luck with the TT, I know it’s so frustrating when they know what to do but just don’t want to do it for some reason, Osc was well over 3 before he clicked, I’m sure Marley won’t be long. Am very envious of your 5 days solo in Brissy, you will have a ball, and to be godmother too will be fab. How’s the pool situ going? It will be so good to have one in summer.
Tali – happy belated birthday to Kai, hope she had a lovely day. Good luck to your move up north and with the TTC – with any luck it will coincide! I found out I was expecting Isla 5 days after we’d moved in here which was a bit of a worry with all the heavy lifting and cleaning with dodgy chemicals I’d one in our rental the weekend before!
Rory – glad you are enjoying your new job so much and I’m very envious of your social life – sounds like you get to go out a bit! We manage to when my parent are over but don’t really have any one else around that can babysit yet. When Isla’s a bit older I will be ringing some agencies to find someone nice so we can have a bit of a life back. Hope your hubbies feeling happier soon, I can understand it being frustrating at always having to be the upbeat one.
Nic – hope you are feeling better – sounded so rough being in hossy with food poisoning.
Maya – congrats on your second adventure – how exciting! Glad your gig went so well.
Amanda – hope you are feeling better now and that your move went well. Happy birthday to Cody for last Tuesday, hope he had a great day.
Ali – shame about the house, hope something crops up soon
Bath – lol at getting a whipper snipper for mother’s day – bet you have a very tidy looking garden now!
Anyway, can now post this post that has taken me 8 hours to write! And that’s with DH home helping me out – it’s why I don’t get to post much at the mo!
Take care
Julie x
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Julie it was great hearing from you, cant believe that is Isla she has gotten so big... cant believe she is 9mths already feels just like yesterday she was a new born...
well we leave next friday time has gone by so quickly, cant believe I have been in Melb for over a year, ( cant believe we didnt all catch up ! ) and moving again... we have put in a house app again we didnt get the last one as the owner backed out and decided not to put it up for rent :wall: BHL was very disapointed he had fallen in love with the place... But now we are trying agin and hope to hear something back by the end of the week as it would be so much nicer to have somewhere to move to rather than just going up there and living in a caravan park and hope for the best which is our plan at the moment... we would have loved to a been able to buy but the banks have told us we have no chance as we dont have 30% deposit which when you looking at $500k + to buy up in Mackay I dont think we will ever be able to buy...
We are hoping to still have the net while we move so I should still be able to post..
At least with this Melb weather we are having at the moment is quoling any 2nd thoughts I might have been having about moving... Its going to be a hard one knowing that we wont ever move back but I know its whats best for my family for the winkies to have there dad home more is what really counts not the occaional visit from family.. they can always have a winter break...
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Well we finally have the internet connected again, the move went well and we are settling in still. Cody had a good birthday and Jess organised a surprise party today for my birthday.
Happy birthday Niall, I hope you have had a great day today.
I hope that all the Junie babies have had great birthday so far, and I'd like to know where have the last 3yrs gone, it feels like yesterday they were all new borns.
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Wow, can't believe I missed all these posts!!!
Bath - thanks for the encouragement. I have been trying the no fuss approach, not too much sucess but at least her stress seems to have disappeared. Happy Birthday to Niall for today, I'm sure the family have enjoyed celebrating it.
Maya - yes, no mentioning the toilet lol!!! I have been asking if she needs to do a wee and a few times she has voluntered to go, sat there and nothing. But at least she is happy to sit there. She did wee twice at creche and doesn't seem to be worried about going there. Maybe its just me! Well now you have a reasong to go see Rai again, bugger about not playing your fav song - did you ask him? I bet that oil heaters been getting a work out these past few days. Its been bloody freezing.
Rory - how did it feel to vent? Hopefully better to get it off your chest. Has DH spoken to his specialist about the meds and their side effects? A professor I work with has just published a study on depression and heart disease. It's important that DH doesn't just blow it off and seek some help (as hard as that is for most men!). It must be very hard to cope with for both of you, esp as he wasn't like this prior to his illness. I'm sure his sun will start shining for you again soon. Chin up babe.
Julie - I can't believe its been so long since you last posted. I think because of Facebook, I feel like we have kept in touch. Isla is just divine, her latest pic is beautiful. You breed such gorgeous kids! I'm sure Will is going to love kinder and its not too long away from you. Great lead up for when he goes longer next year. Must be a June baby thing, Marley has anger issues to sometimes. It must have been so lovely to have your parents stay, but I bet hard to see them leave. I just put it down to her being a gemini. Two faces, two personalities! Still waiting on pool to start, driving me nuts as I just want them to start. They are just waiting on engineers to finish the computations for the steel reinforcing then we are all systems go!! Well and truely ready for summer.
Tali - I bet you can't wait to get to the sunshine lol!!! I wish I was going with you- this cold weather is doing my head in. It seems to have gone so fast from when you told us you were moving to you actually going. You finally got a place didn't you? A really great place with lots of land? Don't give up on the dream, it will happen for you guys one day. Good things happen to good people.
Amanda - happy birthday for today. How ace that you got a surprise party - did you get a surprise?
Marley has been having orientation in readiness for her to move the the kinder room at creche. She is going with another boy Will, who loves her! He wants to help make her bed all the time, so sweet! So far it's gone well and I think she will enjoy it more with the bigger kids. And to make it even more fun, they have their own rabbit, Ollie. The kids all help out cleaning his cage and feeding him. They have had him for 2 years now and loves the kids. He gets let out of his cage when they go out and play and hops around with them. We are taking an icecream cake in next Friday for her birthday so that should be a hit.
Chelsea went to her first AFL game tonight with DH. They aren't home yet but I hope she enjoyed it. She was so excited all day. She was rugged up, wool tights under her jeans, spencer, jumper, thick coat, scarf, beanie and gloves! Hope she was warm enough. DH was really excited to be taking her. Pity the glory of winning for the Tigers is few and far between - DH might have to explain that to her.
Still need to pick our tiles for around the pool. Been meaning to do it for weeks but keep putting it off. The weather isn't helping either. DH wants to go tomorrow but I would rather wait and see. Don't fancy trapsing around with the kids outside in the freezing cold, I'm likely to pick the wrong tiles just to get out of there!
Time for my nightly coffee - stay warm girls!
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Good morning :)
Spent the weekend at Sale with DH's family... so Niall had a lovely little celebration for his birthday.
Good to see you Julie! I can't believe it's been that long between posts either! You need an avvy update! Send me a PM or an email with your preferences.
Love reading the longer posts in here (well done Mel!) and it's also good to see shorter ones that just let us know that you're ok... been thinking of you Rory, feel free to vent in here as much as you need... I can realte to your situation and that of your Dh's very closely.
I'm hoping that Nickers will post soon to list the birth dates for our June babies... she has always done such a good job of that.
tali: you are probably very busy! but was it Friday just gone or this Friday?
Julie: And speaking of Fridays... how did Will go on his first day of 3yo kinder? I've been thinking Niall would benefit from doing this too.
So who's birthday is next??? (I'm hopeless with dates! :wall: )
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we are on the move this friday but we will be packing up the house tomorrow so wont have much time for the net over the next week or so... :pray: we will still have connetion as we are wireless but its attched to our home phone bill and as that will be disconnected it might take the computer connection with it...
We got ourselves a rental 18 acres really excitied but a little scared at the same time, I hope the locals are open to new people find this isnt always the case.... winkies and BHL all have big dreams Mountain bike tracks, chook pens, tree house's and quad bikes, I feel like the only sane one among them always having to say that we are only renting its not our house or land ( BHL wish's he was buying I bet)... but its a good way of trying before we buy, as BHL has always wanted land I have always said I would be happy with 1/2 acre, so we will get to see if we like it or not...
Had a really nice lunch out today with the girls from playgroup ( 2 of them are BB members ) I always seem to do this make good friends just before we leave... maybe we just dont give a place long enough...
winkies are waiting for " coffee " so better be off....
Happy Birthday to any remaining Junies...
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Bath - love the new ticker, the countdown is on. Are you excited to be turning 40? Do you have any exciting birthday plans? Marley, Oscar & Nathan are all on Friday, not sure if there is any in between.
Tali - new place sounds beautiful, all that space. You might have to take up quad bike riding lol!!! Good luck with the packing, it's not fun but your new life awaits.
Had some sad news today. My nan passed away this morning, peacefully in her sleep aged 90. She had her 90th birthday in April and had a ball. Glad she got to celebrate that and I'm relieved she went peacefully. I'm just really hoping that her funeral is not on Friday. I didn't want to have to celebrate a birthday the same day as a funeral. Nan was very adament about her resting place. She wants her ashes scattered at Port Melbourne pier. She always told us for as long as I can remember. Even my brother remembered (and he doesn't remember much!!!). My other major concern is seeing my mum at the funeral, who I've had absolutely nothing to do with in over 10 years. Its a very messy situation with her and I really don't want to have to see her again. My brothers are both worried too. I don't think I will be taking the girls with me as I don't want my mum seeing them. I have told Chelsea that my mum died a long time ago (well she is dead to me really) as it was far to difficult to explain to her the real situation. I don't want her to cause trouble, which is more than likely and I don't want the girls being any part of it. Is that horrible???
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Tricky situation, Mel :( I hope it's not on Friday. Given what you've already told Chelsea, it's probably best not to take her, or else you'll have some explaining to do before-hand and leave it up to her to process adult logic, KWIM?
Bath - was Sale just lovely? Great for Niall to celebrate with family :)
Tali - even though it's rented, it sounds awesome!
Just uploading photos from my camera, sinking back into real life. I got home tonight to a very grateful but sick little boy. I guess I must have missed him! He got some goodies out of the trip, anyway ;)
Have to get to bed soon...
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Mel- I just wanted to say that I am really sorry to hear about your Nan. I also would not be inclined to take the girls given the situation. Maybe you and the girls and DH can have your own goodbye ceremony for her that is more kid friendly and less involved in family politics. Maybe once her ashes are spread at Port Melbourne you could go down with the girls at sunset have dinner, and maybe float some flowers or some candles out, or get the girls to write her a little note or draw her a picture and put them in a bottle and send them out to be with her ashes. Good luck with it all.
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The funeral is on Friday, my poor aunty forgot that it was Marley's birthday. Oh well, we'll just have to celebrate her birthday on Saturday. Lucky she isn't really old enough to work out what day her birthday is. The funeral is at 2pm, over the other side of town and thankfully MIL will look after the girls.
Maya - your pics look fantastic, you look fantastic! Loving that baby bump. It looked like it was nice and sunny for you. Did you enjoy Eumundi market?
Ali - that sounds like such a beautiful idea - thank you! I will definately be doing that.
Still freaking out about seeing my mum after all these years. My brothers and I have all decided to just stick together and keep out of her way and if she tries to speak to us, then just walk away. Last thing we want is to cause a scene, but she will probably enjoy that!!! Fingers crossed it all goes ok.
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Mel: about your mum, I would love to chat over a cuppa with you about her. I can so very relate. My relationship with my mother could so easily be similar to yours. Most days it also feels like I have no mother.... and every time we spend time with her it hurts, because she basically lacks compassion... everything has to be about "her" and in her mind children are not as important as adults and should learn to fit in with the needs of adults (not the other way around :( ). Some days I wonder if it wouldn't be better to cut her out of my (and my children's) life but from experience i know that that makes it harder for me to live in peace. I don't want to go on about my sitch too much in here but please know that I am here to talk to. With the school hols coming up you and the girls are most welcome to come over. I'm sure Verity wouldn't mind taking them outside for a while so we can chat. Like Maya said, it's a tricky one... all i can do is share my experience... and offer you my understanding :hug:
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Thanks so much Bath - your kind words always make me feel better. I'm sure we could talk for hours about it. It will be nice to talk to someone who understands it, most of my friends have such wonderful mothers its hard for them to relate. They sound very similiar with regards to being selfish and its one thing I have made sure I'm not (along with all her other bad traits that I have tried to avoid!). I keep thinking its only one day I have to be near her and then that's it. I always knew this day would come and was hoping she would still be living overseas and wouldn't be able to afford to return - wishful thinking! I would love to catch up over the school holidays. I am hoping to get a few days off so will let you know.
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Mel I just wanted to drop in and wish you all the best for today, i hope you are able to find happy tears for the wonderful memories you have as well as the sad tears for what you have lost. I also hope that your mum realises this day is not about her, but about someone loved by everyone and allows you to say your goodbyes without any drama. Will be thinking of you today!
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Hey Mel, thinking of you today also ;)
Girls I am much better now - got over my pity party LOL! Just flat out busy with boys and work ATM
BBL
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sorry its been a while between posts Ive been away for a week, went to melbourne actually!! it started as a w/e trip for a gf baby shower but i wanted to stay longer to catch up with some friends. so i end up driving and taking the boys (dh had to work so could not come)
i left at 330am which was a great time for kids, they slept till 7am and by then i had gotten a good distance down. Took a total of 11hrs on the way down including about 2hrs worth of stops.
The week i was down i got to catch up with my old mums group, prem playgroup, an old neighbour, go to the baby shower, see close friends, it was exhausting but fun!
Bath- sorry i wasnt around to post the Junies bdays i know i have missed saying happy bday to majority of them now but will do my best to recap. (get out my book lol)
1st - Caitlyn (Emma)
2nd - Cody (Amanada)
6th - Samuel (Jaspen)
7th - Alex (Ang)
8th - Aleise (Janine)
9th - Freya, Annelise & William (Jo, Simone & Julie)
11th - Flynn (Rory)
13th - Aneta & Niall (Ewilina & Bath)
14th - Lachlan (Donna)
19th - Oscar, Marley & Nathan (Maya, Mel & Dee)
23rd - Tori (Ali)
?? - Kai (Tali, sorry i wasnt sure what date!)
So a Big happy 3rd birthday to all Junie's!
Rory- glad to hear you are feeling better.
Julia- wow Isla is 10months old already my gosh!!
did you guys see the birth announcement that Ang had a baby girl? a little sister for Gabby & Alex, congratulations!!
Mel - im sorry you had to have such a sad day as well as on marley's birthday. i hope it was a peacful day
