yikes, we were up all night too. the lovely girl across the road thinks everyone is impressed by her turbo'd up car...even at 10pm. kids woke up screaming and that was the end of that
Oh no Tara...how considerate....hmmm....our neighbour has a hoon car but he is very considerate and alwasy apoligies for starting his car early every morning!
A list of birthdays to come:
6th - Ella
8th - Jake
9th - Jovie
16th - Bilby
25th - Emelia
28th - Zander
29th - Aston and Chelsea
30th - Evie
Last edited by visitor1; November 24th, 2008 at 10:02 PM.
Thought I might actually write a bit about myself so Im not some strange person lurking....
I live in Townsville with hubby and the boys..we moved here for hubbys work when bub was 3mnths and Zan 15mnths so we dont have any family or friends here as they live in Brisbane which has been hard at times, especially if we want or need some time out on our own.
I have had some bad days that I know have bordered on depression (past history of depression)and even Psychosis related thoughts (which I put down to not sleeping for 8mnths)I think I have been strong and although its not recommended I have worked through the issues myself as I didnt know where to go in a new town and had enough faith in myself that I wouldnt hurt myself or my kids. Each day does get better..we had issues with Wyatt(bub) from birth with reflux/allergies/and not sleeping longer than 4 hours at a time until he was 8mnths old - breastfed till 10mnths now on Neocate allergy formula.
I was also on the Implanon implant to prevent 3 bubs under 2!!! I had the implanon taken out a few weeks ago as it wasnt agreeing with me. I have also joined a gym....it was damn hard joining up as I havnt done any fitness or had any motivation to do exercise for the past 10yrs!! Now I need to keep going ha ha
Some days I still feel like doing a runner somewhere on my own (especially in the middle of a tantrum and when both boys decide to simultaneously scream) but overall I love being a mum and wouldnt want to be doing anything else at the moment
Thanks for sharing Nicola. I hear you on wanting to run away when 2 kids scream together....its a common thing in this house these days....Jasmine has found her new self and now has an attitude (she is only 1 year 2 weeks old) and then Chelsea...well she is miss tantrum queen and miss attitude to the max! It will be fun come January dealing with a newborn as well!
I love the name Zander!
Is it bad Chelsea still isnt on cows milk??
In her bottles (2 a day) she has 100ml water, 100ml cows milk and 2 scoops formula....
I have a check up for both girls next week and the white lie of 'No Chelsea isnt on bottles anymore' will be put in place....im sick of gettin my butt kicked!
Jovie still has a bottle at night, my good friends little man is 6 months older and still on 3-4 bottles a day!! So don't listen to the bottle nazi.
Nicola I hear ya about the runner!!! Sometimes I look out the window and think about just walking out... I wouldn't but its fun to entertain the thought.
Oh that makes me feel better Christy..im not going to take something away she loves and still needs. Ill cop it cos Jasmine is 12 months and should be off them too..(4 a day)...that would be ok IF she ate solids to make up for the bottles!!!
kim sophie has milk after brekky and dinner in sippy cups but lunch time still a bottle,
start weaning her off the formula by very slowly reducing the scoops maybe 1/4 scoop at a time, she;ll get used to it!!
Zander still has bottles of toddler milk before his naps and bedtime
(he calls it Bot Bot)...It is dilluted with more water than on instructions...I have found buying an $11 tin at Big W is cheaper than buying cows milk. I get constant grief from my mum who is a child health nurse about rotting teeth and how he doesnt need a bottle anymore...but Im the mum and both me and hubby agree that we wont/cant take away the bottle at the moment. There are good points about living 1300kms away from your mum!!!!
We wont have that drama with Wyatt as he has never had or been interested in a bottle as his formula in a sipper cup.
jols you look great! I feel HUGE with this pg and felt really blobby today. To make matters worse went to one of V's book do's and there was a girl only a week behind me in dates and not really a tummy and she says "ooooh look at her tummy". yeah baby trust me I look at it every freaking day. jeeeeez really missing my old new skinny bod.
Ok, am i the only one like this?! I know it's normal for them to be difficult at this age but this is beyond it. everything is a battle, everything ends in tantrums and tears...both me and evie. I just lose my temper so quickly because i am just worn down.
Oh i just read your post Nicola...I have a history of depression too and feel like its starting to get on top of me now. i have tried sorting it out on my own too, and will keep trying but i told dh today i am ready to walk away. my family is all in perth and there are 2 other grandchildren around the same age as evie so we dont get any alone time together at all
I hear ya Tara.....im at my wits end and im getting no where...nothing is working. Some days i ask why i had kids.....what am i doing wrong....why do i have a devil child. Im always getting comments how wild she is.....makes me feel great
Taralee it is hard when you have no family around and things are getting on top of you.....I just have to try and find some positives in the negatives and tell myself when Im down and wondering why I had kids that this wont last forever its just a phase and before we know it the kids will be grown up
also today I looked at Zander when he was mid-tantrum and thought how could he be my child, what have I done wrong?? or is there something mentally wrong with him???
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