Oh yay HAPPY BDAY TO L!! Sounds like a fantastic day. I'm so glad the cake worked out well. Bet L is looking forward to her bday party.
Ella - Welcome. I am a Perthie too.
Sorry I have been MIA again!! Cant keep up. Totally underestimated how busy life would be with two. I also started online uni this week. Actually those of you doing online uni, how many subjects are you attempting? For some silly reason I am enrolled in three, but I am thinking I will unenroll from one, I just dont have the time to do 3 atm.
Hope you are all well. Have a fantastic weekend ladies.
Cass, sounds like you had a great day. Hope your new job goes really well for you. So lucky it is warm enough for swimming! We had snow forecast for today but it didn't happen, but it is rather cool tonight so it might happen yet. I can't wait for summer - so looking forward to the river/lake/beach!
Oz, when is L's birthday? I suspect it is very soon?
Isadora, I generally do one paper at a time. I did a semester 1 and a full year paper this year and I didn't have any time for the full year one at all until the S1 paper was over. Now I am struggling to catch up with the full year. There just isn't much time with two kids. I will be halfway through my course at the end of the year, will probably take me another 2.5 years to get it done - and it is only 8 papers! A bit frustrating but it is as fast as I can manage as things are.
Just lurking around. Every step I take hurts my belly and I really just want her out! Had lunch with some old uni friends today as they passed through town and they gave us some freezer food - so nice of them!
arte- freezer food sounds great how lovely of them. any signs of baby yet?
i honestly don't know how any of you are doing any study whatsoever. i find it hard to even keep on top of washing, cleaning, cooking and keeping up with the boys' social lives! lol
looks like i might not be going to children's farm after all. J has come down with something today, would you believe???
oh no! i hope that it is just a sniffle and you guys can still go (and taking the maclaren is perfect...it will handle it just fine!).
Arte: sounds like this baby is just making sure that birth time is coming . i love that your friends supply you with freezer food...that is a statement that i rarely hear lol. so what kind of food was it??? i love that you and DH have venison cook offs lol.
and yep, dude, you have a lot of work on your plate, so dont hurry wurry with those papers!
Isa: man, 3 subjects online is hard. i did 3 online when i lived in Fiji and had NO kids or any other responsibilities (unless you count a cat lol), and i found that hard enough to keep up with. i would so be trying to drop a subject. but then i guess you gotta do what you gotta do if you want to finish by a set time...do you have to finish it ASAP or would you be able to let it go an extra semester.
haha, DH would love to move over there, but i was always worried about the cost of living...but then again, melbourne aint exactly peaches when it comes to that.
AFM: ahhh all that beach action meant that Marta actually slept through!!!! i swear that she has never done 11 hours in a row lol. sooo different from Leila who slept 12-13 hours straight from 6 weeks lol.
today we are eating the rest of the cake with the neighbours in the park and setting up a flying fox for the kids. should be lovely...especially as DH doesnt have soccer this weekend
Hope everyone is fabulous and having a great weekend (yes, already...even at 11, 8 and 6 in the morning lol).
G, I hope J got over his bug already - mine are quite prone to a high temp at bedtime, W sometimes has a midnight puke, and then the next day they are happy as larry!
Cass, they gave us lasagna - which happens to be my favorite So nice of them.
Congrats on M sleeping through! I bet you feel good! A has only had one wake up the last 3 nights and it has been fabulous
Hope you guys have a great day and have some of the perfect sunshine we have here - really feels like spring now and it is lovely.
Well, baby had her chance last night, but now she will have to wait until Tuesday because we are having presents day tomorrow and then Monday is A's birthday. Then she has a 4 day window before W's birthday and party lol. Not being too picky am I??
Oh, and if anyone is still thinking of birthday presents, I just got the Electronic BrainBox set out from toy library and W sat there for two hours straight making the circuits from the book! Trill, might be something A would be interested in?
hi girls
I've had to pull out of the farm party unfortunately, J is just too sick i just rang my friend and she was really understanding but her ds started crying i feel so bad!
Ginger - Oh that is a shame. Hopefully you can reschedule for very soon?
Cass - Yay for M sleeping through!! Must have felt like a new woman? E is not sleeping through yet either, though lately she has been sleeping till 5am ish and has a quick feed and is back to bed till 8am. So thats ok, I feel half decent. Are you still feeding M at night when she wakes? I'm not sure whether to encourage E back to sleep without that feed when she wakes? I have tried but its pretty hard. And yes 3 is way too much, who knows what was going through my mind. I am unenrolling from one, especially seeing as one I am doing has a TONNE of reading. And I am trying to get my head around the harvard referencing...I am coming from APA, but they are not too different. Just scary changing from something I am comfortable with I guess... As for the cost of living here, I dont think its too bad? But then I havent lived elsewhere. They say real estate is expensive, but I dont think its all that cheap anywhere really in any city?
Arte - OMG girl, this baby will be here any day! How exciting!!!!! Half way through your degree is excellent!! Well done you.
I just had a quick spend up online....two new oobi dresses for M for her bday.
Also a big happy birthday to Logan for today. Hope he got spoilt rotten.
What a beautiful day today. We went for a bush walk and found a lovely deserted beach. Might take DH there for a special picnic when it's a bit warmer.
Hope everyone had a good Father's Day. We had a nice brekkie and have managed to finish off one of the supersize boxes of Favourites today. Let's just say that DH and I did not need much for dinner tonight....
Dreamworld would of been fabulous! you know in all the (10?) years that i lived in brissy i never once made it to dreamworld . went to waterworld but that was it!
Arte: i can polish off chocolate in a flash. DH busted me though chomping down on my 'healthy' treat of dried banana chips last night and was like duuude what the? lol. i love snacks lol.
G: how is J today? we have 2 sick kids in the house ATM (no wonder M slept through the other night...she was busy baking a bug lol).
AFM: well as mentioned sick girls leila has a temp and bit of a cough and Marta has manifested explosive nappies. and i mean explosive. she was sitting on the floor this morning and dropped a big one and we all felt it through the floorboards lol.
How is JM?? been ages since she popped on! hope all is well back in the jungle with the girls!
oh still in melbs? haha, there's my vagueness in full tilt lol!
Ah bummer about getting sick . i am trying to ward off all gross germs from the girls. i am pretty certain they have "Slapped Cheek". they have eerily bright red cheeks and flu-like symptoms. the only weird part is that M has the mega runny bottom. but i guess that could be the fever etc. i just want them to be better so we can go and have fun and enjoy the sunshine!
Happy happy birthday to all our gorgeous September bubbies Hannah, Livvy, Leila, Logan and Amelia!
Well Arte, are you thinking you'll get cracking soon on the baby having or are you going to hold off until after W's birthday?
Ginger, sorry you've all been unwell and the boys had to miss the farm party.
Cally, what did you end up getting for the 4 yo party gift? I love Ella's suggestion of a trinket box, I remember H having a stash of little glass wishing stones and crystals around that age, gotta have someone to keep your little treasures. I'm hard up thinking what to tell the grandies to buy for E because I suggested a couple of girly things that I know she really wants and there was lots of screwing up of noses (!). It's not like i've raised her to be a girly girl, for crying out loud, evidence being H who is very ungirly and who had a pretty similar balance of toys etc. *sigh*
Cass I was woohooing on the inside for you on your first day at work on fri! How exciting, aren't you clever scoring yourself such a flexible role?! Is this with the lady you were telling us about a few weeks ago? Does this mean there will be a book floating around wiht your name on the cover?
Ella, are you feeling like you're go sooner or later with this bub? Good to hear you've been keeping busy with the retail therapy while you're waiting LOL. BTW I meant to ask, did you ever meet up with Queenie IRL? I keep thinking there's a connection there.
I thought JM had left too, right up there with the vagueness here. JM if you're reading, lots of squeezy hugs coming your way from here
Isadora, I think 3 subjects by distance ed is very brave. It's not like on campus study where you just have to turn up awake in order to absorb a certain amount of the content. You really have to drive the bus yourself. The bigger the study load, the tougher you have to be about your prioritising. I'm doing 1 subject and I've got to say it would have to be pretty exceptional circumstances tht would make me step up for 2. But you're a smart cookie, and i'm sure you can achieve whatever you set your mind to do. xxx BTW I'm struggling with referencing too, I was 3/4 through an assignment and thought i was getting a good hold on it when I suddenly realised they'd UPDATED their way of doing it sometime last year and I had to go through and re-do whole chunks of it
My brain was sooooo fried after all getting all those assignments in and HUGE deadline at work, I really just needed a few days to think about nothing and let the synapses cool down LOL. I got the results for one of them today and I got a very solid credit, which I'm very pleased about. Feel more hopeful about my academic future now LOL.
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how lovely of them. any signs of baby yet?
i just rang my friend and she was really understanding but her ds started crying
. went to waterworld but that was it!
Hannah, Livvy, Leila, Logan and Amelia!
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