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Kids meals are hopeless aren't they - when we went on our lunch cruise she was offered the same meals as us and had a lovely piece of Atlantic Salmon - so much nicer than chicken and chips.
MD - glad I wasn't on the Prairie, not an orange fan at all.
MP: oh wow. thank you so much :hug: your DH arrived a few mins ago and after he left i unpacked the beautiful food and had a bit of a teary. this is so wonderful; such a weight lifted off me, i have been struggling to find energy to cook (especially as the stocks are runniong low as DH did a boy shop (3 packets of tim tams and some white bread lol). your DH was so sweet as well, he told me that his mum had similar and was OK. that meant so much as i am freaking out about any long term issues (my knees have all swollen out today...so did a bit of a freak out :o).
Cally: oh babe, my kids for the last 4 days have eaten alot of white foods...the best bit was the tinned baked beans today lol.
Cass - no prob at all - am glad I could help with a few things. Was a bit rushed so hope it's all ok xxx
Hi Ladies!!
I had no idea this thread even existed - i have found a few of you again after 4 years - he he!!
For those of you who remember me from the Sept 07 Belly Buddies, a lot has happened in the mean time... I had another baby (boy) in 2009, and am now expecting my third in a couple of weeks (however, given my obstetric history of making sure that my babies are well and truly over-cooked, it may be a few weeks longer than that...). I have moved from my beloved Melbourne back to my hometown of Perth (which, other than the family and friends here, i have little affection for!!). My DH's mother got very ill very suddenly in Dec 2009, and we packed up house and moved back to Perth by Feb 2010. She passed away in July 2010 so things have been pretty miserable for my DH's family lately (she was only 59, and never had any previous health problems so it was a massive shock). Because of the suddenness of the move, we had to sell our beautiful home (MamaPan, it was in the Gascoigne Estate in Malvern East - you will sympathise with me because it's such a gorgeous area!) at the bottom of the market in Melbourne, and then bought a property in Perth at the top of the market, which has been falling ever since - ha ha!! i have to laugh about it, otherwise i'll cry!! we are building a new house that we can't afford on the property that we bought (taking a bit of a gamble - oops!) and in the meantime have been in rentals. the first one was terrible and totally un-child-friendly, but the one we are in now is rather nice, so that's a positive at least!
My daughter is going to a Montessori School 3 days per week, which she loves, and my son is booked in to start there next Feb (they can go from 2.5yrs). She is very independent, articulate and cunning (which can be exhausting), whereas my son just thinks life is one big party, and has been laid back and easy going since he was born. he is a bit of a joker, and they both get along really well and are great friends... We didn't find out the sex of the baby this time around, and i'm really quite excited about finding out when they finally arrive!
i think that's probably a good enough summary of my life since i spoke to you all last - i will try and check in regularly now to see what you're all up to!!
Hi Ella, wow how lovely that you have popped back in! you probably don't recognise me, but you actually did my birth announcement for ds1 back nearly 4 years ago!
congrats on #3 how exciting!!!! sorry to hear about your mil :(
is the block that you are building on in perth?
Blast from the past!! I have just been reading back on some of our old Belly/baby buddy threads! Seems that time really alters the memories - what I remember of W's babyhood doesn't match a lot of what actually happened at the time lol.
Hi Ella :) I am about to have #3 as well. How are you going with the pregnancy and two small kids to look after? I fondly look back at the luxury of the first time round when you can sit around waiting for the baby to come - now I get to sit for a couple of minutes before one kid or another is whinging for something!
W woke up crying last night saying his ear hurts. We have never had ear problems, I am not sure what to do. Think I will ring the health line. A was also sick last night with a temp over 40. I got it down with panadol and she seems happy enough today.:
Final Tally:
29-08-07 JaZmum - Hannah Rose
30-08-07 Joasia - Alexander John
31-08-07 Leemar - Olivia Matilda
10-09-07 Artechim - William Rodney
11-09-07 MaryDean - Elisabeth Hope
12-09-07 Reneenay - Rory Gary Peter
13-09-07 Cally - Katherine Jane
14-09-07 Aglinra - William Nathan
14-09-07 Pregpan - Noah Basil
15-09-07 Morv - Frederick John
17-09-07 MBear - Samantha Lily
17-09-07 Joel's Girl - Hamish Jack
17-09-07 JohT - Kane Dylan
18-09-07 Sherie - Alister Douglas
18-09-07 Liddle Pixie - Scarlet Rose
22-09-07 Noisuf - Caitlin Chloe
26-09-07 Noni*e* - Asha Maisie
26-09-07 SupaBlondie - T
03-10-07 Ella79 - Abigail Cherry
06-10-07 Fianne - Max
07-10-07 Gracie - Lewis Anthony
?????????? Queenie - ???????
ETA, G, there was an awesome post from you back in the (heavily pregnant) day about a massive screaming match with your DH over a loaf of bread - made me laugh!
Hi Ella and welcome back to the fold! i am not sure that we ever met...i joined BB in early 2008.
MP: the food was fantastic! i will post a pic of Marta absolutely hammering a drumstick lol! she was like a caveman, just tearing into it!! thank you so much. the girls were really ready for some home-cooked goodness!
Arte: i love the list from the past...just wish i had of been on there...would of been way cool to have shared that journey with this lovely bunch of ladies :loveshower:
OMG Ella!! Hello! :hug: So wonderful to see you pop back in here and fill us in on what's been happening for you. So sorry to hear about your MIL, I can only imagine how hard that must have been for you all. Make sure you let us know when you have bubs too! the 18th is Alister's birthday so that would be kinda cool to have bubs on that date.
Cass, I hope you're continuing to improve too :hug:
arte- i have no memory whatsoever of a fight over bread. link me up! how hilarious!!!
G, I can't find it again now. But I did come across another post of yours about running out to buy some 0000 clothing to take to hospital - bet that didn't see much action! We used to go through a thread every few days back then when they had the 8-9 page limit.
I am so exhausted! Yesterday I was with the kids from 6.30am-9.30pm, then between them they managed to wake up 9 times overnight. I am too pregnant for such long hours :( Thankfully DH took them for a walk today and I got a bit of time to sit and read and just be alone.
geez arte, i would be going out of my mind from lack of sleep if i was you!
yes i did run out and buy 0000 and what a total waster that was!!! dh ended up driving from the maternity ward to big w and buying packets of blue 00 wonder suits. luckily a friend of mine had twin boys about a week later so i gave her all the 0000 stuff :)
I almost couldn't move this afternoon I was soooo tired. The effort required to move anything was just too much - then I stumbled into the bedroom to have a nap and realized I had stripped the bed and it wasn't made and burst out in tears lol
Ella!!!! That is so bizarre, I was just thinking about you and thinking I should PM you when I am back from holidays and see if we could meet up - I THOUGHT we were neighbours!!! (and we would be if you were still here!) Its lovely to hear from you. I am so sorry about your MIL, what a shock and what an awful time for you all. Is the move to WA a permanent thing (i guess so since you sold up here and are building there)
Cass - how are you feeling? am glad the food went down well. yep DH mum had rheumatic fever when she was a child.
Well, we have had a full on weekend. Noah had 3 parties to go to and on sat night we had his first sleepover!! (his best friend stayed at our place). the sleepover went really well, they are so gorgeous together. Poor little J was a bit left out, he wanted her to sleep in his room!!!! i cant wait til he can also have friends over. It was hard work but wonderful - cant believe how grown up they are! I also took another friend with us to one of the parties - started to get a feeling of what its like when you are carting kids everyhere all weekend! was meant to go out with a gf last night but was so tired i had to cancel!
I was also running around trying to get things sorted for N's party... cant wait for that, though hope we arent too jetlagged.
bbl - at work and trying to get through heaps before I head off to Hawaii!
Far out MP, reading that made me need a holiday! N's social life leaves mine in the dust lol.
This morning I was writing the shopping list and W said he had written one with the spy pen (invisible ink and uv light), so I had a look and he had written Milo! It was spelt Mlio, but he did it all by himself :)
Starting to worry a bit about the party so I planned all the food and bought it today (except the fruit) so I can feel at least a bit organized - wish I knew when this baby was coming so I could plan properly!
Hi Ladies!
Ginger - yes i do remember posting your BA all that time ago!! think i posted Queenie's too...
Artechim - i'm glad to know that i'm not the only one silly enough to go for a third child in close succession - i have been having some serious Buyer's Remorse about this baby - life just seems so hard already, why am i about to make it even more difficult?!! i keep trying to look at the positives - like fast-forwarding 2 years time and seeing them all sitting around the dinner table and playing games with each other, but it just feels a long way away at the moment!! I had a laugh over your tears about an unmade bed - i cry at the drop of a hat these days, i think my DH must think i have lost my mind!! were your other babies early or late? Sept 11th isn't far away....
that's very clever of W to be writing his own shopping lists! my DD made a "book" the other day - she drew lots of pictures of fairies and princesses, stapled them together and then wrote "pinses and feries" on the front - when we first saw it my DH said "wtf? she's written "penises"!! and i had to interpret that it was "princesses" - he was relieved... anyway, i was pretty impressed - i certainly haven't been teaching her any letters or numbers, so good to see that she must be learning something at school!!
my son (2) was counting cookies into a container last night (that we were bringing over to my SIL's house) and he was counting to them into the container - in SPANISH!! glad my DH wasn't around to hear - it's a poor reflection on my mothering that he can count in spanish before english - he must be watching too much Dora!!
MP - yes, we are in Perth for the long haul now i suspect... we always assumed that we'd return here one day (we're both from large families, and they're all in Perth), but it was one of those things that we kept pushing back for "another few years", so may never have actually happened!! the kids LOVE it here because they have so many cousins their own age (between myself and my DH we have 7 nieces/nephews under 5yrs here), and they've got so many birthday parties and the like to go to... My DD is obsessed with sleepovers - she is always inviting herself to other people's houses - it gets embarrassing!! she has had a few sleepovers with a non-family friend, but other than that we have limited it to cousins so far...
Cass - i read your birth stories the other day - your homebirth sounded SO good! i am going to a private hospital (as i have for the other 2), but have managed to avoid any intervention with the previous bubs, so hopefully i'll be able to do the same again! having said that, sometimes i just think - it would be a whole lot easier if they just put me to sleep and woke me up when the baby was out!!
hope you're feeling better, sounds like you've been having a rotten time of late!!
anyway, i have a friend coming over in 20 mins and haven't brushed my teeth or dressed the kids - better get a wriggle on! have a lovely day ladies!
Ella - welcome back!
Arte - oh, I wish I could come and give you a bit of a break. How are the kiddies today, any more fevers?
MP - wow, your life is so busy and yet you still find time to help out Cass, what a lifesaver!
Ella that would have been funny to see his face when he thought she'd written penis LOL. I don't know if you would remember, but my first 3 were all 20 months apart in age and OMG it was such a full on time. But you get so busy with them the time just flies and before you know it they are big kids! I guess you just live in the moment too and dont' really think about it too much. I know I didn't anyway.
Arte, I hate that type of uncertainty. When I was having A, E's birthday was only a few weeks after and at the time I remember it being so hard to plan shopping for a gift and organising the cake etc because I knew I would have a newborn, but had no idea what type of newborn he'd be LOL. I'm sure it will all go off smoothly for you though. I felt like you last night too about the unmade bed. Only it was L's bed. I'd changed the sheets but forgot to remake it and he tells me last night at 8.30 that it wasn't made when I really needed to be getting stuck into this stupid report that's due today.
MP, I am totally jealous of your trip! I so wish I could go somewhere tropical right now.
Well now things are back to normal for me I have time for an update LOL. So prac was fantastic - I did so much teaching and while I wish it didn't have to end, I'm glad that it did. The last week was horrendous for the kids - I had L get sick with the flu last Sunday so he spent all Monday in bed which meant I had to take a day off (which I have to make up on Friday) and then Tuesday at home. Monday afternoon E came home from school, she slept the entire way home on the bus (1hr), went straight to bed and I didn't see her again till 7.30 Tuesday morning when I told her to stay in bed. So she had 3 days home with the flu including some vomiting just for good measure. I thought Paige might have escaped it, but no, by Wednesday night she was sick so she had Thursday and Friday home with it and she also had vomiting. And then just for ****s and giggles, I woke up feeling like death on Thursday, but knew I only had two days to go, so I took a digesic tablet to kill the headache and went to school. By the end of the day I felt worse so got some super dooper cold and flu tablets, somehow managed to get through friday despite the fever and chills. I don't think I have ever been so glad to see Saturday come around. Oh, and as if I didn't need the extra sick child, Alister came down sick again on Thursday night too. he still isn't quite `100% and not eating much, and the girls aren't back to normal yet either, but well enough to go to school again. And on top of that I had an assignment due today that I didn't get an extension for. Apparently 4 sick kids at once plus yourself doesn't qualify you for an extension with this lecturer! At least the other lecturer was human and gave me a 2wk extension just because I had a prac! But on the plus side I'm feeling loads better despite all the green snot and I got the assignment finished!
So that's it in a nutshell LOL.
Oh, I also finally got my copy of 'go the **** to sleep' from fishpond! I got the hardcover version for only $12!! and it took 4 weeks to get here, but I love it. It makes me laugh every time I read it.
hello lovely ladies!
well, today....might be a good day :) i *think* that i am feeling much better! i still have slightly achey joints (lying down in bed is actually really sore lol). my throat is a bit sore but i feel a bit better :dance:
Ella: that is a massive move to make. Hopefully you can settle into a good rythmn once the new bubba arrives. DH wants us to move to Perth, but it just seems so far from my family (his are all in italy, so not much difference lol).
Sherie: that is so cool that the prac went well. and very very cool that you loved it. big big bummer about the kids getting sick :(. that is total crapness about the lecturer not giving the extension. if need be, cry discrimination and write an email to the student rep at admin. been there done that, and it does get stuff turned around, because let's face it, there's got to be a bit of leeway, especially when parenting.
Arte: Last year i celebrated Ls birthday on the 27th of August :lol: didnt plan it, just threw a cake in the oven, iced it and then got DH to run around the neighbourhood gathering the kids lol. i was too pregnant and emotional to do anything more lol.
I am so so sorry about that crazy (non)sleep action in your house. i have no idea what to say or offer :(. it just seems so crazy that these kids dont want to sleep....dont they realise that when they are teenagers they aren't going to be able to sleep as much as they want so they should just take advantage now :rofl: (that said, i was a total shocker with sleep...i really feel for what my mum went through now in retrospect). that said, mum used to just pop me in bed and ignore my games and chatting and singing lol. but apparently it used to silently drive her bonkers as i would be still going strong (with the light off as well!) well after she was asleep lol.
MP: :o man, N has quite the social calendar! that is so cool that he had a sleepover. did he love it?? Leila really wants to do one too. she keeps begging for one! she used to do them a little bit last year with our close friends, but now that they have a special needs baby it is just too hard. we need to find another sleep over family. it seems that all our mates have fussy sleepers, so no hope there for the next couple of years i'm guessing :lol:
AFM: well, as i mentioned i feel that i am slowly getting better. L is struggling emotionally a bit lately as i guess having a sick mumma is not much fun and she has been bored beyond belief. so today i braved it and went to the local playground. i didnt last long before i plonked myself on the disk swing and just lay there hahaha.
her eating has also just stopped. DH is freaking out (as he always does) but i am hoping and confident that she will start again soon. i managed to get a bit of food in her at lunch...watch this space!
wow check out all my similies in that last post lol!
Cass - plonking on a disc swing, that sounds pretty good to me.
yeah it was pretty fab as the sun broke through the clouds and all!
Cass, you do what you can hey? It would have felt nice laying out in the sun though. Try to get him not to worry about her eating. I know it's an issue for her but really, they eat what they need to eat. I *know* A is well now and should be eating, and it's kinda infuriating that he wont eat much, but I guess he just doesn't need the food yet. It has made his scrawny bum feel worse though LOL. I'm expecting him to be back to himself within another day or so though.
Cass, I wouldn't mind if the kids didn't sleep if they were happy playing/chatting to themselves, but they are full of neediness and screaming all night. Mine are getting bored too because I can't do much with them atm. We only last a few minutes outside before A packs it in because I can't lift her in and out of the swing.
Ella, I am mildly terrified about having this next baby! It was just getting easier with the two being older, now we are back to the beginning :(
Trill, wonder what would qualify as major enough to get an extension from that lecturer? Seems pretty harsh! Sounds like your course is going really well :)
W did the bed thing to me the other night - he hasn't had an accident at night for months then the other night I went to put him to bed and it was late and I was really cranky and sure enough he had wet the bed and not told me. I am not sure how DH managed to lay in there for half an hour reading stories and not notice!
LOL Arte! Luckily it wasn't a wet bed I had to deal with!
I meant to ask earlier, what type of birthday cakes are we all doing this year? I was going to do the layered rainbow cake, but for a spectacular result, the taste of it was pretty yuck. So I'm not doing it now. I thought about the lamington train from the old WW book, but do a ganache covered mudcake instead, but I'm not sure. We were going to have friends out for a BBQ lunch on the day as it is a Sunday so I wanted to put a bit of effort in ;)
waaahhhh my car is f888ked! just what we need right now- not!
waiting for dh to get home to assess the damage. not happy.
i have no idea what cake I'm doing. i need some inspiration from you guys! i was thinking of just buying a lame ben 10 cake topper and chucking it on top of a chocolate cake. so lame though, but I'm sure L would think it was the best thing ever.
i am doing the WW ballerina cake for Leila and Marta will hopefully have a toadstool cake...but i need alot of goodluck for that one :rofl:
if it all goes pear shaped they are both just going to get a ganache cake with pretty toppers on it lol.
G: oohh that is definitely no good with the car. what happened? flat battery or something?
Trill, your cake looked fantastic even if it wasn't very tasty! You could do it with white mud cake mix and white ganache instead - that would taste good. I have done a rainbow white mud cake and it holds the colour well enough.
G, is it mechanically challenged or did it get dinged? Hope it is something cheap!
I am just doing mud cakes - they are the easiest cake imo and I don't want to commit a lot of time to them. I will just shove some icing and the dora and toy story toppers on them. I might get fancy and go round the edge with smarties. The kids will think they are great anyway. Maybe next year I will have more time to do something impressive, but then again with 3 at the same time....maybe not lol.
Man I am over A screaming at me! She wants me to sit on the couch holding her in a certain position and if I do anything else she follows me crying. Not going to go well with the new baby when she is still so babyish.
gosh, you are all so organised for your parties already!! but my daughter ended up being one of the last ones born out of the group (3rd Oct), so i guess i have a little more time... last year i just did her a #3 cake and decorated it nicely. the year before i did the train from the original WW cookbook (which took AGES, but looked fantastic). this year, i will have either just had the baby, or will be 2 wks overdue, so i suspect either way, their will not be much effort going into the cake!! she wants that awful cake from the WW cookbook with a doll stuck in an upturned bowl of icecream (to make it's skirt). it would be ridiculously easy, but oh so tacky!!! she may just get her way... maybe i will tell my DH that it's his job this year - he would probably outsource the job to his dad, who has been known to make a few kids birthday cakes over the years...
Cass - my BIL made the Toadstool for his daughter earlier this year (my sis was in hospital with a very premie baby), and it turned out really well - i'm sure yours will be even better!!
Trillian - what is a layered rainbow cake? do you dye each layer of sponge a different colour? do you stick them together with similarly-coloured icing? i am intrigued... my daughter is always telling me that "rainbow" is her favourite colour, and will not believe me that rainbow is NOT a colour!! sounds like the cake would be right up her alley... i don't know how you have time to be baking cakes though with 4 young kids and studying!!
Ginger - sorry to hear you're having car issues! i just got a new car recently. i loved my old car and really didn't want to get a new one, but i couldn't manage to squeeze three carseats in no matter how hard i tried!! i have now got a Honda Odyssey. it's black and my husband calls it "The Hearse"!! it is such a soccer-mum's car - my life has changed significantly - 5 years ago i was living on Chapel St in Melbourne and driving a 2-seater convertible sports car, and now i drive a people mover and sing along to The Wiggles as i'm sat at the traffic lights... ha ha!!
Arte - tell your DH that it is now his job to get up to the kids during the night. my DH has assumed the night-time carer role over the last few months (it started off because i was really debilitated by a bad back a few months ago, and although my back is a little better now, i haven't bother taking the role back again!!)... the kids even call out for daddy rather than mummy now - i LOVE it!! when the new baby comes, you'll be getting up to them anyway, but he can look after the 2 bigger ones!!
DH is due home in 15 mins and i haven't started the dinner - better get off the computer or he'll think i've been sitting around on my ar5e all day!!
btw, i have been meaning to comment Arte on how well-timed your pregnancies have been - perfectly evenly spaced!! mine are Oct 07, June 09 and now Sept or Oct 11. Although there is approx 2 yrs between each, there will only be a 1yr gap in school years between the first 2, and then a 3yr gap in school years between the 2nd and 3rd kids (Perth cut-off date for school is 30th June)... that was some bad planning on my behalf!!
Ella, I wouldn't be organized at all for the party if I wasn't due to have a baby the day before. Usually I am a leave it to the last minute kind of girl.
DH does all the DS wake ups, and last night he did half of the DD wake ups - if I get up too quickly I am sure my pelvis is going to fall off my spine! But then he is up 5-6 times and still has to go to work.
As for the spacing, it should be quite cool to have them all bunched up. We are going to have a family tradition of presents day for all of them and then on their actual birthday they get to choose their favorite dinner/takeaway and dessert, and have a cake.
Hi All
Re cakes this year I am ordering an ice cream cake and decorating it with clown figurines (he is having a clown party). Ice cream cakes are all the rage with his kinder friends and that is so miuch easier for me given we will only get back 2 days before the party. He is such a luckyt boy - has his kinder bday day on thu (they do cake, sing happy bday etc) and then his ACTUAL bday in Hawaii and then his party when he gets back. he seems to think i am taking him volcano viewing in a helicopter for his actual bday. another think coming (though i am sure if he mentions it to my mum she will take him)!!!!
Cass - how are you feeling? I would have loved some time lying in the sunshine yesterdday. i spent most of the day doing some training as I am conducting some womens mentoring circles at work. nice to nurture some up and commers....
Ella - so lovely to have you back in the group - stay please!!!! DDs book sounds sooo cute! N has also learnt lots of those sorts of things and is astounding what he comes out with at the moment. Tomorrow I am working from home and am going into school to make fresh pasta with the kids in the morning. cant wait!
Ginger - bummer on the car.
Trill - sounds like a full on week!!!! How do you do a rainbow cake?
MD - how are you?
MP - I'm doing a women's mentor program at work too, not having much luck finding a female engineer with sewer experience though to mentor me - being rural isn't helping. Still so jealous of Hawaii.
As for parties, still not sure what we're doing. Miss K has been invited to one on the 10th (hers is the 13th) so not sure to do another one the following week or what. She has only expressed a desire for two little friends and it seems such a lot of effort!!
Cally, take K and the two friends to the zoo/pool/playcentre or something - easy as! If she isn't itching for an actual party then don't worry about it :)
MP, a volcano helicopter ride would be awesome! My BIL flies helicopters at Franz Josef Glacier and we can have free rides, but we have never managed to get down there. I am sure having three kids will make it easier lol.
hi girls
my new washing machine makes a beeping noise every time it finishes a cycle and J has just yelled out 'fire! fire!' when it went off. i think he must've been watching too much fireman sam! lol
my car needs a new radiator. dh is buying one this arvo and will try to fit it tonight so i should be ok by tomorrow.
it seems that L is sick again! when will this ever end? he threw up all over my back and hair today. nice.
im liking the sound of the ice cream cake idea......
G, L has had a terrible run this year! Do you think he will stop being hit with everything once his tonsils are out?
For DH's birthday I bought a vienna ice-cream and let the kids tip choc magic and sprinkles on it - they had a ball and it was the easiest cake ever! But for kids you can buy a tub of ice-cream and let them sculpt it into something themselves and add sprinkles and sauce - cheap, easy and fun!
I have been thinking of getting a new washing machine - ours is only a 5.5kg one and I end up doing lots more loads than I would need to if I had a bigger machine. But I think it might need to wait for a bit. The lawnmower packed in the other day and then the grill part of the microwave had a heap of smoke coming out of it the other night. Oddly I can buy a new Whirlpool crisp microwave here for $700, but you can buy them in Australia for $250 for the same model! I am thinking of getting my father to post one over because even after paying postage I would still save a few hundred dollars!
i am really really hoping that getting the tonsils out sorts him out a bit. he just doesn't look well at the moment and i seem to have him at the drs once a fortnight. it is doing my head in. i wish they would hurry up and offer him an operation!!!! my friend has PHI and her dd is getting done this week :(
we got a new top loader, i think it's 7.5kg? our front loader was buggered
Far out Arte that is expensive!!! The washing machine I used to have was only 4.5kg and OMG it took forever to get all the washing done once there was 6 of us. My advice to you would be to get as big as you can afford - I went to a 9.5kg one and now I can wash blankets and 2 single bed sheet sets at a time!
Ella, we looked at those cars years ago and a hearse crossed my mind too LOL. The cake is simple. I'll post a link to the one I made so you can see it. You need to buy the wiltons gel colours so you can get the really vibrant colours in the cake. All you do is buy a couple of packet mixes if you can't be bothered making a scratch cake, make it up, evenly divide into 6 bowls (or 7 if you are doing a proper rainbow LOL) and then mix in the colours. The longest part is the baking unless you have two tins the same size then you can do two at once. I only had one tin so it took nearly 2.5hrs to get all 6 layers made. I know other people have used foil pie plates, but I reckon they would be too hard to get the cake out of. Here is a FB group I joined about them Log In | Facebook and if you scroll down to Sherie Brown, you'll see my effort.
Ella: that is a crack up about the car changes hahahaha! and oh so true lol. i now simply look longingly at my beautiful designer heel collection while slipping on one of my 100 pairs of 'mum' flats lol.
G: :crossfingers: that he gets a spot soon xx. it will make a huge difference. i had mine out 2 years ago and only just got sick now (and i am an old fart lol). so i am sure that with youth on his side he will build great health and strength.
it is a bummer having to wait for a spot though :(. it was a roughly 6 month wait wasnt it? like i mentioned we went private in the end (i was just way too ill to wait :() and had to spend $1500 all up (incl. hossy stay etc). i think we got some back as we were over the medicare medical threshold...but yeah, it is alot of $$ for something that really should be covered by the public system (because in theory it is!).
MP: just dream of hawaii...not long now :dance: ahhh imagine the sunshine there!!! argh! i wanna go!!
The womens mentoring program thingy sounds interesting. i am just starting to get involved in women's issues as i have a meeting with the UN commissioner for women in a couple of weeks. i am hoping to extend myself into the field of human trafficking prevention and slavery...a light and fanciful topic lol.
MD: where for art thou???
Cally: i second arte...take a couple of her friends to the zoo or something and have a cake and picnic??
AFM: feeling heaps better again today :dance: my legs are still bonkers, but HUGE improvement. the only real issue is Leila. she is really lashing out ATM. aggressive, angry, hysterically sad. i am at a bit of a loss with her TBH. i will post a thread somewhere on here tonight when i have time as i am not quite sure how to approach it ITMS. i know that she got bullied fairly badly the other day at a playground and she was quite disturbed by it. so i dont know...
Hanging around. Have been working on an essay and am fundamentally unable to think about more than one thing at once. Have been lurking, reading a bit - very excited to see ELLA again :cheer: - but essay is finished now :D so I need to catch up on everything.
MD: sorry babe, no pressue :hug: