Miss K wipes her bum and then finds me somewhere in the house so I can check it for her - oh the pleasures of being a mum. We have the wet wipes which work well, although I suppose we should practice with paper as they won't have them at school.
COLD this morning - toes still haven't warmed up.
DH gave me a Samsung Nexus for my birthday - pretty excited!! Although my boss rang this morning and I couldn't work out how to answer it..... And then I hung up on a client by switching the power off.....
LOl Cally, I still have moments like that with my phone and I've had it for a few years now and it was never that complicated to start with! Nice phone though.
Md- we easily filled the container, which was fantastic. It is still in the shipping process. Believe it or not it can take 6 months to get it through customs. We are still not clear if we will be charged import duties. The final cost will be the determining factor in the decision to do it again or not. We'll be there at least another year, not too sure when we'll come back. When I can't stand it anymore no doubt! Lol.
I caught up with the lovely Ginger and her rockstar.I have to say, he is amazing. He can tell you any number you point to, counts to 100, knows all his letters by sight. I tell ya, the kids amazing! Must get it from hs mum.
Fly home to png on Friday. I am so disorganized, I really need to pack and clean up.
LOL Cally. I often worry that my phone is smarter than me.
G, J sounds awesome Maybe he will be a phD rockstar like Jonathan Davis from Korn
MD, I am totally amazed that H is so big now!!
JM, the school W is going to was 'modernizing', so they were getting rid of the old desks and chairs - instead of doing anything useful with them, the caretaker was unscrewing all the metal bits and burning them!! It was so totally wasteful One of the kindy teachers kept going over for rescue missions and was leaving piles of chairs out the front for people to take home. I went over and got a school desk and a chair for each of the kids. Makes me wonder how many schools are just dumping their old stuff when it could be sent to somewhere that could use it Good on you for organizing the books, I am sure that there will be a lot of grateful children and parents.
Think I found the source of the power leak. There was a random patch of warm floor in the lounge that we wondered about, then there was also a dial on the wall that we thought was something to do with the diesel heating. Then a power guy came out to check why the night rate meter was whirling around so quickly and we discovered the 'pit heating' was the problem. Don't know why we didn't think that the mystery warm spot was controlled by the mystery dial directly above it!! Anyhow, back in the late 70's, a 'conversation pit' was all the rage - a recessed pit in the lounge with seating in it. Our has long since been covered over but there is a slight raise on the floor where the old edge would have been. So we have been heating that all month - at around $3.50 per day!!
Last edited by Artechim; June 21st, 2012 at 01:18 PM.
Arte - one of the places we lived in America had a 'pit'. It was down in the basement and we just had heaps of cushions in it and used to go crazy diving into it. Had orange shag pile carpet. Glad you found the power leak fairly quickly though.
How old would you let little ones be before leaving them at a birthday party by themselves? Miss K is invited to one on the weekend and I've got no idea if they're expecting me to hang around or not. I've never met the parents (sounded lovely on the phone) and would hardly recognize the little girl.
Did a training day today, including a personality test. I was totally Introvert, not one single point for extrovert. Anyway, in the careers section for my type it recommended Engineer. So I made the right decision there!
Cally, nice that you picked the right career!
I am never sure with the birthday thing. I know that W still won't stay anywhere without me, but A just had a playdate with her friend across the road and I barely got a wave goodbye. I think at the ones I have been to recently there are some parents that stay and some that drop off. That is helpful isn't it lol.
Trill, how time flies - I can't believe how old your kids are getting! Re DH away - had a long stay in noncopingsville at the start of the week. Extreme fatigue, took to my bed for a couple of hours on Sunday, good thing my girls didn't burn the house down because I would've slept through it. Then had a very bad day on Tues (complete with crying in the toilets at work) which culminated in what turned out to be a migraine but was freaking scary at the time. But I did some more reading and the exhaustion/extreme depression thing can apparently be a pre-migraine (prodromal) thing, makes perfect sense because I really was not myself at all that day. Anyway DD1 was a hero, she got DD2 through the rest of the evening routine, read her a story and tucked her into bed etc.
LOL Cally at your new phone misadventures, I think we all have those. PS I think you could have added "or statistician" to your list of recommended careers LOL.
Re the party - I would not leave a preschooler alone at a party, unless it was a family member like my sister or something. Even in prep and grade 1 there were some parties where parents would linger, but by that stage I would just ask the party hostess. FWIW a playdate is quite different (and less fraught) then a party when there's so much more going on and so many more kidlets running aroudn all junked up on sugar.
JM, that's fantastic that you filled the container! I hope you sneak it through without any costs - but if not, make sure you shout out on FB or something because I'm sure there are many (me included) who would love to help out.
Ginger's little rockstar sounds awesome - not surprising cos so is the rest of that gorgeous little family!
Arte - relieved for you finding the power leak. Ironic really that your underflooring was toasty warm while you were all freezing your tushies off. BTW I went to schools (built in the 70s of course) that had conversation pits in some of the classrooms! I learnt to sing Bananas in Pyjamas in one of them! You should soooo excavate and resurrect that baby!
Maybe he will be a phD rockstar like Jonathan Davis from Korn 
One of the kindy teachers kept going over for rescue missions and was leaving piles of chairs out the front for people to take home. I went over and got a school desk and a chair for each of the kids. Makes me wonder how many schools are just dumping their old stuff when it could be sent to somewhere that could use it 
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