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My friend just left :( I am sad.
Lucky for me the school is just on the other side of kindy, so it is all within 100m of our front door step. I guess I will drop off W first and then A, but it probably won't be as easy as I plan because W will want me to stay. I am hoping he will bike there on his own after a bit of settling in time.
Arte - hope you are doing ok now without your friend. It's tough and I can imagine only worse in a smaller place
ginger - so wonderful the school is going so well. It sounds divine :-)all the school settling in is so amazing, I just can't believe all our kids are so big
we had the prep info night the other week and yesterday I got Jakey's enrollment packs and class lists for kinder next year. It's enough to make me clucky.
Noah is super excited for prep - especially for me buying his uniform!
Cass - how you doing? Is Emilia settling into the family well? How are you finding being a super mum of 3?
All is well here. Dh is away again! And as I am in the peak period at work and running what is increasingly a huge business (I now hAve 3000 staff!) I am flat out. The boys are staying at my in laws tonight as I am so busy at work - so I am treating myself to Indian takeaway and a relax session. I need it.
dh will be back on sat but has a lot of travel before Xmas - we will need our holiday!
i think he also has a few trips in jan and feb...... Aaarrrrgggghhhh!
MP - wow, you are crazy busy!!
Man MP, I always get tired reading about your life! You manage full time very busy work, a DH that is away and the kids. All I have to manage is a 2 minute stroll to kindy every morning - and I am always late!
As I suspected W is fine now that his friend is actually gone. He always gets stressed and upset leading up to an event and then after it has happened a calm returns. I guess that is the definition of anxiety isn't it. I won't be missing those hysterical drop-of-a-hat tantrums, enjoying the quiet while it lasts :)
Lambs are gone. Thanks again to Trill who helped me with my vomiting and diarrhoea issues with them :)
Arte: ah bum that your friend has gone :( i miss terribly our LA friends...email is great but not the same as hanging out together.
MP: 3000? dude. talk about responsibility! My DH had to pull out of two OS trips for Dec and Jan....i so wish we could of all gone: one was in chile and the other in Sth. Africa. but havng a baby threw that plan off course lol.
Miss E is settling in wonderfully. we are in the newborn madness but thankfully having BTDT 2 times before both DH snd i are rolling with it really well. my biggest joy is knowing how awesome it will be in a few months as Miss E gets that little bit bigger and can interact with her big sisters that bit more. i really look forward to seeing them play together and share their lives ITMS.
Trill, how did L go at the hostel?
Cass, surviving the family visit?
MD, how are you going in the sleep department?
First of December, Christmas is coming up fast. I wonder if I should get the tree out today? It seems like a whole world of hassle with a busy toddler around.
our tree is up! all 45cms of it hahahaha.
Arrrrrrghhhhhh. A meltdown because there wasn't enough margarine on his bread!! I am so sick of it, so sick of him. I totally lost my nut at him, said some horrible things. No wonder the poor kid is ****ed in the head.
Arte, dude :hug: I reckon the majority of us have BTDT :( sucks butt but there is a cracking point and when you have no option to release it is bound to happen from time to time. i have no real advice on how to avoid it. i just beg to the gods that i dont lose my nut again when i have cracked it and been irrational. my only rule is to then go outside and do some fun fresh air activity.
we've been getting some pretty amazing meltdowns with DD1 lately. i am blaming all the upset of a new baby and houseguests so am just biding my time...
Arte - hugs. Yep, pretty sure we've all been there.
Cass - 45 cm tree! Sounds gorgeous! We did ours today, I think we'd both been dreading it, but a 5 year old is so much more useful than a 4 year old was!
So on top of my continuing crappy sleeps (was walking the streets at 5:30am the other day), I now have a coldsore. Not impressed. Fingers crossed I haven't inadvertently passed it on to DD. Thought it was just some dry skin.
The whole family had naps today. DD has had a week of early starts too and DH was just having his usual Sunday nap.
Only three more weeks until holidays.....
Cally, do you have to start work early atm? Make sure you cut down on protein to help get rid of that coldsore (protein feeds the virus).
Cass, thanks. How do you deal with the meltdowns? DH and I are at the end of our ropes. The week started off so well but has gone south again. I wish that there was someone that could help us with some decent techniques for managing it. He is a really nice kid, doesn't really misbehave but then loses it over insignificant things. It is so draining :(
Trill, did your tooth get better?
MD, did you decide to take a summer paper?
Arte, don't blame yourself for the way he is, that's just silly talk. The meltdowns suck, but I honestly don't think you'd be able to do much except for ride them out. When they get to that point nothing is going to help :hug: I think when it's bad it's only natural to snap at him and I'm sure he wont hold it against you or make him worse. Maybe the whole friend leaving thing is still playing on him a little and it has put him out of sorts?
I usually get the tree out on the last day of school as a surprise for the kids when they come home, so it is usually about a week before. A 45cm tree would look super cute though Cass :)
Ewww Cally! I hate coldsores. Maybe you got lucky and didn't pass it on to her? It's that crappy time of year when everyone is really starting to feel tired isn't it? I am counting down the days till the 19th that's for sure!
Yep, my tooth did get better and no sign of thrush either touch wood! But I was mainlining yakult while I was taking the abs so I think they may have helped. L's orientation was AWESOME!!! Such a full on few days but I think we both made new friends LOL. Some of the Mums are really lovely and others are pretty :o but overall they are OK. I am just so impressed with the school though. The things he will be able to do just blow the local highschool out of the water! They have their own cattle stud and they are starting their own sheep stud as well and he's super interested in that and the whole show stock side of things as well where they get to travel to the big three shows (Sydney royal, Melbourne and Adelaide) to show the sheep. Even just their subject content is fantastic and the teachers are so enthusiastic! They certainly make me feel less anxious about the whole thing. And he was pretty excited and can't wait to get back there next year.
Trill, that school sounds fantastic! How awesome having the stud farm - so it is basically a working farm? And the kids get experience in all farming aspects while at high school? That is just fantastic for kids that want to go into the industry. It will put him miles ahead of kids that go to a local and then try to move into farm work. That would be ideal for all vocations really, if kids could study their interests in high school rather than struggling through subjects that are no use to them.
Maybe we will do the tree on the last day of kindy, around the 21st. Other years with a toddler we have sat it on top of the wood burner so little hands can't pull bits of glittery crap all over the house.
It's a fully working farm - they grow lucerne for hay which is a nice little earner for them and basically pays the operating costs of running the sheep and beef cattle. They also run pigs and chickens. There is about 220ha of land right on the murrumbidgee river. Every single student is expected to help out in some way on the farm part and they work a rotating roster to muck out the pigs and look after the other stock. All the animal husbandry is done by the kids too - so shearing, crutching, marking, drenching etc. Plus in years 9 and 10 they put them through a wool classing course at TAFE, so you have 15-16 year old kids leaving school with their wool classing stencil and able to go straight into a field of work if they want to be a wool classer. There is just so much that they can do that will see them leave school work ready kwim? If they want to have a gap year then they have a means to support themselves. They do really push for University as well. They have a really good equine horse program too if you're into that sort of thing and the kids are allowed to have their own horses kept there.
I want to go to that school! It sounds awesome. I so love the idea of coming out of school with useable qualifications in the area you want to work in. Bet you are all feeling happy with the decision :)
Trill - that school just sounds awesome. Wish I could count down to the 19th, but we all finish on the 21st here.
Arte - no, not having to start work early at the moment. I've just been taking advantage of being awake so early that I can go for a walk and get some exercise at the start of the day as I am so stuffed by the end of it all I can do is lie on the couch.
Last orientation day tomorrow.
Hiya lovelies, just wanted to pop in and say hello, have been wanting to post all week but in a massive turnaround for me, my mind is nimble but it's the body that has been exhausted. I think the meds are helping my brain but I might not be taking a high enough dose yet to fix the tiredness. Anyway, gotta run, week is only going to get crazier with ILs arriving, but I'm hanging out for a catch up with you girls. Xxx
Hi MD! I was just thinking about you. I hear you on the body tired. I can't seem to shake that exhausted feeling, even when my mind is with it. Do you have good IL's?
Bummer about E's kindy concert. Mine are going to perform at a cultural festival on Friday - they are doing the story of how Maui fished up the North Island and W is Maui lol. The other older/leader boys have moved on to school or away recently so it has fallen on him. He should be alright. Hopefully lol. A is a putiputi (flower).
Cally, how did the last orientation go?
I have just booked in W's leaving party for next friday :( It is all coming to an end. There is a week of kindy after that but lots of kids don't show for the last week. Me, I will be there until the final day because it is hard work having them at home!
I can never quite believe how quickly December goes. It seems it has just started and then all of a sudden Christmas is here and another year is over.
What is everyone doing for Christmas this year? We are just staying local, perhaps a day at the river if the weather is good. No family coming so it is just us.