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Cass, that is great to hear that E hasn't got anything really nasty. I really hope that it is benign myoclonus and that she grows out of it quickly xx Things sound so much better when they have the word benign in the title. Also, you referenced in your blog! You can take the girl out of academia…
I should be doing some study.
hahaha, i was totally not going to reference...but then i thought that the gods of academia might smite me hahahahahaha.
How is everything going with E now Cass?
Same old here. A big storm front passed through but we didn't get the predicted snowfall - only an inch or so. Soccer was cancelled today though and I am struggling with the cabin fever. Feels like we have been shut inside for weeks.
We seem to be struggling from a bit of cabin fever here too. Wet weekend, plus DD has been really hard to get out at all over the previous weekends.
Going to a fundraiser tonight - one of DH's colleagues has a massive brain tumour. Such a sad situation, she's got a 4 & 6 yr old.
MD - how did the double birthday go, did DH make it back in time?
Cally - have you been enjoying (joy)riding out in your new car? Now that we have a new(ish) family car I also dream of having a new(ish) Marydean car... especially want one where you can plug your phone in and talk to it, Nightrider-Kit style. LOL. But really, I would settle for 4/5 doors and cupholders.
Cass - I bet you're still feeling relieved, but a weird mixed-up kind of relieved :hug:. I hope that all the results keep coming back promising, and your wee little poppet get some peace and respite from the episodes. Love to you all. xxx
Arte - so it's it all white and pretty at your place, then? What is your new house like during winter - have you got good heating & room to move inside? Have you had your exam yet (and how did it go in the end)? I got my last essay result and despite my misgivings I did ok, but it does cause me to wonder about the way the marks are assigned. The previous essay was objectively MUCH better than this last one and yet there were only a few points difference between the grades. Hmmm...
All good here. The birthday boy arrived home in the late afternoon so he was allowed to have presents and cake with us. I went out to tea last night with a group of mummies from Miss E's school - fantastic night, really glad that they are all sociable and friendly and inclusive :). Not sure if I'll get any new besties but I don't feel quite so much that I'm floating along on my own iceberg, kwim?
ETA - Cally! Missed your post there... did YOU have a lovely birthday?? The day went by in a bit of blur here, but I think they both enjoyed it. Miss E had an excursion to the wildlife park that afternoon, then the excitement of double birthdays + daddy getting home... I let her sleep in the next day and she went to school late, but she's obviously still tired because she's been a rotter for the remainder of the week. Aiming for a quiet weekend here, it's (predictably) cloudy and raining after mid-week sunshine :wall: but I think some fresh air and open space could do us good even without the sunshine. That's very sad about your DH's colleague - but I'm sure all the support of people caring enough to do a fundraiser will do just as much good as the actual funds. I hope it's a nice night out. :)
Yes, I had a good birthday. No new car yet, it's on the docks in Sydney or something like that. Pick it up in about a fortnight.
What an anticlimax, Cally.
Cally, Happy Birthday! I must have missed it. Glad you had a good day.
MD, exam is all over. I guess I did alright. I mostly remembered the essays I prepared. I am with you on the marking inconsistency. We were given a really open major assignment, just to summarise the course in any way we wanted - from a straight summary to a alien perspective to a scripted conversation etc. Then the only lecturer went to hospital and someone else marked them and not how we were led to believe would be acceptable. There is a minor uprising on the online forum lol.
This house is well insulated so retains the heat nicely but our heat pump doesn't work on the really cold days. But we have an oil heater running 24/7 so it is alright. The snow only lasted one morning and then got rained out.
Nice that you had a good night out. It makes a difference to have some friends, even if they are only casual ones.
hi girls,
ive been mia really busy but am having a home day today with the boys so thought i'd pop in and catch up. have been reading but just not posting!
cass- how is everything with E now? you had us all very worried little missy!!!
we have been busy busy. L is loving school and is making some great friends (and a new girlfriend, who you may have seen on fb). he is doing really well and is really happy. doing lots of early intervention with J. he has come along way, especially with his speech, but still has his moments. i also find that the older he is getting, the more apparent it is how different he is from his peers. i have enrolled him to start 4 yo kinder at a mainstream kinder next year, which if it goes well, will be totally huge! we are going to start him in the mainstream route, and just see how he goes/copes. we are not sure yet whether he will qualify for an aide.
we had an accident a few weeks ago, J pulled a fishtank over on top of himself and cut his lip so badly that he required plastic surgery. he has recovered really well, and hopefully will only have a small scar, but has just shown us again how much he has absolutely no sense of danger/no fear. i have no doubt that he will end up some sort of motocross rider or something!
one of our bunnies got out and was unfortunately killed so that has been really distressing for us. luckily, i was able to save 2 beautiful baby boy lops from a local breeder who has the rspca and the council on her back and was planning on freezing them and eating them last weekend. they are going well but are very messy!! and have been taking up lots of my time in cleaning up, handling them, and trying to bond them with our female rabbit. anyways, i guess thats about it. hope everyone is going well xox
Hey lovelies!! Its been sooo long. Sorry I've been mia things are crazy busy around here. I had an early miscarriage/chem pregnancy in Feb and then in May I had a miscarriage at 11 weeks. The last 6 weeks have been hard :( It happened during my busiest time at work and instead of stopping and taking some time for myself I just kept on going. L had his tonsils out last week, his recovery has been awesome though. Hopefully this means better sleep for him and a less cranky little boy. Work is crazy busy despite me promising myself I wouldn't take on so much...
I am off to try and read back through and catch up a little. Going to try and be a little more active in here!
Hi G and Oz!
G, sorry to hear about your bunny. It is hard to lose a pet :( J's accident must have been scary.
Oz, very sorry to hear about your loss :hug: Take it easy on yourself xx
Oz - so sorrry about your loss, :grouphug: Hope L is feeling better now those tonsils are out.
G - oh dear, poor bunny. And poor J, hope his lip is OK.
Oh Oz :hug:
That must of been so so hard to lose those precious pregnancies xx And especially in your line of work. oooppphhaaa :hug: How has recovery been since your later loss at 11 weeks? I know that I was pretty wiped for quite a bit.
G: phew woman! you have me tired just reading about the hectic schedules lol. but i am loving your pics of the boys on FB. they are so rockstar it's cool.
MD: totally awesome that you have some friends to do the whole dinner and a chat thing with. my mothers group do it once a month and it has been a life-saver to just get and be adults and do the girly thing of laughing and catching up.
Arte: i saw all the snow on your FB :o looks cool...pardon the pun :lol:
Arte - I hope you went ok in the exam. That's crazy about the marking... a similar thing happened in my last subject (some kind of difference in marking the first assignment) and there was a minor uprising and they rescaled all the marks... in my case down. 2 points. Difference between distinction and credit LOL.
Ginger - Lovely to hear L is loving school. J sounds like he's going great guns - kindy will be an awesome achievement. The fishtank must've been so, so scary - glad he's ok now :hug:. Sorry to hear about your bunny. Your rescue buns have gone to a very good home. :)
Oz - Gosh what a tough time you've been having. I'm so sorry to hear you lost your little ones :hug:. I hope you are able to carve out some quiet time for yourself :hug:
I'm glad to hear L's recovery has been good - I'm sure you will start noticing the benefits very soon!
Cass, how are you all holding up, chickie?
Here: job application was a FAIL. Guess I'll have to save my plans for world domination for another time :P.
MD: bugger :( the universe has different plans for you my dear. i am still banking on it being j k rowling-esque :D
G: oh i missed the bit about the bunnies...that is so devastating :( and what a shock to wake up to :hug:
AFM: things are still hectic. DH has a trip the gong today and then again in a few weeks time. at least now it is only a night away. Miss E is still not out of the woods. although we are confident that she is not going to be impacted by her recent spate of seizures development wise. but still have 3 monthly appts. also the neuro called us in and told us that her ECG did not come back normal. it shows that she has a repolarisation abnormality. so now we have an urgent referral to cardio. never ever ends man. and apparently it is all totally unrelated. but i guess my world view is that maybe one thing had to happen to lead us to this point and know about what is going on with her ticker IYKWIM.
Thanks for all the hugs lovelies.
MD bummer about the job.
Arte pmsl at your fuel gage story. That's something I would do.
G I'm sorry to hear about your bunny. Loving all the photos of your boys on FB, such good looking kids.
Cass I hope miss E is going to be ok. She is such a cutie. I love seeing her big smiles on FB.
Cass, I guess the seizures were some kind of blessing in disguise then. What do you do about the heart problem?
MD, bummer about the job :( On the bright side, at least you didn't call the police lol
Oz, your little nephew is very cute.
My stupid heat pump won't pump hot air when it is too cold. It is driving me batty! The tech guy comes to look at it in the middle of a warmish day and declares it in perfect working order but as soon as it gets really cold when I need it the most it won't work! Just blows fanned air around. It is the only heating in the house and I am freezing! I see the installer getting very sick of my calls in the near future lol
Cass, I was wondering about your ethical meat dilemma. Do you have homekill butchers around? In the outer suburbs at least? If you can find one then you can probably organise to buy straight from the paddock meat.
hi girls, i'm back :)
oz- i'm so sorry for your losses gorgeous. love seeing all your clients on fb. you do such a great job.
arte- hope you've managed to get warm somehow. don't you have a wood fire? did you ever manage to get your hands on that wonderful show 'top of the lake' which was filmed in nz? i think it was quite possibly the best tv series i've ever watched. which is saying a lot, as i love tv!
cass- how is E? one of L's BFFs from school had a seizure on friday and was taken away in an ambulance. so scary! he is back home now but needs to see a specialist :( thank you for saying my boys are good looking :) i think they are total spunks but then i am biased lol have been receiving so many compliments lately on J's clothes choices. the mums at school call him the eccentric rockstar cos he rocks up in braces, scarves and sunglasses.
md- sorry about the job. they don't realise what they're missing!!!
cally- i mustve missed the bit about a new car? what car are you getting? jealous!!! i was supposed to get a new car and dh was going to take my old commodore, but he ended up getting a brand new hilux instead!!! anyways, i guess i'm next in line for one now lol
We're getting an Hyundai I30. Pick it up on Friday.
Had to work this weekend. We had a landslide on the highway between here and Canberra so I had to go up and check everything was still under control (single lane traffic, fence being repaired). Luckily I now have a fortnight off, wouldn't have been too happy if I was back at work tomorrow.
So we head up to the Gold Coast tomorrow. Hopefully the weather is good to us! I would love to go on a holiday where someone else did all the packing - it almost turns me off having to work out what to take.
G - I am very impressed with your jigsaw puzzles, how long do they take you?
Arte - grr at your heat pump!!
Cass - poor Miss E, how quick do you get in with an urgent referral, ie is it this week?
MD - sorry about the job news.
G, no wood fire here :( I was just thinking about that tv series the other day but couldn't remember its name. I will have a hunt around for it now :)
Have a great holiday Cally!
Is it school holidays there? Ours are two weeks away. We are going to visit the IL's. The kids are very excited about going on a plane.
Sort of school hols. Qld re one week in, NSW start today, ACT one more week of school. Not sure about the others.
SA one more week of school.
How is everyone?
I went online shopping crazy today and got all the DD's birthday presents bought. Today I am the queen of organisation. Still not sure what to get W.
I am sick :(
Hey Arte, well done on getting that birthday shopping done! Mind you it's probably a busier month, birthday-wise, in your house than for most of us. LOL. I'm heading out today to pop a couple of things on layby. I was going to get DH along for imput, but, well, he cramps my toy-shopping style. Are you feeling a bit better yet? Is your heating working properly again?
Cass, good to see you're getting a bit of R&R in. How's the squirrel going now, have you been to the cardio yet?
Cally - so I think it's safe now to ask how you're liking the new car? :) All that landslide talk was very impressive, even if it did eat into your weekend. I hope you're having a lovely time on the GC - soaking up sunshine and relaxation.... so nice!
Well, it's cold and rainy just in time for the weekend again :rolleyes:. Why can't the sunshine line up with the leisure time? Would love to get the kids out to a park or something today, but one look out the window de-inspires that thought. Le sigh. Hopefully there will sun later in the week when my leave starts.
hello lovelies!
Arte: hope you are not too freezing cold over there! here's to the heating working!!
re the meat: we are not allowed to buy commercially farm killed meat. some regulation issue blah blah blah. but a friend has sheep and i am concocting a plan to have us hire a mobile butcher and then buy a deep freezer hahahaha!
Cally: hope you are having a grand time at the GC :D
MD: DH also totally cramps all my shopping activities. it always ends with me stomping off and him yawning incessantly :lol:
G: man, your kids are always totally decked out in awesome clothes! Always so impressed by the styling...i realised on the drive home from our break that i have zero style kudos for either myself or the family hahahahaha. I need some Ginger inspiration lol!
how was your friends child after the seizure? did they work out what was going on?
AFM: we had a lovely trip to the grampians. just what we all needed. although the two big kids got sick, but only colds thank goodness. so hopefully it will all pass quickly.
Miss E had her first small seizure in 2 weeks today :( bit bummed. was hoping that we had seen the last of them...ho hum. hopefully we get into cardiology this coming week. otherwise it will be the week after. i want to get it all out of the way. hate all the waiting.
Car is great. Had my first drive this morning. 6 gears takes a bit of getting used to and I managed to stall twice in the car park because it was in 3rd, not 1st. So many cool features like keyless start, reversing camera, dual zone climate control.... Now to persuade DH that I should be taking that car each day.....
Cass - hope you get into the cardio soon. Bummer about the seizure.
MD - I hate weather like that. It's a beautiful day here, we've just had a Sports Day set up in the backyard.
Niece is visiting us for two nights. The two of them are having a ball.
Arte - well done on the shopping. DH bought a couple of big Lego Friends sets a while back so they are all wrapped and ready for birthday / Christmas.
Holiday was good. Seaworld was a hit as was putt-putt golf. DD had a ball just going for rides in the lift. I really enjoyed the chocolate ****tails.....
Cally, new car sounds awesome! I think the keyless thing would be really handy. I finally have a back window back in my car, so I am happy enough with that for now lol Holiday sounds good too.
MD, are you doing anything special for your leave? Or the regular school holiday thing? Feeling better now, except for the half a lung I cough up every now and then.
Cass, I think that your sheep plan is what I was referring to. Here you can hire home kill butchers that come to your land and kill a beast and take it away to process it. I currently have a freezer totally packed with beef from a cow mum had killed a few weeks ago. It must happen quite a bit because there is always a few weeks of wait time before he gets to her.
Bummer about the new seizure :( I hope you get into the cardio soon xx
Off to the south island in a few days. Kids are looking forward to the plane ride.
I got an appointment in the mail to get my tubes tied next month. I figured if 3 years and an accident baby aren't enough for DH to do something then I may as well do it myself.
Hi girls!
Cally: ohhhhh! the new car sounds fabulous! we test drove the 7 seater prius and it has the keyless thing and rearview camera...so cool!
MD: hope that there was a smidgen of sunshine for your weekend. we are having glorious sunny days during the week ATM.
Arte: i hope to be able to do that soon with the homekill meat. here in this house we have no room for a freezer (unless i have an outdoor one :lol).
AFM: last night we, along with what seemed like half of melbourne plunged into blackout darkness. we have had 3 major blackouts at our place in one week but this time it was HUGE! it covered 4-5 suburbs! quite freaky and rather zombie-attack style panic ensued in the streets lol.
LOL, the beginning of the end. What is causing the blackouts? Time to move to the country :) Seriously, you won't regret it a bit. I would never move back to a city while the kids are at home. We are probably moving in a couple of years and I have already added the proviso that we get a place with a few acres so we can get a pony :)
i am so super keen to get out of the city. at least for some years...i need to get back to more space and less people. i will miss some of the perks of the city (i dont hate it) but do feel ready to leave.
oh, and BTW...massive news about the tubes being tied! how do you feel about it? i cannot fathom it...yet lol.
I know you aren't ready for the permanency options yet - I stalk the HB thread and there are more and more little mentions of a possible #4 :)
I am fine with getting tubes done. It doesn't even feel like a big decision, just a natural progression. Erin is dropping her day nap and nearly toilet trained - I feel like the baby days are long behind me.
Cass - your trip to the Grampians sounds divine. Sorry to hear Miss E has had another seizure, hopefully they will be few and far between. I hope you get the cardio appt soon, waiting is the absolute pits. :hug:
Cally, the car sounds great! I could go a chocolate ****tail or two and a round of putt-putt myself.
Arte, I hope your holiday goes well (and BIL behaves himself). I note you're not signing up for a repeat of the camper-van trip LOL. Plane trip = real holiday.
Well, the sunshine was awesome today... right in the middle of my working week again. haha. Forecast for Thurs (1st day off) is for "light rain" and it just goes downhill from there. Someone's having a joke at my expense (*shakes fist at sky*). Nothing special happening for my leave. In fact I'm only taking it because they cancelled a week of DH's leave. Am feeling the absence of family recreation/trips right now. All the pyjama days in the year don't make up for a decent change in the scenery.
MD, we are only going for a week so have to take a plane. Caravan trip was fun (enough time has passed for it to turn rosy in my memories lol). Then I found out yesterday that IL's are off to Australia the next week for a holiday - if we had known that we could have all gone to Aust and we might have had a good holiday rather than going to Southland. Think of the most boring town you can, add some crappy weather and that is pretty much where we are going lol At least BIL has moved away to a different town. Won't last long, but gets him out of our way.
You know all you need is plane tickets and you have an NZ holiday waiting for you xx
Aww thanks. Xxx
FWIW I've been to Southland & agree, it's not exactly a thrill a second. Most exciting thing that happened when we were there was when a herd of sheep wandered onto the road & we had to stop the car & wait for them to wander off again. LOL. Ah, happy memories....
Road trip sounds good to me at the moment vs plane trip. On our way up the first plane had mechanical issues so a new one had to come in and we missed our connection in Sydney. They had to redo our booking and in the process cancelled our return trip which caused some issues on the way back. Our 2nd return flight (had a Sydney stop over each way) our boarding passes got rejected so they had to do something to our booking again, then we spent an hour sitting on the tarmac while they rebooted the computer. So a trip where we just drove sounds great.
Arte - sounds like you're good with the tubes. Is the appt next week to do it, or just meeting the surgeon? Hope the recovery goes well.
Cass - that blackout does sound a bit full-on. I can't imagine what that's like when you're used to the lights of the city. I know what you mean about perks of the city, I missed them when I moved here (although Canberra perks probably aren't what Melbourne perks are!) but I'm really enjoying life here and get me perks every now and then.
Arte - how was your trip?
Cass - a big congrats on your house purchase. It looks lovely in the pictures, so much more space than where you are now I'm assuming. Imagine the size of your vegie patch!!
Back at work today. Very boring. I think K was ready to be back at school - we played a 30 minute board game yesterday and I think there were 5 sets of tears. Not impressed.
Hi all. Still on our trip. In dunedin and flying home tomorrow.
Cally, that trip sounds stressful! We chose to drive the extra two hours to avoid a connecting flight, which would have added several more hours with an inconvenient stopover.
Cass, just caught up on the goss - congratulations! I hope you love your new lifestyle. How is Miss E now?
Md, how is your holiday going?
Looks like we may move down south in the next year or so. Not my choice of place, but the kids need to be near family. DH has been warned the move requires both a pony and a puppy. No hurry on it, not much in the way of jobs so we will have to wait and see what comes up.
hello hello hello!
how is everyone?
Cally: yeah the new place is bigger...we worked out that it is 6 times bigger hahaha! we are so going to be rattling around in that place for a while lol.
O.M.G on your flight dramas! eewwww! what a horrid run of bad luck.
Arte: I am going to quote you next time you go on a caravan holiday...fun...hahahahaha! Nah, actually it does sound like my kind of holiday. hopefully with less offal next time though...i still giggle at the visual i got from reading about that lol.
AFM: so busy here right now. too many lawyers and too many bankers and way too many realestate agents in the last few days. i had a teary day today where selling this place and organising the move got all too much for me. but hopefully once the ball is rolling it will just get its own momentum. ATM i have just been putting all the pieces in place and that is frustrating as i just want it all done and know how much we sell this place for. although i am confident we will sell well, until you know, you dont know ITMS. and i *totally* hate the narky real estates slamming eachother when they come over and try to convince us to sign them up. basically i have chosen the RE agent that didnt complain about the others lol.
Miss L is feeling a bit weird about the move. on the one hand she is really excited but also a bit sad about leaving her friends. not helped by her stressed out parents. i better get on top of the freakout and start being more reassuring and get back to awesomely excited :D
Cass, we were just talking about the offal thing the other day - I wish I had taken a picture! All going well, you don't get to see streets running with blood often.
Take a moment and breath. Your house will sell in an instant. Go to auction with prior offers considered. At least you are close enough that L can still see her friends a bit after you have moved, a birthday party here or there maybe rather than instant removal itms.
Are there good schools in the new town?
oh man, i also wish you had of had a pic :lol: I told DH about it when it happened and we were both in hysterics hahahaha.
yeah, the schools up there are pretty awesome. in that hippy trippy kinda way lol. i mean, there are the mainstream schools but they are all nice and small anyway. but our closest is also the closest match to her current school with emphasis on self directed learning pathways etc. and they are building a new secondary college just down the street from our new place that ties in with that same model too. i know that it is far down the track but to me, it portends well in relation to the focus on learning ITMS.
although Miss L is not impressed at the thought of uniforms haha.
we have already organised a few sleepovers for friends and their families...so she is pretty excited about that!