Good Afternoon girls! Good to hear you had lovely Christmases We had a quiet one on the day then on boxing day travelled to Sale for the weekend to stay with DH's family. We also played lots of Wii games and Wade was ace at the tight rope one! My record for downhill skiiing was 45 seconds, pretty proud of that! LOL Yes it sure is addictive Mel!
Well I have just let Tina the hen inside as it's so hot outside I felt sorry for her. She is so cute how she drinks water... like she's doing ATM.
Verity has stayed on in Sale with family as they have a permanent camp site right on the lake... apparently she will be learning to water ski.
No real plans for NYE other than to sit with DH (after the boys are asleep) and do a large jigsaw, having a few drinks and listening to music as is our tradition since having kids!!!
Tali: I agree with Mel, we'll be chattin' in here when we are grannies LOL giving our poor in-law children a real going over! I think I'll be first when Verity finds her "keeper" man LOL God help the woman that settles down with Niall (although he'll give her lots of laughs as she pulls her hair out!)... the one that catches Wade will be quite lucky though (he is still my polite and tidy little man).... how funny... no jokes we'll be doing this, mark my words!
Yes!! My place or Earthly Pleasures Cafe - huge garden for kids to run riot in it's open from Wed-Sun, if that helps narrow down a day!
Bath - We drove up Boxing Day, too - maybe we overtook you, as DP loves having a V6 engine that takes on safe overtaking easily (this man normally drives a '67 VW!!)
Maya: I'm good for pretty much any day... but before the 20th of Jan as this is when Niall starts kinder... did I mention that from then he will be in kinder full-time Tue-Friday??? It sounds bad but I am counting down the days... he is so bored at home. That cafe sounds great!
I'm good before the 16th, cos this is when my sister goes to East Gippy and I'll go up then, too.
Yes, that IS terrible, Bath...you're supposed to feel completely fulfilled and provide all the stimulation that your child needs... I've still got just one day a week at creche, cos MiL takes Osc a couple of other times during the week. I'm contemplating a drama class locally, now that we have Wednesdays again...very tempting!
DH just rang to ask if I wanted to go away for a few days next week... what timing! It will narrow it down a bit further but we'll only be away 2 nights. I suggested the Yarra Valley Sebel... close to home but with air con and an indoor pool! DH's work paid for our last stay there... it was great. Also it's close to a local Polish chicken breeder where we were hoping to pick up two friends for Tina!
Oh short courses Maya!!! Sounds great! My motto (an old aboriginal saying) this year was meant to be "The more you know, the less you need" trying to reign in a bit of spending! But my logic is that a class doesn't count :P I'm thinking French. Hope you make that drama class Maya!
I never even thought about doing one myself...but that little chestnut just keeps nagging away at me, even though DP says to give up cos I've already got too much on (talk about red rag to a bull...)!! The drama class is for Oscar, at the local arts centre (Burrinja - another place we could meet up, but I prefer EP for food and enclosed garden), actually, and we couldn't do it last year cos it was on Mondays and he would have been maxed out from playgroup. Thanks for the misunderstanding, Bath - like a slap upside the head to remind me that I don't have to be back at uni till next July...meanwhile...oooh, my mind is ticking over wildly, and I'm going to check out short course timetables to see what's going on Tuesdays!!
The YV Sebel is just ace - never stayed there, but I"m hoping I get to go there for a women in firefighting conference. If the YV gets the nod as the venue, then yours truly is on the organising committee - slightly daunting, but I'm willing to take it on! For selfish reasons I'm hoping it's in the YV (won't have to stay overnight - I'm one of the few vols in the assoc and can't claim it on tax or get my employer to pay for it as a PD). Jealous of you staying there next week!
ETA: to clarify, Oscar is in creche on Tuesdays (this year was Wednesdays), which means I have him on Wednesdays. This works out better because Wed is also brigade training night. I stopped going to training soon after he started at creche when I was about 7 months pg because it was too much for him, emotionally, to see me for about an hour then be shipped off to MiL's (though I'm kind of afraid to suggest to DP that he ask her to come here on Wed nights) and not see us till morning (cos he'd be asleep by the time we got back and stay asleep for car-to-bed transfer). MiL couldn't really cope with him being upset (not big on 'sookiness'...though he's hardly a sooky kid!) and I felt it was unfair on Oscar. I can go back to training with T-girl in arms like I did with Osc now, cos we won't be separated during the day of brigade training Think typing. And doing a much better job now that I'm using two hands to type and don't have friggin Kimba the White Lion playing on the computer next to me...
Last edited by Smoke Jaguar; December 30th, 2009 at 02:54 PM.
I was busy wondering why everyone had been so quiet, and then realised that there had been a new thread started!
I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas, ours was busy, but nice! Unfortunatly I had managed to pick up a virus, so wasn't feeling 100%, which was a real shame because I was planning on haing a big one as it is the first christmas in ages I havent been pg, breastfeeding or had a really young baby. Oh well, plenty of time for that. The kids got spoilt as usual, but were really happy because my Bro and SIL came back from Canberra, so they were able to see their cousins, Tori has really missed her cousin, so was pleased as punch to have her here.
Not got much on for New Years, we are going to a ****tail party new years day with Pete's family. Then it is my 30th Birthday on Monday, so busy times ahead.
Anyway I hope everyone is enjoying being with their families over this holiday period- looking forward to sharing more adventures with you all in the new year!
We had a quiet one on the day then on boxing day travelled to Sale for the weekend to stay with DH's family. We also played lots of Wii games and Wade was ace at the tight rope one! My record for downhill skiiing was 45 seconds, pretty proud of that! LOL Yes it sure is addictive Mel!
hope all is well now.
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I've still got just one day a week at creche, cos MiL takes Osc a couple of other times during the week. I'm contemplating a drama class locally, now that we have Wednesdays again...very tempting!
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