I was justing thinking about you Rory! Hoping you'd pop in here soon... and voila! there you are
Oh a little Libran (Oct 6 is 3 days after Wade's b'day)... Librans are lovely... indecisive but peaceful to have around LOL not that I usually generalise but you know...
You haven't updated (that I have come across) the possible tree change??? Is that still on the cards?
I am only going to be in Melbourne for 2 days... wish it could be longer, but still hoping to move back at this end of the year or and the very latest june 2011 just depends on weather BHL can get himself a mining or oil rig job that FIFO of melb...
Mel- that sucks about the move, I wouldnt be a happy camper either. At least you have a while until it happens, maybe time for them to change their minds or to find something else.
Rory- looks like we will be having babies in the same month again, I am due on the 16th Oct (I think, hopefully having a dating scan in the next week or so).
Bath- Did you end up finding a job last year, or have you put the search on hold?
Anyone else's Junie start school this year? Tori has started Kindy this year (she is the youngest in her class as cut of is 30th June) she is doing 5 full days a fortnight, 2 days one week and 3 the next. The kindy is part of the primary school that she will just follow through too as she progresses. She just loves it, she is so ready to be at school and has settled in really well. Makes me a bit sad to think that she is at school already, and someone else has such a big influence over her life, but her teacher is lovely which is great.
Other than that, just busy settling back into my own classroom, I am working 3 days a week this year which I am finding quite tiring, the first week was a bit overwhelming, both kids got sick, Pete and I got sick, I found out I was pg and we started decorating our house- sheesh, so we have taken a deep breath and started over again this year.
Anyway I just wanted to stop in and say hi, I do read this thread often (I am a self confessed lurker) but neve seem to have enough time to stop in a write a reply.
Thanks girls - I hate being a whinger and don't often gripe about anything but I feel I have to with this move! I emailed my more senior boss and explained all the reasons why I didn't want to move. Monash always profess to be very family friendly so I made sure I emphasised what impact it would have on my children. If I have to move, Clayton would be better and I told them I would be happy to go there. I'm sure I'll get some response next week. Fingers crossed!!!!
Maya - that was my main complaint, the traffic! It's awful heading that way. I want to stay with Monash, it just might be in a different job and not at bloody Caulfield! I will make sure I save you the mag. I think your idea is excellent, might as well make the job worth while. And all that excavated dirt could be put to good use? If we meet in Belgrave on a Wed and then we can do EP? Or city on a Monday? Marley the People - PML!!! That is so cute.
Bath - what time would you have to leave Belgrave to get back in time to pick up Wade? Otherwise city is fine on a Monday. Did DH have any luck at the 3 store? That excess sounds pretty normal. It's their ploy to make sure you don't claim!
Ali - no school for Marley yet, I wish!!! She will do her kinder through creche due to my work hours so she will go 2 full days per week. I saw Tori's pics, she looked so cute in her uniform. As a teacher yourself, do you find it hard letting someone else teach her? How exciting to be pregnant again, and Rory too!!
Rory - that's fantastic news about the HB trial, you'd be the perfect candidate.
Tali - is it Thursday you leave? I think the weather should be great for you. You'll have such fun! I was thinking of suggesting they compensate me for the move, but then I might actually have to go lol!!! I would prefer not too, so left that bit out.
Great to see you Ali! My job search has seemed to be put on hold... I've been too busy! I mainly wanted to make sure Niall's kinder/creche was as good as it seemed before committing to a job. Sometimes you can't tell until they have been for a week or so. But the good news is that it IS! Yay! Even after 4 days straight he wants to go back for more. Sometimes I drop him off as early as 9am and don't collect him until 5.50pm but he always seems happy to be there. He idolises his kinder teacher Ben.... and his creche carers are very warm. So to answer your other question: Niall does a kinder program for 3 - 4 year olds for about 2 hours per day, 4 days a week... so yes, essentially he has commenced formal learning... but this centre is not part of a school (Tori sounds like she is going to a place similar to where Verity went; an ELC attached to a school) so I don't really think of Niall as having started school yet (but we did with Verity at the same age). So good to hear your pregnancy is going well It's so much more tiring the second and subsequent times around so make sure you don't over do it!
Mel: The train trip between Belgrave and the city (I would probably have to go right in and then back out onto the Hurstbridge line) would be over an hour... more like an hour and a half. So it would go: leave Ivanhoe 9.30am get to city and depart for Belgrave at about 10am then arrive at 11am. To return I'd have to leave Belgrave at 2pm I think to get back her by 3.30pm ? That's assuming the City - Belgrave trip is an hour. I should look into it. But maybe 2 hours up there isn't so bad?
Got my iphone fixed. Also bought a new, more shock absorbant cover. $300 all up Next thing is to get iphone insurance for $14 a month as we were originally offered. Girls, if any of you get an iphone buy a really padded cover a.s.a.p and consider insurance specifically for it. The glass screen is so very fragile... I dropped it less than a meter... my other phone wouldn't have been even scratched. Walking around with a iphone seems to be as risky as walking around with a crystal glass The cover i bought is chunky and ugly but that's how it's gotta be I guess... there doesn't seem to be a lanyard that connects to them, this could work.
Mel: forgot to add that I really hope you at least get a role at Clayton. Nothing worse than having to commute long distances by car in heavy traffic especially when you have children in creche that charge $1 per minute after 6pm if you are late. The bus i caught on Friday was late and I only just made it by about 4 minutes... I was a wreck! I often walk... it's only 4 bus stops away... and it would have been quicker on Friday ...unusual hold up with heavy traffic.
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you get the HB trial....
It's so much more tiring the second and subsequent times around so make sure you don't over do it!
Next thing is to get iphone insurance for $14 a month as we were originally offered. Girls, if any of you get an iphone buy a really padded cover a.s.a.p and consider insurance specifically for it. The glass screen is so very fragile... I dropped it less than a meter... my other phone wouldn't have been even scratched. Walking around with a iphone seems to be as risky as walking around with a crystal glass
The cover i bought is chunky and ugly but that's how it's gotta be I guess... there doesn't seem to be a lanyard that connects to them, this could work.
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