MD I am soooooooooo happy for you, excellent news indeed. So relieved for you!!!!!!!! Well done you have been so strong.
Noni - I have a bit of an idea but dont know how it will go down seeing as you are tired with little W to care for, but bike riding is a fantastic work out and its good fun. If you can get your hands on a 2nd hand bike if you dont have one, when DH gets home from work go for a half hr ride, the fresh air will make you feel relaxed also and just to get out of the house on your own will do you good. You could also go early in the morn before DH leaves for work, but this may be too much with waking during the night for W. I just think you really need some ME time and exercise makes you feel great and seeing as you want to find time to fit it in anyway as you want to lose the baby weight.
Trill - Thanks for the advice, I feel the same, I can be quite rude when it comes to food and M, I dont like doing it, but sometimes thats what it takes to get the msg through. Of course that msg doesnt last lol. As for A running away, had to have a little giggle. He just wants to be like dad doesnt he. What a cutie. At least you know one of your kids has the potential to take over the farm one day! I love the sound of country living too, it sounds wonderful.
MP - Congrats on the move back to Melb, is your work transferring you? Are you back at work yet?
Clare - Oh nooooo, why is he going to NZ? Work? It better not be for fun, leaving you home!! Maybe if you ask him not to meet up with the ex, would he respect that?
Oz - Glad to hear from you!!! Z is an absolute little darling, how are you finding having a girl? As they get older it gets to be much more fun with dressing them up & putting their hair into styles lol. Yes you can tell M & I have a ball with this, she loves putting on a 'pretty dress' and then runs to our room to gaze at herself in the full length mirror. How are you feeling, tired much?
Arte - Forgot to mention, cant believe that A is sitting, she is a fast learner like her big bro!!
Oz, good to hear from you. The pics of Z (and L) are adorable - you make beautiful children. How is Z going? She must be at the extra cute babble stage?
MM, A isn't quite sitting yet - she can last for 5-10 seconds, but it is only balancing iykwim. She needs to be places very specifically to stay up lol
Ginger, are you back from your trip yet? I hope the kids travelled well. Aren't your IL's in NSW? That is another point in favour of staying in Melbourne lol
Both my children are asleep! A is even in her cot. We have been working on her having naps in there rather than me holding her and it is going o.k. She will often stay asleep for a sleep cycle now, which actually gives me a chance to do stuff (except here I am on BB lol).
DH just called - the hearing that he went to about our resource consent was scheduled to last for 2-3 hours but he was out of there in 30 minutes. The opposers didn't even bother to show and the hearing panel commented on the good-ness of the report I made. We don't get an official answer for a few days, but it is all looking good.
W is obsessed with hunting and fishing now (thanks DH). He sits and looks at the catalogues and points out all the lures, rods, scopes, ba-nokias (binoculars lol), guns etc. He even told me the other day that he needs a rifle!!
hi girls, just popping in to let you know i'm back and i'm exhausted! just subscribing to the thread, haven't read anything yet, will hopefully get a chance to read up today. xoxoxo
hi there
computer doing weird things again... grrrrrrrrrrr. i camt see any posts after my last one, so sorry if i miss anything. hopefully when i post this it will show me your posts and i can come back and do some personals...
MD tell me the news - i cant find that thread and i am excited you have great news!
Sherie - love your blog!
Clare - wow on leilas room and in fact your whole house. where are you living? is it around brunswick - i cant remember. i will be in malvern prob when we move - looking fwd to a new mothers group with you lovely melb ladies!
Ginger - how was syd?
MP - I had the first CT scan since chemo ended & no signs of recurrence!!! Which is pretty exciting cos there was no other proof that the chemo worked...Dr said officially that's the end of the lymphoma treatment (wahooo!) but of course they will keep an eye on me with regular appts and annual scans. I know: another chapter of Boring Medical Details but a bit of a milestone this year - feel like I"m finally putting things behind me, kwim?
Well the other Boring Medical News is that E's pathology came back showing zippo so she can finally go back into care. Yippee as she is definitely sick and tired of hanging around at home all week (haven't been about to get out the house with her while she's been under suspicion of contagion) although it's been nice spending more time than usual with her and I think she's feeling it too as she has been a lot more wanting mummy (and not daddy haha) than usual.
Looking forward to hearing about lots of happy Melb get togethers in the new year!!
Arte - congratulations on your unofficial but highly likely victory - and I totally appreciate the kick-ass-ness of your excellent report in achieving this outcome! (*highfive*) I had a similar moment, I heard a really distasteful radio promo a couple of weeks ago - involving making light of someone who has just been given one month to live by their dr (). I saw red and all I could think of was the teenage daughter of a local lady who died that week and how she would feel if she heard that on the radio!!!! I sent a scrupulously researched & worded letter to the radio station (yes it contained footnote references LOL), reminding them of their duty under the Code of Conduct to provide a substantive and considered response...well I got a letter back yesterday that blathered on for a page as to how they hadn't broken the code & how the ad would not be considered offensive to their target audience BUT THEN they apologised profusely and pulled the promo of air, permanently. I consider that a WIN. And yay for A sleeping...!!
Ginger, looking forward to hearing all about your trip!
Noni, how are you going sweetie - hope you're starting to feel a little more motivated - maybe start with something small and achievable - they say cleaning out under the bathroom cupboard's a good one as you always get to throw a lot of stuff out and it's always very satisfying - might give u some oomph to tackle somethign bigger.
Well I'm completely forgotten everything else...spent FOUR HOURS at my pre-surg appt today - OMG my file is that thick it's embarrassing. Although the anaesthetist chick hastened to remind me that I'm actually pretty darn healthy and expected to do well in surgery - so that was reassuring after feeling like a broken down old woman for most of the year. I was pretty chilled out this morning which is a nice change, I remember I was beside myself the morning I was there for the lumpectomy . That was the beginning of a whole big scary journey, I guess this is more like the end and besides I know how good the staff there are now. Plus I'm like a jaded hospital veteran now
Oh no Ginger, what happened? You were so right about holidays with kids not really being holidays at all.
MD, WTG on getting the ad pulled. Some of the things radio stations come up with is appalling! A few years ago Hell Pizza in NZ got fined for having a promotion for A Trip That Could Last A Lifetime - to Bali and you had to carry a body board bag through customs. So distasteful for any of Schapelle Corby's family (but I admit I did have a little giggle ). My report was excellent though, it was about 8 pages long with 14 Appendices as well. It looked fancy.
hi girls
no nothing bad happened on my holiday, just lots of time spent looking after tired, hot kids who were out of their normal environment iykwim? luckily one of dh's friends was their with his DD and she was fantastic with lewis, spent lots of time with him. it was ok...i'm just glad to be home iykwim? looking forward to when the kids are a little older and holidays really will be more fun.
dh came 3rd in his class in the bridge to bridge so that was a nice surprise. it was very exciting watching him ski past, i started bawling my eyes out cos i was so proud of him.
we weighed lewis when we were away and he weighed 16kgs! fatty!!!!
speaking of fattys, i'm thinking of asking santa for a cross-trainer for xmas so i can jump on it in the mornings for a while. has anyone got one?
pap- is malvern where you were from before? it's a lovely area.
noni- how is everything going? my dh can be a total selfish pig too at times, i think he gets it from his mother lol. i hope you're getting a bit more of a hand from your dh. 2 babies is hard work!
renee- my friend used maybe baby and loved it, i don't know anything about it sorry. have you worked it all out yet?
hey everyone,
im still around just really tired..
so stressed over money and stuff atm.. just got a HUGE bill for going over our download limit and then i got paid today from the work i did and its almost $300 short arrrrggghhhhh!!!! ive got xmas laybys to pay off and things to get etc etc im sooo stressed!! have emailed the lady in accounts at the company.. hopefully she can work it out coz i am bloody confused!
hope everyones having a good say will come back for personals when ive calmed down a bit (pay day was today so i only just found out about this money thing) ahh i had it all planned out where it was going etc!
Noni, full commisserations, that's the pits, right before christmas too. I'm sure they will get it sorted out. Bummer about the download limit, we chose a plan that throttles us back to dialup but never costs a cent more for that exact reason.
Ginger yay for your DH, I hear you on hte bursting with pride moment! So nice that Lewis had a little friend to play with (why am I not surprised it was girl LOL such a ladies man ROFL). I don't have a cross trainer but I'm determined to kick Santa in the shins if he doesn't bring me a rebounder. BTW I"m sure the word fatty doesn't apply to you one jot.
Oh and speaking of (not) fatties. When I saw the surgeon, he had to fill out the surgery consent form and asked how much I weighed - I told him (3 figures) and he looked stunned and said really? He said he'd just refused a flap recon for a woman who weighed about 15 kg less than me - but had never blinked an eyelid with me (pretty remarkable since this man has now seen and touched my naked upper body on at least 7 or 8 different occasions so ya think he would've noticed I'm a bit FAT)??! I obviously carry it well PMSL .
Arte - I am most supremely impressed with your 14 appendices. Tres tres fancy.
Oz - I didn't see it (I was with DD1 at the planetarium) but will have to chase it down - caught about 3 seconds of Kate Miller-Heidke as I came in the back door but missed the rest of it.
well the pays been fixed up ill get the rest next week which is fine anyway because that much was going on laybys anyway bleh just annoying! as for the bill they will get their money when i can afford it lol ill just be paying it in installments..
gosh asha is chucking a tanty over cake that we dont even have lol
ginger - i had a cross trainer but i used it for the first month and then it just started to collect dust like things like that do.. sometimes i wish i still had it tho but it took up alot of room..
MD: you go girl! i reckon that takes determination to get a radio to pull an ad! WTG!
Ginger: at risk of sounding like a twat...get a bike! throw on the trailer (or buy one of those bikes with a box on the front) and off you go with kidlets in tow! i ride with DD to uni and love it!
congrats to your DH for his stellar performance!
Noni: glad the pay has been sorted. bit of bummer though with having to wait until next payday. can you change teh internet plan to just have slower dialup internet when you go over the quota? we do that....
MP: we now live in Northcote! i reckon you should too
AFM: well DH and i had a date day today. had lunch out and did a bit of shopping for pressies. then i dragged him to see new moon with me! can i just say that i had fleeting guilt at lusting after the Jacob guy...only cause i *think* IRL he's only 17??!! team jacob all the way LOL!
Leila has accustomed to the big girl bed really well. although in the mornings she tends to just get up and play in her room rather than wanting to hang out with us
sounds like the hearing will go in your favour! 
but a bit of a milestone this year - feel like I"m finally putting things behind me, kwim?
). I saw red and all I could think of was the teenage daughter of a local lady who died that week and how she would feel if she heard that on the radio!!!! I sent a scrupulously researched & worded letter to the radio station (yes it contained footnote references LOL), reminding them of their duty under the Code of Conduct to provide a substantive and considered response...well I got a letter back yesterday that blathered on for a page as to how they hadn't broken the code & how the ad would not be considered offensive to their target audience BUT THEN they apologised profusely and pulled the promo of air, permanently. 
). My report was excellent though, it was about 8 pages long with 14 Appendices as well. It looked fancy.
I obviously carry it well PMSL 
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