Arte :hug:. You've got every right to be angry. I always say, the parent's most important job is to love their child unconditionally. I guess part 2 of that is making sure the child knows that!! :hug:
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Arte :hug:. You've got every right to be angry. I always say, the parent's most important job is to love their child unconditionally. I guess part 2 of that is making sure the child knows that!! :hug:
arte: man, that sucks. understatement i know...:hug:
Sherie: i second MD on this one. you'll probably find that you will have mega busy weeks with uni, then some weeks with barely anything. the joy of higher education lol...bludge bludge bludge, FREAKOUT, madwoman study madwoman study madwoman study, FINISH lol!
Arte - not surprised you were angry
Mp - hope the packing went well and N and J cope well with the move. Hope you don't feel too bad about working, K is the only one at her centre that goes each day, although I know there are others who have parents who work part time and use family and friends on other days, it's still just her name up on the board each day - that makes me feel bad. Although she gets holidays with DH, I know some of the other teachers kids still go up to 3 days each week when they are home for holidays.
MD - glad that the school meeting went well.
K and I drove up to Braidwood yesterday to meet my parents for a picnic and to pick up all the Ikea stuff. Got one of the units up yesterday - won't be doing the other one while she is around though, just a little bit too helpful!! She was so excited about the easel, she'd drawn on the plastic with her crayon before DH got the chance to unpack it. Looking good, will post some pics when her room is finished being organised.
Noni - where are you???
Ok, if we're having a feeling-bad-for-sending-your-child-to-childcare competition then I WIN!!! :p Missy E goes 4-5 days a week and I aint even working!! :p
Seriously ladies, give yourself a break. :hug: We know our kiddies are happy there - we know the good solid reasons behind why they go - we're doing what's right for us in the grand arc of our lives - Enough of this mummy guilt please!!!
Cass, I love your take on the semester routine LOL. Although I did have a couple of friends who were much more the slow & steady wins the race type - strangely enough they had lower stress levels than me LOL.
CAlly - wow an easel - mucho fun. I was just thinking this morning that I'd suggest that to the grandparents for her birthday.
I tried to explain to Missy E this morning when you say "he" and when you say "she" (she just says "he" for everything regardless of gender or even if it's an inanimate object LOL) - hmmm not too sure my explanation helped! She's been a total ratbag lately too. She asks for something, eg toast/toy/activity then when you say yes and go to get it for her, she runs away or scowls and says "NOOO! I don't like toast/toy/activity" - with increasing degrees of drama. The naughty spot in the hallway's getting a bit more of a workout these days.
MD, that's so true! The older 3 only went to preschool 1 day a week in their year before school - they could go up to 3 days a wk - but we knew they only needed 1 day, but come time for Alister to do preschool he will go 2 days a week purely so I can have one extra day on my own to dedicate to uni so in that case it will be all about me.
Luckily we've not had a great deal of tanties like that that are totally irrational LOL, but we have had an increase in the amount of things he HAS to do by HIMSELF! LOL. He has to be the one to get his breakfast - he gets his bowl and spoon out and the container of nutrigrain and pours it into his bowl, then he gets the milk out, but we've managed to convince him that it's best if we do it for him, then he carefully carries it to the table. Plus there is dressing and undressing and all that too. In some ways it's great in other ways its nothing but a PITA, especially if you are in a hurry to go out somewhere. Does she stay in the norty corner MD? Do you think it's effective? I haven't ever used it because I always doubted that they would stay there kwim?
Last night A was playing Lindsay's nintendo DS because he has a farm game with tractors and he thought he was awesome using the stylus to move the tractor around LOL but I had to take it off him because he was getting a bit too carried away with the tapping and then he cracked it!! So I am thinking that maybe one of those leapfrog game consoles would be a good idea for his birthday this year.
Yeah she stays in there because if she doesn't we keep putting her back until she does. She has to say sorry when she comes out. TBH I don't use it all the time - usually try to redirect/distract/remove her from whatever the conflict is - but there has been some hitting and shoving - mostly aimed at DD1 who might I say *never* gets up and walks away from it - so that's an automatic immediate timeout.
I'm LOLing about A making his own breakfast. Missy E loves to get things out of the fridge, and has very unhelpfully undone lids on bottles halfway across the kitchen - thereby slopping its contents everywhere :lol:. E puts on shorts & takes them off, I might teach her to do her tshirt next.
Re leapfrog - we totally avoided all that stuff with DD1 (and she's top of the class with her IT skills - got a distinction in UNSW comp last year for it) - but it's harder this time round to keep E away from it because technology's so much more embedded in our lives than it was 10 years ago (even phones, etc have screen functionality now) - and plus H has all the gadgets so not fair that she has stuff to play with when E doesn't. The leapfrog type thingies are probably a really good solution.
LOL at her sloshing stuff on the floor - he can get some bottles opened, but I usually hear him in the fridge as soon as he opens it so I rush to the kitchen before he can do damage. We have two of those leapfrog things - they are the ones that stick to the fridge - a phonics one with all the letters and then a farm one where you match the animal halves and it makes animal sounds. Normally I wouldn't have been keen on a 3yo having anything like that either, but as you say it is everywhere these days and when I was on the preschool committee we brought laptops and software for the kids to use as young as 3.
And did H get a distinction last year? Good on her! Is she going to do all the comps again this year? L said he wanted to do them again - he does the spelling, english and writing ones.
Thank goodness that W hasn't asked to get his own breakfast yet - I can only imagine the mess that would result!
I loved those school comps, (nerd alert) I was always guaranteed at least a credit and usually a distinction in the maths and science ones.
I am loving the toddler interpretation of things lately too. Today W was babbling on about marbles and since we don't have any and I have no idea where he heard it I asked him what he knew about marbles and he said "they are made of mar" - to him they are mar-balls lol And the other day he was being quiet because A was sleeping and he asked about something and I said he was allowed and he snapped back "I'm not a-loud, I'm a quiet!"
Hi ladies!
Thanks for making me feel better re child care and returning to work...i really appreciate your support, i feel like i can be honest about how i feel and you all make me feel beter about my decisions etc. i know it is the right thing overall. but the micro decisions are hard to not feel bad about. so thanks!
Cally - lol at helping with the ikea... i def think that kinda thing has to be done with them out of the house - i can just imagine the frsutartion with not being able to find the allen key!
Sherie - i concur with the others on the load at uni. i reckon if you allow 20 hrs a week on most weeks you can have alittle 'you' time thrown into that mix. sounds like a plan to me!
Arte - i understand why you feel like you do about your upbringing. at least you are breaking that cycle being the loving and devoted mum you are
Sherie - lol at A's antics! N doesnt get his own bfast yet... thankfully.
you should see the stuff he is coming out with these days... his last day of kindy today so we took ice cream in, he told me he may do a speech after his ice cream to tell them all where he is going... he just amazes me everyday with the speech/comprehension...
I love W's marbles story - you need to write these down ladies!
MD - are you back at uni this sem?
AFM all is well. we had the packers in yest so i am in a svcd apartment... uplift today and we head off on our road trip tomorrow. feeling so excited about the move now! I am exhausted but powering through as equal amount of work i guess at the other end.. and then the craziness of work etc starts in 2 weeks. i am hoping to get a day or 2 to rest and get my head back into the 'corporate me' before i go back.
Arte you will love this - DD1 is kind of digging the nerd alert thing right now. She reckons for book week dress up she's gonna go as a total nerd complete with button up shirt, harry high pants, pen in pocket and compulsory thumb drive on lanyard. LOL I love that she has that kind of sense of humour about her own interests. (All I need to do now is introduce her to the world of AD&D and the nerdsformation will be complete) :rofl:
And yes, she enters every year - writing & ICT & usually some other random subject. She got a distinction & a credit last year - quite interesting because we got a print out that identified the exact skills that she scored against & the q's she missed.
LOL at Mar-balls and A-loud. Constant entertainment :)
MP - still deciding if I'll take a leave of absence for the first semester or not (dr has recommended that I do & I'll have rehab exercise things to go to & probably going to try to get back to work - to pay for my dental :o) - but will be back for Semester 2 definitely. Hope all goes well with your road trip & settling in - whirlwind days.
hi girls!
PP: have a great road trip! look forward to hearing from you on the other side of this move!!
MD: leila also is a fridge raider. usually she goes for the fruit as she hasnt mastered the art of opening screw lids....yoghurt is a whole other story though lol!
we are also having the EXACT kinda tantrums lol! lately we havent had her eating dinner because she: 'DONT WANT IIIITTTTTT!' lol. such a PITA, but will keep trucking. it goes for everything too: for example, she will say she wants a paticular pair of shoes, we get them, go to put them on and then she cracks it with a big NOOOO! and shaking of head in dramatic fashion lol!
Cally: yeah leila also likes to 'help' with the ikea assembly. darn allen keys!
Sherie: that is cool that he knows how to use a nintendo though! leila just likes to smash keys on the computer...
hi girls
we've all had gastro this week and all been throwing up constantly! feeling a lot better today. dh has gone to work, hopefully by tomorrow we'll all be spot on. i'm just letting you know we're going away to Echuca on thurs so i'll be MIA. Hope everyone is well and i'll catch up on all the goss next week sometime xoxxo
Poor Ginger - hope you're feeling much better :hug: Enjoy your trip to Echuca!!
Cass, E can get into my Iphone - I had to put a passcode on it because she rang someone one day! LOL
Ginger: oh deary me! gastro is a whole world of 'not fun'. no wonder you have been MIA. the silver lining is that now the holiday away will seem all the sweeter :D
MD: ha ha! well, the most Leila can do is answer the phone :lol: bit off-putting for the caller and sometimes annoying when we realise she has answered the phone before we have heard it and has promptly hung-up :shakehead:
AFM: having a really crap night. our dog has somehow injured her leg and cant walk on it. and it appears that our cat has been hit by a car. all the space of a couple of hours. pretty distraught has had to see poor DH in tears taking the cat to emergency. we just dont have the cash for emergency fees if he is really mega injured IYKWIM. last time this cat was sick it cost us close to $2000 (april last year). we just dont have that kinda cash anymore. and who knows what is wrong with Stella the Dawg. i did a tick search (the QLD gal in me) and nada. but still, have no idea what is going on with her. but strangely enough the leg doesnt seem to hurt her and she is eating, so will take her first thing first to our vet in the morning...as for the cat, well, he is waaay too critical to keep until morning. oh man, i hope he is ok.
Cass, so sorry to hear about your cat and your dog - too much all at once!! Though if Stella seems comfy for now that will be less worrying by the cold light of dawn. I hope little puss is ok. :hug:
:hug:Hi everyone,
Sorry i've been MIA. Have missed out on lots i'm sure. Haven't had much time to jump on here, as I'm cramming everything i need to get done into the 2 hours when H sleeps.
I've been really enjoying spending time with her since the girls have gone back to school. We can go to a cafe for morning tea now - without her having to get off her chair and go exploring. She's loving Kindergym - especially swinging on the bars and landing in her 'motorbike' position, and we've started going to the Library for Story time. She's swimming all over the pool without her floaties, and can now ride her 'hand-me-down' bike. My baby girl is definitely growing up :( (just wish she'd get over her fear of pooing in the toilet - so I can ditch the pull-ups !)
Anyway, hopefully I can pop back in soon and read back over what you've all been up to.
Hope you're all happy and healthy :)
Cass - I hope your furbabies are ok
Clare, hope your pets are both o.k. Is it Stella's front or back leg? I hope she didn't pop her cruciate ligament.
Ginger, bummer about the gastro, hope you are all feeling better soon
MD, OMG about the nerds having thumb drives - makes me feel so old! Back in my day the nerds had a calculator and spiral notebook. And my day wasn't that long ago! I wish there was something like AD&D here, I need an outlet for my nerdyness!
MP, WOW that N wanted to give a speech! Hope all the moving goes well. How is N going with it?
Jazah, WTG hannah! She sounds like such a big girl now
Hi all, Havent had a chance to catch up properly and will try to do so later while L is at CC.
Cass I hope your animals are ok :hug:
Ginger hope your all feeling better this morning.
Have a great day everyone.