I dunno about the nappies C, maybe ask Maz? She may do repairs. Or pop over to nappycino and ask them if they know anyone?
G, alluvial gold is just in the rock. You have to extract all the ore and then process it in mills by crushing the rock away ect, washing it in cyanide and other good stuff and then melting the gold out is my understanding of it LOL.
Arte, I would go the tights and skivvies with a gorgeous little dress over the top for 'nice' and then just tracksuits and jumpers etc for home. Oh and despite all that A eats, he really doesn't have a lot to show for it ROFL. I think they are only expected to put on up to 2kg a year now from memory?
MD, great timing for miss E to save the poo-plosion for FDC, but poor FDC lady LOL. I hope you can get her to knuckle down and do the project soon. And yep on the group work - the group mark is only half the marks.
ahhh thanks for the gold explanation! i've been on excursions with kids to Sovereign Hill heaps of times but i must not have been paying attention LOL
thanks for all the tips re: bf. i have started trying to cut him down, but i have to admit he is still feeding a lot overnight. he is quite busy in the day (otherwise known as ransacking our entire house) remember those days ladies? LOL today he went from 7am-5pm without a bf which is pretty good. he's still not too keen on cow's milk yet though, i keep offering it to him. oh well i guess i'll just keep trying. i'm not sure i want to wean him completely just yet, but i would be keen to cut it down to about 3-4 feeds in 24hrs iykwim?
Ahhh well that's why he would be feeding so much at night still probably. Maybe you can just grab him during a lull in the activity and when L isn't likely to distract him and feed him during the day and see if that makes a difference to the night feeding? At Sovreign hill they probably do have gold that comes out in nuggets, it varies from place to place. Dh brought the kids home a rock ages ago and you can see the gold speckling through it.
I just got my individual marks for the assessment and I got a DISTINCTION!!!!! I was so worried that because our group mark was low, and the fact that the individual part was basically responding to the group part that I would get a low mark for it as well but I was so happy to read that I did so well. I wont second guess myself as much now.
sherie: woot woooo!!!!! that is a frikkin' awesome mark! you go girl! ahhhh yeah, i will have to ask Maz...and then if she cannae help, i'll hit up the nappycino site...never even heard of it lol. thanks babe!
G: yeah maybe have a BF system working where he knows when boobie is coming (ie quiet time before bed etc) then it might help alleviate his desire to make for lost time....hmmmm...
G, W wanted BF all night whether he had it during the day or not. I tried to have just a before bed feed, but it was too confusing and he wanted it all the time - he was alright at being denied during the day but would only settle for boob at night. So I ended up hugging/singing/rocking/walking around with him for up to an hour of screaming at night for a few nights until he was weaned. I didn't want to do it that way but I was preg and had no milk and I was hoping that it would help with the continuous wake ups. But then about two weeks later we were in the bath together and he asked what my boobs were - he had already forgotten!
Trill, great mark! I have been meaning to say for ages cool photos on FB of the gold mine. W wouldn't let me change from the giant truck! I used to work at an open cast mine like that, but I don't think it was quite as enormous.
Clare, I think Arimeh is temporarily out of internet but I think she will be back.
I think the chance for tights is soon to be gone anyways, there was a frost yesterday and I remembered that 2 degrees is cold! I suspect it will be all about layers from now on.
I have venison in the slow cooker and the whole house smells disgusting!
Trill, it sounds like your teachers, being familiar with the field of education, have worked out exactly how to tell who's putting in the effort with the group stuff by tacking the individual stuff on at the end! Well deserved, lady, what a great start and I'm sure you will continue like this thru your whole course.
PS great gold explanation Trill. DD's project is more about the gold that washes into creeks, etc, that individuals panned for. When I was 7 my mum married this strange man (still don't know what she saw in him) who was hugely into gold prospecting. He was convinced he was gonna find the next big gold discovery and dragged the whole family across the country to do so
G have you tried offering an extra long feed when you do feed him - chock more into each feed? Ah sometimes they just love their boobie! 3-4 times over 24 hrs is not unreasonable at this age.
Arte - do you eat venison? DH brought some home one time and I took one whiff and was convinced it was off. Does it smell bad but taste good?
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MD, nope, it smells bad and it tastes bad lol. I don't mind the steak but stews aren't really my thing. Unfortunately we have a heap of it in the freezer.
yuck that venison sounds gross! what is that? is is a deer? geez i think i'm becoming dumber every year that i don't work
thanks for all your bf suggestions. it's really hard isn't it? and it seems like there's not one right way to do it iykwim? i guess i'll just keep plugging along how i am and see what happens. i know from L that they seem to do a lot of changing between 12 and 18 months old iykwim? i rememeber looking at L at 18months and thinking 'you're like a little kid now'.
the night wake-ups, although annoying, are not absolutely killing me so i am not in desperation just yet. i honestly wouldn't know what to do if they both slept through the night. i'd probably sit up watching foxtel all night
that reminds me, my stoopid foxtel iq didn't tape last week's big love. can anyone give me a really brief run-down?
also, another thread on here has reminded me- this may seem really silly- but i was just wondering has anyone enrolled their kids in high school yet? please don't all laugh at me, this is a legitimite question as it is something we have been thinking about and discussing here.
ps- congrats trill on your great mark....i think the next one will be a HD!
Ewwww Arte, I didn't realise it stank so much. I have had it in a restaurant, but when you eat it like that, you aren't privvy to the cooking process so it just comes out all nice and cooked with a yummy sauce on it LOL but I totally get that having to cook it yourself and smell it would influence how it tastes kwim? But that said I didn't really like it like I love my lamb and beef.
G, I don't think it is silly. In metro areas I think it has to be done because there is so much choice but at the same time so much room for good and bad schools kwim? We are so lucky out here that education is really a non-event for us in the choosing of it.
Thanks for the congrats on the mark. With both marks combined it brings me up to a Credit, which is OK, I'm happy with that. However I have just spent the morning editing the next one because it was just crap! We only had one required reading, but the reading was only used as a reference 3 times and there were TWELVE references from outside sources? It was just quote after quote with the only original stuff being words to link them all up so I used my tactful voice and told them as much and re did it LOL. The don't have to use mine either, but at least they can use it for comparison and make the response better kwim? Plus it was full of personal pronouns which we can't use in academic writing and would get reamed for it if we left them in.
G: nooo dont tell me what happened on Big Love we dont get SBS here so i need to wait until i get it on DVD LOL! gosh, it sucks.
we havent really thought about highschool enrolment (DD will go public) but we did ensure that we moved into the 'right' area. so DD will have a choice of 3 top public highschools including the uni of melb program highschool. we also made sure of the move for the primary school that we want to send her too and will be enrolling her at the first possible moment.
Arte: hmmm see in fiji we just shoved the venison into a lovo (in the ground!). wrapped in banana leaves with some spices so it came out cooked and yummy and no icky gamey smells.
AFM: all good here. a bit stressed about uni as i have to submit a 30,000 word report tomorrow and then defend it in front of a panel next week. not something i am looking forward to as these guys are like totally awesome in their field and well, i am an imposter at best rofl!
leila had us up alot last night as well with bad dreams. poor thing was yelling out 'help me help me' all night so we both felt so terrible that she had to have yucky dreams like that.
There's been two pregnancy announcements amongst my friends in the last few days so I am feeling clucky.
G - I think I just used distraction with K during the day for dropping feeds. I know I was stressing about what was going to happen as she was still on 5-6 per day a month before I was going back to work but it all happened quite easily. With the night time stuff, DH resettled her for the first two nights and then she was fine.
re schools, we are in a rural area, so not a lot of choice - the public schools do better than the private ones most of the time anyway around here. Our decision will mainly be whether to send her to the same school as DH or the other one.
Final Big Love this week!
But I need to do a lot of catching up so lucky you are up to speed MD
Taking Miss K to the doctor this afternoon. She developed a shocking cough late yesterday - she sounds like a seal. She also had a bit laboured breathing when she first woke up this morning.
Cally, it sounds like she could have croup. If she does, it isn't a big drama, just get some redipred from your Dr when you see him and she will be right as rain
Cally =- hope K is ok - what did the dr say?
G - i dont think you are silly to be thinking of it. N and J will prob go to the same school the whole way gthru so i guess we have them enrolled already too (they may also try for melb high oif thats whats takes their fancy at the time). Clare - what is the melb uni high school - sounds interesting
Arte - eeewwwww on venison - i am not a game eater
trill - wtg on the assignment mark - i knew you would do amazingly. v annoying on group work - it is all coming back to me now how annoyed i used to get with it
MD - h0ow are ya sista - you are posting but we arenty getting many MD updates - hope all is good in md land
Cally - hmm clucky... atre you rethinking??
G - no weaning tips... though J has 3-4 o'night plus abput the same in the day so.. pass them on when you hear any good tips! he wont eat solids.. a litytle more if finger foods but, well its a struggle... i am expressing at work plus doing all those feeds... feel like a cow much??? LOL. plus he wotn do bottle, sippy, straw - only a normal cup - you can imagine the mixed feelings when he drinks 50ml EBM and spills 100 in the process of it. he is v independent and quite deterrmined... where did he get that from???
N is in ther 3-4 yo room at creche and LOVING it. he is growing up before my eyes. now knows his left and right and tells me which day of the week it is.
Arte - how is W's behaviour now?
G - did you stop gymbaroo?
better go - life is so crazy right now...back to work tomorrow. xxx
Cally, do you think you might be tempted to travel the baby road again? ATM I am leaning towards no more, I am not a fan of this stay at home thing.
Ginger, I don't think schools here have such crazy waiting lists, but we have considered schooling. There is a primary school in this town but it is terrible - a decile 0 (worst possible grade) and the last ERO report said that the school couldn't guarantee the safety of the students! The other day I was at the daycare which backs onto the school and I saw a teacher wrestle a student that was punching and kicking her and after she dragged him off about 5 kids closed in on his friend who had a go at them. Luckily the next town over has a really good primary school but we will have to leave the area before high school since there is only one and all the rough kids from this town have to go there so it isn't very good - most of the decent kids get sent to boarding school.
MP, W's behaviour seems to have evened out a lot, thank goodness.
Clare, good luck for your report! I am sure you will do well.
We only have the venison because DH shot it and wanted to eat it - he likes it. I have tried really hard, but it just isn't my thing. Restaurant venison is nicer, I think it is farmed rather than wild though.
Ginger, I didn't answer re the schools - I do think it's worth considering now if you're planning to send your boys to a school which is considered elite - as there may be waiting lists - and it might also affect your choice of primary school which is something you will need to look into once L turns 3. I'll be enrolling Missy E in our primary school at the start of 2011 - she'll be a shoe-in with a sibling in the school, but better to be organised. Need to do something about applying for highschool for DD1 this year ( scary thought).
Clare your meat rubbed in spices and slowbaked in the ground sounds like exactly the right way to do it...the spices would take care of the gamey element. I bet you miss stuff like that from Fiji all the time. Clare I thought you learnt from last time that your contributions are good and your work definitely stands on its own...give yourself some credit woman! I'll be waiting in excitement to hear how it goes.
Arte does this mean you have to eat bunnies as well . My dad used to take us bunny-shooting when we were younger, I was slightly traumatised since bunnies were my fave animal and I had a bunny soft toy that I adored but I have eaten many a bunny dinner by pretending it was just chicken. Glad Ws behaviour has evened out, we've had an improvement here too.
CAlly Arte asked the question I wanted to. Are you planning to act on the cluckiness, or more specifically is there something you're not telling us???!!! You can count on me to be rude and nosey LOL. How is K going today?
MP - all well in MD land. Am working my self right now - trying to get my life where I want it to be before I look at going back to work. In fact I went to the hospital today to visit a friend who had the same surgery as me done last week - gosh I was relieved to be able to walk out of there and think THANK GOODNESS that's over and done with. I might have to do some physio soon though because my shoulder is stiffening up - all par for the course. It doesn't change the feeling of having come out the other end.
and when L isn't likely to distract him and feed him during the day and see if that makes a difference to the night feeding? At Sovreign hill they probably do have gold that comes out in nuggets, it varies from place to place. Dh brought the kids home a rock ages ago and you can see the gold speckling through it.
that is a frikkin' awesome mark! you go girl! ahhhh yeah, i will have to ask Maz...and then if she cannae help, i'll hit up the nappycino site...never even heard of it lol. thanks babe!
so I used my tactful voice and told them as much and re did it LOL. The don't have to use mine either, but at least they can use it for comparison and make the response better kwim? Plus it was full of personal pronouns which we can't use in academic writing and would get reamed for it if we left them in.
so we both felt so terrible that she had to have yucky dreams like that.
scary thought).
. My dad used to take us bunny-shooting when we were younger, I was slightly traumatised since bunnies were my fave animal and I had a bunny soft toy that I adored but I have eaten many a bunny dinner by pretending it was just chicken. Glad Ws behaviour has evened out, we've had an improvement here too.
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