Baby Born ~ September 2007 # 73

[Cassius2]

oh cally ouchies all round and woah to moles needing stitches...never thought of that! i have two that i want gone (thankfully not for dodgy sun reasons but cosmetic) and have been putting it off...
I had no idea your job was up in the air. that really really sucks. my mum has been going through the same with all the QLD public service shennanigans. thankfully she kept hers but it was really stressful for about a year there. not much to build employee confidence at all.

i vote for a break too! highly recommend Fiji in winter

Arte: i am so impressed by Miss E! man, Miss M is a miss-wee-in-your-knickers extraordinaire. she refuses to wear a nappy but just goes and does a wee and poo wherever. really frustrating.

Hope W is going well today at school...hoping that the ball issue is behind him and all.

Thankgoodness your puddy-tat turned up! it is so scary when they just up and disappear like that. no doubt she is getting a feed and a pat somewhere.

MD: hope your DH isnt away for too long! i find the first few days AOK, but then the time catches up and all the odd jobs build up etc etc. here's to a speedy return

Poor Miss L has no chances to procrastinate at bed time lol. i run a military precision exercise on that front...i love the evenings to myself too much ATM. although she was up later than usual the other night to watch the 'guardians of ga'hoole' or whatever the name of it was. she has been an owlette ever since lol.

AFM: well, the hairdo is a doozer. so much for anticipation it is so boring and not what i asked for that i am a bit devastated. also cost me $200!!!! i wanted a few foils to brighten it up for winter...the colour is nice and all but just is a waste with such a boring haircut. never, ever take your baby with you - they just assume you only want a 'mum cut'.

[Artechim]

Cass, total bummer about the haircut. A friend of mine once got a cut at an expensive place she had waited ages to get an appointment with and they gave her a mullet! And charged her a couple of hundred to do it. She was in tears while the hairdresser was finishing the cut and when she was asked if she liked it she could only sob lol
Hope you get some sort of breakthrough with M's toilet training soon. It is super frustrating when they know what to do and just won't do it!

Miss E is very impressive. She is like a mini 2 year old - learning colours, 3-4 word sentences etc. She is way ahead of where W was at this age.

[Cally]

Arte - you bought a beach house! How far away is it? Will you be able to get away often? Cool.

Cass - bummer about the haircut. How frustrating.

Job is sort of confirmed - our region has undergone a restructure, so I am confirmed in the new structure. But our division as a whole is also under a review - they were supposed to tell us in September last year if we are remaining as is, being downsized, or getting rid of us altogether. Still no word though.

[Artechim]

Cally, that can't be good for work place moral. Beach house is two hours away near my family. Plan is to get down there every couple of months and to list it as a holiday rental to pay some of the mortgage. It is tiny but it has 3 little bedrooms and is about 100m from the beach walkway. We had to do something with our cash now that our house is sold or we would fritter it away on nothing.

[Trillian]

WOW Arte! A beach house! I would love to own something like that so we could just take off for a bit without the ordeal of having to book somewhere to stay. How is W going with the school stuff that's going on?

Cally, that's dreadful on their part. It would still seem like there is so much uncertainty. No wonder you feel like you're stuck in a rut

MD, how's things my love? There are some days when I know A would be much better if only he would have a sleep, but he flat out refuses to. So I make sure there are a lot of early bedtimes to try to deal with it.

Cass, that's just not cool about the hair. I would be going back and complaining about it. that's far too much money to spend to end up with something you are not happy with.

Absolutely flat out here and starting to feel like everything's about to come crashing down. Work is great, Uni will be fine, but it's the other committee's that I'm on that have me feeling sick with dread about how I will manage it all. Had I known last year that I would end up with a job this year I wouldn't have stayed involved. there is no way I can get out of them now until the end of the year so i will just have to try to delegate as much as i can.

[AnyDream]

Ermagerd. BEACH HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell us more, mega excitingness! Sounds like it was an amazing weekend. I sooo love seeing my kids play with their cousins.

Yep, DH was away for nearly 2 weeks. TBH the evening routine was dragging out pretty badly before he even left - hangover after the holidays when the schedule was more relaxed. Compounded by flying solo. Anyway, we've roped it back in now and things are going smoother.

Cally That must've been tough having that hanging over your jobs. Do you need to take a week's leave RIGHT NOW just to chill out and potter? I did that a couple of weeks ago, I'm so glad I did. It gave me space to let the tightly wound tendrils to unwind. Are you working fulltime? Could you have your cake and eat it too by switching to parttime hours so you're still getting $$ but also able to do the reading and the pickups some days?

Cass- bummer on your do. Lacklustre! I hear you on the mumsy haircuts... I make sure I utter the word FUNKY at least once every time I'm at the hairdressers so it takes hold and flourishes in her hairstyling subconscious. LOL. At least you've got the colour - could you go back and complain - maybe they could chop a bit more out and funk it up for you?

So how are the kidlets all going at school? I can't believe it's nearly halfway through the first term! E is settling in but I do still worry about her anxious and perfectionist tendencies. Also thinking I might need to drag her along to the speechie - she's got a pronounced lisp and she's having trouble saying "th" and "the" when she's doing her reading.

ETA - Trill - missed you there! I have a concept that I use frequently that i call "capacity" (which is changeable). At times, we all have less "capacity" in our lives for all those extras, and that's when we have to scale back in order to preserve the smooth running of the more important functions. So I would be challenging the idea that you can't scale back on any of those other commitments. Write them all down mind map style with all the crazy possibilities. Even if you can only slide one or two things sideways, it will help.

[Cally]

MD - Our speechie said the 'th' sound doesn't happen until they're about 7. With the lisp, is her tongue coming out between her teeth when she says 's' sounds? It should stay behind her teeth - google speech pathology s sounds and you should come up with a bunch of words that you could go through with her, reminding her to shut the gate (ie her teeth) with that sound so her tongue stays behind her teeth. That was something we had to practice.

I've got today off - not sure a migraine helps with unwinding though...... Hopefully the super fancy medication kicks in shortly.

[Artechim]

Trill, hearing you on the over committed feeling! Somehow for an unemployed person I seem to have stacked my plate pretty full with stuff I don't get paid for. I feel like I am running around like a headless chook atm.
W seems fine at school, no further issues. Not sure if it was anything now.

MD, oddly enough, since he has always been against the grain, W's perfectionism and anxiety have lessened/disappeared since school started.

Guess I should go and fill in a thousand census forms Can't be bothered.

[AnyDream]

Arte I'm shocked you're not more enthused about the CENSUS!!?! LOL They've only kept you waiting an extra 2 years for it and all. Can you do it online? We had online forms last time - much quicker and easier.

Cally - I hope your migraine subsided. Such an awful feeling. Thanks for that info re the speech - I'd thought I'd heard something similar. I'm just keen to get it seen to because it's bothering her, plus she's always had a tongue thrust and family history of speech difficulties on top of that (not me, I have nooooo problems talking LOL).

Taking myself a day off tomorrow. Which will all be sweet and nice until Fri when I have to go into work on my usual day off. Buy now, pay later LOL.

[Cassius2]

MD: i know right?!!! these kids are totally proper schoolkids now! I dropped Miss L off today and she is just so part of the culture and group now...knows where to go, just gives me a quick goodbye and is totally in her element. it feels really weird: i am super proud of her but also realising that she is growing up (like today she wanted to look like she was walking to school all by herself so tried to keep ahead of me or well behind me lol).

as the for the cut...i just dont have the balls to ask them to fix it i think because it is something that i just do so rarely and dont have alot of confidence with (ie spending money on moi!).
Arte: we can be headless chooks together i somehow fill my days up and before I know it it's 6pm and i am still wondering what to cook for dinner hahaha.

Cally: hope you are feeling better today

Trill: are these like school and sport committees? that's tough that you cant step down for a bit. how many hours are you working with the job? does it work well with school pick up etc? Is it at the same school?? i have missed stuff here me thinks

Ok. so it's sorted. BB meet up at Arte's beach house...'kay?!

[Trillian]

Cass, yeah, it's the footy club and then the actual football league's netball executive. I just need to get through this year - once I have finished study life will be so much less complicated. the job is as a teacher's aide at the kid's school and it's from 9.15 to 12.15 Monday, tuesday, wednesday and friday. So I just go home most days and the kids come home as normal on the bus.

MD so what are your plans for your day off? I hope there is time for treating yourself planned at some point.

[Cassius2]

the job is as a teacher's aide at the kid's school and it's from 9.15 to 12.15 Monday, tuesday, wednesday and friday. So I just go home most days and the kids come home as normal on the bus.

...i do hope that when you finish from the TA job that you go past your kids classroom windows doing the 'moonwalk' or other such happy dance hahahaha...oh man i have a wicked mind lol.

[Artechim]

…have you thought maybe this is why L is trying to look like she isn't walking with you...

[Trillian]

no I don't do that. but sometimes it's tempting to run past the windows of the 5/6 classes and yell WOOHOO! HOME TIME! more as a joke for the teachers than the kids LOL. The 5/6 teachers have some shocking kids this year and most days you are exhausted before you even get to recess. But on monday I start my prac there at the school, so i will be there all day then. It's a super awesome deal for me - they are letting my do my TA work in the morning and then I just go onto my prac class in the afternoon. And I get paid for it! I'm also on E's class which will be interesting. I joked that I should arrange a class excursion to our house to make her clean her room If she refuses i can send her to the principal.

[AnyDream]

Trill, good luck with your prac. I'm sure you will shine. LOL @ your proposed class excursion. Potential embarrassment aside, what do your kids think of having you at school?

Thurs - great day off, thanks. I took in a session at Writers' Week - not sure if that counts as treating myself (LOL) but it made me pretty happy. Pay-up time tomorrow, though!

[Trillian]

they think it's awesome MD. Especially E because I will be in her class. But by golly she has some little *darlings* in her class. So it will be a challenge. But I know if I can handle them, I will more than likely get a teaching position there. At the very least i will get a lot of casual work.

Cass, there is an emoticon on another forum I'm on that would perfectly describe the feeling some days LMAO. Shame I can't post it here to show you

[Artechim]

It's Friday!!

MD, I hope your make up day at work wasn't too painful!

Trill, good to hear your kids are happy to have you at school. How is L going? Did he enjoy being home after that first burst away?

[Trillian]

MD, a writers session sounds like a perfect way to spend time on yourself

Arte, he's going wonderfully. he did say it felt good to be home and just to do his own thing and relax fully. it's also much better for me now he's home every weekend the heart isn't aching so much anymore.