Completed list!

Amazed myself by getting everything done on my list - previous post!

Even got chance to hang out at the beach for a couple of hours with the little ones :)

Some pics from the weekend:

Miles and Greta playing on the beach..

Yes thats Jonathan with a mug of tea on the beach!

 Little fairy

Miles wearling my 3D glasses from the movies

Excuse our yucky pool cover with plant droppings on  in the background there...(cant wait for summer!)

Music class tomorrow for Miles and someone else coming round to quote us for ducted air con..last company came in at $10,000 - we thought that too high, so back to getting quotes.

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Stuff to do ..

Wow 3 posts in 1 day! im ipressed lol.

So though i would just do up a list of stuff i want to get done, we just seem to have so much to get through at the moment and i have been far too busy playing with the kids and doing all their activities and havent actually got around to doing much.

So i need to:

1. go through Greta's wardrobe, she has outgrown so much, i need to stick it all in the Salvo's bin or e-bay it, not sure which yet.. possibly just e-bay it.
2. Put away  all the gorgeous new clothes Mum in law sent for her.
3. Put away all the washing that i have dont this week and iron the pile of shirts
4. drag the desk out of the 4th bedroom and put it on e-bay, make that bedroom into a spare room instead of the current dumping heap!
5. Drive up to Woy Woy to collect the new bike helmet.

Thnk that is about, it oh i also bought some shower screen wipes so want to have a go with those on the shower screens.

Also went to playgroup this morning and one of the other mums invited a couple of us over for a girls night in on Saturday night, so looking forward to that :)

Think that is all.

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Forgot to say..

i got an e-mail yesterday from Miles' Pre school, they want us to tell them what days we want next yr, or if they will be starting Kindergarten - so we decided he will stay at Pre-shcool next year and then start Kindergarten the year ater, so when he is 5.5yrs old he will start .

So currently he goes 1 day a week - 9am till 3pm and LOVES it.  So we are being brake and i signed him up for 2 days next year! He will be 4.5yrs so i think he can handle it.. Will see how Greta goes without her brother for 2 days- she is pretty lost on the 1 day lol!

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early mornings - YAWN...

Greta has for some reason decided to wake at 5.30am all this week - YAWNNNNN

She usually wakes around 7.15 - 7.30am.. and as im used to that i go to bed around 11pm - so i get a good 4.5 hours afrer they have gone to bed at night to relax and do whatever i need for the next day, sort washing, iron, pay bills, watch TV - all that stuff, i don't watch adult TV during the day at all so its nice to catch up at night - anyway, as Jonathan has started a new job, it seems everyone is in his office ready for the day at 8.15-8.30am, and as he is the boss, he thinks it would look bad to arrive an hour after everyone else, so he has been getting up at 6.15am and leaving the house at 7am to get to work for 8.15am.  Trouble is that because he is generally louder (when trying to be quiet) than most people when they are trying to be loud lol, i think that is waking up Miles & Greta in their rooms.. Miles insists on sleeping with his bedroom door open anyway.. Greta's is closed but she is an incredibly light sleeper - so i see why that is waking them up.. but why wake up an hour earlier than Jonathan even gets up?? I have no idea.

Anyway im so not used to getting up early, Greta hasn't woken for a night feed since she was 6 or 7 weeks old so at almost 2 yrs of age, im really not used to it.  If it persists i will have to go to bed at a reasonable hour!


In other news.

Miles and Greta are currently stroking the cat, who is curled up on the couch, its very cute - she is being spoilt, purring with happines :)

Jonathan got paid out for his bike jacket and helmet.  he only got $750 though and when you consider his helmet cost about that, then his jacket was about the same again - oh well i see how they calculate it, cos they are both 3-5 yrs old, they knock off 10% for every year so that brings it down to about half its value..Anyway, Jonathan found a replacement helmet for about about $500 inc postage in America (about $200 more expensive here) and was just trying to find a jacket when he stumbled upon e-bay and by chance found a guy who had bought a helmet - identical to the one he wants, brand new and still had tags and was in the box, had never used it - and needed to sell it.. so anyway, we managed to get it for $250 - winner!! Its in woy Woy so we can have a drive up there this weekend and have fish and chips at our favourtie shop up there.. fantastic! Now just to find a good deal on a jacket - we have $500 left for his Jacket which might just do it if we are lucky again.

My Mum in law has been sending parcel after parcel for all 4 of us.. started with my birthday a couple of weeks ago and she started to send parcels of colthes for me.. fantastic :)
Then i asked if she could get a couple of items from Marks and Spencer for Jonathan that she had brought over last time they visited, so she sent him a couple more, then included a few more clothes for the kids - and then a few more - and before you know it, we have about 6 or so huge packages full of clothes for all 4 of us!
I think it is end of summer sale there, which is prefect as winter stuff from there is just to warm for us here, even in winter, so summer stuff from there is just perfect - we are all very spoilt :)

Went to Playgorup yesterday, in Pennant hills, its abotu 20 mins away but as the kids little friends go there, they love it.  So i managed to get a book of raffle tickets - which i avoided getting at my own playgroup! but couldnt get out of this - trouble is, the only people i know are Mums either at my Playgroup or some other Playgroup, so they aren't going to want to buy my tickets when they have their own to find raise for - i fear i will end up giving them back with none sold!  But then Jonathan said last night he will take them to work for me :)

Going to my Playgroup today - might walk up there, its only a 10 min stroll.. Greta will be so tired by the end of it with getting up so early, i might try and talk Miles into trying to have a sleep so i can have one, but im pretty sure he won't he never does...

At Playgroup yesterday, i mean not my Playgroup the other one i joined recently.. well one of the Mums smacked her little girl.. its not my business i know, but i don't smack, i just think its wrong to get physical with another human being, especially a child who is smaller than you so is going to be afraid of you anyway - well i know even in this day and age that some people still feel the need for sme unknown reason to smack.  

So i can't remember what this poor child did, i think perhaps it took a toy from another child or smacked abother child (well of course its going to smack other children and be rough with other children if it sees its Mums smacking him! it will think it acceptable and normal)

Or it might have bumped its car that it was driving into its Mum, i think that was it was, i think she bumped her car into her Mums leg, so he mum turned around and said No thats naughty you don't hurt Mummy and then smacked her! Not hard but still, i think its pretty humiliating to be smacked at all evern just a tap - but really the irony just struck me.. You are telling your child off for hitting or hurting you, and you do this by hitting and hurting them er derrrrrrr! Dont him me or another child or i will hit you - yeah great parenting there!

Anway, im anti smacking in case it wasn't clear lol.

I'm pretty sure neither of my kid would even know what the word smack means and im happy to keep it that way. Give me love and cuddles anyday over smacks..  Ohh it makes my blood boil to think about it. 

Im not sure if its anything i have done or more likely just the way they are but i have 2 very good little peole :)

Anyway after that vent i'd best get ready for Playgroup.

Lovely weekend

Greta seems to have turned a corner, we went through about 6 weeks or so when she just threw so many tantrums a day - which was odd as she can explain her self so well so had no need to get frustrated as she is so easy to understand and says so man words - anyway, she appears to have grown out of that now.. or has for the time being and is back to very few if any tanties :)

Took the kids out air con shopping yesterday, i got a company to come round and quote on ducted, which is most likely the way we are going to go but anyway we went to see the costs of individual air con units, i guess we would need 4 or so for the whole of the house, so probably about $5,500 V's about $10,000 for the ducted..
Still waiting for the quote to come back in.

Also got a replacement for the couch, the cover takes 6 weeks to arrive and cost $250 !! i was in shock, its just a cushion cover, not the foam or anything - madness! But the couch cost $2,500 so i guess its all relative.

Then today Jonathan took Greta to Bunnings to get some screws to fix Miles' bed that had a broken leg and then came home and i put Greta to bed in her new Charlie and Lola blanket  - she is Charlie & Lola OBSESSED!

SO she slept in ther for 4 hours, yes she still loves to sleep!

I took Miles to the toy sales, after saying i didn;t like to Lay-by and would never do it again - i did it for the kids Christmas pressies! 
Its all the plan of living to a budget for the next 2 years... so i thought if i did that and then i could pay it off each month then it would be easier this year.. will see if i remember to go pay it lol!

Not much other news, took a cute pic of Greta:

Thats about it really i guess.

Might do this weeks list:

Monday:m Music class
Tuesday: Story time and Playgroup
Wednesday: playgroup\
Thursday: Food shopping day
Friday: Miles' pre school day.

Oh and another thing, i paid $99 for 2 cleans of the house with a compnay i've used before, i booked in for Friday but then never turned up!
So need to chase that tomorrow.

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Museum and city trip

Took the kids into the city yesterday, wanted to take them the maritime museum.. we had such a great time there last time and i wanted to take them back.

So i thought we would make a day of it - we usually just drive into the city, which is like a 40 min drive away with no traffic, and park in Jonathans building as he has a car parking space.. but wanted to make a day of it so we drove up to the train station and got the train into the city.

A pic of the kids on the train:

They were so goo, they both sat there all the way in and all the way back home.

So then we walked down to the museum and they had a craft room, they both loved that - one of the workers read all the kids there  a story.. we looked at the boats, i was trying to show Miles all the old boats that they used to come over here in the first fleet and all the kids that came over - Miles was more interested in the new speed boats and the chopper lol never mind...  a couple of pics in the museum.

Definitely going to go there again, it onlty cost $7 for the 3 of us.. so with that and $6.40 for a return train ticket - bargain day! we took a picnic for the day too for the 3 of us so didn't spend anything really.


Then we hopped on the catamaran and went over to Circular Quay - yes i have photos!

We had a stroll around the harbour and took some pics - showed the kids the Opera House and the bridge - Miles is fascinated by the bridge at the moment..

Then we went up to Jonathans building - Miles was very excited to go see Daddy at work - Greta was super excited too.. she's usually in bed when he comes home from work, so she doesn't get to see him too much during the week - she ran to him squealling 'Daddy, Daddy' So he took them both upstairs to see his desk and his work mates.

Then we went back on the train and home!

Got home about 4pm and i quickly popped into aldi and did the weeks food shop, got him abotu 4.45pm and just enough time to get the kids dinner - we had boiled eggs and soldiers, before they got cross that it was passed their dinner time!

So a great day and Miles is already asking when we can go again :)


Today

Just headed up to Playgroup today.. Greta is so outgoing, she will happily play with anyone, i love watching her play :)

Got Miles' hair cut.

also got a couple more parcels for the kids, clothes and magazines for them.  From Their Grandma in the UK.

I have booked in the babysitter for our 10th wedding anniversary too next month - just got to decide where to go.. I was thinking of a nice restaurant overlooking the water in Mosman, Jonathan was thinking Terrgal - i didnt want to go that far.  Id like to head into the city to one of the restaurants around the harbour there - ARIA or something but Jonathan works in the city so i guess thats not very interesting for him - will get him to agree on somewhere they i can book it in anyway. 

Erm.. think thats about all really..

Oh i have a company coming tomorrow to quote on ducted air con.. cannot go another summer without aircon! too hot for my pomme genes lol.

Oh and Jonathan is trying to get a new PA.  He brought a couple of resumes for me to look over and i said yep definitely this one - he said hmm not i quite like this other one, i said no no i wouldnt go with her and told him why.. he disagreed - anyway he intervied them both yesterday morning and came home and and said hmm you were right, i prefer the one you liked and didnt like the other one for all the reasons you said!! Erm well yes i did used to do thta for a living! 

ok thats really all i have for now.

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update

A recap of the last week:

Wednesday 13th.
My birthday! 
Dropped the kids off at their old nanny's house for the day and headed off for a 2.5 hour massage and pamper session - oh it was fantastic! Loved it.. then drove over to the beach and had a fantastic greek lunch from a great little cafe - right by the beach... then drove over to the city to collect jonathan and we went for coffee and cake together.
He then went off to a meeting and i went and collected the kids - they had such a great day, both of them.  miles has been asking to go back ever since - so need to organise that soon.
In the evening i went to see the new Harry Potter movie.
So a great day.  Got so many clothes from my Mother in law... and lots of other stuff :)
It was a great birthday.. even got to walk around the shops and browse which i never get to do with 2 kids in tow.

Weekend: i had to go collect a huge pile of toys - cubby house, climbing frame, little tikes cars, slide, roller coaster and table and chairs from a playgroup mum.  its a party pack that we rent out - so i am not in charge of looking after the toys and renting them out to other members - so that means that my kids get to play with them when they are not on loan - winner! So got home and set all them up in the back yard and the kids played with them all afternoon..Jonathan had to take the trailer back that we had to borrow - there was so much, too much to fit in our 2 cars.

Sunday i took Miles to Disney on ice - he loved it so much.. he was so super excited..he didnt like Cars and Lion King but the rest he loved.
Mainly Tinkerbell that he loved the most as Greta watches the movie and he likes it too.

WE went and bought jonathan a new suit for work - $399 special haha, it was on sale but its lovely.. and had lunch out for my birthday.

SO list for this week:

monday - music class
Tuesday - heading into the city to the maritime museum / food shopping.
Wednesday - playgroup
Thursday - home day
Friday - Miles' Preschool / Greta home with me.

Jonathans jobs going well - his PA resigned the first week - but he wasnt happy with her anyway, so he has 2 new girls to interview for the position tomorrow.

Other than that all good... he seems happy and its great money so im happy!

Thats all for now.

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So much to do.....

I need to have a good clean of the house, i've made a start but really should to getting on - trouble is, if i make too much noise before Greta is asleep she hears me and refuses to go to sleep - she hasn't had a day sleep in the last 4 days now, point blank refused and then is an utter nightmare the entire day as she is so over tired - so i end up just sitting with her - if i get up for a second to go make a cuppa or to even attempt to tidy something she screams her head off "cuddle, cuddle cuddle" over and over again and clings to my clothes and gets under my feet so i am forced to sit down and ....and look at the mess around me! Its driving me up the wall... so then i creep around when i put her to bed in the hope that she will nod off - so still can't do anything! then when im sure she is asleep i try and do a little bit as quietly as possible... which means not very much!

Which all leads to the fact that the house is a mess and its near imposible to clean it as Greta simply wonty allow me too.

So anyway, Im sitting down, amidst the mess! And tying to do something practical, rather than feel that im wasiting time - which is really all i can do sas Greta just wont allow me to do anything without screming and clinging onto me untill i give in...

Anyway, jonathan has started his new job so that means he now gets paid monthly instead of weekly, his first pay being this weekend, so im trying to swap all our bills over to monthly and sort out our bill spreadsheet that currenty has formulas for weekly pay in it...

In other news, we headed up to Terrigal over the weekend for fish and chips and a stroll on the beach - some pics:

Ok, best get on.. stop wasitng time!

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Super excited!!!

For my birthday next week i have booked in a 2.5 hour masage and pamper session in Brighton Le Sands, then i can have lunch after (meeting Jonathan) over looking the beach..

Kids are being looked after by their old nanny for the day :)

And ive just booked my ticket for Harry Potter movie!

What a fantastic birthday this will be!!

Jonathan is taking my out to a slap up lunch at the Novotel on the weekend, they im taking Miles see Disney on ice.

The birthday pressies have already started to arrive! Got a fantastic gift hamper from my sister, with choccies and wine :)

My Mum has posted me something over... fantastic this year i think its going to be :)

Miles announced he would like to buy mummy a necklace and bracelet - so i will leave that to Jonathan to interpret how he will - we don't really like to buy stuff from the kids, we just get them to do a painting or drawing if they want to.. but this year Miles specifically said he wanted to get me a gift so im not sure how that will work - perhaps jonathan can make a bracelet or something for me with him.

Anyway, all set to be a great birthday :)

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Fantastic weekend in the Hunter Valley!

Its amazing what one night away does for you! We got home and felt like we had been away for a week.. it was a great weekend.

Well for some reason Greta didn't think so though.. it took us 2 hours and 15 minutes to drive up there and she screamed the entire way!

So when we got there we checked into our room and put her in her cot for a nap, i took Miles out for a walk to the local little shopping village and Jonathan stayed in the room with Greta - and nodded off himself he said!

Anyway she slept for a couple of hours then Miles and I went back to the room and she was just waking up, but refused to get out of her cot lol, she looked all snug as a bug in there..

So then we went out for luch and she whinged through that, there was a guy playing a saxaphone at the cafe it was lovely actually Miles was dancing :).. then back to the hotel for a stroll through the gardens and over to the little shopping village where there was a chocolate factory so we got Miles a strawbery dipped in choccie...Greta screamed and whinged all the way round the shops!  We had  look in the toy shop and the book shop, then for some reason jonathan decided to drive half an hour away looking for an alpaca farm - there is an alpaca farm 7 minutes drive from our house! Anyway we didn't find it and Greta was screaming - again!
So back to the hotel to sit in front of the fire and have a galss of wine - Greta screamed and threw a tanty!

Then we went over to the restaurant for dinner.. and you guess it, Greta screamed her way through dinner.. everyone was looking at us, and when you consider there was a rather loud band playing, she was really making a racket to be heard over that!

So then back to the room and put Greta in her cot and she went to sleep - 5 mins later Miles went to bed ... ahhh a couple of hours of bliss for mum and dad!
I think i fell asleep about 9pm though and J wasnt far behind me.

Next day we got up to a whingy Great and had Brekkie which she cried and scremed through.

Then we checked out and headed to the Gardens, and Miles was super excited to see the Story book gardens... Greta was pretty unbearable and screamed the whole way through, Jonathan ended up taking her to the other end of the gardens where there was no people as she was screaming so much it wasnt pleasant.. So Miles and I wandered around the gardens and it was fantastic, Miles loved it.. he was so excited.
Only time Greta stopped screming her head of was when she got her face painted, she loved that.
i really thought she'd like to toddle around the gardens and look at the flowers and birds but nope - just screamed blue murder the entire trip!

Anyway we had lunch and headed home - now jonathan decided to drive home and as if we hadnt had enough of Greta's 24 hours of non stop screaming... he took the scenic drive! 5 and  half hours later, including a 1.5 hour traffic jam waiting for the ferry to cross the river and we were home and would you belive for that 5 and a half hours Greta fell asleet for half an hour - she never ever sleeps in the car!! And she did not make a single sound - for 5  and a half hours stuck in the car! Amazing!! She coloured in and played wiht Miles' baloon and entertained herself - perhaps she was happy we were going home!

anyway some pics of our trip.