School is Cool........

Well I know I said I wasn't going to neglect our blog and I guess I have done just that. But I do have a pretty good excuse. My eldest has just started school and I am an emotional wreck. I know it happens to all mothers but this is a first for me. He has been ready for quite some time to start school and I kept pushing it to the back of my mind and keeping myself distracted with party arrangements and getting him ready for school that the reality of it only hit when he went into the class room. His teacher is lovely and he has a couple of friends from daycare in his class so that makes things alittle easier for him. He tells me he had an awesome day and blew me away when he read his first book to me without any help. So I know it will get easier and I am really looking forward to seeing him grow and expand on his learning. It's just that he's my baby and you want to protect them and look after them and it's hard to hand those reins over to a stranger for 6 hours. Maybe I just need a good long drink and to keep myself busier.

OMG.......

Oh my god, where does the time go. I have been so busy moving house and getting through Christmas and New Years that I completely neglected my blog. I am so sorry. I will try to catch up. I guess I will start at the beginning. Moving day went really well, we were in and set up by 2pm and so spent the rest of the day relaxing with a few quiet ones. The kids love the new house and the fact that they can all have their own room. Even though we don't have as much of a backyard we are managing pretty well. Our Neighbours are interesting to say the least, as we back onto a naturalists club and have had a few questions from the kids that I am not quite ready to answer. The house itself is quite abit smaller and there is absolutley no storage (not even a linen cupboard) but we are loving it. The kids are back at kindy and I have just started a new job with Living and Giving. After 9 years with Pumpkin Patch I thought it was time for a change. So that has pretty much been our hectic couple of months and so we are just starting to settle down again. I will try not to neglect our blog again and want to wish you all a happy New Year, even if it is abit belated, sorry.

What a Week.....

Well we have certainly packed a heap into this last week and I apologise for not keeping everyone up to date. I guess I'll start at the beginning.
The first unconditional sale of our house went pear shaped. Our purchaser in China hadn't consulted her husband about the purchase and so therefore had to back peddle at a great speed. Luckily two days later we were presented with another unconditional cash offer which we accepted. Someone was looking after us I think. So we are still on the move only this time a little sooner than previously. We then had to find somewhere to move to and thanks to my husbands persistance with the land agents we managed to secure a brand new 4 bedroom home in the school zone I wanted. We are only renting for the time being but we have somewhere to go to. I can fell the stress leaving me already. We move in 2 weeks and the new owner moves in in three weeks. He plans on completely repainting and recarpeting so don't even have to worry about doing a spring clean. So it's onwards and upwards and now the real stress of packing begins.

Time to spare??????

Well as we have sold the house we don't have anymore open homes to contend with and so this morning I get to take it easy. Barry gets to sleep in and the kids are just happy to take things easy today so I am sitting here twiddling my fingers and onto my second cup of tea for the day. This just isn't normal at all and I am racking my brains trying to think of anything that I should be doing. We are having alittle bit of trouble finding a place to live but as I keep getting reminded it is early days and something will turn up, I certainly hope so or maybe my joke about living out of our car might come true.

The axe finally fell

Well it is all over, I hope anyway. We have sold our little home and are now homeless. I know it not like that but I have yet to find somewhere else to move to so I feel alittle lost at the moment. A lovely family in China have bought the house and will be living here by Christmas. It feels very strange but on the bright side no more open homes and trying to keep the house immaculate with the kids roaring through every two seconds destroying all my hard work. I will definitely miss this place especially with summer here and the big back yard that the kids just love. So it's now onward and outward I guess. Will keep you posted hopefully we won't end up living out of our car.

That'll teach me ......

Well who else managed to survive the school holidays? I was very smug at the beginning of week one as my eldest two go to daycare which basically means they don't do school holidays, so here I was feeling very smug and pleased that my two days a week were going to remain in tact along with my sanity. Until the wee hours of Tuesday morning when Conor awoke crying and snotty nosed only to be quickly followed by the other two. My dreams dashed in a few seconds and my smug thoughts shattered I had to admit that they would be spending the next week at home. What an exhausting week not only did the three of them remain at home with the snotty noses and coughs but it was acompained by the grizzling and annoying whinging. I'm not complaining really, I know that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger but at three in the morning you really have to wonder who came up with that little ditty. To all the survivors out there well done you deserve a drink I on the other hand will settle for a good nights sleep.

The big toilet mystery.......

Well on Thursday night we decided to attend a toilet training seminar held by our daycare. For the past 18 months we have been trying, very unsuccessfully, to toilet train Conor. But to no avail. So we thought we might be able to get some pointers and trotted along. It was amazing to see just how many other parents are in the same boat. I think there should be some kind of support group set up as it gets very stressful, which really doesn't help the process. During the past 18months we have tried absolutely every thing possible to get the message through. But we have one very stubborn little man on our hands I think. I thought you might find this amusing as the photo illustrates some of the funny sides of toilet training. Please if anyone has any other suggests please let me in on the secret.....