is raining here and F is screaming in his room because he stomped on a toy, then pinched me, then pinched me some more it's raining outside and he wants to go out and 'save the birdy house' or something like that that he was doing last night when, you know, it WASN'T raining. i have a feeling that between the two of them it is going to be a looooooong day. hoping to get some cleaning done....??

hope your kids feel better soon, PK

Cleaning done? with kids around?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

yeah, tell me about it

At least mine is old enough i can make her do cleaning...
In saying that I still do most of it...

She's currently counting $600 in $20s LOL. Most of its not mine though damn! Better bank it today though!

i remember when i was in my teens and my (then) bf bought a... cripes, i don't even remember what it was, it was a nintendo console that took cartridges, it was top of the line at the time, like $800 or something crazy like that, he let me count the money; most money i had ever held at once in my hand

two kids rooms down, will put T down for a nap in a min (after my tea break ) so then i only have to deal with F who is super whingy (about the damn birds still). have to bake something as everyone is starving and our pantry is bare.

Oh PK

Got the Telly/computer working last night. Had kids up til 9pm watching movies and then I saw free loaders in Ds hair so put him in the bath with stuff in his hair and combed them out an changed his sheets and pillow
Put kids to bed and ordered pizza and watched big bang theory and Dh got home around 11.45pm. Didn't go to bed for an hour and then he was up at 5am for work in Welly.
Have just got kids to take decorations off Xmas tree and it's down and in the shed. naughty kids don't get Santa!

It was only up for 3days!

My nephew saw me stitching legs to the body and asked if im making an elephant (im not)

making scones for lunch as i'm staarrrrving. will have to pop out and get flour at some point though (will have to pinch some money off dh's lunch acct ) because i used the last of it. am justifying it by saying, oh but we have a wee bit of cream that was BB yesterday, if i don't use it today it will go to waste...

Oh PK - I remember all 4 of us had chicken pox not long before Christmas. My little brother was about 2 (he was the youngest of us) and he was just totally miserable - high temps, cried all the time, wanted to be held but couldn't stand being held. Horrible for all of us.
Thankfully for my mother we got them all quite quickly one after another and I and one other sister were the middle of us to get them and I remember being so glad I was able to make it back to school for the last week of Form 2. Richard wasn't too far behind us so he must have got over it before Christmas as well.

A lot of people think I'm over protective since all my 3 have had the vaccine - actually better find out what the current thinking is on how long it lasts for W's sake as he had it at 18 months or so when he got exposed but high risk for complications so we raced off and got the jab to help prevent or minimise the infection.
Must have worked because they've all be exposed frequently and never had it.

Cleaning going on here too - until dh's decided to go to bed because he's soooo exhausted. He does have a concert to sing this evening in his defence but still...I've had at least two 1am bedtimes this week and the other day I was falling asleep on the couch at 6:30. Bah, tired he doesn't really get!

Got to cook dinner early too - he needs to be gone by 5:30 - but he's taking the older two to the concert so once T's in bed by 7:30 the evening is mine! Someone has to do the ironing though and it's over 22o here today...

Got a text from dh mum yesterday saying their job is off tomorrow so they aren't coming over anymore. I have a size 18 farking chicken that I got in the hope of enticing them to stay for dinner. Now what do I do with it?

CL - roast the chicken, put left overs in a quiche, mayo sandwiches, toasted sandwiches, risotto etc - keeping them in an airtight container will let them last for a good few days and you can cook other dinner with them.

It's dh and mine 9year Anniversary today! And we started it by fighting I think I need a younger man

if it makes you feel any better, it was mine and dh's anniversary last month - we both completely forgot. remembered a few days later. clearly we're as bad as each other

what'd you do with your chicken? i'd do like eleanor suggested and use the cooked chicken in things; i usually buy a giant chicken when i roast one so that we eat half then i use the leftovers and make stock from the carcass. you can make pies, risotto, put it in a pasta bake, pizza..... endless possibilities

whats been happening?
Feel like my feet have not touched the ground in the last few weeks, parents and brother been and gone, DD leavers dinner (and all that went with it) done and dusted, block of land settled so its now ours house sort of picked just need to work out if we can finance it (if not I suppose we could always pitch a tent on the land lol) and hopefully I have secured a rental property for my parents and brother otherwise we might end up with a full house Just need to get through this week with all the presentation assemblies and picnic days, it was so much simpler when the kids went to the same school

Hope all of you and your families are well

oh kluger, what happened with your parents looking at blocks of land in the same area as you? did you ever say antyhing to them? or did they just ditch that idea?

funny, i am making your apple slice at the moment was looking for your blog, had to go back in FB to find it because you haven't posted in a while and - viola! here you are.

I had to tell them outright that the block next door but one was waaaay to close....they did not take it well but too bad lol

They ended up putting a deposit on one about a 5 min walk away, right across an oval that our street sides on to

mmm apple slice, have not made that for a while

Hugs Kluger ... your dad sounds like mine

Klugar, sounds like you need it.
Fake it till you make it. Put your foot down. Even if they are not happy with it.

Did you point out how bright the lights at the oval would be? I would tell them about that, they might reconsider putting the deposit down if they didn't realise that!
If not then their own fault and they will have to deal with all the lights.

Also i suggest you put your foot down,. its not good for a kid (let alone you) to be stuck in a car that much, tell them to go look on their own!

YES it'll make them unhappy, but it means you wont feel so shit in the long run, and as they (he) begins to realise you are your own person you'll have to say no a whole lot less!