AWOL!

Miss me?

As per usual, no real excuses apart from life, kids, work ..........
Actually this isn't too bad - you should see all the e-mails in my inbox waiting to be replied to. Sorry to those waiting for a personal e-mail from me!

The older the children get, the more activities they do and the less time we have after hours. Weekends are no longer relaxing times for us, instead its a get-up-and go-rush of ballet and footy.

Thank goodness for school holidays (at least I got one thing right when picking my profession)! I cannot tell you the relief I feel, knowing that in the mornings, I don't have to get up and go anywhere! No rushing around trying to get 3 kids and myself dressed and out the door. Then dropping Ross at a friend, then dropping Maddy and Gethin at daycare and then getting myself to school! And that's all before 8am. I could go on and on about this as its a rather sensitive issue with me!!! But I won't!

Right now its 9am and I'm sitting in bed with my cup of coffee, writing this while the kids play happily! Aaaaah heaven! It probably won't last (the happily playing part that is) but for now its good.

What have we been up to in the wonderful month of June?

Ross played his very first footy tournament. It was really exciting to watch him get into the game. We also discovered that Paul and I are those annoying parents who stand on the sidelines shouting - good shouting if that makes it any better! Ross' little team did very well and won nearly all their matches.





Poor Gethin has also had to bear the brunt of Ross' sporting skills lately. Couldn't resist a quick pic before we cleaned him up.





Maddy had her watching week at dancing last week. Unfortunately the pics didn't come out too well as its so dark in there.






Doesn't she look sweet in this picture! I had to take a picture of her looking so cute in her winter coat as this was a very rare occasion.




You see, we have some rather serious dressing dilemmas in our house. Boys are a dream when it comes to dressing them - you pick their clothes and they wear them! But not our Maddy! Oh no! She started out being a very independent 2 year old who would dress herself and with that independence came the problem - she now believes she can actually pick her clothes, which on most days is a pair of shorts or summer skirt and a t-shirt regardless of the outside temperature! If she can see the sun, then in her eyes its going to be sweltering hot! No amount of bribing or "so and so wears trousers like this" would help. Then after weeks of fighting and trying to get her to wear trousers or at least tights with her skirts, we have now regressed seriously!
The latest thing is that she won't dress herself at all! How did that happen? This is not good when you're in the morning rush and you have a quite capable nearly 4 yr old refusing to get dressed! So we have had some dressing training this holiday which involves a lot of crying (and shouting)and me refusing to dress her! Quite fun really - NOT!!!

Last but not least, I have some good news to share. I have been offered a part time (3 days) teaching contract for the next term at Campbell Primary School where I do most of my relief teaching. This will more than likely be extended to the end of the year which is really good for me. I feel like I'm finally being rewarded for all my hard work and will also make the daycare issues for Maddy and Gethin a lot easier!

Ok, the washing machine is calling so I shall be off and hopefully I'll be back soon. Don't hold your breath! xxx