I maybe a ........

I maybe a bitch ...but I am the PICK of the litter...

Yes this was my status from status shuffle on facebook and coincidentally I tell you it really summed up ME from Thursday night to Saturday morning......just things were not right and i flew off the handle or voiced my RIGHTEOUS opinion at everything said or done by anyone in 10m of me. I think it was set off by my hard working and over tired husband that came home with smelly feet again and GOD bless his smelly feet for all his hard work but I am SICK of being here sometimes and he is at work, there is only so much good conversation that Max can provide....we sooo need a holiday together.

the mood was also not helped by a high school boy calling me a S*$% on school grounds when I asked him to stop bullying the young children at my school and leave......but then I am not going to start raving about the kids on the wrong track or I could be here all night.

I have been taking minimal photos lately too.........WHY......well one reason is I am tired and we have been just been in routine with nothing much exciting happening in August ...then the other could be i have decided to catch up on 2 years of photos that need to be placed into slip in photo albums because even though I scrapbook I still have a need for the "normal" photo album. This is just what HALF of my scraproom looked like....

they were everywhere in little piles while I sorted and looked back to my trusty files to get everyone of over 1000 photos in order...i gave up and still have at least a year to go...sadly school work made me stop

AND this week I head back to FULL TIME work until DEC 16!!!!!! DUE date DEC 25.....gee i love my job don't I!!!!! lol just tooo much to do so I feel like "go back full time" earn the money and get paid for what I would be doing at home anyway, plus I need to save for 2010 and afford a new camera!!!!!! so the count down is on

10 working days to long service leave

then 10 working days to 2 weeks school holidays

then 79 working days until MAT leave

99 in total....better than 100

24- 30 August

WOW another non eventful week. I was tired and OFF. I went out and splurged on a new pram.
I took the school netball team away on Friday and it made me realise that no many of them have sporting talents and sadly they don't play on the weekend. On Saturday Max and I lazied around the house and I washed clothes and sorted 1000s of photos. We remembered the monthly Russell shot and ate yummy homemade pizza. The August winds came and seem to have gone....roll on Spring

17 - 23 August

A normal routine week with lots of coughing by me thrown in. A late Tuesday night due to a Mathletics meeting and parent teacher night. Darren helped out and took Max to swimming. Max was a tired and cranky boy that tested me all week. We went and saw Rebecca and Brooke in their netball final (a great win) and shared a nice lunch. Max ate the biggest Hot Dog, i sooo wish I had my camera. Ended the week with a relaxing Sunday at home.

Parenting...not for the faint hearted

BOYS WILL BE BOYS????

The week started with this gun LOVING child who has no guns at home going to a friends place and falling in love. No big dramas there really!!!! He got his fix but then the rest of the week was a tester. Hitting at preschool and family daycare refusing to go to sleep and carry on over eating dinner every night (I know is was not because of the guns, just a growing boy pushing his limits). I have come to the conclusion bed time needs to be earlier and a minimum of one hour naps might help curb the anger issues...??!!!! only time will tell.
I have wondered a lot this week what I am doing right and what I am doing wrong. Preschool say he is bright and very verbal but just wants his own way.......ummm sounding a bit like me there I think. We are working on dealing on what to do when things make him angry and it is not ok to hit........I ask you where is the manual on 3.5 year-old boys????? I need it!!!!!

Aug 10 - 16

The week ended with sensational weather. I am not getting my HOPES up that we are out of Winter yet, but I tell you there are only a few cold "get ups" left this year I think. Sunday was 26 degrees and beautiful.....made me realize Max has grown and his shorts from last year nearly don't fit and some shopping is needed. We spent the warm afternoon in the sunshine in Karen's street with the kids riding bikes and the adults eating nice cheese and dips and the for those of us who were not pregnant champagne or beer. It was still warm at 6pm. Max was in love with Declan and Phlynn's guns, he shot everything that moved and told the boys numerous times they were cool!!!!

The rest of the week was filled with routine. Max discovered SCUBA diving in the bath. I handed out $900 worth of pies at preschool and continued on with Max's bug quilt. I was thankful this week that the staff at my school are a GREAT bunch and I will miss BPS next year, seriously we have a NICE staff and that makes all the ups and down there worth it in the end.

However we got the sad news this week that Doreen (Dad's partner) has months left with her battle with cancer......I hope that she holds on as long as her body will cope. I feel for her and my dad. She is looking weaker and Max asked "are you sick?" When she said yes, he told her "I will send my dad over and he can fix you, he fixes everything". I wish this could be fixed my sweet boy. xxxxxxx

the quilt "bug"

well I have not scrapbooked since the 4th of July retreat. I miss it and I am busy keeping my journaling up to date for the day I pick it all back up again

I started this BUG quilt in the July holidays and I love it. It is for Max. It is not for his bed it is a quilt to have on the lounge for those cold winter afternoons and nights. I am hoping it will be finished soon!!!! Going off the temps predicted for tomorrow in Sydney (28 degrees) I am sure once this is finished it will be enjoyed next winter!!!! All I have to do is addd the black sashing to the rows, then join it all together, quilt and bind!!!!!! I Started collecting bug fabric years before Max was born as the second I saw the pattern I was in love with it. One day I hope to make a massive eye-spy quilt.

Aug 3 to 9

Week 2 at school and lots of planning and fractions with Stage 3 was an experience.

Max went back lessons with Debbie on a Tuesday, she was his first ever swimming teacher besides me and she is sooooo gentle and kind, I missed her touch. I love watching him do his laps and bop up and down in the deep end.

My mum is not well and had a mini stroke.

I continued with pie drive preparations and we raised $830. A nice night was had at the Preschool committee meeting too.

Max enjoyed himself at Alex's 5th birthday and I had a nice catch with Alison after and a little shop. I went home tired and sick and rest all Saturday night.

I felt miserable Sunday but still managed to clean after a sleep in. Sunday always flys by.

July 27 to Aug 2

Back to WORK and Max's weekly routine.

I tool 4 photos all week.

The weather is grand, warmish days I HOPE that means the end of winter is near.

I had my 19 week ultra sound and all is great.

I counted over $3000 worth of orders for Max's preschool pie drive. The double checking and counting drove me nuts.

I attended an interactive whiteboard inservice that was fantastic, I love the board in my room.

I planned ....fractions, time, mass, decimals......I love planning for Maths. Loving stage 3 too.

Max is obsessed with Ben 10...they eat weet-bix too!!!

He went up to a much harder class in swimming and now swims laps of the 10m pool....the 2 girls in his class are a head and half taller than him and they just looked at him when he walked over like "look at this little baby" but he kept up and I soooo wish the light was good enough to get a shot of him standing there next to 4-6 year old girls and swimming like a fish. just a few more weeks and the sum might be up to get me some nice natural light in the sky light.

A nice restful Sunday.........Darren cooked a snapper on the BBQ and Max refused to eat "the poor fish" he just sat and looked at it's head. Did not help he watched "Nemo" the night before.

Wedding Dance Hype !!!!

Have you seen the Wedding Dance that has had over 12 million hits in 10 days on You Tube???

This is what their divorce will look like