july 6 to 12

A 5 day working week...........tough !!!! but I needed to be there for planning days and it saved me a sick day.
I had no internet and then Telstra failed to keep their booking and then stuffed me around on the phone.
Brendon and Gill had a baby boy - Cooper.
We said goodbye to Robyn at BPS...a sad assembly!!!!! the hunt was on for new staff and the process consumed a lot of my time.
Max had a ball at A's 5th birthday.
We got Foxtel hooked up and SO begins my addiction to reality TV.
We went to visit baby Hayley and Max and Nathan played really well. Then a nice dinner at Charlotte's house ended a good weekend

A much needed catch up

it is DUE but I have tooo much to do.

I have just taken a break from a major toy cleaning and sorting rampage and as I WORK I am getting frustrated with myself as I think of more things I need to do. I have 14 days OFF, lots of housework, lots of school work and a need for some R and R too.

Some random things I want to say right now

I am LOVING my camera at the moment thanks to fabulous Janine Kaye, and the BEST news is I will be upgrading as a combined birthday, Christmas, 10th wedding anniversary pressie this oct/Nov, soooooo can't wait. I will post more on my fab weekend with Janine soon.

I had a great time away with 29 scrappers last weekend. I organised a weekend away and we had a ball by the open fire and Alison would truely do well on Survivor if she could take her ipod and running shoes. I am now addicted to glimmermist, an addiction I DON'T NEED. thanks girls for a fab weekend. More about that too. lol

I took some great shots today at a 5th birthday party, can't really share without parents permission, but I got some of the best indoor McDonalds party room shots with NO flash.

i am 16 weeks pregnant and need to start thinking of names other than Frederick, which I adore but no one else does. lol

my son OWNS toooooo many toys. And if he does not learn to start putting them away using my organisation system they will start to find the otto quick smart.

I get foxtel tomorrow thanks to EOFYS.

ok back to cleaning, then I am going to make a list and get stuck into the millions of things I need to DO.

june 29 to July 5

Max loves to wear socks on his hands to keep his fingers warm.
I had a terrible back ache and woke up feeling horrible on Monday so I rang in sick. I went off for a massage and while I waited got some photos printed for the upcoming scrap weekend away.
Happy EOFYS!!!!
At 12.01am on Thursday I took myself off to the BIG W toysale and had a very relaxed shop compared to years gone by. I got all things "hidden" and was in bed by 2am. Which meant i slept in on my day off to 9.30am!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then on Friday I packed up the car and we headed off to a scrapping weekend away at Long Point. It was a fantastic group of ladies new and old friends had a great time together. I stayed up way to late and did barely nothing.....4 months of Max's 07 album and i LO!!!!! i adore my scrapping buddies and I am a bit sad I only took one photo. A massive thanks to the girls who came along and I cant wait to do it next year.
I got home to NO INTERNET as Milly chewed the box and cables off the wall!!!

june 22 - 28

Ironically I do a photography course and have no time to practice. Max took 6 photos this week...lots of me looking shocking in my PJs. We had a Russell photo shoot and that is it. It was a week consumed by reports. I went to my OB and all was OK. I have been getting headaches and my back/neck are killing me. All that report marking. On Friday night I went to bed at 8.50pm and woke at 8.50am...report avoidance I call it....all that rest did not help my aching body..I was still very sore.

June 09

• You growled at the preschool photographer and made the teachers giggle!
• You love to count in all crazy ways 1-3-7-8-9 “I do it fast mum”.
• When we were in the line at Woolworths you wanted a chocolate milkshake. I had to wait in line and you kept asking. I told you that you could go and buy it yourself (I could see Donut King from where I was standing)….I thought you would not do it but you took the money and shocked me. The lady behind me was shocked too and watched our trolley while I followed you. I watched as you just pushed in front of the crowd and called out “excuse me I want a chocolate milkshake” trying to throw the money at the man behind the counter. You were sooooo cute.
• You are so loving and I adore how you say sweet things to me – “mum I was so worried about you”, “Mum can you be my best friend” and “I love you and I want to eat you up”.
• When asked if you want a brother or sister you say “I want a scooter”.
• You love licorice and ask for it all the time.
• You take an interest in monsters and ask if there are any around. You whisper alot when you talk about them and say "mum, look a monster is downstairs, go get it"
• You have developed a love for toy guns... I have no idea where but rough play is a new interest of yours. You are always asking for gun.
• For 3 months you have only worn your black VANS, you love your "black shoes" and freak out if I suggest you wear any other shoes.
  

june 15 -21

one of those weeks when you just say "I must have killed a **%*###*" over and over again.

My wonderful day care lady was ripped away...it left me with stress, questions and anger at the law that someone not related to you CAN'T look after your child. All in all it will be worked out and things will at SOME point get back to routine. We love Linda and I have just over 20 weeks left at work, it is flu season, all the good long day cares are full so the knowledge that ONE DAY things will get back to normal is worth it as I am not putting my child in a crappy long day care for 20 weeks.

My oven then blew up - ever tried grilling nuggets - man I never thought I could miss an oven sooooo much.

I pulled all my stomach muscles and was in a lot of pain for 3 days too, still dragged myself to school when I really should have rested.

I spent hours on the phone to DOCS and my solicitor trying to argue points. waste of time. My solicitor told them to go and fight real crime and help the kids in REAL need.....sooooo true.

Some good things did happen this week. Max finally washed his own hair and did not scream the house down when we rinsed it. When we went to Aldi he INSISTED on a chocolate cake for afternoon tea. He then wanted a candle for his "birthday cake" and he proceeded to sing happy birthday to himself. TOOO cute.

THEN my weekend was mine, off to Janine's for a 2 day photography workshop. LOVED LOVED LOVED it. When I got home I was sad I had no time to practise and needed to make lunches and iron. thanks Janine, what a great way to end a crappy start to the week.

June 8-14

• A public holiday (gotta love them). Rest and ironing!!!
• PINK in concert......a great night...... shame it was a school night!
• The coldest day of the year so far...a chilly 13degrees all day.
• A 2 day Aboriginal conference for school which was great fun.
• Friday off school because I went in on my day off. I should have rested for a big weekend ahead but NO I decided to go into the stitches and craft show to get some fabric for a quilt I WANT to make.
• Karen's fantastic jewellery party.
• Karen G's kitchen tea.
• Max had a 4th birthday party
  
  

PINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was told how FANTASTIC she was live but WOW WOW WOW. I think my feelings could be summed up the following day when a male friend said to me "I would marry her, leave my wife for her" and I said "I would marry her she was that HOT"..........in everyway this lady has it. I had a great night with the girls, it took me hours to unwind and stop singing her songs in my head before I slept that night. Look at the photo she sings while falling, swinging and spinning . A total pocket-rocket who put on a fantastic 2 hour show.

June 1-7

• Max still very sick on Monday and Tuesday ......lucky I could get my mum to come and stay ((very upset with people that take their children to family day car sick for at least 2 weeks running)).
• Preschool committee meeting - I am organising a pie drive....yum!!!!
• Planning week at school......tooo much to do but I was allowed to swap my days to suit the planning timetable so I got Friday off.....a four day long weekend.
• Max and I walked many blocks as he wanted to find the home ice cream man.....when he found him he even insisted on carrying the boxes up the steep hill home.
• Darren went out with 10 mates from high school, crawled home at 4am. I did not sleep well and had some horrible dreams that I had food poisoning.
• Max and I went to Sophie's princess/pirate party.....yummy food and a gorgeous cake!!!!
• Darren cooked us another nice roast for the 3rd week in a row....love ya honey.SOOO much planned to do on my 4 day long weekend but not much at all done except washing and ironing.
  Max is getting so hard to capture on film, he moves too quick!!!! We missed another month of Russell shots due to illness and a massive mosquito attack on his face and arms.....grrrrrr!!!!!

can you believe it is June already ????

where did all the time go??

On Sunday Max saw this trailer on Sunrise and he was sad I could not "make it happen again" so here you go little buddy. WOW in a year I am going to be very excited about this movie, i have become a toy story nut like my son..........but lets not wish the next 12 months away shall we!!!! lol Oh and he did not notice his FAV Weezy was not there, his voice died in a car crash.....I hope they bring Weezy back or how will I EVER get Max a Weezy toy as it is the only one he does not own in triplicate.



I will be catching up on all my posts when this 4 day working week is over as I have Friday off for 2 weeks YAY, WHAT a cool long weekend this week!!!!!!

May 25 to 31

Education day. BBQs. Teaching. Rain. Max had his preschool photos. We went to Dr Fulcher for my first check-up.

It was tooooo cold and rainy, brrrrrrr. A sleep deprived night on Thursday as Max had fevers. I was going to call in sick but I had to go in as I needed to open up as bossman was away sick.....after a long drive to get school keys, I arrived at school flustered and ready for a nap, nothing I had planned got done and I drove some children home that missed the bus ...happy to get away as the day had not been easy.


Max was at home with my mum all day and was feeling very sick. After a trip to the doctor we found out he had an infection in each ear and a throat infection. We spent all day Saturday and Sunday inside. We had a nice roast pork dinner with Karen, Mark and the kids and then it was off to mark my schools Maths programs, I went to bed way tooo late for a Sunday night.

SCRAPLOOT CYBERCROP

Tomorrow night I REALLY should be marking programs and starting my report checking...i really, really, really SHOULD but will I???

When all I want to do is cybercrop and chat at scraploot. DON'T tell on me please!!!!!

Check out the Scraploot blog for the details.

May 18 to 24

• Up early for school photos, nothing NICE to wear, grrrr.
• Darren attacked at work.
• SICK day just needed for rest, I was feeling off.
• Shopped lots and got a new pandora bead and it cleaned....yummy!!!!!
• 9 weeks pregnant and to bed at 9pm on a friday night.
• Lucas' 3rd birthday at the play centre, WHAT a cool cake. Poor Max spent the day chasing Lucas around as he had tooo much to do, left the place crying as he wanted to see his friend more and see his pressies.
• A nice afternoon bike riding around Poppy's street. A proud moment as Max rode up and down a footpath for the first time.

things you say

Yes you talk a lot and make me laugh LOTS

Last week you were devastated when the pedal fell off your bike and you asked me to fix it, I said I couldn't and you would have to wait for daddy. You persisted and did it. I was proud of you and told you that you were clever. You nodded and screamed
"Yes I did it, I am a tool like daddy!!!! YAY"

Yesterday you told me "I am going to crack you like an egg and eat you up"

You always ask about Christmas and last week said
"Mum get all the Christmas stuff down and make it Christmas again. I like Christmas, no I LOVE it and I want it NOW".

a catch up

thanks to all my wonderful blog friends for your congrats and kind words....


A layout....done a few weeks ago YES, but I plan on getting back into scrapbooking as soon as I have to stop going to bed at 9.30 pm.

My buddy Kylie and I have been busy organising a retreat at the beautiful Long Point, I have been meaning to post here about it forever....our small retreat of 15 mates grew and grew and we had to find a bigger venue......there are about 2-3 spaces left. Roll on July 3-5 when 30 ladies take over the hall and party (and scrap too) with the roar of the open fire and over 500 songs on the ipod....so if you want to join us be quick......I will email you more details. (belindamax@hotmail.com).

off to catch some more z's

due december 25th!!!!!!!!!

well yes after lots of stress, blood tests, doctors, vitamins, acupuncture, tears and 22 months of TRYING we GOT one!!!!

baby number 2 is due dec 25 !!!!! Santa please bring him or her early I would not cope if they were born and Westfields was shut so I could not get a Santa photo.....funnily enough earlier this year I dreamt that I walked my baby down from South West Private to get a Santa photo......will more dreams be coming true????

It is still early days about 8.5 weeks but I am feeling sick, tired and gained about 5 kilos!!!!

May 11-17

NAPLAN testing kept us busy at school and it was a HARD test...even I had to sit down and THINK about some year 5 maths questions as they were designed to sort the super bright from the bright!!!!


Then the wonderful Thursday rolled around and I had my ultrasound, a quick shop and then met up with a friend from swimming at TIC TOCKS. Ashleigh and Max had the place to themselves and had a ball (sadly I forgot my camera). It was wonderful to see them play for hours as they only know each from swimming lessons, its great when kids just click.


On SATURDAY 5 staff members from my school headed down to Wollongong Uni to a Mathematics conference...May 16 was a very popular day, we had sooooo many invites and things to do on that day, sadly we had to miss the preschool working bee and 2 other parties. BUT after a LONG day learning lots about Maths MORE BPS crew headed into the city for Karen's hens night, fun was had by all of course and I loved my mocktails YUM......I think I drove over 300 kms in one day and by 12.30am I was sooo ready for 20 hours sleep.



Once again Sunday was no day of rest, shopping, cleaning and washing.......boy i was tired.

May 4-10

Dragged my tired bottom out of bed to work a 4 day week!

Max made himself sick at preschool by refusing to wee on the toilet. He had himself so worked up by the time I got there!!! So much for a nice afternoon pick up and a shop.....!!!!

Darren finally went to the DR about his ankle and after an hour and a half wait he did not take the x-ray back in - vowing to read it himself, no real prognosis as yet. He still has a slight limp so I am thinking Dr Darren still has problems. Max is concerned it might fall off (me too Max).

A nice mothers day assembly at school again.....well done Narelle. In true BPS style we ran around like chooks with our heads cut off to get everything to work....but I guess we are supper mums after all, we can do anything!!!!!!

I worked extremely hard on Saturday to finally iron 4 baskets of ironing. Then I went and had a much deserved scrap shop.

I had a good mothers day, I was spoilt with pressies, I loved my first ever "stall" pressie from Max.

happy Mothers' day to all

an oldie but a goodie!!!!

"You'll appreciate my wisdom someday when your older and your grown, can't wait 'till you have a couple little children of your own...... you will thank me for my counsel, i gave you so willingly but right now I'll thank you not to roll your eyes at me"!!!!!

April 27 to May 3

back to work. 2 days of staff development and most importantly 2 days of yummy lunches and lots of laughs.

Max loved going back to preschool but I was really sad as for 4 weeks my mornings allowed me to drop him off. I miss walking into his pre-school.....it is just the most fantastic place, I might hold him back from school to keep him there for an extra year!!!!lol

darren STILL has not been to the DR about his ankle. Over worked and exhausted....the joys of a business in these global times.

My day off flew by....coffee and a shop with Karen, some procrastinating in front of the computer, a little bit of cleaning, swimming lessons and BANG it was over. Never got to tackle the 3 baskets of ironing I STILL HAVE!!!!!!

A nice catch up with Veronika and the kids on Saturday ....naughty me forgot my camera. shame as we went to Lake Parramatta. A quick catch up with Joan at the scraproom too....gee I miss the fun we had in the scraproom on those Friday nights!!!!!

cleaning and boring stuff ended the week.

Max on his first day back at Pre School for term 2.