I need a HOLIDAY!

So... about 3 months ago now I changed my hours with my families to give me every second Friday off to coincide with Stu's RDO. You know what? In that whole time I think I have had two of these Friday's off.... Let's get it straight though.. I don't like saying no to my Families when they are in need of care. I like to be flexible with them. I love having the kids that I have... but... enough is enough. The main culprit of these Friday's has been told that I am not available anymore and as for next Friday... the day I am meant to be having off.... I will be having it and every following fortnight off..... (maybe!) Let's just say that money is a great evil... and I love money!

Last week was massive!

Monday saw me with 3 (u4's) and 1 schoolie (to be dropped off and picked up from a daily soccer school thing) Monday night at 6.30pm Stu & I went to an Aqua Class at the local centre... OUCH! around 8pm I headed over to one of my family's places for some overnight babysitting... up at 4.45am Tuesday to settle an upset child.. which woke the other one up... my daycare day started at 8am and I had 4 (u4's) and 1 schoolie (soccer school thing again!) the youngest kid I had was unwell, running a temp and such so it was a happy day! Work finished at 5.30 and we headed back to the kids place to deal with dinner, bath & bed... all of which were fun when food was dropped on the floor and I wouldn't allow for it to be eaten again! Children and their tantrums! Got home Tuesday night about 10pm. Felt like shit Wednesday morning (after being up for a 4.50am start!) so told parents not to come and tried to find alternate care for the child who had already arrived... you think there would be one person with a vacancy right??? nope.... so I had 1... and the patio guys called and wanted to build the patio for us... this was also the same day as the dust storm... where my washing was out on the line and had to be rewashed.... Thursday.. still not feeling well, but worked anyway... I had 3 (u4) and 2 schoolies... Friday... my supposed day off... I had 4 (u4) and 3 schoolies.... (2 of those children are actually mine! - although I could find no one to help me out on Wednesday... I had to do relief on Friday) I was in bed and asleep by 7.15 Friday night.... and didn't wake up til after 6 Saturday! 11 hours sleep does do wonders but left me still mega tired. We had a BBQ to go to, for which a Potato Bake was required (thanks for the 3 hours warning honey!) so off to the shoppies to get ingredients. Cooked and headed off for a lovely relaxing afternoon. Sunday was an early start... 5.30am to go to Brisbane and clean after the dust storm... one word GROSE! For those that know Soni & Rod's house... it took 2 of us 3 hours! NO MORE DUST PLEASE SA!!! We had yard work, puppies to bath, gutters to clean out, cars to wash... and our own house to clean before falling into bed about 8.30pm last night!

I was supposed to be taking my schoolies into the Science Centre in the city today... but... I ended up doing relief care again... GRRR! Was a good day though. There was a reptile show at the local shops that did photo's with either a Snake or Croc. Jackson and the girls were going to go with the snake.. but the girls chickened out! Jacko & the Snake it was! A huge Olive Python!

So now I have three left... one asleep.. others playing out the front with the remote control cars!

SOOOOOOOOOOO TIRED!

Oops... Creative Wrapping Required

We are off to one of my daycare kids 2nd birthday on Saturday and while I was getting geared up to wrap her present just before I realised that I had no suitable sticky tape with which to accomplish my task... I couldn't use the boxing tape on the roller...really.... could I??

So little Jess (the birthday girl) you are getting presents with no sticky tape - secured with silver christmas ribbon with photo stickers in the occasional spot to help it stay down! Hope you enjoy!!!

Getting on with life....

It's settled.... I no longer have 4 house guests!!! I have my house back to myself (and Stu of course).. and it's not just that.... we are getting our ceiling fans installed, our back patio back up... and retrieving our final belongings from Sutherland Street on the weekend... ahhhh... what's that I can hear? Peace and Quiet! (Until Bundy starts barking anyway!)

Things are going really well for us at the moment. We've cleared out some things around the house and it looks awesome. The back wall has been re-sheeted and we've (I've) decided that I am going to have the house rendered... don't know what they call it when the do it to a flat surface instead of bricks! It will brighten it up and make it look really nice before we sell it in a couple of years. We've decided that we are going to move closer to Brisbane for Stu's travel purposes. The best part about my job is that I can do it anywhere. We know the house that we want to buy, we just have to wait for it to come on the market - or just approach the owners when we are ready! :)

We are both considering cancelling our Facebook accounts cause we are just over the stupid politics of it all.. If our friends want to speak to us they can do it the old fashioned way... text us!

We are going to enjoy our lives with just us and our family... Friends are really just acquaintances anyway.. there is no such thing as real friendship anymore. There are those you catch up with Monthly, those you see occasionally... and those that you just keep tabs on to see what's happening in their lives... and I'm over that. After being referred to as immature, it's the only way I can see of going forward. Real friends should be able to be honest with each other - or so I thought anyway.

Anywho... here's to a new, wonderful, stress-free life without the need to keep up appearances!!!

On a final note, the last two years of marriage have been wonderful.. We celebrated on Tuesday night with a nice dinner out. We are so glad that we found one another... we fit like a hand in glove - or so I am told!