Week 2 of being a fun mum

Kinda fell asleep putting the kiddies to bed last night before I could do this post. Doh!
Still doing the Kidspot MUMvember challenge, and here's last weeks (in case you can't see it :p)

Nov. 07 - Kiss your sleeping babies

Got a pictures this week

Nov. 08 - Plan a Playdate
Kinda cheaty as we meet up most weeks but I love learning more of these mummies. This week was really quick as the 3 of us who met up had shopping to do. We met up at our local Westfield for the free kids activity. Gingerbread decorating! (sadly I was too distracted by a toddler and preschooler with bright blue icing to take photos) Usually we'll have a bit of morning tea/lunch after the activity but since Mr A was turning 2 on the weekend A's mummy had to organise a cake and grab more deco's, and Preggy Mummy and I had to buy presents. On a side note, PM and I bumped into each other while PM was being harassed into Pixie photos. That Pixie Photo lady is a ninja!

Nov. 09 - Take a photo of the kids, and make sure you're in it!

 Smooshie face

Nov. 10 - Wear something different

I love these boots but don't get to wear them often. I was actually looking for a pair of black leather flats when I ended up buying these a couple of years ago.
When playgroup day came around this week I thought why not!

Nov. 11 - French Fry Friday

Nov. 12 - Have a reverse meal
Ice-cream for arvo tea. Chocolate sauce, choc chips and mini marshmallows. YUM!
Instead of having dessert right before tea I decided to have it a bit earlier. The kiddies, Miss Emmy especially, gets rather hyped up after sugar and I would rather not have them both racing around the house at 10 at night!

Nov. 13 - Write a letter and post it

I'm going to send it to my parents place since we are going there tomorrow. Will be a bit more special as Miss Emmy usually gos to check the mail.

MUMvember - Fun mum month

I'm participating in Kidspot's MUMvember challenge. I'm mixing them around and may do a couple twice as there are a few that probably aren't practical with young kids but I'll give 'em a good crack.

Here is my first week.

Nov. 01 - Plan a picnic dinner

Not exactly planned, more slapped together, but it was a bit of fun. Everyone sitting around the kiddy table and having our chippies, garlic bread, and my dodgy homemade rissoles.

Nov. 02 - Make a date with yourself

MY BIRTHDAY!! Went to the movies All. By. My. Self. 2 hours of chocolate, coke, and Matthew MacFadyen and Orlando Bloom in 3D. Oh yeah!

Nov. 03 - Kiss your sleeping babies
I get to do this every night.
I was going to take a photo of them but after screaming at them to go to bed then feeling really bad I ended up jumping in bed with Emmy, giving her a cuddle and going to sleep. I might sneak on in for you next week.

Nov. 04 - Give yourself a time out
This is another I do tend to do regularly. Most days while the kids are outside playing I'll grab a cuppa and catch up on facebook and Kidspot news.

Nov. 05 - Bake something

Miss Emmy helped with these, and I got to use my new icing gadget

ended up chucking these, stuffed up the recipe

Nov. 06 - Call your mum
I managed 18 minutes before Little Miss, who I thought was asleep, came out of her room crying something to do with falling horses. Oh well. I did get the latest on the kitchen destruction renovation, and convinced my sister to be home for a lingerie party, and my brother survived the first sleep over with his little boy.

*If I'm missing some "e's" along the way in here I swear it's only my dodgy keyboard and not that I can't spell*

Hey there, long time no see I know. Bit neglectful of me, oopps!

There's been 2 birthday's, 2 uni open days, and a STAT exam since my last check in.
To be honest I'm just taking it one step at a time and not thinking of the whole picture cos, seriously, I'll start freaking out about how much needs to be done in the next 4 years. AARRGHH!!

Anyways just a real shorty tonight. Letting you know I'm still around and will *hopefully* be starting to write again.

Image from here

I've decided I'd better get my little patootie in to gear and start blogging again, so here I am. Ta-daaa

What's been happening?
Well...I think I'll just ignore everything that I felt and did since last time I posted up until yesterday (nothing extraordinary, feeling down and shitty really).
Yesterday we frantically breakfasted, got dressed and jumped in the car to go to the dentist for Ethan. We (Ethan) are participating in a study about oral health and get free dental visits for said participant, WOOHOO! Not only did the lovely dentist check the little man's teeth (got another toothy coming through to add to the collection, by the way) she also did Emily too. Unfortunately little miss has what I call can't remember the actual term an under-bite that apparently can only be fixed with surgery. Yay! I think the consensus was to watch it for now and see if she ends up with a clicky jaw or any jaw pain.
I'm also having a little dental appointment in 2 weeks which I'm just a little scared about and embarrassed to be honest. I have no issue with them poking and prodding and doing dentisty business, I did spend the good part of 6 years with some sort of orthodontic device wrenching my teeth about. I'm scared, and embarrassed, about what they are going to find. I know I'm going to need at least fillings, I'm hoping that's all. As you can guess I've been a bit lax with the dental hygiene and i've mentally slapped myself so many times the last few months, I SHOULD KNOW BETTER!!!
Anyway, will let you know how that pans out in 2 weeks.

A bit sooner than that though is Ethan's 1st birthday this Saturday. I can't believe this time last year I was wishing and praying and sending "GET OUT!!!" thoughts to my belly so I wouldn't be induced in 3 days.
I'm only doing a low key morning tea but, geez, it's stressing me out. Honestly how hard is it to reply to an invitation and a reminder text! I need to just let it go and accept that it's their problem not mine, and that if they continue to be like this then they'll not get invited to family functions I'm organising and they will NOT be allowed to complain about it!

I'm also a bit nervous and excited about August as it's Open Day month and VTAC/SATAC applications open. I'm starting off in Mt Gambier in 10 days. Oooo, so exciting!

GGAAAHHH!

For the last few weeks I've increasingly felt like a bad mum.
I've zero motivation to clean up, I feel like I'm constantly telling Emily off, feel like the only way she'll listen is to yell.
I'm also waiting for VTAC applications to open and open days at universities to come up as I'm wanting to enrol in a bachelor of nursing and midwifery, but now I've got little niggles about leaving my kids in childcare. I will miss out on things my kids do, the little milestones, but I want to get at least 3/4 of the way through before I'm 30 (4.5 years away and the double degree is 4 years long f/t).
I'm just feeling in limbo
Waiting...

'Scuse me a moment

Weekly Thumbs

I'm a bit late this week I know, at my parents again. Hopefully they get their satellite fix and I'll be able to post stuff while I'm there

THUMBS DOWN

• The snot and cough fest that is Emily. The poor love is still sick and cough to the point of vomiting. I’ve resorted to pulling the mattress off Ethan’s bed and putting it on the trundle in Emily’s room, unfortunately she still wants to climb in with both Ethan and I.
• SAND! Admittedly I knew it was coming, we’ve finally put sand in Emily’s shell. It’s now walked all through the house, in fact it is still there as I just didn’t clean the house before we left.
• The death stares from several other mothers as I wasn’t watching Emily and she got in to a fight at the shopping centre playground (oopps!). I did watch her afterwards and the other girl was being rather nasty to the other kids and wouldn’t stop following Emily when I tried to get her to play in another section. I was getting to the point of just letting Emily smack her one!

THUMBS UP

• Seeing my parents again. I know we see them quite often but I love having that extra help for a while with the kids. They also get to play with the animals, and I don’t freak out about them getting run over.
• Ethan’s toothy grin. He’s only got 4 so far and he’s not a ‘smiley’ baby, but when he does smile he wrinkles up his whole face and it’s the cutest thing ever (I think!)
• Getting out to see some of my mum’s group. We don’t often catch up anymore but it’s nice to see them and the kids, and get out of the house.
• Sand, as much as it irritates having it walked through the house the kids have a ball playing in it.
• The good ol’ Kelpie Festival (pencil it in for next year. Casterton, Queen’s B’day long weekend) I don’t care how much Jason hates things like this and says it’s boring, it’s a lot of fun for the kids and it’s a nice atmosphere.
• Emily having pony rides at said Kelpie Festival. It’s only the second time she’s been on a real life pony but she LOVES it.