Ummm...sorry I think I am back

Well let me see. I haven't posted a blog in well......6 months....WOW that is a long time and a lot of things have happened. Roo emailed me and basically told me to blog again. I realise that I was asked about my Angel Baby on my page - My s-i-l sent it on facebook so I saved it to my computer and I will try to send a copy if anyone wants it.

I will try but cant promise anything.

In 6 months I have moved house to a motel. My husband and I are managers of a 50 room, restaurant and function room with state of the art equipment. Snuffy and Boody have settled in quite well except the tearing down to the office sreaming. Guests paying $180 a night dont always enjoy that. I have a chef who cooks for us 6 days a week. Now don't get me wrong, I love no cooking and I can usually slip my dishes into our dishes as well but sometimes I just crave 'normal' food. You know that spagetti on toast, noodles, vegemite on toast kind of stuff. Never thought I would say that as I sound so ungrateful. Its nice when I pick up the ratbags from daycare and we sometimes just have a boiled egg and soliders or something.

My residence is still a mess as by the end of the day I am buggered but the kids aren't ;( We work 3 months straight and have 2 weeks off so as you might have guessed, we are on our second stint.

Our lives are more of a circus now as we have 35 staff who basically act like my kids!!!! So all up i have my kids, my husband and 35 more kids. Most of my staff are 23 and under so I have my own soapies here every day. There are more relationship, alcohol and parental probs here than neighbours can cram into a half hour session and I assure you that my story line is much better thought out!!! Ever tried to smudge the lines between cleaners, reception, restaurant and kitchen staff so that everyone is as important as the other?!?!? Don't even try as it is so hard.

The biggest downfall though has been the 'w' word, yes I know I am going to say it...my 'weight!' I was eating gnocchi cabonara, chicken kiev etc and at 10 at night when you cant sleep and feeling peckish you can just toddle downstairs and out the door to the fully stocked kitchen and pull out a creme brulee or baileys sundae or strawberry suprise or profiteroles etc add some dollop cream and icecream and well need I say more? I have put on way to much padding so am on a strict diet and we have just added a new menu...hummmphhh.

We have a polish chef now and she is fantastic. Very quiet though not used to hearing silence in the kitchen other than pots flying (Chef's do actually do this - they are very tempermental and very child like) She has tried a few polish dishes for us but in this small mining town they don't understand taste but the bigwigs that stay here enjoy the diversity.

If you are bored then look up http://www.countryroadsdysart.com.au/ and tell me what you think. Have to update web page though with a few extras which I hope will be down soon by someone more computer savy than me.

We have one daycare here and well the care is lets say average. The problem is there is no where else within 100 kms so choice is limited. They are nice ladies but dont watch properly I dont believe. We also have a Kindy which is wonderful and Boody goes there 2 days a week. My baby is off to Prep next year. He is writing his name but has a terrible time holding his pencil and I can't get him to hold it properly no matter what I do.He then finds it hard to write but will just keep perservering. Snuffy has charmed the staff to her will so they get her lollies and poppers but they all want kids now (Ahh some are only 16!!!) so I make sure I bring her out in all her glory when she throws tantrums!!

We have also had a 30ieth bday for Mr Fix It and Snuffy and Boody turned 3 and 5 respectively. I made cakes but the worst thing is sharing a kitchen with a Chef and the looks they give you when you are cutting the burnt edges off your packet cake and icing with a butter knife(old habits die hard - I had no idea there was an actual 'tool' for this!!??) and heaven forbid its not all smooth!!!! A few sprinkles, sparklers and candles and wala!!! Cake-a-la-Moo.

Well I think thats all for now. I will try to post more but try is the operative word in that sentence. Love to all.

My New Underwater Camera

This is one of the best inventions EVER!!! How can you miss the crazy piccies like this!

I have millions now and yes alot are just bottoms under water (when they have come up for a breath) and lots of bubbles but the pictures I have from the beach etc are great and it doesn't matter if it gets wet or sandy - you just rinse it off (sort of like my parenting philosophy) and the kids can drop it as well and it bounces right back - like Snuffy.

Motherhood

I picked up the kids at daycare yesterday and as it was very late and neither Mr Fix It or I had finished early I did the wonderfully bad mother and wife thing and told the kids that we were having Maccas(the good old golden arches) for dinner.
As I was buckling them in their car seats and asking the how their day was and who they played with the following conversation ensued.

Boody Boy - "I love you so very, very much, so much very much"

Me - (feeling all warm and fuzzy and giving him a big hug and kiss) Thanks mate I love you so very much as well"

Boody Boy - "But when you dont buy me McDonald's I only love you this much" (he pinches his thumb and pointer together so only a sliver of light shows through)

Me - "Ohh(that floored me for a bit) That makes mummy sad when you say that because I love you very much all the time"

Boody Boy - "Well you make me sad all the time too"

What can you say to that. i guess you win some and you loose some, mainly I loose them but it all makes it worthwhile later when they cuddle up on your lap before bed, smelling all nice and clean and calm and Snuffy says "Lub oo to moon back" Ahhh Motherhood.

Keeping for his 18th

Boody Boy was just cleaning up his room and the next minute he comes racing out of his room and exclaims to his father in a very indignant voice "Naked girls are not allowed in my big boy bed!" Mr Fix It was rolling around the floor laughing (it was his sister totally naked -I hope she grows out of this, both the naked and the being in Big Boy Beds)

I think this needs to be our embarassing 18th story as I am sure he won't be saying this in a couple of years!!!

I WHAT??!!??

I was trying to make some sort of order in my totally messed up house when Boody Boy came out to me with hands on hips and shouted, "You have ruined my life" and retreated back to his room. WOOOOOOOOOooo where did this come from? I am not a super mum but I do try (well to be a good mum not a super mum. I will leave that to the Super Mums )I was more expecting this in their teen years and probably more from Snuffy numerous times a day.

I guess things like not letting him eat chips for brekkie, lunch & dinner, not playing in the water in our back yard because there may be sewage in it from the flooding, not staying up late, not giving in to every desire when shopping, sending/not sending him to preschool(depending on the day and his mood), eating vegetables, cleaning his room and various other things must add up into his mind that I have ruined his 4 year old life.

The painstaking cakes I make every birthday from the book (that I know don't turn out anywhere like the book but I try) or the cuddles when he has a bad dream, or painting his toe nails pink when Snuffy and I do ours(please don't tell his father) or trying to keep them occupied in the (VERY) wet season with cubbies and cooking and craft in the end must of slipped his mind. Maybe I should remind him of what I went through to birth him or I might just keep that for when he is a teenager and all his friends are over.

Anyway, 10 mins after this happened my boy back and wanting his cuddles from the woman "who ruined his life."Luckily, he is over it now and I have something to file in the back of my mind for revenge later in life hehe.

I am going to try this as I love reading all the Blogs. As I have been told it is very addictive even when you don't have time

Sharing

Sorry that I haven't blogged in a long time and thanks to Crazy Sister I am going to add another post that she reminded me about.

When Boody Boy was just 2 and a bit he bought out some of my chocolate. Now being our first child we were quite strict with what he could and couldn't eat so I had told him "No mate, you can't have any chocolate." He then wandered to the lounge where Snuffy was laying in the bouncer (I might add that she was only a couple of months old, breast fed and wasn't old enough for solids.) Boody Boy then preceded in his biggest most grown up voice at that stage,"no choccie" and preceded to pull out a HUGE lump of chocolate from her mouth that she had started to choke on. Boody Boy had been 'sharing' as had been drummed into him since he was a baby and he was very good at it even at that age(Though Snuffy, at 2 and a half still has not quite grasped this concept yet) I guess he did not realise that his sister could of choked. Neither Mr Fix It nor myself knew whether we should punish him or explain to him as he didn't mean to(well I don' think so?!?!?)

Lets just say that we were very relieved that it hadn't taken a turn for the worse and our son was a wonderful sharer. My heart though took a while to stop the uncontrollable fast pace that it had been beating at.