Monday, January 12, 2009
Rock and Horror!!!
I went to a Hens night on Sat night. We went to the playhouse, which is a restaurant, but they have themed nights and kinda put on a show. It's mostly actors messing about with the customers and lots of people pulled up on stage etc. Was loads of fun though and our theme was Rocky Horror picture show. Was a very funny night! Scary photos, but here goes!...
Thursday, January 8, 2009
'09 Afresh
Things are starting to look up. Have decided that while 2009 really didn't start well, it just means all the bad has been gotten out of the way at once and 2009 can still be GREAT! Kids are all mostly better and our little Sub is home and doing well (5 different medications though). Sadly his year isn't fab yet as he is (much to his desperate frustration) separated still from his beloved Poppy, who really mistimed things and is on heat.
We are having some truly fabulous days at the moment and are really getting great use out of the pool. It's usually a battle to get the kids out and when they are out, they're constantly asking when they can go back in. The nice thing about having a pool (for a family of three kids) is we can go swimming whenever without having to pack half the house in the car for an outing!
Spent a good part of yesterday at Mapua though visiting camping friends from the Coast. Was a lovely little outing. Stupendously HOT though. Kids had a ball playing in the sand and mud and paddling in the sea.
I have taken on a pamphlet run to motivate me out walking and i am loving it. I was always finding excuses not to get out walking, but now i HAVE to and it's brilliant. I look forward to each walk. Mum often comes too and it's a nice moment away from the kids. I am starting to notice a change in myself for it too. I am getting a little fitter (there's a big hill involved) and am finding myself a lot more motivated and positive minded. IT'S FAB!
So here's to the rest of 2009, which is going to be a great year for ME!
We are having some truly fabulous days at the moment and are really getting great use out of the pool. It's usually a battle to get the kids out and when they are out, they're constantly asking when they can go back in. The nice thing about having a pool (for a family of three kids) is we can go swimming whenever without having to pack half the house in the car for an outing!
Spent a good part of yesterday at Mapua though visiting camping friends from the Coast. Was a lovely little outing. Stupendously HOT though. Kids had a ball playing in the sand and mud and paddling in the sea.
I have taken on a pamphlet run to motivate me out walking and i am loving it. I was always finding excuses not to get out walking, but now i HAVE to and it's brilliant. I look forward to each walk. Mum often comes too and it's a nice moment away from the kids. I am starting to notice a change in myself for it too. I am getting a little fitter (there's a big hill involved) and am finding myself a lot more motivated and positive minded. IT'S FAB!
So here's to the rest of 2009, which is going to be a great year for ME!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
My year 2009 so far (dated 2 Jan 2009)
My year has not started in a way i hope it to finish. There have already been highs (although nothing truly flashy) and some pretty good lows and we're only just starting day two!!!
After having a rather viral year last year with the kids (specifically Ryan) i was really hoping for a healthy 2009. Now while the kids are all doing okay now, the new year did click over with two of my kids still on antibiotics for tonsilitis (which we apologetically have given to the cousins over Christmas) and Charlotte was still needing a little pamol for her sore throat.
For new years we went to Daryl's cousins in Wakefield and since we were out that far spent the night at his Mothers rather than come home. I left the party at 9pm with tired kiddies and Daryl and his Mum arrived home at 10.30pm, at which point we all retired to bed. Yep New Years is pretty uneventful these days with little kiddies! Daryl got up early to the kids and i had my first (hopefully not only!) sleep-in for the year. Bliss!
From there Daryl and his Mum cleaned out her downstairs and i minded the kids upstairs. Lots of fun playing in Nana's garden!
However once we got home mid afternoon we discovered our little dog Sub missing! The back yard is fenced off and they have access thru the cat flap to the end room of the house where they have beds set up. Poppy was still happily resting on her chair, but no sign of our noisy boy. He had chewed and bashed a part of the wooden fence till it gave way (Naughty boy). I called the council and soon got a return call from the dog controller. He had been picked up at 12.30am a good couple of kms down the road! However his story does not end there! The dog controller gave him his own cage at the pound as he's so small. Was very concientious about Sub and so after getting halfway home turned around and went back to give him a smaller water bowl. He was concerned the one he gave him was too big for him, but didn't even think about the
4L container of detergent in the corner. Once he arrived back in the morning he discovered Sub had knocked it over, the pack had split and Sub was wobbling around in concentrated detergent, so off to the vet with him, where he has stayed overnight, has been fed charcoal to help absorb the poison and is on antibiotics for an ulcerated mouth and nasty chesty cough from ingestion! The dog controller goes back to see him at 9 this morning. Am so hoping he's coming home! Dog controller feels really bad, i feel really bad he even got out and what a start to the new year!!
After having a rather viral year last year with the kids (specifically Ryan) i was really hoping for a healthy 2009. Now while the kids are all doing okay now, the new year did click over with two of my kids still on antibiotics for tonsilitis (which we apologetically have given to the cousins over Christmas) and Charlotte was still needing a little pamol for her sore throat.
For new years we went to Daryl's cousins in Wakefield and since we were out that far spent the night at his Mothers rather than come home. I left the party at 9pm with tired kiddies and Daryl and his Mum arrived home at 10.30pm, at which point we all retired to bed. Yep New Years is pretty uneventful these days with little kiddies! Daryl got up early to the kids and i had my first (hopefully not only!) sleep-in for the year. Bliss!
From there Daryl and his Mum cleaned out her downstairs and i minded the kids upstairs. Lots of fun playing in Nana's garden!
However once we got home mid afternoon we discovered our little dog Sub missing! The back yard is fenced off and they have access thru the cat flap to the end room of the house where they have beds set up. Poppy was still happily resting on her chair, but no sign of our noisy boy. He had chewed and bashed a part of the wooden fence till it gave way (Naughty boy). I called the council and soon got a return call from the dog controller. He had been picked up at 12.30am a good couple of kms down the road! However his story does not end there! The dog controller gave him his own cage at the pound as he's so small. Was very concientious about Sub and so after getting halfway home turned around and went back to give him a smaller water bowl. He was concerned the one he gave him was too big for him, but didn't even think about the
4L container of detergent in the corner. Once he arrived back in the morning he discovered Sub had knocked it over, the pack had split and Sub was wobbling around in concentrated detergent, so off to the vet with him, where he has stayed overnight, has been fed charcoal to help absorb the poison and is on antibiotics for an ulcerated mouth and nasty chesty cough from ingestion! The dog controller goes back to see him at 9 this morning. Am so hoping he's coming home! Dog controller feels really bad, i feel really bad he even got out and what a start to the new year!!
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