A slave to my kitchen.

It feels like today has been all about food.

The moment I wake, I have breakfast.

On school days, I eat my breakfast whilst preparing the days lunchboxes, and the kids eat breakfast at the table.

Today, while packing the lunchboxes, I packed a picnic morning tea for Little Miss 4 and I to take to the park.

When we got back from the park, Little Miss 4 was asking for lunch straight away (an hour and a half before our usual lunch time). I managed to distract her for a period of time, by making four different coloured bowls of playdough. Once I cleaned up the playdough mess, I sat down with a cup of tea and some bikkies.

After that it was time for Little Miss 4 to have lunch, so more food. Whilst preparing her lunch I put on a batch of strawberry jam (love my thermomix!). While the jam is cooking I prepared dinner (casserole chicken cause I wont be home most of the afternoon). I am waiting for Little Miss 4 to have a sleep so I can make a banana and cinnamon swirl loaf I have been drooling over!

And all that before Noon!

I am looking forward to a Nanna nap today.

That's next!

Just when I thought we had had the worst day of the month, it continued the next morning, with Master 6 having a massive stack at the end of golf, taking a chunk out of his knee, by falling over on some cement. Ouch, an absolute massive ouch. He was checking it out tonight, and underneath the 'flap' of skin looks like creamy vomit, eewwww!

So, he busted his hip (torso), scratched his arm, had a bang on his back, I told him after we left the park the other day he just needed to do something to his head and his leg then he would have covered his whole body, I guess I jinxed myself!

And to top things off, Little Miss 4 has had a cough/cold for about 3 weeks now, and last night came out in a rash which has gotten worse throughout today - things are going good round here!

What next?......

This afternoon the kids asked to go to the park for a play after school. Perfect, I thought, so I packed a few supplies and off we went.

A few of the kids friends were there also. Playing as kids do, Master 6 came to complain about a scratch he got on his arm. After explaining about his rough play with the other kids, I was not going to do anything about his scratch, he went of to play some more, in exactly the same manner. After a little while, he came screaming and crying, oh dear, what has he done now? A bump from another child. Oh well, another cuddle and another warning about rough play, off he goes again.

After some more time, the kids sliding down the skate ramps on their bottoms and having lots of fun as they usually do. This time, Little Miss 4 is heard crying. I go and check out the situation and she has fallen somehow down the ramp and bumped her cheek and chin. A cuddle and kiss and all is good.

Somehow I was thinking we should head home now, but I was not quiet ready for the tantrum which that conversation would bring, so I left the kids playing. Not long after, Master 6 comes running/jumping/skipping and crying. Aaarrrggghhhh. Time to go before anyone breaks anything! Master 6 had borrowed a 2 wheel scooter and was bravely attempting to go down the ramps (this was the first time he had tried this). First go, good. But then something went wrong and he ended up with a big bruise on his hip.

On our way home, the kids were asking if we were still having our bonfire tonight? Um, I don't think I want to risk it tonight!

Found!

Master 6's name is spelt in a unique manner, though it is not outrageous or one of those names you have trouble pronouncing.

For a little while he has been asking me if we could find out how he could become a contestant on a particular kids show. So, this evening we had a look, unfortunately for Master 6, he is about 7years too young, but in researching the information we found something I thought we would never see.

One of the hosts of the show has the exact same spelling for his name, as Master 6!

Visiting (another photo blog).

Well, it is holiday time, so I thought we should start visiting people. So the other night I asked the kids if they wanted to go and see Opa, they agreed so here is what we got up to in the past 36hours!
It was a little under a 5hour drive to get there, so a lot of our time was spent travelling and sleeping. But it was great to spend a little bit of time with my Dad. We looked out over the ocean, used some binoculars to try and spot some whales, played a little on the beach (the cold water was a bit of a shock!), and met Opa's bird.

Cold?

Apparently not! I already have 3 layers on and they say it is going to get colder yet, I guess they are right cause winter has only just begun!

I couldn't tell you the temperature, all I know is I am cold. I had organised a tennis morning with some friends but it rained last night, and drizzled on and off this morning so tennis was off, thank goodness cause I don't think my fingers would have been able to hold onto the racket!

Luckily I had that unexpected trip down to Victoria a few weeks ago and purchased new winter coats for us whilst there, so hopefully my three layers and the coat will see me through.

And I do have to say, where has the day gone?? It feels like we only just got home from school pick up and it is already dinner time! Just because it is the shortest day of the year does not mean the clock ticks slower!??

Enjoy your winter everyone, I wish you well to survive it! (or you could wish me well, come visit my comfortably heated home where there is always something baking in the oven - no wonder people put on more weight over winter!).

Porgress!

Wow! I am impressed. DH needed to sleep this arvo in preparation for his 1am start, so I took the kids to the park after school.

The past few weeks have been a little hectic, and I have not found much time to study, but I usually have my resources on me just in case an opportunity arises, and this afternoon at the park was one of those opportune moments!

Usually someone pops in to join you down at the local park, but today I had it all to myself (asides from a few other older school children whom managed to keep my kids entertained for me, the local children are great at interacting and including the 'little kids'!). And today, I got in an hour and a half of study, getting most of my module answers I had been looking for.

Don't get me wrong, if someone had rocked up, I would have been more than happy to chat, but as it so happens that was not on the books today, and I managed to make that absentminded progress with my studies!

And, this morning I went for a jog, but as DH was busy, Little Miss 4 joined me and I pushed the jogging pram. Now, the pram is lightweight and all, and I did not realise until I was pushing the pram and my 15kg daughter up 'boot hill' how hard that specific task would be! Wow! That was a workout in itself, I will aim to do my jogs in the future when DH is home! But if that is not the case, it will be good practice for our Tough Mudder event in just over 8 weeks!