Another week... BACK TO SCHOOL!

Now please don't get me wrong I love the kids and I adore how Master 8 chats away a mile a minute but sometimes even I crave for some peace and quiet and so I was not too sad to see him back to school yesterday.
I walked him to his new class room, much to his dismay but the box of books was heavy even for me and so he had no hope of carrying it. I said hello to his new teacher whom I'd never even seen before and I kissed him, YES!!! much to his horror I kissed him goodbye, he'll always be my baby and that's what I keep telling him, "doesn't matter how old you are you'll always be MY baby!!" He certainly doesnt act like a baby and he doesn't look like one but being born last will always make him my baby!

He came home from school all excited he has his first Diary! wow, he had written in some of his class time table and was excited to show me which days we do art and which is music and "Fridays, Oh wow Mum, Friday's is 3/4 sport ALL morning" his little eyes sparkling with excitement. He loves school and I am sooooooo pleased about that,I think that him enjoying school well, half the battle is won right?!

The summer has been very mild and I'm also pleased about that I hate those really hot days when you can do nothing but lay around and pant, and I hate it even more when it's hot all day AND all night and that is sooooo draining!

So with Master 8 back at school I had time to get back into my "normal" routines and so I met with Master 8's best buddy's Mum Lisa and we went off to gym and did our workout. I pushed myself extra hard and worked up a nice sweat and it felt good! and so I woke up this morning not any worse for the excersize and say "bring it on again" we're going again in the morning.

Busy weekend, we had an engaement party to go to at The Old England Hotel in Heidleberg.
http://www.oldenglandhotel.com.au/
The engagement party was in the e-bar and we booked a room upstairs at the pub so we could stay over, it was so fancy and nice called "the Conder Suite" very swish let me see if I can find a photo.

It's Friday.. should I say TGIF?!

Nah I don't think so it's the last offical day of school holidays and then Master 8 will be going to school on Monday and starting Grade 3. He's very excited as we all are, I'm probably most excited because I'll get back to some kind of normalacy.... what ever that is.. did I spell that right? it doesn't look right...

Ok, so I thought since i've finally worked out how to "add" or "foollow" people on here I should up date my page more often, but right now I have a "lunch date" with Ms 19 and Master 8 so I'll be back!

Happy New Year- 2010

Here we are again another year, they are passing so quickly.. I have bveen really bad about keeping this blog up to date and yet I write in my "hard copy journal" every day.

Ok So quick update on Us.

The Bloke is working and keeping himself busy, will it ever end? At this stage no!

I have made four New Years resolutions because my one of last year was so successful that I'm upping the ante!

1- look after "ME" mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually... whatever it takes let's do it.

2- Read more pages than last year. ok let me back track a little and explain that- in Jan 2007 I started an excll spread sheet and on that I keep track of dates, Book titles, Authors, number of pages and a rating of 1-10 and then "what next"? Which is where I write what I do with that book, so in there you'll see "donated to the caravan library" or "passed onto ...." or "Sold on ebay!" So anyways I read 29,528 pages, I know this because each month I do a sub total and at the end of the year I do a total. My goal is to "read a million pages" on of many tasks I have on http://www.43things.com/person/ladyofshallots.com/person/ladyofshallot Last year I was studying and so I read less pages than I normally would read.

3- Keep current on my correspondance- emails, letters, greeting and postcards etc.

4- Work on my bucket list, which you'll find on my 43 things site. http://www.43things.com/things/view/1866962/create-my-bucket-list

So all in all I've got very do-able goals.

So far this year I've had one "Date day/night" with the Bloke.. Jan was his month and he took me to see the movie "Sherlock Holmes" and we had lunch.

The idea with "date day/night" is to go out once a month, no kids and have a date, preferably to try new things that we've not done, but when you have this many kids you take any chance to escape when it's offered and this particular day they were at the Pool so we had some spare time. We alternate months and try and out do each other or not.. I like to try and do things we've not done, so this year I'm going to try and work some of my Bucket list into Date day/night- sneaky huh?!?!

"Billy-the-skid" has finally learnt to ride and bike and so in November he become the proud owner of a new Mongoose BMX bike, and he's hardly been off it since, so The Bloke and I were forced to start riding bikes, I've not ridden a bike since B-T-Skid was a little boy in a bike seat on the back of the Bloke's bike. So there were a few days of pain to go thru but since then we've had lots of fun.

Over Christmas we took all our ikes down to St Leonards to our on-site carvan and left them down there, we hardly drove the car at all, so it's all good for the environment as well as helping us loose some excess weight, Oh and that was one of The Bloke's New Year Resolutions "Get Fit" and "Get his teeth fixed" so now he's committed because I've written them down!!

But because we have a smaller car "Jennifer" our Volkswagen Jetta, we can't carry the bikes around without some juggling and so we decided to leave those bikes down there and we all got other bikes, B-T-Skid was given a BMX and so that is down there and he brought the new Mongoose home and The Bloke and I just became proud owners of new "Appollo" brand bikes, I've got the "must have" accessory a basket!! and now we're able to ride all over town so look out Sunbury-ites!