A Wednesday in the life of ME!

This is post dedicated to some lovely ladies I met online while pregnant with Rat_boy.

Here is my last 24hours...

Oh first, last the last bit of Tuesday night to lead in...

7pm - Rat_boy in bed, slighty later than normal but no biggie
830pm - Rat_girl in bed, way later than normal she bargain a bed time story for So You Think You Can Dance
930pm - Rat_boy wakes for a quick cuddle and back to sleep
11pm as I'm heading to bed Rat_boy wakes for a small feed and straight back to sleep
1am - Rat_girl arrives in my bed, Rat_boy wakes for another quick feed, resettling didn't work
230am - Rat_boy awake again, just for cuddles
4am - Rat_boy wakes for a big feed and back to sleep

6am - wake with Rat_girl in my bed crying that she misses her dad, Rat_boy is also awake playing in his cot.  Rat_boy has a quick feed (even though he only woke a couple hours before and had a feed) while Rat_girl dresses herself for kindy. 

Kids eat breakfast at the breakfast bar while I run around having my breakfast, doing some laundry, cleaning up, checking bags and lunch boxes, yelling at Rat_girl "put the toys down and eat your breakfast, get back up at the table, stop spilling your food everywhere"

Clean up the kids, don't bother cleaning up the breakfast dishes, dress Rat_boy, feed the dogs, give them some water and the medication, lock up the house...Rat_boy screaming and clawing at my top again, look at time, it's almost 8am where did the last 2hours go! Feed him load into the car for kindy.

830 On the road to the mechanic to the soundtrack of Rat_boy screaming.  Screaming stops as I pull up at mechanic, he fell asleep, hmmm bad timing.  Try to fit car seat ino NanaRats car, lots of swearing involved, move rat_boy into the seat, wake him up, yep SCREAMING!!

915 30mins late check in car for service, lose the plot at them because they say it won't be ready till 3pm...I talk them down to 1pm.

Head to aircon shops, Rat_boy hysterical in the car, sit for coffee and boob umm feed and play.  The groceries.  Rat_boy sat in his pram looking very tired but stayed awake the whole time.

Did some craft shopping, had lunch shared it with Rat_boy.  Fed Rat_boy again as he was screaming the shops down.

He then falls asleep driving back to the mechanics.  Succesfully move him from one car to the other and keep him asleep for the collecion of groceries and the drive home maybe an hour in total, until my street where he wakes up hysterical.  AGAIN another feed as he is trying to crawl into my top.

Unpack groceries while he follows me around screaming, put him in his high chair with some foods to play with...all while screaming!!!  While I continue to put groceries way.

430pm OMG when did that sneak up on me.  Drive (2 second down the road too hot to walk) pick up Rat_girl.  
Home to give the kids dinner, Rat_girl had 2 min noodles and thankfuly Rat_boy had sweet and sour chicken that was in the freezer.

520pm Had enough of Rat_boy's screaming, put him in the bath, Rat_girl eventually joined us!!!

535pm He's lost the plot again, feed him on the bathroom floor while he's nude, wet and in a towel.

by 555pm we're out in the lounge all kids dressed waiting for Alf to start.  My god Rat_boy is still screaming so I just feed him again.

Finally now it's 641pm and Rat_girl is doing her usual fridge raid even though she's already had dinner, Rat_boy is crawling around creating havoc and we're wathcing Full House.

The rest of our night is a play by ear while we wait for Concrete_man to arrive home, at this stage his plane arrives at 730...

NIGHT!!!!

Summer Daze and Fresh cut grass

It's been so hot and humid lately that by the afternoon the kids are just feral and painful.

So each afternoon while concrete_man has been away I've put a little water in the kiddies pool and let the rats play.  Rat_boy wasn't too sure about it to start with but now each after noon he goes a little nuts when he sees the pool.  It was especially great this afternoon after both had had a few tantrums and screaming fits it helped to bring normality (I use the term loosely) back to the house.

I swear just looking at the pictures cools me down, the water is so cold!

One of my favourite smells is the smell of fresh cut grass, but I believe it smells even better when you have cut that grass yourself.  I always thought that mowing the lawn was a mans job, but after the first time I mowed a lawn (4 years ago) I realised just how satisfying and relaxing it is, not to mention it's an awesome workout.  I mean I'm outside in the fresh air, I have a friendly little willy wagtail that follows me the whole time, I'm sweating it out, I'm alone with my thoughts, no one bothers me and unlike when I clean the house, the lawn stays mowed for more than 10 minutes.  I love it, I can't believe that before when I lived alone or when concrete_man was away I would pay someone to mow my lawn.

Even the 4 legged rats love it...I tried to get a shot of her rolling around on her back but she spied me!!

The only down side I guess, is the sunburn...yes yes I know, I can remember to lather my kids in sunscreen but never myself.  Oh and that fact that generally after I have mowed the first strip the dogs like to 'christen' it...!!!

Photo update

Rat_girl cooking some nachos that were delicious...but she still didn't eat them :-S

A couple of bday cards I made, "2yo lady bug" "10yo Ben 10"

Just before the end of the term we were allowed in to watch the kids, it was painful!! I completely understand why we aren't allowed in normally.  I felt quite embarrased as pretty much all the kids behaved except for Rat_girl and her BFF.  However I did notice something (** the person reading this that knows her BFF please close your eyes now), Rat_girl was actually doing her best to participate in the class but her BFF was constantly trying to tickle her, cuddle her, grab her etc and it was very distracting.

All that aside it was still very cute!

Rat_boy rather chuffed that he can now sit on his own!!! And play (annoy) his sister more!  Just a few days later he learnt to crawl, now just over a week later he is sitting himself up and pulling himself to his knees.  SO very close to standing himself up!

Helping Mummarat

Menu Plan Monday & a possible giveaway!!!

Menu Plan Monday again will be just 'lazy dinners' for this week as I am still not feeling so great.

Also because on Thursday my Chrisco Hamper is going to be deliver YAY I can't wait. It's my first time ever ordering but I'm looking forward to it.

I'm thinking of doing a little giveaway to anyone that happens to read my blog (if anyone reads my blog).

Once my hamper arrives I will post some of the things I have received and whoever can post some menu ideas using the items in my hapmer will go in the draw for a giveaway. I'm thinking a prize of a gift card from Coles or Wooworths.

Promise I'll be back to normal soon with blogging. I think I have some photos to upload so I'll do an update via picutres hopefully tomorrow.

Slack I tell you!

I'm having BLOGGING withdrawals.  But I have so much to say that right now I'll say nothing.

Menu plan for this week will be posted tomorrow.

Same same, usual usual

Nothing really exciting to update, but it's 730pm both kids have been in bed since 7pm everything is done and ready for tomorrow and to tell you the truth I'm not really certain what to do with myself.

Sunday wasn't all that eventful, Concrete_Man and I had a few words or was it an argument, not really sure. All because I wanted to take Rat_girl to the shops on her own, she just loves coming shopping with me but noooooooo because with Rat_boy at home Concrete_man can't work on his car. Anyway as it was Rat_boy woke from his sleep and came with us anyway. It went ok, though we did abandon the fruit and veg half way through because a certain person needed to weeeeeee, and no it wasn't me. But that is ok I can handle another quick shop run for fruit and veg, or I could just order it online and get it delivered, perhaps I do that. As a reult we had regular shepards pie tonight no sweet potato..bugger! But it was delish, packed full of hidden vegies and even a tin of baked beans for extra goodnes and fibre.

Today wasn't a bad day, I really should have and could have got more done but I chose not to. I'll try tomorrow while I have one at kindy and one at home. Really I just want to give my floors a clean it's embarassing how dirty they are. The new floor in the lounge and office hasn't been cleaned (well it's be vacuumed) since it was put down. Oh no that is a line I did it once!

Dinner and everything was ready early and on time tonight as I had a friends 15yo here entertaining the kids, she even took Rat_girl to the park for a play, which may just explain the early bed time :-) I'm not complaining.

Quick organising up date, my laundry is working fantastic! I'm even using the clothes line again as washing is caugh up and I'm generally only doing 1 smallish wash a day. I still use the dryer for towells and sheets don't like them off the line.Rat_girl put all her own clothes away today AND she had even made her own bed the last 3 mornings in a row. SWEEEET!

The kitchen, I've never seen it so clean. I've added a few cheap baskets to the utensils drawer and the kids container drawer and it's made it a little tidier. The pantry and everything else is working great. Everyone knows where everything goes. And putting the groceries away was a dream. Not to mention i didn't buy things in the shopping I didn't need.

The office is still working great, this week I'm working on the filing cabinet.

I can't wait to get some photos up, it may not be exciting for anyone else but it's exciting for me. I'm lazy and unmotivated so I kind of need to be organised, things need to be easy or else I won't do them at all.

Anyway look at that it's not not 8pm and I don't have anything else to do for the night!

Tomorrow I'm definatley going to get my hair done, or atleast try and I might try for a trip to the health nurse and just have a quick check up and chat about Rat_boy make sure all is well. Seems to be a lot of pressure mounting to get him on solids urgh I can't think of anything worse yet, but guess the time is looming.....ooooooo!!

Ok I'm off, I've waffled way too long!

My head may explode

I went to update my facebook status today and seriously I couldn't decide what to type because I had so many "mental status updates" running through my brain I couldn't decide what to type. I was afraid that if I typed something it would come out a jumble mess of 10 different things that made no sense what so ever.

Sometimes it really does feel like my head may explode.

Last night I was watching a new TV show called 'Drop Dead Diva' basically a sexy, self absorbed blonde is killed in a car crash but manages to sneak back from the pearly gates and instead of going back to her body ends up in the body of and larger size, plain, very intelligent brunette lawyer! The blonde still has all her old memories but has the lawyers brain. During the show she would rattle off something really smart and intelligent she would then old her forehead 'ouch, that was intense'. I often feel like that.

Urgh what a day yesterday, thought it was going to be good, started off ok. When I left home the washing had been done, my kitchen was clean (oh and sooooo organised) and everyone was happy. We went swimming, Rat_Girl got her end of term certificate, oh I'm so proud of her she's such a little fish!! And then we went to mums group. I don't mind this mums group it and Australian Breastfeeding Association thing, just once a month catch up for coffee and chat, get advice etc. I like to go because I'm still no pro at breastfeeding and always have questions. Besides the fact I forgot morning tea, the meeting was going fine. Rat_girl was playing great with her little friend, but then the wheels fell off when she came to me and said "mummy I've done poo's in my knickers" OH WHY OH WHY ARE WE GOING THROUGH THIS AGAIN!!! I had no spare knickers for her, I shouldn't need then she has been toilet trained for ages and she knows how to poo on the toilet. So I cleaned her up then packed up my stuff and walked out quite upset. She got no tv for the rest of the day which meant I had to keep her entertained which meant I was exhausted by days end. Add to that Rat_Boy (who I'm hoping is not getting his first tooth) decided to not sleep a wink all day and be painful and clingy.

Thank god I cooked dinner the night before and all I had to do was put it in the pastry and then in the oven, because by the time Concrete_man got home I was over everything! I desperately was wishing for that never ending packet of tim tams to fall in my lap, unfortunately though that didn't happen.

The only good thing that came of the night was come bed time, 30mins and she was out, so by 7pm all kids were asleep and I can get some stuff done....ummmm nope I feel asleep! I was just exhausted.

Thankfully today is a kindy day, it's also supposed to be a boxing day but I just had too many things I needed to get done today.

So far I've done the washing and sorted it, done the dishes, dried them and put them away (I didn't do them last night, so lazy) got Rat_girl off to kindy, bought myself a drive through coffee from hungry Jack), wrote this blog, pulled out my menu plan stuff, fed Rat_boy and put him to sleep, made some phone calls, half cooked tonight's dinner (enchiladas instead of burritos, I bought the wrong kit!), played on facebook...and typed this blog. It's not even 10am yet.

So now I'm off to make some more phone calls, submit a quote, send some invoices, pay some bills, do the bookwork for the last week, open and sort the mail, bang my head against the wall and if I am really lucky I might get my hair done...! I'm going scrapbooking, it's a big thing I like to look nice lol

OH and guess what. A few weeks back I got a parking fine in town, I complained to council and said I was forced to park illegally due to the limited parking in town. I never get parking fines and if I did I would just pay them and shut up but this time I thought it was just unfair...they waived the fine YAY for me saved $20!!!

Oh going now really have work to do. YAY for almost the weekend and YAY for my folks getting home today...!

Just so you know...

This blog isn't going to be all about organising and stuff, it's just that at the moment I'm in that zone and I'm a little motivated. Blogging about it and putting down my achievements and little tips and stuff helps.

It's something for me to look back on if I need to get the motivation back or (when I get readers when I'm comfortable enough to let poeple read) to give other people similar to me some ideas.

I have had so many things go through my head today that I want to blog about that I just don't know where to start.