Bugs, Babies & Life Stories

I am physically and emotionally drained and anyone who has been following my facebook status would know this already.

I have no energy, hence no excerise and after 3 days last week of takeaway, I soooo need to do something. Andrew is really busy with Christmas Scripture and Carols prep, so has not been having an hour for lunch which means I can't get to the gym and with a week of high temperatures I haven't been able to go walking during the day, as its just not fair to take Pip out in the heat.

The wedding was lovely, it all went well and the girls were great considering, but I'm so glad its all over, it was a big stress and really wrung us all out.

Andrew chose this week to give up diet coke and start to exercise, which is fabulous and I;m so glad for his sake that he has got to this point as he has been miserable that he just hasn't had the motivation. But his withdrawal process has him less tolerable of things and short fused, so he also has spent alot of the week yelling!

I'm finding I have zero patience with the girls and they have just been little devils this last week, that I'm finding myself screaming way to much or saying things 5 times and just getting attitude in return. One morning this week, while I was doing lunches and eating my breakfast I sent the girls out to the toy room to play. Caitlyn came back inside trying to hide from me that she had climbing up to the shelf on the landing to open the black high gloss model paint that we used the night before on her shoes and had it all over her hands, arms and nightdress!!! Later that morning, I asked Caitie to brush her teeth while I hung out a load of washing before we left for school. While I was hanging the washing the girls came outside and started playing in the shed/dogs kennel. After asking Caitlyn to get out of the shed 3 times as she will get dirty and was ready for school, she came out and started playing on the dirty swings, it then took me 3 times for her to get off the swings. Ahhhh, she then came over to me, sporting the look of blue toothpaste all over her clean white shirt. Needless to say I was furious, I told her to get inside, wait for me to come in and don't touch anything else. Once the washing was all hung, I went to their bathroom to try and clean her shirt. I sat down on the bath and wiped both girls faces and Caitie shirt clean. I then stood up and Caitlyn told me that I had blue toothpaste all over the butt of my white shorts as Pip had wiped it all over the bath!! We are now running late for school and I had to try and find another pair of shorts.. This was all before 8:30am, you can understand why I just have had enough. Then Pip and I go to Bathurst to do the shopping and she fights me most of the time as she doesn't want to sit in the trolley or sit in her seat. the final straw was when I had my hands full leaving the servo and she has a hissy fit and will not walk out the door, so I grab her by the wrist to lead her across the drive way and she proceeds to scream at the top of her voice, "Ow, No!, Your hurting me, stop it your hurting me Owww" And of course the entire petrol station looked and me and watched to see if I 'was' hurting her, which I wasn't. I held were wrist really loose, just so I was not hurting her. Then when picking Caitie up from school, I got another tirade from both of them as they didn't want to get in their seats and wanted the lipstick I had taken off Caityn after she had snatched it off Pip!!!!! I spent the rest of the afternoon, fighting with them both and went to bed so exhausted and so not waiting to do it all again.

I just don't know what to do with them, they are constantly baiting each other and being so rude to me. Pip has started to copy Caitie in her temper tantrums and so its a double whammy.

The biggest problem is that Pip is so much more stubborn and so the fights are so much worse.

I don't know why things have got like this, its like someone has just flipped a switch and its horrible kids time... The worse thing is I don't know what to do to get my nice kids back...

I only have 2 pairs of shorts, that are good enough to leave the house in and I broke the zip on them too!!!!! Certainly has not been a good week.....

This coming week, Andrew is in Dubbo on Monday, Scripture seminars Tuesday & Wednesday, Ministers Association lunch on Tuesday, that I'm going to and need to take a plate, (Tuesday is the only day I can go to the gym without bothering Andrew as they provide baby sitting, yet again can't go!) Thursday I'm on Canteen, Friday night Alison & I are setting up for the Ladies Christmas Dinner, Saturday morning we are having breakfast with a young family from the AOG's and then Saturday night is the ladies dinner...... then we start all over again, with more scripture seminars, visitors and another wedding down the hill.......

Well the girls are screaming the toyroom down so better go and deal with it. Pray for us, that the girls settle down and that we can get back into a routine and survive the next few weeks.

While I was doing the floors today, Pip disappeared. Andrew found her putting dry dog food down between the verandah floor boards and Harley was underneath having a great feed.

Look what I did today!!!

I was cleaning the girls bathroom and I needed to move the sink surround and my finger got jammed between the pipes and the surround. It have snapped the acrylic nail and my nail hence the blood. Problem was, other than breaking my nail, is that I had polish on it and had to remove it to see what the damage was. So I had to put Nail Polish Remover, Acetone on my open wound. OUCH it stung so much. It is still throbbing a little and tomorrow when I get my nails infilled it with be OUCH again as she will drill out the crack and then fill it in.......

The things we do for beauty :)

On Sunday afternoon when I got home from the Hen's Andrew headed to Katoomba for his Annual Renewal Retreat Week.

He had a great time away and finds this time really worthwhile for Him personally and His ministry, which is why coping with being a single mum for a few days is worth it. Mind you it wasn't that bad this time, usually everytime he goes the girls get sick, but we all coped just missed him lots. Every morning Pip would come in and ask 'Is Daddy home yet?' and Caitie was counting down each sleep.

This is a video of the Hail storm that came through while he was away.

These photos are of the beautiful Blue Mountains taken from the Jamieson Valley during the bushwalk that Andrew thought he was going to die. :)

I feel like I have sooooo much to do in the next 2 1/2 days before we head down to Dad & Barbs.

Need to pack, its done in piles everywhere at the moment just need to put it all in the suitcase and bags ready to go, do the final shopping for bits and pieces like 'hollywood tape' hmmmm, drinks for between the church and reception and wrapping paper.

Caitlyn has school photos on Wednesday morning (how lucky was that, the only problem is she is having her extremely over grown hair cut on Thursday once we are back in Windsor, oh well, she will have a Pitt Town fringe photo and a Millthorpe no fringe photo. I pick her up at 3pm Wednesday afternoon and we should be at D&B's by 5pm.

Have nail appointment on Tuesday morning and while in Bathurst will do all the last minute shopping.

Also have to make sure the house is all clean and tidy as we are having one of the young guys from the Church house sit. I think thats the worst bit as not only do you need to pack and remember everything, but the house needs to be respectable too.

Its all very exciting and I just pray that all goes well and that the girls last the whole time.

We worked out on the hen's how we were going to do our hair and that we needed a hair piece of some sort, so I went looking everywhere and could find nothing in silver. Which was rather surprising with Melbourne Cup, but all I could find was red and black. So I went to Spotlight and found some flowers and crystals, problem was they were white flowers so I got some Simply Silver spray paint and went about changing the flowers to silver. They came up so well, I was really happy. Then I put it all together and this is the final product. Lizzie like them which is good so it looks like we are all set :)

Hallelujah = halayloola

Jeremy = Jermanie

Ballerina = Baralena

Guy Sebastian's new song "I like it like that" = Hey ohh, I lika lika lika lika, Hey ooh I lika lika lika and she just keep going........

Mum what we're doing today? (everything is we're not me, my or our)

Mum what time is it? (this happens all day every day....)

"It was an accident" and my favorite "I love you so much mum!"

Where has the years gone??????

We are allowed to use sprinklers and fixed hoses before 10am & after 5pm so the yard needed some water and the girls needed to see how we use to spend our afternoons.

Caitlyn loved it, Pip as expected not so much but they both had fun in their own way which was great. We finished the day off with Bacon, Eggs & Sausages on the BBQ. What a way to live. LOVING IT!!!!

We got a letter confirming Pip's enrollment at preschool starting as of the 28th Jan, 2010 for 2 days a week. Orientation is 27th Nov, so that will be good to actually meet all the teachers and find out how the Preschool runs.

We have been having problems with Pip sleeping through the night. Since moving here she has been visiting our room sometimes 3 times a night. I have started leaving her door closed all night and it seems to be keeping her in there and asleep. She has been not waking up till 6am which is lovely as 3 months of very broken sleep have just exhausted both Andrew and I. She sits on her shoe box calling out "Mummy come and get me, Daddy let me out" as the door handle is high and hard to open. we have had 3 nights of sleep hopefully it continues.

I give up!

As Pip is such a baby doll girl, we have got her a Baby Born off ebay for Christmas and I thought I might try and make some clothes for her as lets face it you can never have too many clothes for your doll.

So I got a pattern and ventured into the unknown today. It looks great in the picture and the front is pretty good, the back is a little doggy but for my first attempt I'm pretty proud of myself.

I'm no Kerryn or Mum or Barb and I never will be its just not my thing but I can try and Pip is not going to care.