Frazzled Shopping Mum

Just back from a budget shop with Bonnie. People were in such a rush, we were getting mown down by trolleys...do I really move that slow, or has everyone else picked up their pace since I was out last. I went through a big gift shop & Bonnie was so delighted by all the ornaments & decorations. It was lovely to be there with a 7 year old for a change, & not a jumping breaking smashing hiding 4 year old. She certainly has come a long way...it was so lovely to be out with her...There is a day coming up when Eric will be at Preschool & Bonnie has finished school & we are planning a "Bonnie & Mummy Day". So lovely to be out with my daughter today. Even though she broke the shoes & crown off the brand new fairy I bought her as we - brace yourself, yes, we ate JUNK FOOD - went to Maccas for lunch because we were starving & the local sandwich bar was packing up...

Anyway, the food is packed away, the car is in the garage, the kids have eaten, the jug has boiled & I am about to have a cuppa & put my feet up on the lounge before the next fight breaks out...

Keep Calm & Carry On...

from the very hip SFGIRLBYBAY!!

How I would love to buy one of these posters...

It's on my wish list...

Lazy lazy day....

Well, it's a miserable cold wet day here. Lovely to be snuggled up indoors. There are things I should be doing of course - laundry, chores, cleaning, making appointments, but I just want to go back to bed with a hot cup of coffee & a good book. 

We are in the process of borrowing the series Band of Brothers from Quick Flix. Just amazing to think anyone made it out of WW2 & survived that horror? So proud of my family members who were involved...  although they tried to make the series as realistic as possible I don't think it can really convey the horror of what it must have been like?

Poor D working from home today. I think the dramas from this term have really taken a toll on him...I'm seeing him going backwards...it's so hard. I wish things were different, but...can't do anything much about it all now. Might have to start looking for p/t work for next year. Big sighs of frustration...finally get Eric off to 3 days of Prep & I'm going to have to go to work!!??

And how cute is this kids room??

Friday Fun!!!

I just LOVE rainbows & all things BRIGHT!!!!! 

I saw this room in Apartment Therapy. There's always a room there to make me smile...despite the fact MY STOVE BROKE TODAY...ahhhhh. This makes me happy. (The pictures, NOT the crappo stove.)

Just been sitting watching Persuasion again - by Austen - with a bowl of popcorn. When it was on TV I had to skip through most of it. I

 love Friday. Bonnie's at school, Eric's at Preschool...Mummy can do some cho

res then put her feet up for some MUMMY TIME...YIPPEE!!!!!!!

What's up Doc?

Just back from the gym & the shops, mind buzzing with many ideas & jumbled thoughts about things to do etc.

Thinking of Kerrie up in a QLD hospital, thinking about poor D with the flu, thinking about how great Medicare was, thinking about how disorganised I am for Christmas this year & wondering what I can do about that...that doesn't involve crawling into a hole & giving up! Thinking about Eric going to Prep Orientation tomorrow. Thinking about school & how this term has managed to suck D dry - emotionally & mentally & now physically. How everybody just thinks he's pulling back because he needs the rest, (only very partly true) yet the people around him haven't made this term easy for him at all....sigh sigh sigh.

Thinking thinking thinking...

Want to get started on my Christmas parcel for "someone" connected to the Sew Liberated site, but I don't know who that is yet...waiting waiting waiting...

Off for a cuppa & to grab my Library bag, just full of freshly borrowed books - JOY!!!!!!

USA

Wow...there is a new President in America today. Barack Obama. My kids & I sat watching the news while I tried to explain that this was history in the making...I even got teary during his speech...it will be interesting to see what lies ahead. There are huge expectations & a huge load on his shoulders. I hope he is able to help America...

Weary weary weary...

These last few weeks have been so stressful & draining - for all involved. 

There's been a lot going on in our lives here regarding D's work...

I don't even want to write about it, because I'm all "talked out". 

Just feeling very disappointed & sad about how these weeks have played out...

Big sighs here...

I haven't been able to get to the gym for about 2 weeks now, so that is making me feel bad too. 

Life really is full of these ups & downs. 

I have to get ready to visit my Lupus specialist...although with all of this going on, I forgot to have my tests, so I don't know if it's worth me even going to see him? I'll have to find out. Yesterday I was so mentally & physically exhausted that I got up, go the kids breakfast & fell back into bed. I kept Bonnie home because I just couldn't face taking her to school. That sounds ridiculous I know. Both of us - D & I - were just so exhausted that we had a self indulgent day, or rather a "crash" day...

What a cheery post!?

This Friday is a big school concert called "For One Night Only" that started when I was a music teacher there. D is going to play in an item or two, & Bonnie wants to go. Although she never wants to be on the stage she told me...hee hee. I don't think I will go because Eric won't sit still, then he'll just want to go to bed. 4 is a little young perhaps?

Next week he has his Prep orientation day. He is so excited!!

Well, I'd better get up & going. 

I am really enjoying reading Rise by Ingrid Poulson...perhaps when I get a chance I could write a whole post about that book?  

In the meantime, I'm off in my surreal world that I can't really talk about...gotta love work politics...