How is this fair?
You were only with us for one night Ducky but we all loved you so much (except for Louie). We all wanted you to get strong and well so bad that it’s hard not to cry even though you were just a lost little …
Tag: Mommy Blog
The Second to Last Day
Jobs are for suckers and I feel like this job of mine has got in the way during these first holidays since I have been employed and also the LAST holidays with Ethan as a pre-schooler. He has had a great time though, he has …
Weekly Wrap-up
- Best thing this week – watching Twilight in the hot tub with Dave on Tuesday night, I can NEVER sit through a movie, but the spa left me pretty much comatose by the end of the movie so I couldn’t move too quickly even I wanted to + that damn vampire is hot, pasty but hot
- Worst thing – the pain of my hamstrings after netball on Monday, lets not dwell…..
- I am proud of; maintaining my diet for 4 days with no cheating and NO alcohol. Amazing I tell you.
- What I have purchased:
Conair Glass Body Fat, Bone Mass and hydration scale.
I am on a diet. Yes indeed, I want to lose 6-8 kgs (13-17.6 pounds). God that’s a lot when ou write it down and convert it! So I needed some scales, we have never had any before and these are pretty cool. They zip electrical curents through your nether regions and tell you your weight (of course) but also your body fat percentage, bone mass and hydration level. Plus you can set multiple profiles for each user in the house. I picked these up from The Warehouse for $49.
Jungle in my Pocket Pets
I have purchased 13 of these bad boys this week. Ethan is “In to Them”. Whatever, they are kinda cute and it is so nice to see him take an interest in something other than sharks or fishing magazines. Ethan actually purchased two of them himself with his pocket money (money he pilfered from his Nana’s car).
- Most delicious thing I have eaten – well this is lame, but as my diet this week has consisted of; rice bubbles, sunflower seeds, pineapple, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, baked chicken, mixed veges and small potatoes, the Best thing I ate this week was……
OMG DAMN THESE TASTE GOOD! Harraways Oat Singles in the Apricot variety are insanely yummy with only 128 calories per serve! I had never tried porridge before this week and I can’t belive no-one told me what I was missing out on. I seriously can’t get enough of these things. I have been mixing a tablespoon of flaxseed oil with them for extra goodness and they still taste fab. These oats are going to help me get through the next 28 days I am sure of it!
Netball Update Week 2
Fitness, much better although NOT having fish n chips and a bourbon pre-game probably helped tonight. Bitch-face ref still hates me. I can’t walk, seriously. Both hamstrings are screwed, I was almost in tears driving home as it hurt so bad to keep my foot …
I have really important things to do
yes. I do. I can’t currently commit to writing (and by writing I mean finishing) a post right now as I am far to busy being in bed. Yes it is 8pm, a mere smidgeon of a Thursday night but Dave is at work, …
I'm a team player. In a NETBALL team.
I am Goal Defence and if
I CONTACT ONE MORE TIME I WILL BE SENT OFF THIS COURT!
(I put that in red so you could see just how much the ref liked me and my friendly style of defence).
Here I am in action;
Just jokes, even I know that they are playing some kind of rugger, but that looks like fun! (doesn’t that blonde chick look eerily like me though?)
So, I am in a netball team. I’m not sure how this happened but in a moment of insanity I told one of Ethan’s teachers that, yes, I would LOVE to join her netball team. I haven’t played netball in approximately 12 years and I was fine with the idea until this afternoon when I frantically began cleaning to distract me from thoughts of my imminent court debut. I even used furniture polish ON THE FURNITURE. That’s how nervous I was. I even drank a bourbon. But I was still nervous (this wasn’t such a good idea in hindsight).
I also didn’t know anyone in my team.
But I was brave and I went to the rec centre and played my little heart out. I had to do two toss ups cause there was no way I was letting go of the ball once I had my mitts on it. I lost both of them but I put this down to the fact that I forgot to cut my nails and I didn’t want to scratch the shit out of my opposition on the first day. That would have made me a hot favourite with the ref for sure. I got one mean intercept and once I was able to navigate the millions of lines on the court and figure out which ones were for netball I was ok.
We lost 24-14 but we played the best team in our grade so the girls did not think that was too bad. Did I mention that the game was 40 MINUTES LONG and we had NO SUBS? It was a miracle I didn’t throw up after I landed one of many many contact-inducing leaps at the opposing goal attack.
This sport business is hard work. It’s really going to cut into my sitting on the couch and inter-webbing time. On the plus side, Ethan should be happy that mama now has a hobby other than taking showers.
Date Night – Aren’t we cute?
To celebrate Jo’s birthday we enjoyed an awesome Pot Luck dinner with my bestest girl friends and their husbands / partners. My camera was sitting on the table the whole time and I took not one picture. I know, very hard to believe. We did …
Looking Back
September 18th, 2008 Impulse shopping – I purchased this wooden railway for Ethan for no other reason than it was on sale. I know, I know……it came with a wooden storage box ON WHEELS YA’LL! September 18th, 2007 A super fun play date with Freya …
Writers Prompt: If you give a Mum a moment
- She might remember to take her Happy Pill, her iron pill, her vitamin C + zinc pill, her multi-vitamin, her antibiotic and wash them down with a big sip of Sav
- She might start putting away some stuff and then get distracted by something that needs putting away in the room where she was putting away the first thing and move in circles throughout the house putting away some stuff but never really tidying up one room completely
- She might ignore all chores needing to be done and search for Botox prices online for over an hour
- She might pluck her eyebrows for about 17 minutes…..v e r y s l o w l y
- She might lay down on the couch just so, because that is where the winter sun shines through the ranch-slider and is hot on her face and she can half-sleep and listen to the never-ending narration of the ITM Fishing Show and uh-huh in all the right places one should express interest when your 4yo discusses the stomach contents of a broadbill swordfish
- She might eat 5 chocolate chip cookies….they are quite small
- She might not brush her teeth but rather go straight to bed and read New Moon on her laptop
- She might blog instead of studying
- She might LOVE the peace in her car as she drives to work on her own and can listen to morning radio and interviews with Prime Ministers without interruption
- She might realise how lucky she is for her wonderful life xxxx.
Cook Eat | The Best Pancake Recipe
On the Target product check on TV3 tonight, they road-tested store bought pancake mixes. The host pointed out that the most basic pancake recipes only have 4 ingredients, so it’s a little disturbing when the ingredients listed on a pre-mix constitute an entire paragraph! So …