I'm a lazy cow

Yeah well those photo's I was posting 2 months ago are still on the to do list, but it will have to wait as we're shaped at the moment, god I hate that.

Well I've finally finished my course, which makes me a trained child care worker, pretty boring title really and infact it's not that prestigous in the slightest, which is why I've decided to go back to study next year and do my Diploma. As if I didn't whinge and whine about all the study I had to do this year, I've decided I haven't punished myself enough and should do more. But at least then I'll actually be "qualified" as something.

Not much else to report here, the last month or so has been taken up with finishing my assignments, completing my level 2 first aid and Anaphylaxis training, interspersed with some casual work at the child care centre and the kids before and after school care.

I've gone from 40 years of doing nothing, to being flat out lol.

That's it for now.

Darwin trip 2009

Just got back from 4 days in sunny Darwin, to be greeted by cold an wet weather once home again, that sucks.

Flew out at 9:40pm on Wednesday night, arrived sometime after 1am on Thursday morning, picked up at the airport by Pat and Lionel, went back to the caravan they were staying at, to wait for the next lot of relatives to fly in. Laura and Ian arrived at around 3am, Lionel picked them up and they too came back to the caravan, it was starting to get a bit cosy in there by this stage with 7 adults trying to have a sleep, before the next lot of relo's arrived. Hadn't heard from the next 3 by 6:30am and getting a tad concerned they were lost somewhere in the wilderness of the N.T, rang them only to be reassured they were on their way, sadly the taxi driver who had possibly just arrived off the boat the day before, had no idea where he was or meant to be headed. With some help of directions(and I call them directions very loosely) they managed to find the park, Lionel drove up to the front gate to pick them up, by now we had 10 adults in a 4 berth caravan, it was definitely cosy. No time for more sleeping, it was time to start transporting us all to the shopping centre around the corner from my parents, so we could assemble and walk down to surprise Mum for breakfast.

I tell you what, it's stressful standing around a shoppping centre at that time of the morning, when you know it's possible she's going to turn up at any stage to get the paper.

Unfortunately our huge surprise was slightly foiled by the fact she saw us all traipsing through the gates, although she was left speechless and shaking when we all walked in the door to wish her a happy 60th Birthday.

The next couple of days we spent relaxing and doing a couple of touristy things, like Crocosaurus Cove, Mindal market and dinner down by the wharf. I didn't get a lot of pics and what I do have are all of family members(which I'll upload shortly)

And now for our super exciting news this week

This warrants it's own special post, not just thrown into the other one.

I'm extremely excited to announce that Jade and Jason got engaged on Tuesday night, which was their 5th anniversary of being together.

Not sure when the wedding will be, or the engagement party, although she said something this morning about the party being later this year as they have to finish the house first, why I don't know, can't believe they'd let an unfinished renovation get in the way of a good party. And the wedding will be during the warmer months, which ever year it is they decide on.

I'm so slack

I just knew I'd be crap at this blogging business, I either think I have nothing of interest to say, or keep telling myself I'll do it tomorrow and not do it.

Ok so what's been happening for the last 6 weeks or however long it is since I last posted:

The guinea pigs died
I've been sick on and off for the last 8 weeks with a stupid cold, it starts to get better and then it'll hit me again like a bus has run over me, it's affected my voice for some reason, so I think I have this sexy husky rasp when I speak, it probably sounds like a croaky old grandma's instead though, knowing my luck.

The kids are almost finished their two weeks of school holidays, I've sent them off to vacation care/day care today, so I can have a break. Liv went for a lovely 4 day holiday to Phillip Island with Aunty Pat, Uncle Lionel and Bridget(that's my cousins daughter, for those that don't know), ahh it was bliss till she walked back in the door again, especially as Chris is away as well.

Well the chicken coop still isn't finished, there's some lazy sod who lives here and hasn't gotten off his bum to do it, mind you, you won't catch me standing outside in the cold for too long either, might freeze my fingers and then I can't type. My Welsummers still aren't laying, lucky for them I'm a softy and they're such gorgeous birds or they'd get the chop.
For you Spanks


I'm off to Warrnambool on the weekend to pick Chris up, get to go on my own and stay overnight at a girlfriends place, now that will be nice.

My boys and an update on Daisy's head

The only recent pic I have of Sam, taken by Daisy


And a pic I took of Chris this morning, we don't get too many of him(you can see why lol)


And the improvement to Daisy's head(not a very good photo though)

Dancing at south street comp

Liv and the other one who shall not be named(shhhh, I haven't really put her photo on here, or she'll kill me).

Liv got 4th place in her learners Irish Jig, and as you can tell by the grin on the face she was mighty impressed.

The two girls in their hornpipe outfits at the end of the day

and liv being liv

My new chicken coop

Well the new coop is in the process of being made...a bloody long process, I've had the two new chickens since January and the coop still isn't finished, but this is what we've got so far.

This is the front panel,before the door was put on

The door

The front panel, with the door attached and the builders helper

The panel with the beginnings of the nesting boxes

Pics of the kids

This is Liv at Yarrawonga for a dancing comp


Daisy's feathers(she came into the study with tissues shoved through the loops of her shorts and said she was a chicken lol)


I'll add more photo's when I find some decent and upto date ones of the others.

I'm "competent"

On Friday I had an assessor from Tafe come out to where I do placement to assess my competency in a childcare situation and also my bookwork. I'm happy to say I was deemed competent and apart from a few issues regarding my bookwork(it's a bit tricky trying to do a running record of a child under the age of 2 for 10 minutes, when they flit from one thing to another in the space of 5 seconds and you've got to write exactly how they moved, and then plan a program for them based on those observations, involving a specific activity to enhance their development)I'm flying along.

It seems I have a natural confidence when dealing with the kids in care, funny about that. I've got 3 more weeks in the babies room in which time all my bookwork has to be completed before our teacher can sign it off and send us up to the next room. I'll have to do an extra week or two in the babies room though as the teacher has gone on holidays till the middle of June, but I don't mind the extra time.

Hmm what else has been happening. Lots of dancing practice for Liv and Beala leading up to the South Street competition next weekend in Ballarat, this will be Liv's first "big" comp, she's only done a couple of small ones so far.

Jade and Jason are settling into their new home, although renovations have slowed somewhat since they got the new computer, seems Jade has a problem getting Jason to stop playing "Plant Tycoon".

I never claimed to be the brightest spark

Thanks to Lisa sending me an email(notice you other tarts didn't bother telling me, whilst you were sniggering still over the fact I forgot the link in the first email)informing me that posting comments was limited, unless you use wordpress or have a google account, so instead of thinking no one loves me and didn't want to comment, hopefully I've got it right now and comments good or bad can be left(phew)

It's wet, it's miserable, it's dark and gloomy, my most hated time of the year by far. I detest winter/colder months, with a passion. There's nothing fun about stomping about in the rain getting from the house to the car, to kinder/school/work/Tafe with a bunch of kids who love nothing more THAN to stomp around in the rain. Although for some odd reason I do like sloshing around in the chook pen in my gumboots, raincoat and beanie on my head.

Ahh now that's a positive aspect of winter, I can wear one of my vast array of beanies(I think I need more options/styles though) every day of the week, not caring what my hair looks like underneath and not bothering to comb or style it after having a shower, bliss is jammies and beanies at the same time.

Today is Tuesday, it's dancing practice for Liv, so at the moment I'm cooking up a storm, not as gastronomically delightful as Nic's creations but it's a nice hearty winter meal. Devilled Snags with mashed spud, made into a pie, a bit like a cottage pie really, so all mister lazy bum has to do is put it in the pre-heated oven, so the poor kids aren't still starving by 7pm.

And just to prove that women are better than men, I'm dying my hair and posting my thoughts on here at the same time, pfftt can't see men multitasking to that point.

See I told you my thoughts were mindless and rambling.

Daisy's Head

Let me tell you all a story about a little girls misfortunate infection she aquired from one of her beloved Guinea Pigs(this is to be sung to the tune of Harper Valley PTA).

Wayyy back in January on the 26th, I noticed a slight rash on her right temple that resembled a patch of excema. Off to the Dr's we went, where he diagnosed Exzema, and prescribed a cortisone based cream. At this first appt, I asked if she had school sores by any chance as a good friends 3 boy's had just been through it and she'd been in contact with them, he assured me it wasn't. About a week later after it spreading and me stopping the use of said cortisone, we went back again, where he said it was now fungal and prescribed Canesten or Lamisil, I had Canesten at home so started with that, 48hrs later it had spread even more, so we went back to the Dr's but saw our regular GP(George) this time.

George diagnosed School Sores, which had gotten infected and turned into Impetigo, and had spread up into her hair line and beyond and with the administering of the previous meds, it was a nasty looking mess of scab and creams. So she was put onto her first bottle of Antibiotics. Well 6 weeks later, 3 bottles of antibiotics later, numerous Dr appts to have the very large scab removed and no improvement, George decided to send us off to the Childrens to see a Paed specialist. We got an appt for the Dermatology clinic through A&E for the next day, went back in again to be told after approx 10 Medico's had looked at her "interesting" head that she didn't have Impetigo at all, but had Tinea Capitis, which was transferred by said Guinea pig and therefore wasn't contagious in any shape nor form, yet she'd missed the last 8 weeks of kinder/daycare and was basically locked away infront of the tv.

Prescribed Griseofulvin some foul tasting concoction the chemist came up with. Have been taking it for the last 6 weeks, and had a follow up appt on Wednesday. She's onto her 3rd and last bottle, with an appt to go back in 3months, if I think it's necessary.This is what I wrote on a forum yesterday about it.

"It's healing, almost all the scab is gone, it's still quite pink/raw looking though and hasn't reduced in size. She's on her last bottle of oral anti fungals and once this is finished shouldn't need any more. Has to go back to RCH in 3months if I think she needs it, but if it's healing nicely I can cancel it. I asked them how long it would take for the whole wound area to clear up, they estimate approx 6months and once it does we'll be able to tell if it's done any permanent damage to her hair follicles and whether the hair will grow back.

If the hair doesn't grow back, then she'll either just have to deal with the bald spot or style her hair to camaflouge it, until she's older when they can perform some plastic surgery, to reduce the size of the scarring and bring the hairline down a bit. But that's further in the future and currently it doesn't bother her in the slightest."

And now for some pics of her delighful head.





And this is what it looks like now.


After looking at all the pics, that's a huge difference.

Thank you all for reading my first blog, which is more like a mini novel lol