The week gone by ...

Monday ...

Jaimee off to school and Madison home for one more day, she just wasn't quite right and there was swimming at school. Best the kid stays home rather than get sick again and the thought of poor Miss Andrea & Miss Tracey doing battle to try and get her to miss out on swimming! That was never gonna happen my friends. 

Madison wanting daddy home every 5 minutes, crying in the shower for an hour :( My poor little darling.

Skyping with Ad, he has made it safe and sound. Longest travel day ever, tired but happy. The plane flights we good and India is chaos!

This as good as it gets, dinner together! Jaimee is on her iPod live streaming Minecraft and Madison is watching barnyard, the making of the movie. My little geeky spectrum girls, perfect and happy:) what more could I ask for. Maybe we could have the daddy back sooner that would make it perfecter, is that a word or did I just make it up, ha!

Madison in the shower for the 3rd time, might ring the gas people and get an early delivery.



Madison is either a astronaut or a scuba diver, she makes me laugh :)

Tuesday ...

Madison back to school, not an easy start as it is still dark when I got her up at 6.00am and the "No School" routine begins.

Jaimee off to school.

Me madly playing catch up with the house work and the grocery run.

Ahhhh, a cup of tea and catching up on my favourite blogs.

So Madison was pretty stoked on Tuesday afternoon when we had our friend big Humphrey come for another sleepover. Big Humphrey and mini Humphrey hit it off exceptionally well, no growling or biting.

Can't say the same about our adorable Madison. Apparently Tuesday was the day for tipping over her desk at school, a bit of cat claw scratching and oh, let's not forget the biting of the teacher, so sorry Miss Andrea!

 

Sharing a icy pole with friends.

Just hanging out watching a movie.

Having a little snuggle.

Wednesday ...

Can't believe it, the J girl home sick again. This time the allergies have struck us both down, damn hay fever and damn the change of weather.

Madison has school photos, crazy morning getting ready, trying to do hair, bother! and the first time I have actually had our bus friend Cheryl knock on the door to see if we were ok! 

Making Chicken soup with heaps of vegies to make me feel better. Pity the girls wont eat it, Jaimee said it looks like something else, I'd rather not say what! I admit it wasn't pretty in the end but I assure you it was yum and healthy and the best thing to have when its cold and I'm sick too!

My chicken and vegie soup, still need to add the soup mix lentils.

Thursday ...

Jaimee and I dragging ourselves off to the chemist to get hay fever cures! Nasal spray and antihistamines.

Crushing up a antihistamine in red cordial so Jaimee would have it. The girl has a tablet phobia and medicine is always a hard issue to deal with. It could be the tiniest tablet in the world the kid will still freeze up and freak out.

Skyping with Ad, he has been sad, telling me stories of poverty and the not so magical side of India.

This is just around the corner from were Ad is staying in India.

Thank god, Madison had a good day at school. I have proof :)

Jaimee attempting to stop the runny nose, bwwhahha, naughty mummy:)




Love it! Jaimee really needs to take out one of her ear buds so she can hear her mum sneaking up for a photo, haha!!
 

Friday ...

Jaimee being extremely disappointed to call off the sleepover she had planned with friends. Next weekend.

Again, dragging our sorry stuffy heads and sneezy noses off to the shops as the weather has turned cold and poor Jaimee has no winter gear as she has for some reason, grown. In and out as fast as we could, and I got new slippers, fist pumps, whoohhoo! Think its the hay fever, ekkk!

Talking Porn with Jaimee, Bwwahaa!! She clicked on one of those ad's when she was on YouTube, nothing hard core just enough for her to flip out and be weirded out, haha! Love it when shit gets real and the conversation just flow with no awkwardness.

Indy freaking out!

New slipper, wintery warmness.

Saturday ...

Ahhhh the serenity, Me happily playing with this blog and all is quiet! Hmmm me thinking this is to good to be true.

Skyping with Ad, xxxx

Indy in a barking kinda a mood and freaking out again, thinking I'm going to give him one of his vallium tablets if he cant settle.

Jaimee watching nail art tutorials and wanting to do my hair. I hate my hair being brushed bit like Madison who really hates it! The kid always gets dreadlock just above her ears because she like to tuck it behind her ears. The scissors come out every now and then. She wont wear her hair any other way and now would like to have hair like Jaimee, long!

Madison being ever so good and happily doing her own thing, think it's because there is no school on Saturdays. Or something is brewing.

Madison delivering me a cup of wee. Me promptly removing all types of vessels from her bedroom. She went through a phase awhile a go were she would pee in just about anything that would hold it, haha, well not funny at the time. I swiftly remove any types of objects but this time she went in the bathroom and got one of the cups she plays with in the bath. Thank god it wasn't out of the kitchen hey! Pheww.



Jaimee's nail art.

Sunday ...


Nice sleep in till 7.00am, bloody dog started barking, will be threatening him again with the vallium.

Easy morning, like easy mornings!!

Baked some Gluten Free Dairy Free Banana muffins for Madison and me, smells so good when they are in the oven, hope the neighbour are jealous, hehe.

Madison happily drawing in her books while watching a parade of all her favourite movie characters on You Tube in Mexico. I'm sure this kid can understand other languages, she does watch a lot of things in many different languages but she will also change the language setting on her little TV to which ever suits her at the time. God, I'd love to know what she understands and what she doesn't!!

Jaimee wanted some home made damper but she settled for scones with choc chips. These are the real deal, full of gluten and dairy, Ad will be upset he is missing out. They normally wouldn't last 10 minutes sitting on the bench.

Jaimee's nice new winter snuggly pyjamas, poor kid still not well. I hope this is it now for the sickness till spring.

 

 One week down & 5 to go till Daddy comes home.

Steph

x

Up The Mountain ...



 

Every time Adam comes home from working away Madison always wants to go up the mountain. The one with the red flashing light! She will ask me everyday, a couple of times through the day, the week before daddy is due to come home.

 

It's her thing, well one of many but it has become a little bit of a regular event. The mountain being Mt Coolum. We have been up there quite a few times and I wont ever forget the first trek we did all together as a family. Best feeling to be out of the house and doing something as a family and Adam piggy backed Madison on the way down cause she was too tired:)

 

Photo courtesy of Above Photography

It is an outing we can go on together that doesn't usually involve crowds, loud noises, florescent bloody lights, overwhelming stinky smells, babies or little people under the age of 4 that might squeal, cry, scream, smell weird or get in her bubble (space), dogs and visually it is pretty calming.

 

We also don't have the added pressures that usually generally go with leaving the house. You know like people starring at us or watching Madison have a meltdown, Madison spitting, telling people to shut up, other stuff and there is a long list, Jaimee could tell you. Ad and I don't have to be on high alert or Madison patrol, well we are but not as intense.

 

We do get to relax while breathing in the ocean air and soaking up the tranquillity too. We get to unwind and get our sanity back, ha, sometimes!! That is definitely a plus in my book even if it is only a little bit of sanity, it all counts right!

 

The other place we love is the beach and this is somewhere we are able to really kick back and watch the girls have fun. Best thing is both of these activities are just around the corner from home and are free. Win Win, I'd say!!

 

You can see the track in the photo of Mt Coolum and you walk right up to the top to the red flashing light. You can't really see it in that pic but Madison knows where the red light is, it's for the planes as the airport is just off to the left and our old house was off to the right about 2 minutes drive away.



 



The girls at the start of our trek and notice the NO dogs allowed sign :)

Ever since we started walking this track we always will stop at the Gruffalo tree. The Gruffalo is one of Madison's favourite books & movies. When I had spotted this tree I thought I'd make it fun and a bit of an adventure. So now each time we come she will check to see if the Gruffalo is home or not!

On that first trek the gorgeous kid told us the Gruffalo story from start to finish and then it was stuck on replay till we got back to the car. She is a very good story teller too, very animated and exactly like the movie funny enough.

 

Hello, are you in there Mr Gruffalo?

Hmm can't see him!



Posing because that's what Madison loves to do :)

 

Maybe he is out walking.

 

I looked mum but he wasn't home!

 

No Gruffalo in his house. Think he has gone for lunch with the mouse. 

 

Stopping for a rest but Madison needs to have a snuggle with her big sista!

Jaimee looking so over joyed with happiness, she gets this all the time, lucky for us I say!!

Bit of a squeeze and then off we go.

 

Half way up and time for a drink break.

It's nice to be out in the sunshine!

 

Looking down on the old Hyatt golf course.



Ready to go again!



Madison likes to be the leader.

 

The J girl & me.

It's hard work climbing mountains.

 

 

Well there was no sign of that Gruffalo but we sure enjoyed our adventure out.

 

This trek we did in early April hence the red faces as it was still very warm weather then. Five and a bit weeks and counting till dad gets home, we will be back then to see if that Gruffalo is home! 

 

A gruffalo, What's a gruffalo ?

A gruffalo! Why, didn't you know?

 

"He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws"

 

"He has knobbly knees, and turned out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose"

 

"His eyes are orange, his tongue is black; He has purple prickles all over his back"

 

 

 

 

Steph

x



It's Mother's Day...

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers!

The things my mother taught me...

Always wear clean underwear, hehe, to be tolerant of others, patients is a virtue, have a open mind and an open heart, flexibility is key to everything, don't put all your eggs in one basket, or was that chicken's and if they don't like it who gives a damn!

What my Nanna has taught me...

Stick to your guns, be generous in all aspects of your life, stay strong, don't let anyone tell you it's over until your dead and don't let the bastards get you down!

My lovely mum, Dianne and my wonderful Nanna Janet.

This is what my Sista has taught me...

Say it how it is, don't give up or give in, do what you love to do, family and friends are essential and are to be treasured and valued, love is unconditional, who care's what other people think!

My awesome Sista Bek & me

I love the women in my life and will cherish them forever. xx



So this is how we did mother's day at our house...

Madison and me!

Madison trying to hide with my arm, is it working!!

Jaimee and me!
 

We get a little bit silly here!

Ewww, Madison always surprises you one way or another, haha!

 

 

Time to finish off the mother's day pressie. Madison needed me to make an extra trip to school because she was home with the croup and was so worried mummy wouldn't get her mother's day secret :( Only trouble is, she gave my secret to Adam because he had gone back to work and daddy needed a mother's day secret. Madison's quote "I love daddy on Mother's Day"! Bless her little cotton socks.

 

Daddy gets the cool love heart picture frame.

 

The modern artist look!

Again with that tormented artist look happening!



Madison painted this for me, yay! She had Mad painted on it and she said it's from Madi, I asked if she likes being called Madi and she said yes! I have always called her Madison, funny how you find out things. Again with the artist look, Bwaahhaa!

 

Jaimee with her creative look happening, not quite sure how to explain it, it's a bit like an Austin Powers look, oh behave :) !

My treasures.

My treasures and Ad's love heart because that's how Madison wanted it! Do you love my bowl Madison finished painting. Jaimee had got the sweet little vintage glass dish and soap roses at the mothers day stall at school. Love those stalls, it's always such fun to see what comes home with the girls.

Awesome art work and I love that my card has skulls on it!!

My card is very cool.

This is very cool, Madison has drawn Scrat and scrattie out of the movie Ice age and she has tried to write Madison and Jaimee but she has Chami. So cool.


Love my girls and another great day, thank you my little darlings for making my mothers day so special.

Steph

x