Sun and Sand, plus some random thoughts

Just before Christmas we took off to the coast to recharge and enjoy some sun, sand and sea.
It was just what we needed and everyone had a great time.

But now that Christmas is over and we are approaching a new year I've been wondering about what I should do with this here blog. You see I spend most of my blogging time and energy over at And Sew We Craft and have kind of just left this blog to it's own devices for the whole of 2015. I'm not sure what direction I want to take it in. Do I just share family life here and leave all my crafting for ASWC? But how much of my family life do I want to share? Do I want to share more about Darcy's development as he enters toddlerdom?

I really have no idea but hopefully I figure it out soon. In the meantime I'm just going to enjoy the school holidays with my kids and take it slow.

See you in 2016!

Finding Peace

Like I've said in recent weeks, I'm have been on big ball of anxious but I'm finding my way through it at the moment and I'm slowly coming out the other side. 

I've been coping by doing a few things. 

I've been writing to do lists and actually crossing things off them, I've been reading a few mum related books, I've been spending time talking to the kids about the next few months and I've been going to bed as soon as I feel tired, even if it is only 7:30pm...

One such book that I've been reading is The Happiest Mom by Meagan Francis. I've had it in my bookcase for a while and I flick through it occasionally reading the snippets that I need to at any given time.

And you know what? It's been helping, I don't want to spend my impending days with a newborn thinking the mantra 'this too shall pass'. I want to savour the moments with a newborn, because they may just be our last. 

Yes, I am going to be tired and yes the house isn't always going to be clean. But we will be a family of 6 and that's just what we wanted. 

One of the chapters of the book is called 'Aim Low and Go Slow'. And well, that sounds a good enough mantra for me for the next 3/4 months. 

The kids will be loved, fed and wearing clean clothes. But those clothes might not have come from their wardrobes, but instead probably the clean washing pile. They might get breakfast for dinner occasionally, but that's cool too. 

So whilst, I can't say that I'm not completely freaking out about how I am going to manage it all. I am looking forward to being a mama to 4 very very much. 

Five on Friday

I've lost my blogging mojo at the moment... so here are 5 quick things that happened this week.

1. Miss Mahli received a virtue certificate for peacefulness this week. She might be a peaceful child at school, but she certainly isn't at home...

2. My body has been reminding me about my PCOS situation and it has certainly been kicking my ass and screwing with my head (hence the lack of blogging mojo)

3. After months of trying to figure out if we want to send Ethan to kindy next year we found out yesterday that if he want him to go to kindy at all he needs to go next year or he will miss out altogether. It seems the Western Australian school system is the most inflexible in the whole country. To say I am pissed that the option has been taken out of our hands in an understatement. I am 99.9% sure that is isn't ready for the style of kindy they offer here but if he doesn't go to that he has to go straight into 5 full days a week of Pre-Primary having had no experience of the school environment...

4. B is working today, it is supposed to be his day off. He also has to work Sunday and Monday too. They are supposed to be his days off also. Again, pissed about that. (Are you seeing a trend here??) But at least he is home tomorrow to take Caden to cricket as Caden has been really looking forward to that.

5. It's Friday! So I have to at least me happy about that?

How did your week treat you?

Some things on my mind today

 

• Do you know that I have about 10 posts saved to draft but I can not seem to finish one of them?

• Or that I am about to throw out my keyboard because it refuses to register most keys on the first attempt therefore that sentence just took about 3 minutes with many backspaces.

• I was ready to jump down a school mums throat yesterday afternoon . They were walking behind me when I was walking into school to pick Caden up. Mahli and Ethan were with me. A little girl wanted to take her shoes off and her mother said no. She commented that the baby wasn't wearing any shoes, and her Mum replied something along the lines of him being a poor little thing and that his Mummy should put shoes on him. What she didn't know was that I had tried to put shoes on him before we left the house but it resulted in a tantrum and I was kind of in a hurry so I choose to pick my battles and put him in the car and pick the kids up.

• I wish that the weather would just make up its mind. Is it going to rain or be sunny. Please decide soon. This humidity is killing me and making Ethan really really cranky

• I had a meeting with work yesterday about my return in May. It did not go that well, but I will wait and see what they come back to me with. It appears I can't return to my old job, but I will be fighting that one.  

• I am thinking about nominating myself for a position on the Kindy Committee. I think I have just gone mad...

  What random thoughts are popping into your head today?