Ros Davidson, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, Melbourne, Australia

Nightshift

I hate nightshift! Nat is on his second night of the weekend and things just couldn't get any worse. Well, that is how they feel at the moment... I just got Josh off into bed and Drew starts up crying and carrying on [he has diahorrea (sp.)] and then I am trying to juggle Drew in the pram and do some online stuff and I hear this cough come from Nikki's room. It is that cough that all you mothers will recongnise (sp.) as the vomit cough. Sure enough, I get into Nikki's room and she has vomited. Neither bed in her room has a mattress protector on it (great!) and then there is all the chucky stuff to deal with and Drew is still carrying on! Sheets etc. in the washing machine, Nikki resettled in the other bed (for now) and Drew is playing in the lounge room. It really sucks when you are the only one at home dealing with all the mess and there is problems with one kid after another.

Off to try and get something done other than rocking Drew to sleep (to have him wake up in the cot 5 seconds later), washing, putting a nappy on Josh who took it off before he feel asleep etc. So not a good night.... Ohhh and to top that off, there is talk at Nat's work that they may go to permenant days or nights. The guy on the opposite shift to Nat is the team leader so he will take days so that leaves Nat with... nights! Ahhhhhhh

Ros.

Catch up

My little Drewie is cruising! He started today... Woo hoo... It beats him pulling himself up on anything (including me) if you stand still for 5 seconds! Can get a little annoying when you are rushing around doing something like cooking dinner and everyone else is whinging!

I am feeling a little bit better now. I had a really good day yesterday but this morning I couldn't move again and felt so sluggish. I seem to get better as the day goes on but in the mornings I am just plain crap!

I have started my CKU rolodex swaps. Quite simple but I am happy with them. They are envelopes, only I plan on putting the envelope flap on the back of them (when I have finished them all) except I am unsure if I should just put it on the reverse side, same orientation as the front or if I should reverse it. They are being made for the rolodex's and if you use one of the spining ones, it is going to look wrong. Well, it will long wrong either way for some people depending on how they are planing on storing theirs.

Made an attempt at a wedding layout for the SC call. Don't like the way "Boyd" is but then it is already the second time I have done it and I am so over it! Simple layouts aren't supposed to take long... Yeah right, not this one. I messed around with it forever and am still annoyed at it. LOL, annoyed at a layout, totally!

I have nearly finished my 3 family EDM layouts. Well, I had finished last night but decided that my double needed something else. I have planned my 3 snapshot pags but need to get started on those too (even printed the photos too!)

Also in my spirit of getting organised I even printed out my tickets for my flights to New York and Boston and rang up about travel insurance. Worked out what I need for my classes at CKU (just need to find some photos). Been so good today, I washed (and hung it all outside, clothes now dry) and even folded and sorted AND put away all the washing (about 3 loads worth...) Woo hoo, I also got childcare clothes ready for tomorrow and pj's etc. ready for baths tonight.

Best go and find out what Nikki is crying about... Damm, it was nice and peaceful, her crying is shattering the tranquil thoughts I was having! Ha ha ha!

Ros

Forgot some pressies!

I totally forgot to list the pressies I got off Nat's family. Off his parents I got some scrapping stuff (mainly maya road) with a few other goodies including some Provo Craft foam stamps. Gotta love it when people give you things that relate you your hobbies! Nat's sister and nephew gave me money for Ikea and Nat's other sister is giving me money to spend at a scrapbook store in the US.

Heading back to bed again (my favourite place of late!)

Cheers,
Ros

MIA

Sorry I have been MIA for a week now... Last week was so busy with all the birthday celebrations going on (a quick run down to follow!)

- Sunday night at my mum's with my grandmother and siblings. All was well until I rang my brother at 6pm to find out where he was and "he forgot!" We ate dinner without him (since he took an hour to get there when we only live half an hour away) and waited for him for cake etc. My sister gave me a black long sleeved top that looks amazing on and does the "skinny" thing and a gift voucher for City Beach, and my mum gave me a handbag/purse card wishing me a happy birthday since I am shopping at Ikea with her visa for my present! So proud of my mum for making me an unusual card. She is crafty, has loads of supplies (that live at my house! LOL) but not usually much time... Go mum! Good on ya!

- Monday my birthday, worked all morning and then rushed home to take Drew to the doctors. Has a double ear infection... Not happy Jan! I didn't really enjoy my birthday, didn't actually open any presents on the day (aside from my US trip next month Nat and the kids gave me season 4 of Gilmore Girls. Nat the slack bugger didn't wrap it!) I felt as if my birthday wasn't mine since I worked and did the whole doctors thing. It wasn't until 4pm that I could actually sit down and do what I wanted for the day. I did a tiny bit of scrapping but since Monday night is my tv watching night there was little done.

- Tuesday, I worked again and had my dad and siblings over for dinner. Take away pizza and cake. Nice and simple and would you believe I stacked the dishwasher! No one helped or even offered! Not that it is hard, but come on, it wasn't for anyone else's birthday aside from Josh and me. My brother gave me a massage voucher for the local chemist (which I was thrilled with as he hadn't brought mine and Josh's presents till after work on Tuesday, as organised as ever!) I loved my voucher of my brother as it was something I would love to use and not some that would be a dust collector or something like that.

- Wednesday, had the day off from work and the kids (Josh's actual birthday) spent the morning buying some new papers at Paper Doll and getting Josh another present. Nat went to put his trike together on Tuesday and it was missing the axel. I was so disappointed at Nat and the trike as he was supposed to put it together earlier, like the week before. I rang around all Myer stores and no one had another trike and Frankston would get me another one in but not in time for his birthday. Hence why I wanted him to have another present as the trike was the main part of his present. Clothes etc. just don't cut it.
Had dinner with Nat's parents at the Cove, my meal was great, the kids were so tired from childcare even though I picked them up early. We came back here for cake and there was 3 cakes! Nat's mum made me one and cup cakes for Josh and Nat also got me a cake. (Nat was supposed to and his mum was going to make Josh's cake!) Slight miscommunication. *Sunday, we are still eating cake! LOL!

- Thursday, had mum's group here for Josh's birthday with a mini party for Joshie with his friends. Drove my dad home to pick up his ute as he sold his Statesmen (finally). Was exhausted driving him home and picked up Josh from a friends (as I also took Nat's mum home and we all don't fit in the car), picked up Nikki's script for her ear infection (yet another trip to the doctors) and when I got in the door I was too tired to cook, but hey it was the first time I had to cook in over half a week so I thought I had better make an effort. We ate late (for us) with Nat after 7pm and I barely ate my dinner. I was feeling so crappy I took some panadine and went to bed early.

- Friday, I woke not feeling much better but had to go to work again. My brother had the day off so there was no chance of me calling in sick. Worked till 4.30 then rushed to pick up the kids to go to my mum's place and my in-laws. Raced back home to get ready for dinner with my high school friends. We went out for dinner to celebrate my birthday with my friends but it ended up only being Nat, me and Glen (Nat's workmate). All my friends cancelled for some reason or another! They all want to catch up and give me my pressies but I am letting one of them organise it as I did, and look what happened! No one turned up!

- Saturday, I was crook as by late morning and we had gone and picked up the kiddies from grandparents. We came home and I spent 3 hours in bed!

- Sunday, Josh went to my grandmother's house for her birthday with my sister and the rest of us stayed home. I spent the morning in bed and another 2 - 3 hours there this afternoon. I have what feels like a head cold, the flu and lyrangitis (sp.) I have moments where I can't stay upright for too long as I get dizzy so going out anywhere is not an option. I am supposed to go to a Mattel fundraiser for childcare tomorrow but rang my mum's group friend who was going with me and told her she could have the extra tickets. I am so not well enough to go!

I plan on uploading some of the pics of the last week but have barely been o the computer as I have been so busy and now I am not well. I just got an e-mail my Sarah asking where I am so I thought I should attempt to take this week on my blog. Here's hoping tomorrow I will be feeling better.

Cheers,
Ros

P.S. Sorry some rambling and long!

Sunday.... sunday, sunday...

Today is the start of the birthday celebrations in my house (and quite a few days of me not cooking!) My birthday is tomorrow and Josh’s is on Wednesday and we have what seems like 50 million celebrations. I tried celebrating with everyone for Josh’s 1st birthday and it is difficult and easier having mini celebrations with everyone. Tonight I am having dinner with my mum, step dad and Oma (grandma) and my siblings and their partners. Tomorrow night Nat is cooking me dinner, Tuesday night is dinner with my dad, his partner and my siblings again. Wednesday night is with Nat’s family. Thursday night I actually have to cook (shock horror) and Friday night I am having dinner with some of my high school friends.

I had a home delivery of scrapbook supplies yesterday (thanks Sarah!). Some must have supplies I needed for my EDM layouts that I forgot to pick up when I was shopping this week… Bonus is I could work on them last night when Nat was at work (well as much as Drewie let me!).

Drew is teething and has conjunctivits (sp.) and had a temp. of 39.2. I got him up out of his cot to give him Panadol and as I was giving it to him (well attempting too, he kept turning his head saying “no, no no!”) he threw up everywhere. He was laying back (to give him the Panadol) and managed to get me, himself, Josh and a good portion of the floor beneath us. Thank goodness we were sitting on the kitchen floor tiles. I only managed to get ½ the Panadol dose into him and it didn’t nothing to help his fever. I called ‘Nurses on call’, great idea and I love that they made the phone number easy to remember (someone was thinking!) and they were a great help. Trying to get Drew to agree with their suggestions was fun I can assure you.

I got a huge order of scrapping supplies on Friday. Heaps of Scenic Route for EDM, more Heidi Swapp paper, Heidi Swapp album for EDM, some new reading including Clean & Simple Scrapbooking 1 & 2. Gotta love happy mail! I also got my Scrapbook Answers mag from the States only it is the April issue. LOL, I brought August/September issue on Thursday… LOL, I need to ring them and explain that Skye is my suburb and VIC is our state and get them to change the postcode. How does 3977 become 597 something? My mag went to SA for a while, then onto NSW and finally onto VIC. I have nothing but problems once I take out new subs in Amercia. Everything is fine once I get them sorted about 6 months layout but it is annoying during that time.

Also before I forget again here is my latest for DT layout. We had to scrap a layout 8 x 8. Since I don’t have an 8 x 8 album (and I am doing EDM in 9 x 9) I plan on adding a brown border once I get it back home. The stitching on this took me a little while but of course nothing else would do so I had to get it done…. LOL, for a couple of days it put e off stitching… Not for too long though, I started stitching another title last night! Sorry the scan of my layout isn't the greatest, it has a lumpy button which was making it harder to scan and I was feeling to lazy to take a photo of it (that and it was late!)

On a final note, how sucky is this. I don’t normally work on Mondays but I am working tomorrow (birthday and all). The truck driver has tomorrow off (why????) and normally I wouldn’t need to work but when we have both trucks going out full loaded… I have to work. For some unknown reason most of our contractors want huge jobs tomorrow. We have 310m of fencing going out. When most house blocks have a side fence of 35 – 40m (at the most) that is a lot of fences!

Cheers,
Ros

New jeans!!!!

With the lack of sleep I had Thursday night it was amazing I managed to last at work till 1.30pm and what is even more amazing that I managed to sort out quite a few problems! Do you think that is telling me to have less sleep more often? LOL...

I got a new pair of jeans yesterday. Clothes shopping is always a dangerous thing for me. Usually a depressing experience as I can't normally find what I am looking for. Well I tell a lie, I can but it usually looks terrible or is in the wrong size or something like that. Back to my story, I tried on one pair of jeans and they were good. No need to mess around and shop forever when the first pair is good. No problems with the depression stakes either... LOL, I also tried on a few jumpers (no go there) and a really nice dress. Nat would have loved it (just showed a hint of clevage) but it was too long for me (made me look shorter) and showed off my mummy tummy too much for me. I told Nat all of the above and he was nice enough to say "but most of your tummy has gone now, because you keep on losing weight!"
Good call, he noticed! LOL but you know how some things just don't do your body any justice, well that was what was happening....
Ohhh on the losing weight thing, I have another kilo in 2 weeks... Bonus! Considering I was stuck over 70 kilos for ages, I am loving it that I am getting closer to 60 kilos (slowly mind you!)

Off to read some more of the paper before Nat steals it and goes to work (his shift got swapped around this weekend) not happy, I hate night shift!

Bye!

Why?

On Triple M this morning they were asking how come questions. As in the ones your children ask you. For example, Bridg's son Charlie asked "How come you can't tickle yourself?" Well, I am asking why won't me kids sleep? I have been awake since 3am this morning when I had all 3 kids awake at various times. Drew went back to sleep finally after I changed his nappy and dressed him in his child care clothes (he was having issues with his tigger suit), Nikki fell asleep in our bed for small bits and Josh didn't sleep at all. I tried getting in his bed, having him in our bed, on his wiggles couch in our room and even on the couch in the lounge room with the tv on. Josh was still awake at 9pm when I got back from Scraptacular last night and had less than 6 hours sleep all night! Josh and Nikki are going to be in crappy moods at childcare today and will need sleeps by about 9am!

Of course I have to work today so I will only be working for a short time as I need some serious sleep! Can't do work with huge headaches that lead to miagrains (sp.) if I don't sleep and then I am completely useless anyway. Original plan for work today was work until about 2pm and then go to Frankston for some much needed new jeans. The pair I brought a while ago (after Drew was born) are too big now and look a little funny. The pair I wear most of the time are fraying at the heam and don't have a botton. It fell off long ago! LOL, so I am on the search for some hipster jeans that I can wear out etc.

I have fallen in love with Heidi Swapp’s butterscotch paint! I just love the colour. Haven’t used it yet but love the colour after seeing the water layouts she did for the July newsletter.

EDM comp. Is a happening… More so than my masters entry which was uncompleted for a second year in a row! I have all the ideas swirling and twirling around in my lentil and am waiting on product to arrive and substutes (sp.) will not do. Always the way isn’t it! LOL!

Off to eat some breakfast as the chocolate biscuit I had over an hour ago won't cut it for much longer!
Ros

P.S. I got the new Scrapbook Answers mag last night and there is some great doodling templates in there... Itching to try them out, just gotta find the right photos first.

Not a lot new here...

Not a lot new to report... Nikki has calmed down thank goodness! I don't think I could have taken another day of her testing and tricking etc. Probably a good thing I was working all day Tuesday (so tiring). Yesterday we my child free day, did a layout (have taken a photo of it) and spent ages online looking for some things for my EDM layout.... One store has what I want but haven't unpacked it and won't be unpacking it till next week. What the? Really annoying as I can't do anything until I have the item (Li'l Davis envelopes)

Took the kids to the local play centre for mum's group this morning. They are all asleep right now (except Drew) and Nat was supposed to be home so I could go out and get some things... Still at Bunnings (without his wallet) and not answering his phone.

He just rang me and realised he didn't have his wallet. He is on his way home now to pick it up and then turn around and go back to Bunnings. Meanwhile, my bedroom looks like a tip (moving the dryer out of there and into the laundry) and I can't even see my bed. Nat has filled it high with papers... I would go for a sleep except I can't find where I will fit. I would move it, but it is in a Nat organised system.

Enough whinging (or stop whinging mum) as Josh tells me at times!

Ros.

Curly headed monster, free to a good home!

Does anyone want a curly headed monster? Free, to a good home. Well, free regardless... This afternoon after the whole cordial episode (see previous post) Nikki has been driving me crazy. She hasn't had an afternoon nap, and spent the time in her room singing and and saying 'hi to the dogs out the window'.

While Josh was still having his nap this afternoon, Nat called my outside to check out his handy work regarding the retaining wall (over 30m finally finished including the seat on the top) and to talk about the sprinklers. Whilst outside Nikki decides to lock the sliding door and lock us outside. With no keys or phone and the front door being locked, we had to talk her through unlocking the door. For the most part of it, she wanted us to knock on the sliding door and she would knock back and wave 'hi'. Eventually she unlocked the door for us and we got inside. Of course she let us in after I sent Nat to Josh's window to wake him up to help us out!

Just now, she was playing with the spoons in the culterly (sp.) door, (nothing unusual there, for this house) and I was folding the washing and I noticed that she had a spoon in the bechamel sauce of the lasagna (the top layer of tonights dinner). Telling her off and taking the spoon away (and moving the lasagna) I noticed Drew's face was quite dirty. I asked her if she was feeding Drew to which she proudly responds "YUP!"

So, does anyone want my divine Miss Nikki?
Ros

Monday bloody monday!

What was everyone else’s children doing at 12.23pm today? Well mine were in the bath (Nikki and Josh.) Any ideas why? (See pic)...

The decided to take the cordial bottles out of the pantry and put them on the bench, open them up and drink straight out of them. (Stop laughing Fiona, it is not funny!) Josh hadn't drank any but Nikki had! All over her clothes and have stained her white top and singlet (clothes till soaking). Not happy and I guess it si payback for me trying to finish the stitching on my DT layout but grrrr I tell you. It was not what I needed today when I was already having a grumpy/moody day with mood swings galore!

I got my new SC today. I was pleased as it had a layout of Joshie and I in it. Must scrap some more as that was the last one I had accepted and it was accepted in April!

Oh and since Blogger is playing nice today I managed to upload my create journal from Jen Hall.

Not a lot else to add at the moment except for the kids are being "delightful". They are all currently asleep or in bed singing to themselves (Nikki) and out of my hair at least. Thankfully Nat is home today, working tomorrow (but then so am I) and I am home alone on Wednesday (Nat at work and the kids at childcare!) I think I will need the break! And for once I don't have any appointments or errands to run (yet!)

I went to the optomitrist (sp.) on Friday and had my eyes tested. Got new glasses and Nat picked them up this morning for me. One problem though, I liked them on Friday but don't like them today. They look different when you are looking at them with stickers on the frame etc. Plus they are so uncomfortable compared to my old glasses. I got the same script and everything so you are probably wondering why I bothered getting new glasses if they are the same but Nikki helped shape the frames of my old ones.... Not happy Jan! Need to take them back and get the nose pieces adjusted. Hopefully, that will make them a little more comfy.

Off to send the singing girl back to bed!
Ros