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25.01.2022 6:30am BookWeek Day and I’m laminating shit and doing last minute costume prep in my pjs. It’s also the busiest day of the week for my business I’ve got exactly two hours to turn 3 mostly uncooperative humans into Creative Creatures and Wild Minds without losing my mind... Stay tuned for updates. . .
24.01.2022 Used up some Christmas present vouchers today and went to Reading Cinemas Belmont to watch The Croods; A New Age Kids absolutely loved it! One we’ll be watching again that’s for sure! Movie vouchers have to be a favourite present for the kids to receive
24.01.2022 KC just asked me to pick what age I’d like to be when I die.... Is this the part where I start sleeping with one eye open?
23.01.2022 Book week costume making time! The invisible possum idea is out the window thank goodness!! Can anyone guess what we’re making?
20.01.2022 Drive through Barista: here’s your coffee Me: thanks, love you *dies quietly and drives off really really fast ... I can never get drive through coffee again... ever!
19.01.2022 We’ve. Been. Marked. Also my imagination runs away a little bit now and then
18.01.2022 Me: oh mini what would I do without you Mini; probably sleep A LOT more Me: well yea but there’d be less smiles in my day ... Mini: **smiling like the goofball she is Who else trades sleep for smiles?
18.01.2022 Friday arvo fort building! It’s very serious business! All I want to do is sit down with a wine and chuck on a movie. ... Instead I’m being a mean mum and making them play first while I’m getting organised for next week by getting a head start on program writing and staying away from the wine Happy Freaking Friday Everyone!!
17.01.2022 8:15 BOOKWEEK How do I put my hat on now?!
17.01.2022 When a 6yr old finds a screwdriver set I surrender... Monday can go eat a d@*$
17.01.2022 7:05 the last remaining survivor has been removed from the tank. . .
14.01.2022 Last night while I was in the shower and all 3 kids were in bed all I could think was why are mini and I not vibing right now?! It’s been driving me crazy all week. Mini and I are like besties. She feels my vibe and she’s a very knowing little being. Why were we not vibing?! ... I am in parent edition sensory overload right now. I’m distracted. Stressed. Sick of the pointless whinging. Sick of the lack of sleep. I am all Mummed out right now! Mini is confused and out of sorts and she needs her mummy. She’s whingey and clingy and wants to quite literally be attached to me. I’m over stressed, over tired, agitated, didn’t finish all my jobs on the weekend so feel like I’m playing catchups, my floors are dirty and I’m all touched out. I need my space, my time and for nobody to be physically touching me or chewing me ear off non stop. For once we are at different ends of the spectrum and neither of us are caving to the other. We’re just not vibing. And that’s ok. Because we’re both going through a lot. And we are both dealing in different ways. Today is a new day. Despite wanting to karate chop her for touching me or block my ears when she starts babbling the second she wakes up I’m gonna stop. And listen. And snuggle. And pretend like that’s what I want. Because when she feels safe and secure and comfortable, we’ll be vibing again. ** not to miss the big kids who are driving me UP THE FLIPPING WALL with hormones and bickering... but that’s another story Anyone else hit parent sensory overload this week?
14.01.2022 Or as my mum used to say hands behind your back so I know you can’t break anything!
12.01.2022 8:10am BOOKWEEK now we’re talking science KC: technically we can all just go as ourselves because we are ALL creatures...
12.01.2022 Me: I haven’t seen that duck family this week I wonder where they are Brad: um there’s a dead duck right there mum Mini: oh no is it the mummy or the daddy ... Whoops
12.01.2022 Breakfast chats with KC KC: if you eat people are you a cannibal or a carnivore? Me: both ... KC: do you know anyone that eats people? Me: ummmm no KC: does anyone? Me: I’m sure someone somewhere in the world knows someone that eats people KC: um. Ew.
11.01.2022 THIS!!! This is why TikTok is banned in my house!! No Fucken TikTok no Facebook, no fucking social media is NEEDED for children!! Get them off the fucking technology and outside! This is happening WAY too often these days and the fact it gets hidden so kids find it by mistake is absolutely Fucken sickening! Social media and kids is a topic that really grinds my gears (can you tell?!) ... KC has a phone to contact her parents but I’ll be fucked if I let her have ANY social media apps on there! Kids have it tough enough these days. Social Media is quiet literally killing our children!!!! Why are we allowing this to happen?! We, as parents, are ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPN because we don’t want our kids left out, or to be different than all the other kids that do have these apps. Stop being so soft and be a parent! Stop posting shit saying oh just be careful what your kids watch, just make sure you know what they’re doing the truth is we DONT know what they’re doing! Shit is hidden, it’s purposely disguised so that kids WILL see it even if we are vigilant Gets kids OFF social media!!!!
11.01.2022 This is about as close as I get to a huge squeezy cuddle from this one! She wanted a snuggle, couldn’t do it so she patted my arm. Not awkward at all... Anyone else have a super NOT affectionate child?
10.01.2022 Remember back in the day we all had those sticky hands? We used to fling them at the walls and windows and it would get caught in the carpet and our parents got mad AF and threw the now fur covered sticky piece of grossness in the bin? Well. My kids were given one. ... It’s now on the roof and is stickier than superglue... I’m sure as I lay on the floor relaxing and stretching it’ll fall off, catch me by surprise and land in my hair which I’ll then have to shave off. Bloody kids. I tell ya. . . #IThinkImTurningIntoMyMother #StickyHandsAreOneStepAboveSlime
10.01.2022 Let’s talk MUM GUILT How do you guys all feel about mum guilt? What makes you feel guilty? ... Have you had a lifestyle change that’s created some guilt? I know I’m not alone in their guilt thing but gosh this mum gig is HARD!
09.01.2022 7:35 BOOKWEEK kaitlyn has just informed me she has a very fragile head under her hair
09.01.2022 7:20am BOOKWEEK There’s blood! Psychosocial seems an appropriate song at this point
08.01.2022 It was Mini... This is definitely something she’d say... Or even kaitlyn. ... Yeah. Ok. Fine. I agree... I do need to get my shit together
08.01.2022 8:30 BOOKWEEK WE FLIPPING DID IT!!! This years theme Creative Creatures And Wild Minds... Mini is Horton from Dr Suess’s book Horton Hears A Who SuperNerd is Cyril Rioli (who I figure counts as a wild mind) from a book called Fox Swift and the Golden Boot KC: is Thing 2 from Dr Suess’s book Cat In A Hat I can’t believe KC has a costume on AND hair done and she hasn’t screamed at me tooooooo much
07.01.2022 Such an important day today. And a reminder not to get so caught up in first world problems that we lose sight of what’s truly important
07.01.2022 Mini: mum how does an egg get fertilised for the mummy Me: RIGHTIO BEDTIME EVERYONE !!!
06.01.2022 Took the kids down to the river for for stand up paddle boarding and canoeing this morning. First time on a SUP and woweeeee I need to do some work on my balance... Towards the end of this video you’ll see brad being a total boy ... Anyone got a SUP? Recommendations? I think we might need one next Christmas
06.01.2022 Last night after the kids were in bed I went for my nice hot it’s been a long day shower. I had a fresh razor, my legs were gonna be smooth. I was gonna exfoliate and prune the leg forest. Relax my tired body under the hot water. Listen to some gentle music. ... As I stepped into the shower and felt the relaxing hot water wash over me I turned around to see Mini. On the toilet. Pooping. Instead of my planned relaxing refreshing shower. I stood there, washing my body as fast as I could, razor lay forgotten, exfoliating body wash swapped for a quick boring soap while my 6 year old grunted and groaned and eventually laid back on the toilet seat to relax while she waits for the poo to be ready And that’s basically all you need to know about being a parent. . .
06.01.2022 Is anybody else grieving for the year that wasn’t? 2020. The year when nothing happened.... Except stuff did happen. Lots, actually. We just watched it from our own personal 1.5m bubble. When this year began, what was 2020 to you? What you were goals? Your dreams? Your plans? Did you achieve them? I’m stuck in a weird grieving period in my life at the moment. It’s no secret my personal life has been an epic shit show over the last 2 years. I left my husband. I lived alone and had 50/50 custody and had to learn how to be without my children. After a decade at home with them, entire days without them was hard. I suffered anxiety attacks and found it hard to be alone. I fell in love, but for real this time. I lost love. I packed a suitcase and ran away. Literally. I lived out of the suitcase. The kids slept on the floor. We stayed with a friend. We found a house. A school. A life. The last two years have been HARD. 2020 for me was my freaking year. After all we’d been through it was my year to rebuild. To create a life for us. A new life. With no more toxic bullshit. No more guilt, no more boundaries, no more games. I planned and I planned and I made more freaking plans. And then mini got hurt. Permanently. But we overcame that and we started again. In February. I opened a business. Covid-19 closed my business. I nearly lost my bank accounts. I nearly lost my kids. Forever. I lost love. I got hurt. And sick. I went to court and lost the right to keep my babies safe (if only for a brief time) My girls got hurt. My son got the biggest rejection a child can ever have. My girls grew brave and protective. My girls helped another girl to stay safe. Because of my girls bravery I won the right to keep my children safe. Forever. We grieved our losses. We grieved what this year should have been. We grieved for the innocence of childhood my girls lost. We grieved the many months of good health I’ve lost. We grieved the ways in which the children have had to step up this year. We grieved for the small town we loved so much. We grieved for the many experiences we’ve missed this year. We grieved for the people we love so much who can no longer be with us. And we grieved for the trust in ourselves that we lost along the way. This year has been hard. For everyone. And its ok to grieve for the year that you wanted. In fact, take your time to feel that grief. 2020 was not our year. It did not go to plan. But you and me baby, we’ve got this! Let’s grieve and learn and live and let’s keep doing that in 2021. Let’s hope and pray and manifest all those things we want to be in our future. Life is what happens while you’re busy making plans. 2020 made that statement truer than ever before.
05.01.2022 7am BOOKWEEK We’ve got butterflies and nerves and anxiety exploding everywhere And mini’s still asleep
05.01.2022 Is there anything stronger than industrial strength?! The Killer Coffee Co. is my fave for a super strength coffee but I feel like the attitude is still stronger
