Ah, it’s Monday!

So I’m sitting here and it’s 6.25am Monday morning. DH has just left for work and I can hear DD15 is awake. She wakes up earlier than the others so she can jump in the shower before all of them. I’m always the last to have a shower (and I’m lucky if there is any hot water left!) The rest of the babes should be getting up in the next half an hour.

I made up some pancake mix last night so I could make pancakes for breakfast this morning but I just realised that there’s no maple syrup left! DD12 is going to complain but she can have honey on her pancakes just one time!

I have so much to do today so I’m posting my to-do list here. If you happen to see me online before all my list is crossed off, you have my permission to tell me to get off! LOL

OK, to-do:

• tidy up after kids leave for school
• clean out the fridge
• get grocery shopping done
• do meal plan for the week
• bake muffins
• finish laundry (started this last night to give myself a head start)
• work on assignments

I think that’s all. OK, so I’d better end this here because I just heard DS16’s alarm go. I’m off to make pancakes, and a cup of tea for me.

See you all later!

UPDATE:

I kinda got side-tracked and started cleaning out the kitchen cupboards instead of the fridge so I’m going to add that to tomorrow’s to-do list as well as a whole heap of other things! The muffins are baking. I’m just  waiting for the baby to wake up from her nap and then I have to duck down to Woolworths because I’m sure I saw that they have plastic tubs on sale this week. Need to get one that long enough to hold my rolls of wrapping paper (but that’s another post!)

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That’s why I love the internet!

We could be watching television or reading the newspaper and we come across or hear something that we don’t know about. In the past, I would have just taken no notice and moved on but it’s so easy now to find out about things quickly. For example, I had no idea what fractional ownership was. I heard it on tv last night so I typed the words into the search engine and learned that you can, with other people, partly own a vacation home which works out great in regards to costs, especially if you don’t use it all year round.

You learn something new every day!

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Air tools and colourful words

So now that DH has his GPS device, I need to think of something to get him for Christmas because the GPS was going to be either for his birthday or Christmas this year. I have heard him saying some colourful words to the drill that he currently owns (which is a cordless one that no longer holds it’s charge) so I might just have a look at some air tools like a power drill or hammer.

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To whom it may concern….

…if there is a delay in receiving a response to your email, or my blogs do not get updated or I don’t get around to your blog to drop my Entrecard or I don’t finish my assignments, IT’S NOT MY FAULT!

It’s because SOMEONE (looking in the general direction of DH) won’t get off my laptop!

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Birthday parties…how often?

We don’t work on a set schedule as to which year the kids can have a birthday party with their friends. If we don’t plan one where their friends will be invited, we always do an afternoon tea with the family, or offer a “drop in” invitation for icecream and birthday cake.

We do of course have birthday parties for the milestone birthdays. But this year will be a little different. DD12 insisted she wanted to have a birthday party last year for her 12th birthday so we said that if that happened she won’t be having one for her 13th birthday. She was fine with that so she got her Hawaiian Luau party. (I’m sure I blogged about it…go back and have a look if you like )

This year DD7 is having a party for her 8th birthday only because when we were discussing different themes, she said she would like a pirate party. So after this party, her next one with friends will probably be her 10th birthday because we’ll be celebrating her reaching “double numbers”.

DS16 didn’t want a birthday party for his 16th so we got the family together and went out to lunch to celebrate his birthday. DD15 wasn’t meant to have a party this year but she persuaded DH to let her have some friends stay over and then, funnily enough, some more friends turned up and it ended up being a bit of a party anyway *insert rolling eyes here*

So, to get to the main purpose of this post, it comes down to how often should the baby have parties in her first 5 years. When the 4 older babes were between the ages of 1 – 5, we planned parties for them as our finances allowed but I would like to have a party for her each year with family and close friends. Of course, when it comes to birthday parties, DH’s opinion is different to mine and he says that we don’t need to do that.

So, my question to you all……..how do you decide which year to have a full-blown birthday party? Do you just do it for milestone birthdays or is there a different method you use? I’d love to hear your thoughts

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Now I don’t have to…..

….tell him where to go!!

DH has been talking about getting a GPS device because with his job, he travels around the Sydney and South Coast area and often travels by himself. So I went online to do some shopping comparison in priced before we headed for the shopping centre.

I came across a site called digxa.com that looked interesting. It’s a free shopping comparison website that lists almost everything that you could ask for, from digital cameras, to household appliances to health and beauty products.

While the prices are not applicable to us (because it’s a US based website), I did get an idea of the different brands of GPS devices. So we went shopping and we found one in our price range that came in black or pink. DH took the baby to look at toys while I went with the cashier to finish the sale. When she asked if I wanted pink or black, of course I answered pink. Poor DH thinks that having a pink GPS device will somehow make a mockery of his masculinity…lol…but I think it matches nicely with the pink frangipani steering wheel cover. It IS my car after all!

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