Feeling a bit crappy…

so I thought, what better place to vent than my very own blog. It’s nothing major just a bit of frustration.

Feeling crappy in my crafty world -  I am so behind with my scrapbooking it’s not funny! I have so much that I want to get done but just finding it hard to get the time these days. I am also wanting to try making some clothes for the kids, but I have not had any chance to get to the shops for patterns! I was hoping to get some scrapping done tonight but right now I need my wind down time and then it’s time to clean up the house from the days Chaos.

 Feeling crappy in my cyber world -  I have been seriously MIA lately from not only my blog, but also the places I like to chat. There has been a couple of times that I have been able to get on to say g’day, and promise I will be back and more frequently, but it just doesn’t seem to happen. Actually, I did try to get onto the general chat thread in 3AS today, but it was closed, still yet to investigate where to chat now.

Feeling crappy in my mothering world  – Again, nothing serious. It’s just that Ashca has been getting really crappy with her feeding lately. She has totally weaned off my right side and is now also getting very bad on my left side. I have started giving her the bottle and she absolutely loves it. On Saturday I had to express because we went out during feed time and Ashca was at home with my Mum having a bottle. I only got a measley 30mls! I know that expressing you don’t get as much out as the baby would, and then on top of that, hand pumps are even worse, but still, 30mls! It’s ridiculous! So anyway, here I am totally hating breastfeeding because she is so bad at it now, getting very little out when expressing and the having a baby that LOVES the bottle, so I guess you can see which road I am heading down. So far, I am breasfeeding her for the first 2 feeds of the day, and the 4th feed is a bottle. The third feed however is me trying to breastfeed, but if she is being difficult, I give her a bottle. I know that wont last long as she will probably turn that feed into a constant bottle fed too, but I can handle that. So, when that happens it will be half/half, which is ok. But the problem is, I know very well that the breastfeeding will most likely go downhill very quickly from now on. She will slowly drop each breastfeed and turn it into a bottle feed. It’s hard to take. I don’t want to stop breastfeeding, due to the cost of formula and also just plain and simply cos I feel quilty if I stop. I know I shouldn’t feel like that, but I do. Anyway, that’s why I feel crappy in that department.

On the upside, I am feeling good about some other things. The housework has been manageable of late. I have been keeping relatively on top of it As much as you can expect anyway! Oh except for today, but I have an excuse for that… we swapped the girls rooms over. And the other good thing is that the things I feel crappy about will not last, so it’s ok.

Anyway, thanks for my little vent. I am now off to check out some other stuff online. Catch you later!

The scrapping as promised…

Chocolate crackles:

wrinkles:

you are loved:

getaway:

6 months:

This is a double layout I did for the twins 6 month milestone. I have created a mirror image effect. Each of the pages can be separated later though when the girls are all given the pages I have made for them.

(sorry for the dodgy scanning!)

Ashca 6 months:

Gemma 6 months:

Well tonight I have been rather  productive. I completely tidied up the toy room. I threw out a boxfull of crappy toys and organised all the rest. I have to say it looks rather good in there. Plus I feel much better about the little ones getting in there now that they are on the move, no more dangerous little things to be found!

Didn’t get to sort out all the clean washing from today, but I can do that when kids are awake, can’t really do the toy room when kids are awake. So the washing has been moved on to tomorrows list of things to do.

Alrighty, it’s 10pm, so that means bedtime for me. Nighty night!

Slap on the wrist!

I have been so very slack on the net lately.

Really I have been WANTING to get on to all my usual catch up points like EB, 3AS, friends blogs and of course my blog, but I just haven’t had the time lately. I have been using all my spare time looking for work, which still nothing good has come up. And if something good has come up, I can’t do it! Very disheartening. I suppose it is what I should expect when I am trying to look for work from home that isn’t an internet scam or party plan. I guess something will come up eventually.

Well I suppose I better fill you in on what’s been happening, lets go for the subcatergories style…

IMMEDIATE FAMILY 

Well you know all about me and my job hunting so I wont go into anymore about that. And Israel is just the same old same old, busy with work…. so…. moving right along to the girls!

Chloe is going really well at the moment. I have noticed her grow up a lot over the last few weeks, in good ways and bad! Her speech is really coming along now and her intellect too! She understands soooooo much now, it’s scary! She has been testing boundaries a lot more now though, her latest thing is throwing things, today she actually hit Gemma with a toy!

Gemma is going really well too. She starting sitting a little bit last night. Started off sitting with a bit of help from Israel, then moved on to him just being there to catch the odd fall, then by the end of it she sat for about 10-15 minutes all by herself! She didn’t do it today, but that’s ok, she will get there.

Ashca has been also coming along really well. Lately she has been getting up on all hands and knees and rocking backwards and forwards trying to crawl but not going anywhere. Well this afternoon she did it! She gets up and then throws herself forward, then gets up to do it all again. She can get about a metre forward quite easily now. I have recorded it on my phone, I’ll see if I can upload it on here, otherwise I can text it to anyone that wants to see it. Ashca has been super grumpy lately though. Not sleeping well and cranky when she’s awake. She has been outright refusing the right breast so I spoke to my health nurse about that and she told me to wean that breast and just feed her on the left. I am a bit uncomfortable because of it, but I know it wont last long. However, she is still pretty fussy on my left side so I am wondering if maybe she is starting to wean herself. She only feeds for about 5 mins maximum 4 times a day, and then when it comes to 11pm for her dreamfeed she drinks a 240ml bottle! She gets so cranky when she sees Gemma have a bottle, she wants it soooo bad! I have been trying to feed Ashca first and then give Gemma her bottle, but that still doesn’t always help. Maybe my breastfeeding days are coming to an end.

EXTENDED FAMILY 

I don’t usually write about extended family, yet I feel there is a need this time. My Grandfather has been a bit sick lately and has been in hospital again. He went in for pneumonia and kidney failure and was given about 5 months to live, if that. Well yesterday he was just diagnosed with a cancerous tumour on the lung and is very sick. He is 88 so they wont be treating it, he is just having morphine for the pain. He is unable to eat and has reflux and vomitting. So anyway, he’s not in a good way. It’s affecting my whole family a bit as my Nanna died of lung cancer only 6 years ago, so it’s bringing back a lot of memories.

SCRAPPING 

I have been doing a bit lately, but I will have to come back to show them as I haven’t scanned them in yet. I had a little scrap date with my new friend Tracey last night and it was heaps of fun! She has soooooo many funky tools, I think I may have to steal them Trace!

OUR NEW TOY

The other day I was so not coping with the heat. I was litteraly dripping in sweat! So, I sent Israel out to buy a cooler. He came home with the most lovely contraption! I am now in heaven! We have one of those mobile refrigerated units. We have put it in the loungeroom and the old one is in front of the twins room. Our house is not like an iceblock, but at least bearable now!

That’s about it, so now it’s time for PHOTOS

Chloe

Gemma

Ashca at a wedding we went to recently

Daddy of the year! He got Ash to sleep during the ceremony!

The happy couple – Carissa and Darren Bragg!

Gemma sitting for the first time!

Well that’s it from me for now. Will come back soon with those LO’s!

Congratulations Angela!

Chloe just helped me do the “lurking call chocolate draw” and Angela won! Thanks to everyone for posting, it’s good to know who is reading my blog. Angela, what flavour chocolate block do you like?

Sorry I have been very slack with my blog for the last week or so. I have been very busy and when I need to prioritise things in my life, the blog comes as one of the last things to be done. I have still been taking photos regularly, but I can’t upload them just now as I can’t find the camera, I think Israel must have taken it to work with him today. Promise I will be back to show them off though!

So, now I guess I should fill you in on why I have been so busy. Well, thursday night we had our traditional Friday night dinner with the Batten’s. It was changed to Thursday night due to them having their Dedication night for the school on Friday night. Friday I went to twins club, then came home for my cleaner and for the girls to have their naps. Then off we went again for the twins to have their immunisations and for a doctor check up for me. Then home again for dinner. It was a really crazy day on Friday as I was so busy, the kids were cranky and I was really behind on housework. Israel and I needed a little de-brief that night!

Saturday we had church. We decided to go back to Lilydale this week and I am really happy there. I don’t think we will move churches afterall. After church we went to one of our church friends house for lunch. It was really nice to get to know them, and some other people that were also there, better.  We had to leave early though as we had to come home for a surprise party that we were holding. My very good friend Catherine and Scott are moving to Townsville for Scott’s work, so I decided to throw them a little surprise going away party here. it worked well. Scott knew about it, but Catherine didn’t, and I am pleased to say she did get a surprise! I am going to miss her so much though!

Sunday was another very busy day for us. We went to a wedding, but before the wedding I had to get Chloe and Gemma packed up to stay at Israel’s parents and get Ashca packed up to go the wedding with us. Ashca came with us as she is still breastfed.  It was a beautiful wedding. Very traditional! I will post some pics later.

Okay, I need to run. Need to go and pick up my bro from school. Will come back later for more goss!

Need $$$

Actually I lie, it’s more of a want than a need.

You see I am finding that my budget doesn’t really allow for my scrapping addiction, so I am in search of a way to earn some extra dollars in my pocket.

I have been looking into a few ways I can do this.

First of all I asked my Tupperware lady if she needed an admin assistant. I know how to do all the behind the scenes work involved in tupperware as I used to do it. At the moment her daughter helps her, but she said I may be able to help her in the future.

I have also asked my LSS if they had any shifts available, but they also told me not at the moment, but maybe in the future.

I also thought of babysitting/Family Day Care, but Israel doesn’t think it’s a very good things for me to do when I already hae 3 of my own to look after.

I have had a few other ideas but nothing really is working out in my head.

Does anyone else have any ideas of what I could do?

Something I could do from home, cash in hand would be best. I would appreciate any help with this!

Happy 1/2 birthday!

Ashca and Gemma turn 6 months old today!

I took them outside for a little photo shoot to commemorate the day! Here are my fav pics…

First of all Gemma:

The Ashca:

Ashca wasn’t really in the mood for having her photo taken today, so I gave her a toy to play with, well Gemma was a tiny bit jealous of that

Then when I took the toy of Ash, she let me know what she thought!

And lastly, here is my big girl Chloe:

Okay, that’s it from me for now, catch you all later!

Oh and I am guessing from my replies to my challenge post, I only have Jodi, Mum, Israel and Gemma read my blog?!

It’s Israel’s turn!

Tonight, we decided it would be Israel’s turn to show the photo of the day. Partly because he likes doing stuff like this, and partly cos I forgot to do it! *blush*

He gave me 3 to choose from to post on here, but I can’t decide which one to use, so here are them all…

Today is been yet another busy day. Mothers group in the morning, then home for nap time, then straight out again for shopping, picked up Cam from school, took him home and gave babies milk there, came home and the girls all decided it was time to be cranky bums and scream and whinge, so I took them all for a walk, so dinner didn’t get cooked, but Israel brought home pizza! I love that man!

I have decided that tomorrow really needs to be a slower day for me. I still have to go out and do the fruit and vegie shopping in the morning, but the arvo is set aside for making sure that I cook a nice meal for the family (we haven’t been eating well lately), and I want to be able to take the kids for a walk again at crazy hour, just to fill in time.

Well I am knackered. Think I might go and do the rollover feed a bit early tonight and then head off to bed.

Nighty night!

I am so not a summer person!

I have really not coped well with the heat today! All I wanted to do was sleep all day, but of course with 3 littlies, I can’t do that, so I just had to cope. Fortunately Israel came home early for me tonight! Thanks heaps for that babe! Really appreciated it! And also my Mum and Cam dropped in for a bit during the crazy hour so that was a huge help during bath time etc. Thanks heaps Mum and Cam! It was good to see you both again!

Well since I have felt so blergh today, I have sompletely forgotten about my pic of the day until now! Slap on the hand for Dannii! However I am still going to show this pic. I took it the other day. I had put the babies in the play pen and was pottering around the house. I walked into the loungeroom to tidy up in there and found these two little cuties smilies out the cage at me! It was a look like “See Mum, we really are cute, can we come out now?”

How cute are they?!

Well I have been busy tonight writing out my shopping list. Usually I do online shopping fortnightly but I have decided that I would like to do a weekly shop and actually go to the store this time. I will see how it goes. I have found which Coles around here has a twin capsule trolley and they have even advised me that they can bring the trolley out to the car for me to load the kids into! I am so excited! They only have one of these trolleys though, so I will have to ring ahead on the day and book it.

So tomorrow, I am doing the Coles shopping as well as going to Mothers group. Then on Wednesday I plan on doing the fruit and vegie, butcher and nappy shopping. Yes they are all different shops! They are all just near each other, it’s like I only go to one shop.

Now there is something else I would like to do on this post. I have been surfing around my friends blogs and noticed that a few of them are doing a lurker call, so I am going to do it too! Basically, I am asking that people who read my blog, if you could please comment! I can see that a lot of people look at this blog, but I don’t get very many comments. So here’s the deal, comment on this post! Everyone who comments on this post before the end of the week will go into the draw to win a block of choccie! Your choice of flavour! (Miranda, I bet I know what you will choose!) You have to comment by Sunday as I will draw it on Monday morning! Now who reads my blog?!!!!!

(By the way Israel, your not included!)

Okay, well I am now off to lurk on EB.

Huge weekend!

I have had the biggest but funnest weekend!

Gregg and Jeanette were here Saturday arvo and Saturday night, with Gregg’s brother Robbie. I love having them come and stay. And I was so proud of Chloe and Coby, they didn’t fight as much as they have before!

Then this morning I had a Tupperware party. It went really well. I had so much fun! We made a really yummy mocktail too! Thanks to everyone that came! I only have about $200 more in sales and 1 party booking to get to get the gifting that I want, so hopefully that will happen.

After the party, Jodi and Shannon dropped over, it was really good to see them again. They didn’t come for the usual Friday night dinner this week as it was their Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, so they made up for it today. We were all umming and ahhing over what to do this afternoon, but we took too long to decide, and nothing happened. It was a good thing though cos I was stuffed, and ended up having a Nanna nap!

Well tonight I am ignoring housework and catching up on some scrapping! Better get to it. Just want to post my pic for the day… my gorgeous boy Samson!

Okay, willl be back tomorrow!

Quick post and run…

Not going to chat tonight, will be back later for more updates, but just the photo of the day for now.

Gregg and Jeanette are here for the night, and so my photo for today is of Jeanette and her darling little cutie daughter Kiari. She (Kiari) was laughing her head off at Chloe yelling out “Daddy, where are you?!”.

Okies, be back later.