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Hey y'all, so I am in the market for a new car (my current car needs a loan and a half to fill up at the pump). These are the two cars that caught my eye because they look nice and roomy for my little angels to ride in.  These are also the two that seem to be easier on the eyes and easier on my wallet as I am raising my babies on my own.

The two cars I was looking at were the Dodge Magnum and the Ford Freestyle; both 2005 models (that’s the year my oldest was born). They look nice all around (they look good on gas but they don’t look gimmicky or tank-like in shape).

Specifically, I would like to know how "kid friendly" these two are cars are. How easy would it be to put the car seats in? Can I fit more than one car seat? Would it be relatively easy to check on my angels as I am on the road? Their safety is my main concern... Mommy SOS
http://vlane.com/comparison/5227
 

hi all just having a bit of a moment sick of having to pay for some one to sit in the car so i can practice driving sick of hearing how other were able to get their licence before the left home or even how their mum helps them out not that i am knocking it i just get sik of having to pay for help cause i do not have what others have....

Hi to all my Minti friends,

Things are slowly getting back to normal around our house - I did think once - Would they ever get back to normal?

My hubby has been quite sick Easter - got better - went back to work - then his health concerns started all over again?!! He hasn't been able to work 'cause of it!! Which is not good as he has to see a specialist - but get an apptment  to see this specialist yet!!

There are days where he can hardly get out of bed - no energy!! His health concerns started from blood clots in his legs - went from bad to worse!! So now I'm doing things for both of us and getting the kids to school!! He has improved but he has to have an op to fix the prob,too!!

I'm so tired alot lately - try to rest during the day - but there is always plenty of things to do - household chores,things school related and generally just worrying about the bills to pay!!

There is days where I don't feel like getting out of bed myself - let alone - to do anything that I have to do - at the best of times!!

The kids have been at each other alot lately - mainly all school related problems coming home!! I just feel there are days where I get so weighed down by all this,too!! Know what I mean?!!

Then Centrelink seems to join in to make our lives more unbearable,too!! I'm under enough stress and worry regarding my hubby and kids and then they add to the pile - don't they?!!

Gee,I feel heaps better - getting that off my chest - so to speak today!!

When I start feeling that things are starting to get a little better - something always unravels my thoughts and feelings,too!! But I guess I still can say that I can still smile and have a good laugh when things do seem rather tough on all sides,too!!

Thanks for listening to me - so glad that there is MINTI - a most worthy webpage,too!!

If anyone has any thoughts on how to deal with anything that has happened to us - that it would be truly - fanastic!!

Cheers,Roz.

 

just a update cooper came home from school and was happy. went to bed early and in school clothes!

thanks all

kate

Arrgghhh why do kids make it sooo hard for me and my hubby in the morning. My 2 boys are in yr 5 and 3. Today it wa the 9yr old to muck up. First he wakes up at 4:30am cause he is hungry! I told him to make some breaky then go back to bed. YEAH RIGHT. After trashing my kitchen he then puts the tv on and turns it up fullblast.  After i drag my tired butt out of bed I turn it down anddo a quick tidy up of the kitchen  I tell him to go back to bed before he wakes the baby up. (8 weeks old) Again he ignores me and turns on the playstation gets the s"*&s as hubby has hidden the control cords. Now it is 5am and he is having a massive screaming match with me.  I did my best to shut him up and ended up giving up and turning tv on (only so he wouldnt wake up the neighbourhood and the rest of our family)I went back to bed HUGE MISTAKE. When I got up at 7ish to do school stuff I walk into the lounge room to find that a human Cooper tornado has gone through my house! I have eggs cracked open and stuck to everytrhing as he tried to make scrambled eggs and cornflakes. Sugar is all over the floor and milk all over the bench and cornflakes all on the table. The lounge room is covered in bloody lego and dvd's are pulled out everywhere!.  I know he has ADHD but jezz give me a break. So after my hubby ironed the clothes and I made the lunches it is the fun battle of "LETS GET IN THE CAR". He is now extremly tired and informs me that he is not going to school because he wants to sleep!  Well tough luck kido you are going to school. He then takes of running around the backyard front yard so I cant catch him. Doing all this with a huge smile on his face!!!!! By this stage I have just about got steam coming out of my ears. He then runs of down the street with me screaming at him and chasing him. (Neighbours must think I am a freak!) In the end I gave up and got in the car with my other son (10) as I am reversing Coop thinks it would be a good idea to run behind me..thank god I was only going snail pace and had afeeling he was going to do that. His father said either get in the car or i gonna through your dogs (toy ones) in the bin!. Coop though he was bluffing till Gary held up a dog and held it over the bin. So then Coop started crying and got in the car. I havent even changed mind you so of to school I go in my PJ'S. We get there and he starts again I NOT GOING. I told him that if I have to get out of this car in my PJ'S I will not only put your dogs int he bin I will burn the bloody things! He finally got out went to school and no I have peace and quiet till 3pm.

Thanks for letting my vent.

Kate

 

Hello once again to everyone! i have an update on th "junkie scum" blog i wrote 4 weeks ago. Well, just a few days ago i heard my big old guard dog at it again. i was so worried, it was 10am and it was only my baby daughter and i home. I looked out the back window and couldnt see anything so i shrugged it off and started walking towars the front of the house. There was a man there looking around in my front court yard!!! he wondered off after a few seconds and i tried to ignore it. Then i heard the dog going absolutley crazy again, this time i called my next door neighbour (we have a block of units with all young men and girls next door). He told me he would come stright over (very nice guy) and on his way across he saw the same man trying to get over our large fence into our back yard. He went stright up to the man and confronted him. This was an old guy, in his 50's with tattoos up his arms, nuckles and knees bleeding and stunk like pot, he also had dillated pupils and he was grinding his teeth, absolutley high on something!!! so anyway the man did a runner and the neighbour came over to check on me, we called the police, gave a discription and still nothing. It may not be related to our first break and enter but im seriously considering giving up my dream home with cheap rent to go somewhere safer for the family.  im so affried to be home by myself. anyway, had to vent

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone could share their thoughts with me, I have just found out after a year of court cases and statements etc... That my father in law has been jailed for molesting a young girl, he was sentenced and is now serving 2months out of 9months. This is a pretty hefty sentence for a supposed "cleanskin" according to the prosecution(someone with no previous convictions)so therefore the judge obviously seen reason for him to be in jail., now my kids father and I have made a united decision (as there is history of his father having a "thing" for pre pubescent girls) to sever all contact with his father..we did this after the initial complaint was made..Long story short  his charges also included that he was not to reside live next door to work with or have any contact with a minor. I found out the other day that my sister in law with 4 children, had him stay there with her leading up to the sentencing. SHE made one of the initial statements saying he was guilty, SHE had the police remove them from her home...so in my heart I know she knows that he is guilty...She ended up going to court to sit in support of him, in the courtroom, with a 16mth old and her 3.5 yr old daughter, knowing there was a chance of him being taken away in cuffs...which he was....am I selfish or stupid for thinking that this is all wrong?? Her friends seem to support her,but I worry about the kids having to always process the severe emotional baggage that comes with a dysfuntional family...especially of this nature...and I know that she allows no access to counselling or even just the school guidance officer, she cut us off a couple of months back for no apparent reason so the kids have NO FAMILY around them, and now its all beginning to make sense...she cut us off because she was supporting him...The family of the child are disgusted that she had the nerve to show up at the sentencing, simply due to the fact she gave statemnets to support their case from the beginning.....ugh I had to get that out...please let me know what your thoughts are....I am very confused

Well i am absolutley outraged! i no i worte the last blog but today.... AGGHHH im soooo angry! yes boys and girls im wild-up!

last night, while sleeping soundly with my patner by my side, my 5 month old daughter asleep in her cot across the room and my 10 year old step son down the hall, some FU*K head broke into our house!!! as if that wasnt bad enough, they broke in through OUR bedroom and we didnt even stir! how can i wake when my daughter gives a small sound like a hicup but not when some drugged up loser in breaking in!
they took my wallet, my patners wallet and the nappy bag next to the front door! i wish i had left a big stinky in there for them! but as they stole our wallets they left behind digital cameras, lap tops, x-box etc! and this is the thing that really scares me, as they came in, they woke my daughter so i got up and made her a bottle, i no they woke her cos it was only 2 hours from her last and she usally sleeps longer then that. So as im makeing her bottle, this loser was lurking around in the dark probably watching me.... im getting goose bumps again!
we also have a MASSIVE dog in the yard and apparintly she was barking really aggressivly but we slept through but the neighbours heard cos in the morning they came over to see what was wrong with her.
But it seems my street was hit! a man down the road found my wallet, of corse no cash, and said he and 3 others in his building where also broken into. A neighbour on the other side had two cars trashed and broken into.
Well the police have come around and taken finger prints off my car (yes they got into that aswell, but i dont keep anything valuable in there.... they did steal ONE pink bootie and left the other) now im just hoping they catch the bugger!

PHEW, i had to get that off my cheast.... thanks guys! 

i have a step-son who i pick up and drop off at school each day, in the after noons, me and my five month old daughter stroll to the school and walk home. Well today i thought i would branch out a bit, make some news friends and at my step sons school (very ritzie) i went for it. I approched the yummy mummies that all sit together and gossip (just like high school) and tried to have a chat. They where all dolled up to pick up the kids, inlcuding perfect make up, perfect hair, perfect nails and guccie hand bags, designer shoes etc. I walk over in my jeans, flip flops, daggy shirt and a little bit sweaty from my walk on a hot day... i was given more then the cold shoulder, i was COMPLETELY ignored, not even a hello as i tried to sit with them. It felt like high school all over again! i couldnt believe the nerve of these wemon! just makes me wonder what type of children they are bringing up. Hopefully nothing like them!

I know too many people bitch about their husband's Ex - wife but ugh! First she calls and asks if hubby and I will watch oldest daughter for a week so her and her husband can go to Disney world! Disney World without taking her children!?!

So then she calls back a day later and says we've changed our mind, Chelsie (youngest daughter) was upset that they'd be going, so they are going to wait until easter and take THE GIRLS as an Easter gift. THE GIRLS! Not her son as well , who lives with me, but THE GIRLS. Normally Im good at holding my tounge but not this time! The girls I say ? Are you forgetting that you have 3 children , not 2. So she says she cant afford to take him so his heart is broken and he's pretty well hating his mother for the moment and I don't blame him. He says " Tracy, you would never do that." and I say " your right , I could never take Skylier (my son) and not take the other 3 of you it's not right and it's not fair, but your mom and I are different people"

So this time Im not playing peace maker , I refuse. I will not ask him to calm down or settle down cause I feel he has every right to be upset and mad with his mother.  As of right now he doesn't want to speak to her.