Well these past few days have just flown. It is great having Shannon home for his holidays, but it feels like he'll be leaving again before we really get to spend any time alone!!

Our christmas was great. Santa bought Austin his first tooth, which i was more excited about than anything else! he he ... We spent christmas day with Shannons family and Boxing day with mine, Austin got so spoit by both that i had to go out and buy a toy box!

Tonight we get to go out together for the first time since i was pregnant! We have the inlaws coming to baby sit for us. I am so excited to be going out, but incredibly nervous about leaving him with them. Even thou he will be asleep for most of the time, i still have these images in my head... I'm sure it will be fine thou... I just cant help worrying.

Well, i have to go again now.. Need to try to find something to wear.. YEY!! I hope everyone has a fantastic new years eve and 2008!!

I hope everyone out there in minti world has a very happy and safe christmas.

With love... Cass and Austin xxxxx

 

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Yesterday i took Austin for his 4 month needles. Poor little thing screamed his head off when he got the second needle. I  was expectin him to be really unsettled last night, but he was such a good boy!

We left the clinic and headed out to my Dads house for a visit. It takes about 2 hours to get there and most of the trip is country roads. I have to tell you, some of the scenery that i drive thru is breathtaking. With all the rain that we have had in the past 2 months, all of the paddocks and hills have really come alive with nice green grass and beautiful flowers (weeds). All the dams are full and the sheep and cows are looking healthy again. It was just 2 or 3 months ago that all those same paddocks were bone dry, sheep grazing on what looked like dirt. Cows looking very ill indeed.

I really enjoyed the drive there until i got to about 30ks from Dads property. I counted about 30 kangaroos on the road all intent on having me hit them! Luckily it was still daylight and i have the sense to drive a little slower at dusk. I managed to miss all of them!

We had dinner with Dad which was nice, although he did have a nasty turn about 1/2 hour after dinner and had to go to bed. I hate seeing him like that, it breaks my heart. His next doctors appointment is in January. We think that they will book him in to have surgery on his arteries then. But i'm in two minds as to whether i want this to happen. He has been living with chronic pain for over 2 years now and hopefully this surgery would help fix that, but there is only a 50% chance that it will work. The other 50% is that he will die on the operating table. I have alot of faith in medicine, but i thought that they would be able to give better odds than that!

We realised over dinner last night that 2 years are never quite the same! At this time last year, we were battling with a raging bushfire threatening our houses on Dads property, and last night we were sitting outside with jumpers and trackies on... go figure.

Anyway, Austin and i came home today. We didn't encounter any more kamikaze kangaroos, but we did get to see all the beautiful country views again. We really do live in a magical country, dont we.

OH MY GOD!!!

Shannon came home last night to surprise me!!! He drove nearly 8 hours just so he could spend 2 nights with me and Austin!!! Ooooh i have the most beautiful man in the world!!! And to top it off, he's out getting us breakfast!!

Feel like i'm floating on cloud nine right now!!

Just 7 more days til my man comes home!! Thank god. I forgot how hard everything is on my own! If only you could all see the state of my house right now! Oh the washing up is done, but that is about it... there are foot prints in the bath tub from bathing Austin yesterday, the carpet needs vaccuming severely, the bed needs to be changed / made up, Austins toys are everywhere... the list goes on. I am so used to Shannon saying "no, you relax, i'll do that" that now i have to do it all, i am finding it really difficult!! ha ha maybe if i spent less time on minti i might get it all done. I do like to procrastinate thou.

Yesterday i went to pick up some photo's i got done of Austin a few weeks ago. I cannot express just how disappointed i am. These photos cost you a fortune! and if i had the backing paper, a box and some teddies, i could take a better pic.!!! I think out of the 30 photo's they took, i liked 3. Very unhappy... Oh well. I'm sure i say all this now and next year i will go and do the same all over again...

Today i have no plans (thank god) i will have to get some housework done inbetween feeds, sleeps (and minti.. lol) because my MIL is coming over tomorrow... I can hear it already if the house isn't clean... "Oh cassie, why dont you just come and stay with me while Shannon is away" ... No thank you! Dont get me wrong, she is a great MIL, but in small doses. If i hear one more time "i really think you should take him to the hospital" (BECAUSE HE'S CRYING!!!) i think i will scream, literally. It is hard trying to explain to her that he is crying because his teeth hurt and that i am not worried because as much as the cry may be distressing her, i know that it is not a "this is killing me" cry... I sometimes wonder how Shannon is so well adjusted...

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

I have spent the past two days doing nothing. I have realised i am quite lazy when Shannon isn't here LOL. Or maybe it is just that i dont have as much to do without him. Ohhhh i miss him!!! I want him to come home now. I miss having him to talk to and to laugh at. Even just to hold him would be heaven at the moment!!! I know it's only been 2 days, but it feels like 2 weeks already!!

At least i have Austin here... He's been good, most of the time. He is still finding his voice and has just started talking to himslef yesterday. It's soooo cute. He was squeeling and laughing before but now he's really jabbering. I'm so proud of my little man. Every day he does something new that blows me away. He is growing up so quick. I want him to stay little for just a little bit longer, but i dont think he's going to cooperate. I found myself yesterday just watching him. I think i wasted about 5 hours just watching and talking and laughing at my little man. Soon he's going to be all grown up and i often wonder if all the thing i do with him will make up his personality?? I dont know, but if it does, he may end up a little loopey!!

I hope you are all having a great week so far!!

So Shannon left thismorning to go off to work away for 2 weeks. Its strange, for the first 2 years of our relationship it was like this and i sort of got used to only having him around for the weekends. Most of the time i liked it that way. But now that we have been together every day, it seems strange that he wont be coming home tonight. I had a little teary moment yesterday because I will have noone to talk to (except Austin and minti mums), noone to cook dinner for and i'll be sleeping alone ...

I do hope that i can keep myself busy enough so that i dont notice too much, although, i have done all my christmas shopping, wrapped everything, all the washing is done and the house is clean.... Umm maybe i should head to sydney and stay with friends for a few days!!!

I hope you are all having a great Monday!!

I cant believe that this time 4 months ago i was in hospital threatening to jump out the window...

How the time flies... He was such a tiny little thing when we first had him and now... well now he's just as gorgeous, just a little more mobile...

Most definately the best thing i have ever done in my life!!!

Dear Santa,

I've been a good mum all year. I've fed, cleaned and cuddled my children on demand, visited the doctor's office more than my doctor, sold sixty-two cases of choc.bars to raise money to plant a shade tree on the school playground. I was hoping you could spread my list out over several Christmases, since I had to write this letter with my son's red crayon, on the back of a receipt in the laundry room between cycles, and who knows when I'll find anymore free time in the next 18 years.

Here are my Christmas wishes:

I'd like a pair of legs that don't ache (in any colour, except purple, which I already have) and arms that don't hurt or flap in the breeze; but are strong enough to pull my screaming child out of the lolly aisle in the grocery store.

I'd also like a waist, since I lost mine somewhere in the seventh month of my last pregnancy.

If you're hauling big ticket items this year I'd like fingerprint resistant windows and a radio that only plays adult music; a television that doesn't broadcast any programs containing talking animals; and a refrigerator with a secret compartment behind the crisper where I can hide to talk on the phone.

On the practical side, I could use a talking doll that says, "Yes, Mummy" to boost my parental confidence, along with two kids who don't fight and three pairs of jeans that will zip all the way up without the use of power tools.

I could also use a recording of Tibetan monks chanting "Don't eat in the living room" and "Take your hands off your brother," because my voice seems to be just out of my children's hearing range and can only be heard by the dog.

If it's too late to find any of these products, I'd settle for enough time to brush my teeth and comb my hair in the same morning, or the luxury of eating food warmer than room temperature without it being served in a Styrofoam container.

If you don't mind, I could also use a few Christmas miracles to brighten the holiday season. Would it be too much trouble to declare tomato sauce a vegetable? It will clear my conscience immensely. It would be helpful if you could coerce my children to help around the house without demanding payment as if they were the bosses of an organized crime family.

Well, Santa, the buzzer on the dryer is ringing and my son saw my feet under the laundry room door. I think he wants his crayon back. Have a safe trip and remember to leave your wet boots by the door and come in and dry off so you don't catch cold.

Help yourself to cookies on the table but don't eat too many or leave crumbs on the carpet.

Yours Always,
A MUM!

P.S. One more thing...you can cancel all my requests if you can keep my children happy, healthy and always believing.

Hi all

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!! We got back from our trip away yesterday afternoon. Completely stuffed!! We did have the best time thou!

We got to see Austin's Aunty Angel, Uncle Paul and Tyson on Friday. That was awesome, we hadn't seen them since Austin was 3 weeks old and Tyson was too scared of Austin to go near him because he was too small, but this time he was a little bit bigger and Tyson agreed to have his pic taken (as long as his mum was in it too)

We then headed up to Budgewoi to see Brad and Paulene. Dee and Joe and their little boy came up too. I hadn't seen him since he was a month old. He's now 2! He grew so much!! And such a little cutie. He was infatuated with Austin. It was so cute, everywhere Austin was, so was JT. He even managed to squeeze himself into the corner of the lounge to watch Austin feed. I'm sure that "bubba sleeping" became his favourite saying for the weekend too... He was just adorable! 

The only downside to my whole weekend was that the rain seemed to follow me everywhere. But it was nice to get away anyway. The trip home was terrible. Well not the drive itself, but the distance. I hate driving long distances. And after 6 hours on the road (including 3 stops to rest) i was beyond tired... We got home, put Austin to bed and promptly passed out myself..

Hope everyone had a great weekend too!!