First off I would like to say happy birthday to my daddy hehe. It is the first and I find myself sitting her thinking where has all the year gone and then all of a sudden it sneaks into my head oh its only 25 days till Chrissie and I have not done very much chrissie shopping oops. I have a Mp3 player for my eldest that I won from the telstra idol competition I entered and then I have a harry potter dvd for my sister in law but that is about it. I am sooooo slack when it comes to being organised hehe. My slackness extends to the fact that last week while Aidan was at schoolies I stressed so much about him that I didnt even keep an eye on the water level(we have tank water) and guess what?????? We are sitting here waiting for the water truck to arrive again. OOPPSS Lucky they can fit us in today otherwise we would be in major trouble by this arvo.  Ken(my hubby) has to go down to my mums this arvo to give her a hand to finish up the cleaning of the rental property she has so she can get more tenants the last ones ruined it so the new carpet is going in today woo hoo hopefully this tenant will make her life easier. So today is out the window for any looking a pressies for the kids. We are in two minds at the moment about Shy's pressie cause all she wants is a kitten. I dont know if I could go through the whole kittly litter tray thing again eeewwww. We have 2 cats that are about 8 and 9 and I dont know about having to toilet train another kitty. Woo hoo the neighbours have moved out too they sold their house so we can now let the kids play in the back yard unsupervised again see the second week we were here we found our little dog mauled in our backyard with their 2 rotweillers over him and the council did nothing so needless to say the kids have not been able to play out there alone but now I will be able to just let them play and keep checking. cool a little more freedom for the little ones.  Ken is working tomorrow and Aidan is having a girl over a new one he doesnt bring alot of girls home to meet me only the special ones she is stayying over for the weekend so I will be on bed patrol again she can sleep in the girls room with the girls the boys live downstairs and we have one creaking step so hope ther eis no sneaking cause I will hear it hehe. I might go shopping on sunday in brisbane for the pressies. I will ring the kids auntie and ask her if she wants to spend some time with the kids then sneak out the back door hehe no really otherwise monday is looking good have a good weekend guys

Wednesday morning.... we woke up late again..... The kids missed the bus geez I am slack. Aidan has to work this morning so I threw him and the car along with John who has a dentisit appointment at school this morning. In goes Corrie and Nikita and Shyenne the 2 older girls stay at the house as the neighbour is home so if anything happens they will be right I will be gone about a half hour.  Drive up the range ah damn there is the bus there in front of me sheesh we must have missed it by about 2 minutes at the most. I might catch it at the next school it stops at I hope those girls are getting ready at home...... Look at the time Aidan starts at 8 sorry John I will have to drop you at school mate or Aidan will be late for work.... Drop Aidan at work bye Luv ya mwah please do not miss the bus this sarvo son and be good luv ya too mum do you have 2 dollars please?? For a drink look in the car ashtray there is 2 dollars in change hand it to him and wave...... Drive off after John jumps through the middle of the front seats to claim the front seat dont worry about the fact he has to climb over Nikita Corrie and Shy on his way through..... Rush up to his high school and pull up out the front. Shy says oops Auntie Angie I say whats wrong turning around to look at her and see whats the problem. Her face bright red and quiet embarrassed looking..... Waited for what seemed like 5 minutes for her to tell me.... "I forgot to put my Knickers on" was the answer from her mouth Ohhhhhh I say thinking I will have time to get home again the big girls will be ready and I will just run up grab her undies and go back into town again and drop the rest off again. John nearly falls out the front seat with laughter as Shy gets quiet upset about the fact she forgot her underwear. Cut it out John I said as Shy is crying in the back seat and John is still in fits of laughter. Cmon off to school mate I say to him have a great day luv ya bye Auntie Angie he says as he runs up to his mate near the front of the school and yells back luv u see you this arvo blowing a kiss. Well you could have knocked me over with a feather my 13 year old boy yelling that out in public very unlike him. I wonder what he has done??? I shouldnt think like that but hey it could just be because he loves me. HHmmmmm Okay calm down Shyenne as Corrie has now started crying because Shy is upset calm him down too I know I will stop on the way at the servo and buy them a pop top that will make everyone happy. Great wheres my purse???? In my handbag at the front door I would forget my head if it wasnt screwed on sheesh  Okay I will go home get the big girls they should be ready by now down the range we head I pull up out the front and there is yelling going on inside oh great..... The neightbour is over and she says they are fighting over a bra Oh great fantastic just what I want the neightbours to think of me my girls have nothing better to fight over than bras geez sort out the whole situation thank the neighbour. Nikki says I need to go to the toilet mummy which in turn makes Corrie scream out Potty okay Shy run upstairs get yourself some knickers Michaela do your hair and Tiana find yourself one of your own bras. I unstrap corrie and nik and take Corrie to the potty Nik goes upstairs to the toilet and shy comes down with a pair of knickers finally I look at the time. It is 9.38 okay girls go and get out of your uniforms we are having a girl day today It is too late for school.... i tell you what tomorrow morning I will be setting two alarms i am not sleeping in again ............ Some one pass me the panadol PLEASE hehe

Well it is Monday and all the older kids are back at school. The chat of where are we for christmas from my neices and nephews is happening already. Wouldn't it be great in a perfect world if we could all spend Christmas together for the kids sake is the thought that runs through my head. I can imagine it now me and Ken the kids dad and his wife and the kids mum and her ummm boyfriend this week. ken and the kids dad get on alright me and the kids step mum get alone fairly well I actually introduced them. Ken and the kids mum just cant be in the same room for any longer than 5 minutes without fighting over something she has done or said to the kids. The kids mum and dad can't be in the same room at all not without trying to kill each other. The kids mums boyfriend is a nice guy and we all seem to be able to get along with him well which is a good thing the kids mum and I can be nice to each other for awhile for the kids sake but there is only so many times i can hear from her that I am not doing this right with her kids or not doing that right. i try not to fight with her in front of the kids but........ I am trying harder. I am quickly broken out of this dream of us all having chrissie together as I realize all the things that could go wrong and realize the courts knew what they were doing sort of when they made the orders. LOL So this year Come Christmas Eve  John and Tiana will go to their dads in brisbane while corrie and Shyenne stay with us for santa to come hehe. At 10 am Christmas morning there will be a change over at gatton for us to have the whole family for christmas day all seven of them together after 3 years yay. Then 10 am boxing day the 3 kids will go to their mums well in a perfect world they would but as the 2 eldest have made it so clear to me they will not be going they are sick of all the rubbish their mum puts on them. My husband and I are still trying to work out if we are going to let her have Corrie unsupervised this year as she is sooo iradic with her behaviour and I am not sure how Corrie will go with that. The welfare knew what they were doing when they took him from her.  I know she does carry on alot and puts alot on them but I cant help feeling a little sorry for her I could not imagine in my wildest dreams what it would be like to have my kids not want to spend time with me at all. No matter how many times I try to fix it it falls on deaf ears she just tells me that they are her kids and they have to accept her for what she is and what she chooses to do with her life. They have to understand that not all her boyfriends will work out and that she has needs and needs to share a bed with all of them. Like a 12 and 13 year old can understand that. Shy just goes with the flow she is happy for any sort of attention from her mum. she will even come home from access with her mum and call me names and tell me she hates me just to get her mums approval(rough I know but she is only 7)  Most families plan all year and look forward to christmas as a time of year of joy happiness and family being together and we do too but I am already thinking about the stresses that go along with our christmas.

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The phone rings at 310 am I am woken quiet easily as my eldest has been at schoolies week and to say I have been stressed is an understatement. it is my sons friend....... Aidan had just got a drink of alcohol from a girl (his second for the night) as she said she didn't want it and now his eyes were dialated and he felt sick.... Instant sit up my god I feel sick call an ambulance were the first words from my mouth. His and his mates answer was No I am underage and I will get in trouble for drinking...... I don't care!!!!!!!! Call the Ambulance were the words again from my mouth as my husband rang my cousin whos house  they have been staying with over schoolies....... She told him there was a tent for first aid I told the boys to go while talking to them on the phone. They stumble into the first aid tent and they look at him along comes the ambos to take a look at him then... They say he is exhausted but apart from that they think maybe his drink was spiked!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!! i am in Toowoomba and he is on the coast my husband starts work at 6am and I have 6 other kids here what am I going to do????? The ambos hand him some epicac and my cousin turns up at the place he is he is handed a large bottle of water and sent with my cousin. Throwing up all along the way. He is given the all clear and allowed to go home. What have I told you Aidan about taking drinks from people???? If it is already open no thanks is the answer!!!!!!  If you have put it down and turned your back on it throw it out!!!! Oh thank god it is another 4 years before the next two will want to go maybe they will not have an interest in it.. I will be discouraging it that is for sure!!!!! That is if I am not the one in the corner rocking back and forward saying Because I am the mum because I am the mum hehe. I still believe that parents of teenage kids NOW understand why some animals eat their young!!!!