It's been raining here on and off in SA for about a week now. Finally our farmers have got the rain and hopefully they can produce good produce this time. Alot of them are just about to start their crops, and the rain has come at a great time for them.

I love the rain, as it means that all the rivers and reserviors etc are filling up, and hopefully we won't have to go to the next stage of the water restrictions.

I haven't had to water my lawns on the designated days for awhile now, as we have had that much rain, that the ground is finally staying wet when it hasn't rained for a few days.

I do hope everyone else in Australia has been getting some rain too, and filling up the rivers etc and rainwater tanks.

I do hope the rain lasts for a long time. We desperately need this rain.

This is my daughters 3rd day at school, as she seems to like it already. I bought a school uniform this morning. A tshirt and a jumper for her. Will be buying more later next week hopefully.

I have got a lot done in the past 2 days while she's been at School. Monday, hubby and i cleared up all the toys and mess from out the back,  ( and on the weekend we are going to clean the carport ) and it took us most of the day to do this, then yesterday, i cleaned out her toy boxes in the lounge room and put one outside and the lounge room is now bigger and brighter.

Today, i went shopping and for the first time in my life, i didn't have to rush around. It felt really good. I took my time, which was really unusual.

Now i'm on minti trying to catch up on everything, so i won't be going away in a hurry. LOL. i'll most likely be on here for a good few hours with a few rests inbetween.

Hope you all enjoy your day.

Well school holiday's are nearly over here in SA, and my daughter will be starting school on Monday.

I don't think their will be any tears from me as i did all that on her last day of Kindy. I'm more excited i think than my daughter is. LOL.

What i don't understand, is that children are always alright, and think nothing of it on special days, and they do understand what's going on, but in a way they don't. ' S ' will not worry about her first day, and don't think she'll even cry as all her friends are at school now, and she'll be alright once she see's them again. She had one term away from them, and she really struggled with out them, and it was very noticeable, so hopefully she'll settle in alot quicker than i'm expecting.

I love kids and it'll be all mixed emotions for them the first day back i think. Bless them all. they're all so cute in junior primary school.

Me and my next door neighbour have been getting stones thrown onto our back verandah's, and they were blaming me. All my kids are out except the youngest one who's 5. She doesn't throw stones onto the roof, let alone any at all.

I saw the guy look into our yard, and wondered what the hell he was doing, then he went off, and the woman come and started at with will full of abuse like ' fu**ing neighbours are at it again, they can never leave us alone ' and other viscious language and crap like that, and i said ' excuse me, but i've been inside while this has been happening, and so has my 5 year old daughter, so don't go accusing us that it's us that's doing this crap. '

She did apologise, and the guy looked on the roof, and was getting thrown in the direction of our other neighbours house, who's next to me. ( these other people are on the side of me ) and they thought it was me. I let it rip with her, stating that it wasnt me who was doing it, and when i confronted the other kids on the other side, all of a sudden the rock or stone throwing stopped. so i knew it was them.

I just can't believe that they would say crap like that. I'm still fuming mad. the story is, the reason why they think it's us who were throwing the rocks is because i can't say too much, but the guy next door got arrested about 2 or so months ago, and is out on bail, and think it's us who dobbed them in to get him arrested. I only put a complaint in about him for what he did, as i didn't want my kids seeing what he was doing outside his house in his property, but it took one of my other neighbours kids to see it, and his parents called the police and he was arrested for what that child has seen, and they've got a grudge against us.

So to hell with them. I'm so over neighbours like them. I don't think they'll accuse me of anything from now on, or the next time they do, i'm calling the police on them for accussing me of something i didn't do and that'll be a breach of his bail. I just simply do not care.

I'm sorry, but i just had to vent about this. It just made me so angry.

I've also put this into the not a parenting question group, and i thought not everyone has joined this group, so i thought i'd put it here aswell, where everyone has access to my blog. have a great week.

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Didn't realise just until now. I'm always good at spotting everyone else going gold etc and didn't even notice myself going gold. Do'h.

I don't even deserve to gold. Why am i gold? I've still got alot to learn about parenting and everything else.

Also well done to toosh who went Gold yesterday too.

I cried in the morning when i dropped my daughter of at kindy and i cried when i picked her up.

I'm sure everyone has been through this. It was so upsetting. Miss5 was holding back the tears when we got there, and when they were singing the goodbye song, and when she saw me and not her dad, she burst into tears, and you could see the teachers holding back the tears too. I burst into tears aswell as miss5 was crying.

It was such a sad time for us all, as she'll be deeply be missed at Kindy. She wanted to stay at kindy yesterday, and not go to school, but she wants to go to school aswell. Poor kid. My heart went out to her yesterday.

She did so much work, and changed so much in the 3 years that she was at Kindy, and looking at the photo's that they put on the disc for us she's matured into a really young girl. Grown up so much. SHe's done so much work while she's been there at kindy. It was so sad to see her leave.

And i was fine up until one of her speech teachers said ' this will be the last time we will be dropping her off to kindy ever! ' and i just cried. I couldn't help myself.

I told myself i wasn't going to cry, but then i did. I felt silly, but then i thought, no im not, alot of other mums and dads out there do the same thing as what i did.

Miss5 didn't even care. LOL. She was still running around doing what she normally does, and was happy as Larry. It was only until we were leaving ( dad has taken today off aswell so he could see his beautiful girl leave kindy for the last time ) that she played up and didn't want us to leave.

I've been fine since, until now writing this blog. I'm a little upset, as shes been there since she was 2 and there's only 3 original teachers that are still there, and seen her grow up from the little 2 year old she was, to now who's a 5 year old. I think their will be a few tears at the end of the day when she has to go, and finally say goodbye to the teachers and kindy forever.

I know there are alot of you out there who have been through what im going through right now and understand what i'm going through.

I do hope you all enjoy the rest of the day.

Here is the link to the group i have just started. Please join the group, and send emails to your friends who also live in SA and in the northern suburbs. thanks in advance. Kerri.

http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/northernfreecycleSA

Next week will be miss5's last week at Kindy and tomorrow will be her last school visit for the term.

I think she's settled in alright at school with her visits, and she's liking school as all her friends are there. She's got no one really at kindy that are her friends, so i can't wait until she starts school and settles in.

Personally i think she'll be better at school, as she will develop more quickly as there will be older children there, and more to do and will be always occupied and never get bored etc.

I've got mixed emotions at the moment on her leaving kindy for good as she's been there since she was 2, and there's 3 teachers still at the kindy who have known her since then, and it'll be a bit sad to see her leave the kindy, but the Junior Primary staff seem really nice, and can't wait for her start school.

I think miss5 is getting a little sad also as she know's that she's leaving kindy soon too, as she love it there, but that is something she's used too, and know's very well, so she'll be upset more than me i think when she leaves kindy this time next week. She's not her normal happy self for the past few weeks, as she knows things are changing. Poor lil girl. I get all teary eyed at times and i know she can feel it too, as she gets upset too at the littlest of things.

I'm just so proud of how far my little girl has come since she started kindy 3 years ago.