BIG DAY OUT

We went to see Disney Princesses on Ice today.  It was brilliant!  Makes me wish I could skate like that.

I now officially have the hots for Prince Eric!!!!  Fit firm buttocks in tight tights: mmmmmm.   So yes, there was something for everyone.  I will never watch the Little Mermaid the same way again.

Lachlan loved tinkerbell- everytime she went away he asked when she was coming back.  Charlotte was waiting for Ariel and Aurora (although she had the easiest gig- most of her role was to lay very still: asleep, being sleeping beauty!).  Imogen stayed home with Gran.

The kids have crashed in bed.

3 stories tonight

1- The funny: Charlotte and Lachlan were working together to get into trouble tonight when I was trying to serve up dinner.  I knew they were playing with an egg and I had told them to put it away before they broke it.  I was on the other side of the kitchen bench strapping Imogen into her high chair when I heard "IT IS an iguanadon!".  well, I knew straight away what had happened.  they had revealed the contents of the egg onto the kitchen floor and proclaimed the species found within! (with Lachlan being the dinosaur nut- it would have to be some palaeontological specimen)........Meanwhile I was trying not to laugh....you know, discipline and all that!

2- The painful: Its lucky I am relatively fit.  I went to pick up the kids from kindy today, lachlan ran outside with his friends and promptly stacked it in his excitement.  Well, being emotionally fragile at the moment, he wasn't the bravest, and usually I would say its not so bad, you'll be alright...(ie get over it) but he didn't want to walk- so then I had to push him in Imogens pusher, carry her with a pram full of backpacks and shopping, as well as Charlotte hanging onto the side of the pram.  that was hard bloody work.  An Imogen doesn't hip carry well (she doesn't hang on, she just hangs) and Lachlan weighs a ton.  I was stuffed when I got home. I wish I had the baby carrier in the pram.

3- The not funny at all:  Do you ever get the feeling that you were some place, at a certain time, for a very specific reason? i worked on the oncology ward on the weekend and saw my 2nd cousin there.  I realised that it was HER son in room 1 with the possible kidney tumor yet to be diagnosed.  By the end of the weekend I had seen several family members that I hadn't seen for about 3 years.  If only it was under better circumstances.  he was having a CT scan today to see the extent and plan treatment.  but they are thinking its a wilms cancer, and my 2nd aunt told me that they had been told it was about 1kg, wrapped around his entire kidney and they think he has had it for a long time, but no Drs would listen to their concerns!!!!!.....he is only 11 months old.  I am going to check in on them tomorrow in my lunch break if i am working on another ward.  hopefully the scans weren't all bad news.

This is so cute, and good for a laugh.

The kids were having one of their psycho moments tonight after their bath.  Charlotte strecthed up and I said to her- it looks like you are doing yoga.  she said what?, you know, yoga.  would you like to do some yoga?  YEP!

So Charlotte and Lachlan did about 30 minutes of a yoga. video.  I haven't seen them concentrate for so long or follow instructions so well.

I tried to do yoga with them before Imogen was born and it lasted all of 5 minutes before they got bored.  charlotte wants to do it again tomorrow.

I tried to upload some pics, but the camera doesn't seem to be commecting to the computer tonight.  shame, they were funny.  will try again tomorrow.

try again, aha- worked. took forever though.

I am working on an advice article at the moment- yes I know, another one!!!!, And its getting HUGE.  I keep finding more and more info that I want to add and its out of control!  I have so many ideas ATM, since that emotional cloud has lifted and I can think again.  I just like writing them- I probably bore people to pieces though!.

Tomorrow Imogen is going to have her 12 months immunisations- they are a little late.  poor baby, but she is brave.  She has to be with her older brother and sister around. LOL.

Well, thats it for the night.  I am turning off the computer, going to watch spicks and specks whilst folding the washing (or maybe i'll do that tomorrow), have a candle-lit bath (again- thats twice in one week), breastfeed imogen then go to bed.

Oh, and my roof got fixed today- well at least i think it did- i wont know until it rains.

good night everyone.

xoxox josie

I finished my course of antibiotics for whooping cough prevention.  Still as healthy as ever.  Now the swine flu clinic is back open in the emergency dept so i may get stationed there this week.  Can't avoid the bugs.

NOTICE: if you have to go to the WCH Adelaide- the hospital is in lock down for swine flu containment.  There are only 2 entrances open- Kermode St and Queen Vic building  (womens side) entrance.  All people going through the hospital need to report at the foyer desk and get a visitors sticker.

Today I got Charlotte and Lachlans hair cut after they tried to do it themselves last week (chain saw masacre comes to mind, LOL).  Charlotte has a neat little bob now.  She has never had short hair and was very attached to her long locks so I thought she might get upset when she realised it was gone- but she really like her hair like this- "I look like Dora the Explorer now mummy".  Glad that one went well.

Still going through some emotional stuff with the separation- I'm fine until I have to talk to him and it all gets dragged up again, but I'm getting there.  Learning to let it go. But my house is cleaner, I am more focused on quality time with the kids (I don't want to be then one doing all the chores and running around and him the one getting all the chore free time with them).  the kids are generally easier to deal with (apart from the extra issues the separation has caused, which hopefully will be short term).  I have alloacted myself me time every night, when all the kids are in bed, where I am catching up on all the things I lost track of doing- I had a candle lit bath on Sat night, read a book in bed last night, tonight is minti time- Ive been working on a couple more advice articles to bore people with,  and I might do some yoga, I plan to catch up on scrapbooking, play the piano more, listen to music more, dance around the lounge room (these are the things you can only do when no-one is watching, PMSL). I think I might book in a massage- still holding a lot of neck and shoulder tension.  And also a hair cut and colour for myself, Yes.... that will make me feel better.  My friends have been great and I have made a new mum friend at kindy who has been through the same thing and is being really supportive.

The roof still hasn't been looked at yet.  The guy didn't show up today.  My light switch is still taped over which is lucky because I forget every night and go to turn it on in the dark.  If only the leak was somewhere other than through my light fitting.

Imogen's first birthday was a week ago.  Its hard to believe she is 1 already.  I still remeber her birth so clearly, LOL.

Well, thats me and my lot for now.

On Tuesday I went to work and looked after a bay full of kids with RSV- bronch, asthma, pneumonia etc.  no big deal.  I came back from my lunch break and overheard the MO talking on the phone about my patiten who apparently had pertussis.  the results had only just come through.  AHHHH, I had been caring for this child all shift, in a bay, with no face mask with him coughing whooping cough in my face, eewwww.  So after the move to the single room, I got to go home with the knowledge of being exposed to nasty bugs.  So yesterday I got to start on a hospital work funded course of prophylactic antibiotics.....YAY (sarc).  i hope those multivitamins i have been taking are going to work.

Meanwhile I am waiting for my bedroom ceiling to cave in.  There is a leak in the roof- everytime it rains it starts dripping in the ceiling then the puddle forms on my bed- makes it kinda hard to sleep at night.  And it is dripping though the light fitting- so add electrocution to that too- i have taped over the light switch to remind me not to use it.  i have to wait until monday to have someone look at it.

I was cleaning out my house last week and found a poem that I had written a few years ago for a boy I had nursed.  he was a patient for a long time on the ward I worked in, with a terminal degenerative metabolic disease.  I was nursing him one night shift and wrote this peom while he was sleeping to put in his memory book.  He died a few weeks before his 5th birthday.  As the poem says, I felt privileged to care for this child and his family, and I thought I would share my poem with the minti community.

A Poem For Sam

Beautiful angel sent from heaven above
You fill our hearts with so much love

Sent to this earth with a soul so brave
Your angels with you always,
From harm they will save

I'm here with you now,
With privilege and pride
Those feelings of sadness,
I push them aside

For you, little Sam, are a precious young boy
Here on this earth to fill lives with joy

Your brave spirit has taught us all so much
Rising closer to heaven with each heart you touch

Your body is tired now but your spirit will soar
Back with the angels in heaven once more. 

Whatever life throws at me, I will always appreciate the fact that at this moment in time, I have 3 healthy living children.  Finding this poem was a reminder to me to cherish every moment.

Haven't been online much recently.  I have had sooo much to do.  I have spent the last week doing a thorough clean of every room- cupboards, drawers, high dusting, polishing, scrubbing floors, rearranging furniture etc, cleaning out all of the husbands stuff.  Its more of a psychological cleansing than a physical activity.  He is moving out tomorrow.  But will be back on sunday for Imogen's party (1st birthday).  So saturday will be turned upside down with the move out and party preperation, and sunday I will have a house full of people.

Meanwhile I have sprained my finger (netball accident).  The swelling made it bend a funny angle so I had an x ray- no breakage fortunately.  And Imogen is STILL sick.  she has just finished a course of antibiotics for an ear infection and now has gastro- D+V+febrile.  I hope she is better in time for her party.  Charlotte had an appointment with her resp Dr the other day and has to go on double her preventers for her asthma because of her recent issues (ie. 3 trips to the hospital within the last 4 weeks).  lachlan is just being a boofhead- craving some attention in between everything else that is going on.  i am going to take them all to the movies on monday and I vow to spend a lot of quality time with the kids once the weekend is over.

Next week things should settle down- I wont be madly doing housework any more, I will get to settle into my single mum routine, hopefully the kids will be better and the party will be over with.