Hi all,

The kids are in childcare today and i have finished my cleaning so i thought it was time for another blog even though i still have other stuff that i am ment to be doing.

I got all Josh's enrolement forms for Kinder next year and they have been screaming out for me to fill them out for a few days now so i need to tackle that but it just seems like a huge task. I don't think the allergy form is big enough for me to write everything in so i might just have to write smaller. Then for every allergy he has it brings another 10 questions with it so i think i am going to have to tackle that one another day.

I still need to update the kids books as well. When i found out i was pregnant with Josh i decided to start a diary like i was writing to the baby and when i had him i continued it with everything that happened month to month and if something big happened then i would also write that. So when i found out i was pregnant with Amy i did the same thing but the problem is i haven't really touched them for a few months so i have lots to do today on them.

Amy turned 2 last week and we had the MIL and hubby's brother come over for dinner. As usual Amy got completely spoilt by the MIL and when it came time for her Uncle to hand his present over he made a big deal about how he went and chose this present all by himself (after all he is 35 years old and he should do something for himself) and he thought it was a really good choice and she would love it. So i helped Amy open it and it turned out to be the present that my MIL brought on the weekend before Amy's birthday when i was shopping with her. So i said to the BIL that he didn't buy the present because i was there when his mum purchased it. He came back with the excuse that he chose it out of the catelogue and told his mum to buy that. He is a complete liar because we actually went to buy something completely different but when we got there we realised that it wasn't worth the money they were asking so we got the other thing instead. I am so over his lies, he is 35 years old and it's about time he started acting like it.

Josh lost his voice yesterday which was great for me but very frustrating for him. We are not even sure what was wrong because he said his throat didn't hurt or his chest but he had this horrible dry cough that almost sounded like he was putting on but i knew he wasn't. He woke up completely fine today so i sent him to childcare.

Last time i blogged i said that i had to take Amy to the doctors for a suspected ear infection and to get her asthma checked out. Well she had a double ear infection so she was on antibiotics for that then i spoke to the doctor about the asthma and he checked her over and said that her lungs sound good at the moment. So no ventolin for now but just to keep an eye on it. We also talked about the fact that when Amy cuts a tooth she always ends up with really high temperatures (i'm talking over 40 degrees) and usually vomits. I happened to tell him about the last tooth she cut when i was staying with my sister and i got her up and she was shaking and vomiting. He top lip was quite blue and i thought it was her asthma but now the doctor seems to think that she may have had a febrel convoulsion (sp?) that we didn't see. So now when she cuts the next tooth we have to take her straight to the hospital if her temperature gets above 39 degrees. Very scary but i'm glad i only live about 3 minutes away from a good hospital.

Anyway that's it from me, i must go and send some compliments to a certin member that keeps sending them to me and i don't seem to be returning the favour. (i'm a bad friend :-P)

Love Juzzy xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

After taking a little break i did return to minti a few days ago. It felt really good to be away and just sort myself out. That little black cloud that sometimes visit my brain decided to visit and mess with me for a while but it's gone now and i'm back and all refreshed.

While away i did realise how much minti does mean to me and all the lovely people i have met through this site really do mean alot to me. So as i sit here on my couch with my laptop warming my knees i sit here proudly and admit "My name is Juzzy and i'm addicted to Minti (and chocolate).

Thank you to all the lovely members that left messages in my last blog. I have finally realised i do belong here. I am planning on being more active from now on.

In other happenings we had a complete break through when it comes to my young man. As some of you know, we have been battling with Josh to do a poo in the toilet for the last year. After trying EVERYTHING and i mean EVERYTHING i finally spoke to his doctor and she simply told me that it wasn't a medical issue and to just ignore it for 3 months and try again. So we ignored it and just put a nappy on him everytime he needed to go. We would ask him if he wanted to try the toilet before we would put the nappy on but he would always say no so we didn't push the issue. Then last week he was in a really good mood and he asked for a nappy and i said to him did he want to try the toilet, he said no first and i said that if i came with him to the toilet and he could show mummy that he was trying and he still couldn't do it then i would give him a nappy. So off to the toilet we went and suprise, suprise he did it. He was so happy with himself that we called Daddy, then 2 of his aunties then grandma to tell them all. He even got a happy meal for dinner that night to show him how proud i was (this is a child that rarely gets takeaway). We had a few hiccups over the next few days as he thought he only had to do it once in the toilet and then he would go back to nappies. But mummy being so strong he now takes himself off to the toilet and calls me when he is done. He has a present coming to him tomorrow as it has been a week since he started and there was promise of a present after a week.

My baby girl turns 2 on Thursday. The last 2 years have flown by and i'm a little bit sad that she is growing up so quickly. We are actually celebrating her birthday tomorrow as Thursdays are very busy in this house and it is usually her childcare day and i would rather her be in childcare where she could play with all the kids than just being at hime with Josh and i doing the same thing that she does on a normal day. Plus daddy doesn't usually get to see the kids on a Thursday as he is at work all day then straight to cricket training after work and doesn't usually get home till after the kids are asleep. Some people don't agree with us doing it like that because they think hubby should just miss cricket but this is a man that has been playing cricket since he was about 8 years old so i would never stop him. I even sent him to cricket the day after i got home from Hospital with Amy (i did send Josh to the MIL's for the day so i got to rest anyway) 

Anyway i must finish here, Amy has a doctors appointment this afternoon for a suspected ear infection and a check up of her Asthma as we have had some breathing issues the last few days. So i must wake her and give her some lunch.

Once again it is good to be back

Love Juzzy xoxoxoxoxox

Hi All,

I have decided to take a break from Minti for a while. I am not going to delete my account or anything like that but i feel i need to get away from here for a while.

I don't want to bag out minti at all as it has been a very helpful site to me but at the moment it just doesn't feel right. I can't even pin point what it is but i don't feel part of the 'minti community' at the moment.

I am so blessed to have ever come across this site and there are some very loving members on here who i will miss but for others i will catch you on facebook.

I will still check in from time to time but for now it is goodbye.

Love Juzzy xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Hi all,

We came home from Merimbula on Friday afternoon and let me tell you i was not happy to be home. We had such a lovely time, 1 whole week of not doing a hell of alot. The weather was beautiful and the kids had a ball. Josh usually gets car sick but we have had him on new motion sickness tablets and they are working a treat. It is a 6 hour drive from home so we were expecting to take at least 8 hours if we included stops in that, it took us 6.5 hours to get there because we had a good run and only stopped briefly for lunch and let the kids run around. Josh and Amy sat very quietly in the car with the aid of an in car DVD player and 5 new DVD's that their Nanny kindly gave them before we left.

We got there and unpacked, we stayed at the same place last year but this time we stayed in a different beach house because we needed more room for Amy to sleep in a bed and not a cot. Once we were unpacked the kids wanted to go in the pool so off we went to the pool and played for hours. Personally i thought the water was a little cold but the kids had a ball. From the pool we had to then get changed so the kids could go on the jumping pillow another hour on that and all mummy wanted was a coffee and a rest but the kids had other ideas so i snuck back to the house and left daddy to deal with 2 very happy young children.

Our house was right on short point beach which is a very popular whale watching point in Merimbula so i was constantly sitting there looking at any little ripple in the water (the surf was very flat) to see if i could see any tails coming up. I only had to wait till the Saturday before we got a show. 1 hours of sitting there watching about 4 whales playing. I had my camera and i thought that i was videoing it until it was all over and we went back to the house and i realised that i didn't get anything but 2 photos of it all so i was a little dissapointed. Over the rest of the time we saw atleast 1 whale a day so i was happy. We also saw a pod of dolphins the day we were going home.

We went to Eden and got some fresh fish to cook on the BBQ and it was beautiful and fresh, even Josh had a taste which suprised me. We also visited Bega and went to the cheese factory. (yum, yum) We thought we would take the kids to play some mini golf as hubby is a golf nut and we couldn't fit the club in the car so he had to settle for some mini golf. Hubby and I had a ball and the kids just enjoyed themselves just walking around doing what they liked. We had a little issue trying to get the golf ball off Amy when we had finished so the lady in charge just let her take it.

We packed up and came home on Friday, the trip home was a little harder as Amy just wasn't in the mood to sit in the car so i had to climb into the back and sit with the kids. I tell you, if i have to sit and watch Dora one more time i think i will scream. I jumped into the drivers seat when we stopped for lunch and the kids seemed settled after that. It took a little longer to get home because we had a little bit more traffic on the way home.

The day after we got home it was Josh's 4th birthday. He had been so excited about his birthday that he went to bed very early on Friday and i managed to wrap his presents and hid them in the lounge for him to find in the morning. He was more excited about the fact that he had a badge on his card that he could wear. He loved his presents so much he told me there was no reason to turn the telly on and he would just play. We headed to my mum's place to have a little party for him as i couldn't organise a party having just come back from holidays. He just had 2 of his cousin and we had some party pies, sausage rolls and some chips but the chips never made it onto the table as the kids didn't seem to want them. Then the mudcake came out. I will usually make him a cake but having no time i thought i would just purchase one and stick some lollies onto it. 1/2 an hour after eating the cake Josh came out in hives so i was a little angry at myself that i didn't make him one and i just made him uncomfortable on his birthday. This whole allergy thing is really hard....

He had another appointment with the allergist just before we left for the holiday and he was in the thinking that Josh was actually allergic to a few more things other than the eggs and nuts. After the allergist looked at his test results closer he decided that Josh was allergic to eggs, nuts, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, artifical colours and preservatives. So the poor thing can't eat anything at the moment. We are hoping that within the next few years he may grow out of a few of them but until then we are eating only natural foods. It is just really hard to give him foods he can have and i feel horrible when he gets hives because it is because i didn't read the packaging properly. I will get passed the guilty feelings soon.

Better finish here and get some housework done while Amy is sleeping.

Love to you all.

Juzzy xoxoxoxoxo