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Member » katierose
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Hi,
I am 38 years old. I have been married to my husband for more than10 years. We have one daughter, Katie who turned 3 in October.
We have lived in the Northern Territory for 16 years ( my husband longer than this!) mostly in remote areas. Pre mummy-hood I worked as a teacher, school principal and as an advisory teacher, working in the areas of teaching English as a Second Language and Special Needs.
I now do cleaning work that is very flexible so it fits in with my hubby's very erratic schedule! I may even do some relief teaching work in the new year.....bit tricky as there is no childcare in town
There are not many services or facilities where we are and going to town entails a 3 hour return trip! As opposed to the 6 hours it took us until we moved earlier this year!) There are very few other children Katie's age so we tend to make our own fun!
We love travelling, having friends around for dinner, going fishing, working on our property in Queensland ( retirement plan A!) exploring the great outdoors and lots of other stuff! |
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I am breathing a big sigh of relief today! I feel like a great weight has lifted! It turns out the doc's think I have a large dermoid cyst that has attached itself to both of my ovaries. It will have to come out but as I have been very worried about the worst scenario, the news is GREAT! PHEW!!!! No more bad nightmares I hope! |
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My gosh, I can't believe it has been so long since I blogged! I have been really busy with more work than I can poke a stick at! Hubby has been at home for the last 6 weeks as he trashed his knee playing rugby! He had an arthroscopy and informed him he really needs a reconstruction...but if he does that he is on light duties for 6 months, which would lead to us having to move...he doesn't want that just yet so is putting it off! I have had an offer of work from my old employer working from home doing curriculum support work...contemplating it! I think it would be good but I am sure my brain will be in pain for the first while as it hasn't really had to function too hard for the past 4 years! ( the body has and would probably enjoy a change of pace!) I have had a bit of a scare..to cut a long story short, on ovary ultrasound looks pretty nasty so am off for a barrage of tests tomorrow! wish me well, I am scared brainless and have had horrible nightmares the last 2 nights! Promise to be more up to date on my blog! Cheers for now! |
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It's nice having an extra day up the sleeve! Went to the dawn service yesterday,..amazing since it's such a small town..there were well over 2000 people in attendance! ( town population 500!) I always get a shiver up my spine in thankfulness to those that fought to make us what we are today and a sadness to think that so many died in places so far away when at times it was fruitless! My own grandpa survived WW1 and WW2 and always marched, but with sadness for the many friends and colleauges that he lost rather than with pride.......always makes me think!
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My cherub finally managed to swim properly yesterday!!!!!!! Yahooo!!!! She can now swim across the pool! I am so excited!!!! The final bit fell into place when she worked out how to get her head out of the water to take a BREATH while swimming! I have been continuing trying to teach her this summer but all she wants to do is play and do flips and swim under the water. No amount of trying from me ( as she didn't want to listen to MUM!) worked. We were at a friends place and she kept swimming from place to place under the water and the other kids had no floaties. She wanted to take hers OFF! So our friend said when you can lift your head out to take a breath, then you can take them off!! She did it the little toad! No floaties and swimming like a fish coming up for breath yay!!! I thought I must have lost my touch as an instructor as I taught swimming for years at schools! I guess it is different when you are Mum! Listening is optional! LOL! |
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