Anyway this morning after breakfast and after our talk I sent her to her room to get dressed into the clothes already set out for her on her bed.  By this time it was about 7:40am and we had to leave at 7:50am.  I was printing things out for work from the computer and finishing my coffee then realised the time.  I checked on her, she was still in pjs at nearly 7:50 so I dressed her.  Then I sent her off to find a hat and put shoes on.  She took her time with this too and ended up going to childcare without shoes on.

We got there at 8am instead of 7:55 (it's on the same block as us) which meant I would turn up for work just on time instead of getting in early as planned.  While she was getting out of the car she tripped and hit her head on the concrete around the garden bed.  I took her in, put an ice pack on her head and sat with her while I rang work and said I'd be late.  Got to work late to find we were short staffed and the others were somewhat annoyed with me for taking my time!  I had made a coffee at home in a take-away coffee cup before I realised I was going be later than expected, and well before I realised I would be very late. I walked in finishing that off and one smart-arse made a comment about how I had time to stop off at Maccas on the way through.  Grr, I wouldn't go to Maccas, or any other place like it, for the same reason I would never enrol my child in a large childcare company - I don't support capitalism!  As if I was in the mood for stupid sarcastic comments after my child bashed her head and I left her anyway.  GRRRRR!!

Had some problems with a couple of ppl from daycare.

Hopefully other people had a better day, although I did read through a couple of blogs and it seems there are some confused members and a couple of deleted members which is probably for the best.  We need to rid Minti of these troublemakers.  I thought it was a little far fetched that someone would hack into a member's account just to report the advice written by a member then report the member.  Anyway, it's all sorted.  Enjoy the rest of your evening!

On a good note though, DD learnt how to do butterfly in the pool and did a tumble turn on the weekend, and apparently again today I was told.  She has become very good at doing somersaults in the pool! I'm just sorry I wasn't with her today to see the look on her swimming teacher's face when she showed him.  Never mind.  I'll talk to him on the weekend anyway.  I'm just very proud of how far she's come in the short time she's been on this planet for.  It's amazing how much they learn.  It's been said that children learn more in the first 8 years of life than we learn in the next 90 years of life.  That's gotta be true.  They come so far in the first 8 years.  Enjoy the rest of your night everyone.  I'm off to bed.

Have fun! I did!

I ended up saying to another work this afternoon that I'll be back in 5 minutes, left the room and made a coffee in the kitchen and burst into tears! The boss had gone home, leaving me in charge, and I wasn't feeling at all up to it but everyone else seems too incompetent to be left in charge.  Today it all hit at once.  Went to the doc Wednesday with a sick child and did not leave until I had medicine for her and a referral to a paediatrician.  The doctor wasn't willing to give me one but I told him I wasn't leaving until I got one so I got what I wanted!

Today was hectic, I was having dizzy spells, my head literally felt like it was going to explode, implode, or just blow out the top of it.  I felt like I was going to pass out, throw up, scream, but the coffee helped.  It was the whole week catching up with me.

I got to DD's daycare to find she had a sleep for the second day in a row, meaning a late night for the second night in a row! I am also missing a set of clothes from a while back when they had a messy play day at daycare.  They sent home the wrong clothes and told me today that they must have sent hers home with another mum and they haven't been returned so I probably won't get them back.  I'm annoyed with that, just because whle I don't send her in clothes she isn't allowed to get wet/dirty in, I do send her in nice clothes and it was a shirt that was bought only a month ago from the internet.  My mum thought it was a cheap one, but then realised it was from the US meaning it was in US dollars, and postage was a whole lot more than expected too!

I got home after being out of the house for 11 hours to find we had no power.  I didn't realise straight away though because it wasn't until half an hour later when I tried turning on a light and put food in the microwave it didn't work.  So I tried to call someone around here to find out if they had power and the phone didn't work! It was a cordless, duh!  So I rang from the other phone.  By this time DD was cranky, hungry, and getting impatient.  I couldn't get her a meal because even though I'd pre-cooked it, I couldn't heat it so that meant cooking a new meal entirely adding to the time she waited for.  I couldn't do it until I was off the phone as I couldn't use the cordless.  Turns out the power was turned off at the mains by some half-witted local!  By the time I got home the milk was almost at room temperature, luckily there was only other things in the fridge that weren't going to go off like a loaf of bread, eggs, fresh uncooked fruit and veg, that sort of thing.

I tried to send a text message to my mum telling her of it, and the phone wouldn't send text messages!

Exhausted and annoyed, I decided to make a cup of coffee.  No water.  So I went outside and lo and behold, as suspected after the power being turned off, the water was turned off out the front.  I threw a tantrum equivalent to that of a toddler who had a toy taken away from them because it belonged to a sibling.

I turned it on, ran a bath for DD, made a coffee for myself, pulled up a chair in the bathroom to watch DD in the bath and rang Telstra.  After 50 minutes on the phone, being passed through to a number of people, they finally worked out that the problem was that the Centre Number needed to be cleared and re-entered.  THE SAME NUMBER RE-ENTERED!!! It just had to be reset.  So now we have power, water, I can send text messages, but I'm ready for bed and DD had a sleep today so she is NOT ready for bed.

That's my week, hope it gets better next week.  I'm going to have a coffee and a cry now.  And a TIm Tam too, that'll fix everything.

Dad started abusing the driver, the driver started abusing Dad, Mum slapped Master 7 across the back of the head and started yelling at him for not watching Miss 3 closely enough, then Dad slapped Miss 3 across the back of the legs for being on the road, then screamed out to Miss 13 (who was inside and unaware of it all) for not paying attention to what the 'baby' was doing! Meanwhile the parents were out in their front yard anyway so they should have been able to see she was on the road.  She's always on the road.  As is Master 7.  They're never pulled up on it.

So I'd like to know how the children are to blame? Why can't parents take responsibility for what their children are doing? It was so close to being a disaster!  Makes me mad when the children are blamed for things out of their control.  A 3 year old and a 7 year old who have never been told not to play on the road know no different, and it beats me how the 13 year old was dragged into it and what she did wrong!  Grr, I'm a little angry at them for not watching their kids.

"The moment I saw you,
I wanted to hold you
And keep you warm
On a cold grey morn.

The moment I held you
I wanted to kiss you
And welcome you here
On the day you were born"

The Moment I Saw You by Graham Nash and Nicollette Larson

It's amazing what you find when you go searching for songs isn't it? I was actually looking for a different song entirely!

What got me a little upset though was that some of the comments were given low ratings! I know it doesn't matter, but it really struck me that even comments such as great article thanks for sharing, or I can relate to this, thank you for sharing, were given 2 or 3 or 4 stars! I really feel there is no need for it.  Is there a reason that comments need to be rated anyway? I know why the advice does, but honestly I think the way these comments are graded is rediculous and can see why people would take it personally.

Once again though I think that if older articles that were 4 stars or above popped up as random links every so often they wouldn't just be left like they are.  There are lots of wonderful advices on here that I would never have found except for going to advice then clicking a random page number to see what's there.

Just my thoughts on it anyway.

This news article is about exactly that, GST hitting children's junk cereal with GST to combat obesity.  The obesity epidemic is reaching incredible levels, and everywhere I go it's sad to see how many children even under school age are unable to play freely due to their size. At the beach last week I witnessed a family whose child was unable to chase birds because after just a few steps she was out of breath and needed to sit down.  She was probably under school age since it was a school day, but may not have been.

I understand there are many factors, including thyroid conditions, which can lead to childhood obesity but the main cause of it is parents feeding their children junk food.  I don't know how many times we are out shopping and witness an already over-weight child being given a donut to keep them in the trolley, followed by a flavoured milk shake which high in sugar even if it is reduced fat milk that's used, then later given a happy meal because it's too late to take them home and cook their dinner.

Increasingly children are starting their day with these junk food cereals, which as the news article states are closer in composition to chocolate biscuits and lollies, then they go off to school with lunch box items which include LCM bars, muesli bars, fruit bars, any number of items that are on the shelf now and are aimed at busy working mums as a quick and easy way to pack a lunch box.  They claim to be healthy yet they often contain more sugar than lollies and chocolates.  They come home and have fast-foods because mum and dad haven't finished work until late.

I'm not having a go at anyone for being busy, working parents.  I'm one of those myself.  I just hope that by tacking GST onto these products, parents might stop and think about what they're giving their kids.  There are many healthy alternatives to these that don't need to take all day and all night to prepare.

Starting the day with weet bix is much better than starting the day with rice bubbles, unless you pile the sugar on the weetbix.  An easy alternative, that's better for everyone, is to cut fruit up such as kiwi fruit, banana, and strawberries.

Hoping you all have a wonderful day!