Learning to let go

If there is one thing that this journey though fostering has taught me; is that I am a control freak. I have this need to control every little thing around me. What the kids are doing, where we are...

Turns out, I’m a bit of a bridesmaidzilla…

aww look how much younger I look in this…and thinner. Damnit! My sister Oohey is getting married!! She’s been with her boy for around 10 years and I had begun to give up hope until we got THE phone...

Sea air

I’ve been in a funk these past couple of days. I’m tired and crabby and crabby and tired. I came back from Canberra itching to get back into the swing of things but found myself a little...

tumbleweeds and dust

Oh hai internetz. I’ve missed you awfully but life is busy and quite frankly boring. We have a routine of boys fighting in the morning, boys fighting on the way to school, lovely silence for the...

Not my baby anymore

Isn’t it weird how 4 is little and 5 is big? Little Man turned 5 and over night my baby grew a centimetre over night and lost the little boy look. I quietly weeped on his first day of school,...

Beans

Too much I want to say. My soul feels full with the other piece of it in my kitchen, drinking wine and sneaking out for forbidden cigarettes together like we are 15 again. While QLD is lashed with...

Count Down

Last week of holidays and I AM SO READY FOR SCHOOL! The boys have had enough of being nagged all day to keep their hands to themselves, to clean their bedroom and to PICK UP YOUR DAMN SOCKS! School...

Holidays

Husband grew a beard. and shaved it off the day before my birthday. He’s mean like that. Spider Man has taken over our life. Gone is Ben10 from our lives and Peter Parker now dominates. School...

NY2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope that your 2012 gave you happiness, love and laughter. 2013 will bring us our last year with the boys and I can’t even put into words how I feel about this. Along with that...

Aspergers

I know it’s been a bit quiet around these parts… I am struggling with how much I share on here…do I keep up with LOTB, move somewhere more private and lose something i’ve worked really hard on for...

I heart my body 2012

On Sunday The Kid broke my heart. We were sitting outside while the bbq was burning sausages with our friends and talking about the day before at the pool. There were some kids there that were...

Parks, Breaking hearts and Other

These school holidays have very nearly killed me! What with respite we were promised never happening I was at breaking point (in case you didn’t notice) and took to my bed for the day. I realised...

Enough.

I’ve been begging for respite for months. We were promised a break in August and here we are now at the end of September and we are still waiting. Today at contact I was told that maybe The Kid...

DON’T TOUCH THAT SAWAH…

Little Man is very firm on Fire Safety. It’s simple. IF YOU TOUCH FIRE YOU WILL DIE. The End.

Brushing over the important stuff.

This is me, inserting series of random photos because what I really want to write I can’t. Little Man is home sick with a cold and a tummy ache. I’ve had some gross cold thing for a week and I had...

Firsts

First packed lunch box 1 ham sandwich, crusts cut off. 1 banana 1 strawberry yogurt 1 pear cut into triangles. 1 piece of laughing cow cheese. juice box. You are more excited about your juice box....

I plan on planning.

One of my mums best friends had a massive stroke while on holiday and just never woke up. While I have met Gaynor on several occasions and had her listen to my ramblings on speaker phone when...

Sure, You can watch The Lorax for the millionth time this week…

Little Man is obsessed with The Lorax. We have to put it on the telly at least once a day and while he’s colouring or eating lunch or being his busy little self, it’s on in the background AND...

Saaaaaaaaraaaahhh hhhhh

The Kid. Loves The prettiest girl in school… even though she doesn’t want to commit to a relationship right now (REALLY?) Star Wars Merlin Romance Movies Drawing Origami Lasagne Soccer Arguing with...

Nah, I don’t need that really important thing…

When we moved house I got ‘throw away’ happy and got rid of loads of stuff. Some things needed to go, like the old bookshelf that was bowed and broken from the weight of my books or the old blue...

Conversations with the Little Man

Can you feel spring is in the air? Long days down at the park with my boys, fresh flowers, spring cleaning* and the first outdoor BBQ for this house is just around the corner. *actually, lets skip...

It’s late…

Sup mah homies…

*tumbleweeds billow past* We are hurtling through the rest of the year and I want to press the pause button. Christmas is popping up in the shops…The Kid’s birthday is fast approaching and we’ve...

These boys

Have my heart.I’m falling apart at the moment and I am beyond sick of myself.I’m off progesterone for now as it’s not working and really, it was turning me into ‘hulk SMASH’ so, while that’s...

STOP TURNING ME INTO A CRANKY OLD PERSON

An actual statement I made today when The Kid and Little Man were DRIVING US TO THE BRINK OF INSANITY.We’ve found a house.You can all stop worrying about our impending homeless-ness now.We got the...

We met the kids grandmother the other day.We were all called to a family group meeting to discuss the case plans for the kids as this month HOPEFULLY the court will make a decision for the kids for...

Sass goes paleo and on progesterone in the same week.

Husband will be moving out by the end of the month due to me turning into a psychotic person due to hormones and lack of sugar/grains/dairy. Actually, talking of moving, we have to be outta here by...

This post could not be any more pointless and random if it tried.

We still need to move house but the thought of finding somewhere to live is so overwhelming that I’ve been putting it off. Along with struggling to come to a decision on what to do with MooZoo, I...

Ache

Just when I thought that I was going to be swallowed whole, we got a call from the kid’s aunt asking us if she could have the boys for a couple of days. I was instantly hesitant. I mean, while...

Struggling

When I think back to my childhood and picture my mum, she’s got this scowl on her face. It’s between a frown and a grimace and it was firmly on her face from 7am Saturday Morning till 10pm Sunday...