let the fun begin..

hello!
so i sent the kids off the school for their last day!
then i quickly tidyed and washed, went to the gym, showered and the raced over to harrison's school to get his epi-pen (he is allergic to peanuts) from the school nurses office, and then school was almost over so i waited and took him home with me.
vacation started at 11:30 this morning.
then the other kids all got home and we had lunch together and went through whats going to happen these school holidays.. things to do, pool times, when the tv will stop being watched etc.
the tv part MUST be enforced, otherwise i swear they would sit there for the next two and a half months and watch it.. non stop.
so after lunch we went to the pool.. andddd it was closed. didn't open until three.
..we came back home and played in the basement, and ava came over as well.
..we went back to the pool at three, with ava, and it was so nice.. well kind of.
it was crazy having five kids to keep an eye on, and even worse when two of them are trying to drown you..
and of course each of them wanted me to play with them, so i had to take it in turns, throwing them, pulling them, handstanding for them.. i was like a circus show lol
so then when it got later, and i was physically exhusted, we came home.
i started dinner, the kids ate and then watched tv.
and then i went to stop and shop to get more listerine, then to starbucks.
oh and i went with a couple of the girls to "tobys yogurt" which is right near starbucks, it is super good. you do it all yourself. and yogurt flavour and then whatever toppings you want.
so it was anika's last night and we said goodbye to her.
and then i stopped to get some milk, because the kids drink a gallon a day (four litres) and we needed it for breakfast in the morning.
and now i am home, soooo ready for bed.
goodnight australia! x

monday-itis.

hey!
so mondays are the worst day of the week for me. i'm still wishing it were the weekend, but its not, and there is a tonne of washing and cleaning to do. but besides all that today i did go to the gym and cleaned up my room, organised some clothes etc.
the kids got home, anddddd NO BASEBALL! at all. zero. zip. nada.
i can't even begin to tell you how good it is not to have to rush four kids around to baseball games.
so harrison played on the computer, G had a friend over and rach and matt played with ava out the front.
all was peaceful.
oh and this afternoon when G was eating his snack (i made fruit kebabs for them) he was like "wanna see what i can do?" and then he pulled his eyelids like up and out (like everyone can if they try) but thought he was the only one. it was so funny. i couldn't stop laughing at him. hes just so cute.
then i made dinner, we had a very loud dinner table tonight. but i told them that this was their one time this week that they could muck around at the table, they agreed, i hope lol
oh and tomorrow is their last day of school... for two and a half months! but it should be okay, i have heaps planned.
so they will be home at 12:30, and then the fun begins..
i need my rest now that its vacation..
goodnight! xxxx

shopping..

hello!
so today i did actually mkae it out of my room, and the house..
i got up at about 11, had a shower and then went to the shoppes at farmington valley (i have told you about them before)
so there i brought a new dress. its a casual strapless, pink and cream coloured, patterned dress.
and a grey pair of tie at the front shorts, a black singlet with an awesome back, and a new book called perfect chemistry. its your classic, cheerleader and the bad boy happen to be put as chemistry partners, fall in love etc.. and its great so far!
then i came home, dropped my shopping off, watched an episode of true blood and then drove to hartford to pick up christina (she was in new york for the weekend with her sister).
so then we went to the best sushi train ever. it was such a nice resteraunt, and such good sushi.
then we went to ben and jerrys, walked around, sat and talked and then i dropped her home.
now i am watching miss usa, wondering how much their moths much be hurting from fake smiling for so long.
oh miss calafornia won be the way.
thats about it. miss you! x

resting..

hey!
well its saturday and i did nothing. i layed in bed. all day.
i woke up at ten, went and made one pancake because.. i made enough batter for two largish ones, cook the first one, and its perfect, golden brown and perfect, second one, burnt to the shithouse. mum said i should have turned the heat down lol so i ate one pancake,
then i went back to my room, watched limitless, great movie.
watched tv, went downstairs and chopped up half a cucumber and a tomato and ate it (they needed to be used).
came back to my room, watched a movie on tv.
then i skyped with mum, went and cooked some rice, which serena, you are genius, it worked perfectly. exactly how you said it would. thankyou!
skyped with dad and sharon, then ate dinner - stirfry and rice.
started to watch drive angry, do not watch it, it is the worst movie ever. i switched it off after 20 minutes. and watched just go with it instead, its hilarious. do watch it.
now i am on skype with mum again. thinking of going to sleep soon.
tomorrow will be more exciting hopefully. i will actually leave the house.
bye! x
p.s the reason i don't go heaps of places on the weekend is because if i do i will spend money, and i am trying oh so hard to save as much of my pay as possible.

productive..

hey everyone!
well this morning after the kids left i quickly did everything i needed to do, then went to karen's mums house.
she is having visitors over in a couple of days and needed help tidying up. so i went to help..
it only took a couple of hours so it was lunchtime when i finished and i decided to get deangelos for lunch.
soooo good. it was a chicken parm sub thing.
and then when i got home, i did the washing, got changed and went to the gym.
came home, and the kids got home.
i packed their bags, because all of them are with their dad this weekend (its fathers day this sunday in america).
then ithe girls asked if i could drop them at micheals because they were going to silver bay (which i will also be doing soon, as a part of our requirements being here) so i went and picked up lauren, went and got clara, she forgot her laptop after about a kilometre, so we went back, then we missed our turn off, turned around, then we got lost, had to call for directions, finally got there and thankfully micheal printed directiosn for me to get home the easy way.
so now i am home, and watching true blood. i started it this afternoon.. and am already addicted.
i will keep you up to date with that.
okay, bye! love you all! xxxxx
p.s tonight it is just me at home..alone. and i hate it, because of the whole basement thing, horrow movies etc. so i turned all the lights off in the rest of my house (because i'm not going out there again, too scared) and have locked myself in my room haha

nothing great..

hello..
nothing at all happened this morning other then the usual cleaning and washing..
then i went to the gym after lunch, came home and then the kids got home.
went straight to baseball training, hung out with rachel in the car while keeping an eye on the other kids playing outside on the grass.
then came home and started dinner, went back to baseball to pick up harrison, came home, cleaned up after dinner and then watched tv.
now i;m on skype with mumma bear, love her :)
thats all. bye! x
p.s in america, they eat pop tarts for breakfast! yes breakfast! craaazzzyyyyy.

busy and hot..

hellooooo!
hope everything is going well for you all in australia. i miss you guys.
well this morning i quickly did all the household things and then had to go and run errands.
then at lunchtime i went to harrison's school to volunteer (because i'm just that great of a person haha) at their school field day, which is just sports day.
so the kids had to do this course that was like amazing race. and my station was possibley the easiest and quickest. they just had to stand in a line shoulder to shoulder and unravel a toilet paper rol until it reached the last person. easy as.
then i helped pack up and harrison wouldn't tell me where to wait for him or whether to get his bag or not, so i told him to catch the bus home. twenty minutes later, i'm at home, and i get a phone call from the school asking me to come and pick him up. sooooo i had to go all the way back to school to get him. was not happy lol
then the other kids got home, we went to baseball practice, then i made dinner for the kids and then dinner for myself and now i am watching americas next top model.
oh and last night - dinner was really good! there was about 40 of us at dinner. and i met another australian au pair that is in a different group to us but she only lives 15 minutes away which is good.
and pretty little liars was amazing, as usual. it never disappoints.
im off.
goodnight! xxxxxx