31.

hey!
one month to go. only one month.
having mixed emotions at the moment, but mostly i am stressed about lugagge weight and stuff like that.
packing up my room tomorrow so we shall soon find out if they will be over weight or not.
today the kids went to school and i went to the gym for two hours.
oh before i went to the gym though i cleaned all the crao out of the car so that when i was done at the gym i could vaccum it. so i did. and then when i got home i wiped down all the inside dash board etc so now its nice and clean for when grace gets picked up on friday :)
then i folded the washing, had a shower, ate lunch and started ready the second 'ivy' book - because i finished the first one last night at 11:30pm.
hm then what... oh i had a twenty minute nap - because i am the ultimate napper as well all know.
last night i didnt fall asleep until well past 1am, and so tonight hopefully because i am running on extreme low i will fall asleep straight away. i just cant stop thinking about things though - everything is so stressful right now.
i think once i have packed my room and grace is here that i will chill out a bit.
kids came home and they did homework while i wrote in the "au pair guide book" for grace.. just things she has to do during the day, everything about the kids she should know, good restaurants, good shopping etc..
i made spag bol for dinner, took harrison to tae kwon do and now i am done.
one tree hill tonight! and i will catch up 90210 from last night as well.
goodnight xo

32.

helllooooooo!
oh the weather just makes me so so happy.
it was 26 degrees today!
after the kids left i washed sheets, had a nap, ate lunch and the went for an hour walk along the river with lauren.
went to the library and got two books - 'the ivy' and book two 'secrets: the ivy'.. i got them at 2:30pm today and am almost finished the first one, it is so good!
the kids came home and we did homework outside, i actually got a tad sunburnt on my neck from sitting outside all afternoon.
then i cooked dinner and now i am finished and waiting for lauren to pick me up so we can go to starbucks.
goodnight xo

33.

hey!
well this time next month i will be gettin on a big jet plane..
get excited australia!
today rachel had a fever when she woke up so she stayed home from school..
and we did nothing all day.
the house was clean, and the bathrooms and floors because i did it all yesterday so all i ahd to do was one load of washing - only one! and its a monday. score!
so we watched tv, played the ipod and thats about it.
and the boys got all their homework done really quick this arvo so it was very relaxed.
we played outside in the 25 degree weather, i re heated leftovers from teh weekend for dinner and dropped harrison to tae kwon do before i finished.. too easy.
and now i am waiting for pretty little liars! tonight is the night 'A' is revealed!!! super excited!
andddd my contiki stuff came today - the tickets and all that jazz.. 15 days to go!
goodnight xo

34.

hello!
sleepy sunday..
yeah i satyed in bed until 11, pottered downstairs for some breaky, watched some tv.. oh speaking of tv, turns out i ahve seen 'the rebound' so while it was on last night i finished reading 'the hunger games'..
so excited for it to come out at the movies on friday!
then at 5 i started work and am still working now..
i babysat the kids while the adults went to a wake, as well as the cousins, so it wasn't four, no five.. not even six kids, but seven children.. oh the fun.
and we had to return the dvds to redbox and pick up pizza for dinner and i may as well have taken a whole class on a school trip.. they make so much noise and run everywhere and oh god, stressful to say the least.
but anyway we got home and they ate on the back deck, so there was no mess for me to clean up - we even got paper plates from the pizza place!
then they played in the basement until 7:30 when the cousins left then i started showering and getting my kids to bed. they were all tucked in by 9pm, now i am going to shower and go to bed.
goodnight xo

35.

hello!
first of all i forgot to tell you about my gifts from karen and the kids - i got this beautiful necklace with four little stone things on them that have each of my kids first inital on them.. and also a four pack of american stubby coolers - hell yeahhhhh. they will come in handy when i am home and drinking up a storm ;)
so today, well i slept until 11, had breakfast, well brunch really while reading 'the hunger games' then i got dressed and went to karen's mums house to help her clean up ready for her six guests tonight.
went to stop and shop and got a coupe of dvds from redbox, came home and watched 'footloose' even though i have already seen it, its just such an awesome movie.
then i had a shower and got ready for our st patricks day night dinner with karens family.
now thats over, i have talked to mum, brought a neck pillow for travel, an adaptor for my american hair curler, a pack of travel size containers for the plane, a pack of clear ipod screen protectors and an ipod case for mum and i off of amazon.. it will all arrive during this week - excellent.
now i am going to put my pj's on and watch 'the rebound' which i dont think i have seen before.
goodnight xo

36.

hello!
wow, its friday, again.. already. this week went so fast.
all the kids went to school this morning - i dropped them off because matty had to take in his robot and i didn't want him to break it before he even got to his classroom.
then i came home and got dressed and went to get my massage!
so i leave at 9:20am, google maps on my ipos said it would take 20 minutes, so i had plenty of time to get there.. at 10:10am, i STILL wasn't there.. know why? because i couldn't find the place to save my life!
it was number 452 right, so i find 450 - a sushi place - but next to it is a road and then on the corner lot, where 452 should be was some tarot card reading place..
so i am driving and driving, i tried to call robyn who had been there, but of course my phone has no money on it, so i am trying to recharge it and it was taking forever! and i was running late.. so i end up getting onto robyn, she was no bloody help, so i kept driving around where 452 should be and then i finally see this tiny sign - it was the size of a freakin piece of A4 paper for crying out loud, stuck on this tiny green doorway at the back of the tarot card place! jesusssssss! so then i really needed a massage.
and it was really good - a full body swedish massage, but the lady just would not shut up! like i wanted to just listen to the music and fall asleep and be completely relaxed but she kept on talking and talking! because i'm from australia and i'm an au pair and its just sooooo interesting to everyone lol
anyway, after it finished i came home and the kids were home about 20 minutes after that - they had a half day again.
so because it was cold and rainy outside we just watched tv, had lunch, had an hour and a half nap (yes, all the kids slept, cause i am just that good) and then chilled out.
then for dinner we went to the 'outback steakhouse' for dinner - the aussiest place in america apparently..
haha you should see the menu, and everything is called like "walkabout soup" "sydney sirloin steak" and they have the crappest bear ever "fosters aussie beer" the bathrooms are labelled "blokes and sheilas" its so funny.
oh and i ordered steak and when it came it was too rare for me so she took just the steak back and while she was gone and i was waiting i pretty much ate all my sweet potato fries and brocolli, but then when they brought back out the steak it was on a full plate again - like a new meal! so i pretty much ate two meals.. appart from the food that i shared with the kids - mostly matt because he is an eating machine.
now we are home, i am showered and ready for bed.
goodnight xo
also, this is my last weekend in my room.. so am i going to make that most of it? hell yes! i plan on doing alot of napping in my bed ;)
and ths time next week, grace will be here! holey moley.

37.

hey!
well rachel was sick today so i stayed home with her all day and the otehrs had a half day because of parent teacher interviews so were home at 12:30.
and well the boys had playdates, i read the hunger games (again so i am refreshed ready for the movie next week!) and thats about it.
oh turns out rachel was chucking a sickie, she didnt actually say the words, but she had a huge grin on her face when i asked her if she was afetr she ate like a machine all day.
then i finished at 7:30, and went to bertuccis for jess' farewell dinner - she is going to a different family in colorado in the morning.
and when i did my hair, i did a waterfall braid but all the way around my head and it looks freakin awesome - took about 10 minutes and hurt my arms like hell, but well worth it ;)
i will post photos on fb.
well goodnight xo