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Hello!
I am on my iPod right now because I just got home from eva's going away dinner and it's late and I am too lazy to turn my laptop on. So if there are any mistakes (more than usual) that is why.
This morning grace and I got the kids off to school and then waited around watching tv until Ed was supposed to come around to give grace a driving lesson but he was taking forever so I took her instead. We just did a few blockies and practiced reversing out of the driveway a few times. Got home and had a nap which was first interrupted by the fed ex guy who did a 'ding and dash' and just left the package at the door. So we go back to sleep then the doorbell rings again and it was some guy who came to the wrong house and was supposed to be at our next door neighbours. Go back to sleep AGAIN and then the phone rang and it was Ed calling to say that because it was raining he would come tomorrow instead. So by then we just stayed awake and had lunch, watched tv and waited for the kids to come home.
Got homework done, Harrison went scout camp shopping with his dad, rach went to ice skating and the boys played upstairs.
Then so we could get ready for Eva's dinner I started dinner and watched he kids while grace got ready and then we switched and it is just brilliant having two of us - every family with an au pair should invest in two of them.
Then we went to stop and shop to buy ingredients for the cake grace is making for my going away dinner. Drove to the mall, had the best pork chops with an artichoke batter on them for dinner and then we came home.
Ready for bed now - goodnight xo

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hello there.
seriously i love having grace here.
having two au pairs is the best ever. so easy. and i have someone to hang with during the day instead of being lonely. its awesome.
today matt and harrison went to school and then grace and i took the twins to the dentist, dropped them at school, went to re-new the boys library cards, showed grace how we get petrol here, went to cvs to buy thermal hair protector and then came home to have a good old nap.
kids came home and i went to stop and shop with harrison to get some stuff for dinner, then got homework done, dropped harrison at baseball while grace stayed at home and finished off dinner - fajitas.
got home and ate, cleaned up and then went back to get harrison, but took all the kdis with me because they were naughty for grace when i had left them to drop him off.
came home, got showers done, kids in bed and lights out by 8pm..
we should be finished soona nd then we can go to starbucks.
anddd i have 90210 set to record :)
night xo

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hey!
well monday - super easy with two au pairs..
got the washing done, then grace and i returned her phone that we brought yesterday at walmart and got a different one from at&t.
went to best buy and got a new ipod.. i brought he $80 accidental warrenty and so i wanted to use it beofre i went home, and they gave me a new one, and its white! which is awesome.
and grace brought a new ipod too.
oh and went to shop rite to get shampoo and conditioner - moroccan argen.. so i am excited to use it and see how soft it makes my hair.
and sushi for lunch.
came home and played with our new ipods, had a half hour nap and then the kids were home.
did the usual, had dinner and then started watching a movie when grace realised that we forgot about our au pair meeting tonight haha but it was too late to go anyway because it had already started and was 20 minutes away from our house.. oh well.
goodnight! xo

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hey.
sooo the sun came up before i went to bed last night, or should i say morning.
after a longggg night i got into bed at 6:45am.
and then slept until 12.
got up and sat around doing nothing and then grace and i left at about 2, and we went and got subway for lunch. which i went into in my pj's. and no one even battered an eyelash.. thats what i love about america - zero effort needed at anytime.
we got home, ate and watched 'say yes to the dress' then i read a bit of my book before falling asleep for a good couple of hours.
karen's mum came over for dinner and to meet grace, then after dinner, grace and i chilled (i am loving having someone to hang with) before she went to bed because she didnt nap today, and i had a shower.
now i am in my very comfy queen size blowup bed, ready to catch up on vampire diaries and greys anatomy.
goodnight xo

28.

hey!
yeah, sorry its late again. i was at the mansion - enough said.
so on friday night i ended up sleeping at the mansion.. grace stayed home and slept because she was really tired and robyn and i just watched movies and then i went to bed in the best bed ever.
woke up and came home, got ready and then we went to the movies to see the hunger games!
i was sooooooo excited! but then very disappointed afterward.
i realise that not every detail in the book can be put into the movie but there was so so so much that was left out. and things that were pretty important in the book too.
so i am pushing the movie from my mind and will just keep the glorious book in my head instead.
then we came back home and waited for robyn to go home and feed the dog, she came back and picked us up and then we went to an ice hockey game in hartford!
and it was better by about a million then the last ice hockey game we went to last time.
there were three fights too! so exciting. and the refs just let them punch it out and the crowd cheers them on hahaha
then off to the mansion we went. it turned out to be just me, grace and robyn because lauren and mikayla went to to a bar in west hartford instead.
next post. xo

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hey!
we enter the twentys! and grace is here! she is my replacement..
this morning there was no resting. at 6:30, father bear called for a chat insisting that i should have been getting up by then anyway..
then i got out of bed half an hour later, got the kids off to school and started getting ready.
went to stop and shop to buy bread and sprinkles, raced to laurens house to pick up her laptop, flew home and made two loaves worth of fairy bread and then got down to the school at 10am for G's heritage day..
so i had to do an australian presentation for seven different groups of kids and then we had a different countries food, lunch.
went home and the kids got there half an hour after i did because they had half days, and then about an hour later grace arrived.
so while she settled into her room i read some more of my book, went to the playground and met lauren for a playdate, came home and showed grace everything around the house that she needs to know and then when karen got home we were done.
so we hung out a bit and then grace was tired so she stayed at home, but i am now at the mansion watching one tree hill and vampire diaries that i missed during the week.
goodnight xo

30.

hello!
oh my. today i packed up my room. dear god i have alot of crap.
i through out a whole garbage bag full of rubbish/useless things/things i havn't even touched this year.
good news - i am under my weight limit. by about point two of a kilo. handy, considering all the shot glasses that will be brought during my trip.
bad news - almost half of what i am packing does not fit. seriously. so i had to order space saver bags online. $40, buttt i have no other choice.
oh and guess what? i have two kilos worth of jewelry. yep.
so thats what i have done all day practically.
i did go to spin this morning though.
and i showered and washed my hair.
then after i finally moved all my stuff downstairs into my make shift bedroom (aka the loungeroom) the kids were home.
we got hoemwork done, the twins went and played on the neighbours trampoline while matt and harrison stayed home and played. then we dropped harrison to tae kwon do, the kids ate dinner, picked harrison up and then i was finished and i went to dinner with my lovely neighbour as a going away..
we went to the crown and hammer pub and had a really nice dinner.
now i am home and chatting to mum..
this is my last ever night in this bed. ever.
grace will be here at lunch time tomorrow - exciting!
well im gunna go to sleep now. night! xo