decision has been made.

hey!
i am going to montreal for new years everyone! i am very excited!
for $230 we will get there and back on a bus, have one night in a motel and get free drinks all night at a club.
if i had of gone to new york it would have been an awesome experience but there will be at least a million people there, and to get a good spot we have to be there by about 6 at the latest to get a good spot, but once we are put in our "pen" we cant leave and go back to the same one. so for six hours we have to stand in the freezing cold and wait and wait and wait...
so montreal seemed the better option. and it is where i wanted to go from the beginning anyway.
and it is all booked!
i also brought my bus ticket for NYC this weekend.
and i finished my silverbay homework from the first time i went there. and that is emailed in and my certificate is on its way within the nest two weeks.
i feel so accomplished today.
i got all the washing done, dishwasher unpacked, and house cleaned up by 11 which was good.
oh when the kids got home, garrett didnt have his back pack - he left it at school - and he was crying, but not over the backpack.. because he took his big lego space shuttle to school for show and tell and before he left this morning i told him it wasnt a good idea because it would break and sure enough it broke.. so guess what i spent dinnertime doing?
half an hour later - while cooking dinner, because i am a master at multi tasking, the shuttle was complete!
then after i finished work i took harrison and G with me to get milk.
got home and i am watching resteraunt impossible.
goodnight xo

i miss school..

hey!
boy oh boy, do i miss school.
not the work, or the assessments, or the hours upon hours of studying (okay, well maybe i didnt study that hard but you get the point)..
i miss going to school for the social side.
i miss seeing all my friends every single day.
i miss mucking around and making plans for the weekend while in class.
to everyone who just graduated - you wont be happy about it for long.
so today was boring.
nothing. that is what i did.
i watched tv. i went for a walk.
that is all.
so thats probably why i miss school. because i am so bored and lonely during the weekdays.
it was just me and my boys this afternoon - harrison and rach were at their sports.
now i am waiting for lauren to pick me up for starbucks and watching what not to wear.
goodnight xo

funny kids..

hey australia!
so its almost december.. can you believe it?!
today after the kids left i started washing the sheets (after they had made their beds, handy danielle) and then started cleaning the floors, bathrooms, washing clothes etc..
took a whole heap of stuff to goodwill and went to take winter clothes to the consignment but they weren't accepting any more clothes, so i came home and watched cake boss until the kids came home.
and while i G and rach were doing their homework i hear garrett say 'can i please throw this pencil at your face?' to rach haha
i made them dinner and matt was walking around the kitchen usinga n umbrella as a cane and saying "old man" things to me, and then gets these giant wooden chopstick things (not entirely sure what they are actually used for) and pretends he is eating the telephone lol
so we eat dinner then once the boys had done they left the table and it was just rach and i left and she was sitting there looking at her whats left on her plate unaware i was watching her and she is singing 'one little carrot, two little french fries, three little chicken....things.' hahahaha
after dinner i started showers and now i am finished, waiting for gossip girl and keen to put my pj's on.
night night xo

thanksgiving, again!

hello!
well this morning, i slept until 11, and it was sooooo nice.
then even after i had woken up i just ate a yogurt for breakfast in bed, while watching hgtv.
got up at one and got ready for thankgiving 2.0!
at the mansion baby!
so lauren picked me up and we went over. it was me, lauren, robyn, linnea and julia, plus robyns host mum and her friends.
so we sat around the fire outside (they have a firepit near the pool) which was kept alive by using a leaf blower to up the flameage lol
by the time we ate it was about 5, and it was all the same food as the first thanksgiving.
and we had pumpkin pie again! yummmm!
left at 7:30, mucked around with the kids and now i am watching once upon a time before i have a shower and indulge my face with a face mask..
goodnight xo

christmas shopping..

hey!
i set my alarm this morning, with the intention of washing my hair. but when your bed is as warm and comfortable as mine was this morning, i was prepared to go out side of the house with a little less then clean hair. i worked it though - nothing like a blake lively inspired messy ponytail.
so lauren picked me up at 11:30 and we went to kohls, because their black friday sale was still on, even though it was saturday.
my mission - to have christmas done and dusted by 2pm, when the specials finished.
so i find rach a present, then while browsing for the boys stuff, i decide against it and put it back, i get G something, go back and get rachels same present again from the shelf, put G's back, find matt and G a combined present, find absolutely nothing for harrison, find something better for rachel, then add to it, go downstairs and get other various gifts, back upstairs, add one more thing to rachels present, go through the checkout.
then whilst trying to find lauren, i find another present, find myself a super nice scarf, decided against that present, keep the scarf, go to the check out AGAIN..
did i mention i absolutely hate christmas shopping?
too many nice things, not enough money!
so after buying everything i had a total savings of $130 and earned $15 kohls cash for next time, sa-weeeeet!
then to walmart to see if there is anything for harrison, nada, so i will talk to him about what he wants on monday.
then i come home, eat noodles, watch tv, shower and wash my hair, talk to mum.
then i ordered the chinese, lauren came over we went and got the food and a dvd and ice cream.
came home and skyped with sister bear.
and thats pretty much it.
i am completely ready to sleep for the next 11 hours or so.. life is goooood.
goodnight xo

day after the feast..

hello!
so today is know as 'black friday' when everything is reduced. and by reduced, i mean, a sale on steroids. everywhere! doors open at 12am friday morning and the sale in some cases, goes until 12pm friday.
these are the type of sales where people are trampled when the doors are opened and get severely injured because no one has time to help you if they are going to get their hands on one of the $200 laptops or someone shoots you because you took the last $90 mix master - okay so that one is a bit of an exaggeration.
i however did not and will not be going to these sales - one, because there is no way in hell i am getting up in the middle of the night while its freezing to get a good deal and two because the sale is pretty much still on tomorrow, anddd people wont be as crazy, so i am going to go then and do my christmas shopping.
back to todays household events - the kids had no school so they slept until nine. score.
and then we sat around and watched tv, then played cards and yahtzee - the pokemon version, and animal soup and zingo - like bingo but wayyyy cooler.
and by the time the kids owned me in each and every one of those games their dad had come (at 1pm) and they left for the weekend.
so i heated myself up a big juicy turkey wing and watched tv, before having a nanna nap.
showered and got ready for dinner, and then skyped with grandma and pa! and elana and luke were there as well! grandma just got a new laptop and now has skype!
http://contiki.com/destinations/north-america/tours/23-southern-adventure-start-los-angeles# and grandma that is the link for my travel month tour, once again. (if you hold the 'ctrl' button and click it, it should open in a new window for you.)
so then i went to ulta to buy a nail file for my handbag while waiting for our table at bettuccis.
had a delicious dinner, went to barnes and noble to have a look and now i am home and sooooo ready for bed.
goodnight xo

happy thanksgiving!

hello!
today is thanksgiving! and i am so full, it is unbelieveable.
i dont think i could fit a single crumb into my stomach right now.
this morning the kids got up before me, even though they didnt go to bed until 11!
we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and then watched tv before getting ready for the feast.
the kids and i cleaned up the house and the basement (that was trashed) then all put our "church clothes" on and did our hair etc..
once i had the kids ready we watched the macys thanksgiving parade on tv - you know the one with all the gigantic balloons thats on movies - and then i started my share of cooking - mashed potatoes.
it was the most i had ever made before - a whole bag full :O
oh and on the turkeys they have a 'pop up' button that pops up  guess when the turkey is ready. and karen couldnt find it on ours, so she thought they didnt make them like that anymore.. but then when we turned the turkey over in the oven we realised she put the turkey in upside down haha
in the meantime matt cracked his foot down on the handle of the cheese and crackers dish and smashed it, handy lol
by the time we ate it was around three and there was turkey with gravey and cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, butternut pumpin, corn, salad and bread rolls.
and then pumpin pie (delicious!).. i had never had it before.. well i dont think i have, and my pavlova! which was perfect. but the berries for the top were still frozen because we forgot to get them out of the freezer so i was trying to thaw them in a pot of hot hot hot water while still in the bag, but that was taking too long, so i used the microwave, resulting in them being very saucy so when i put them on the pav it looked like it was "dying" - according to rachel.
then after we cleaned up we sat around watching monsters inc and eating pistachios.
now i have had a shower, made a cuppa and am ready to watch an apisode of slide and then go to sleep.
i am so tired. goodnight xo