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hello australiaaaaa!
guess what? it's been 365 days. three hundred and sixty five days! oh. my. god.
i remember my first ever post.. like it was yesterday.
and now i have been here for a year, and i will be home in twenty two days.
and i'm not an au pair anymore.
and today was my last ever day as "official" au pair.
woah.
so i will see you all soooooooon! so very very soon!
today, was busy.
kids went to school, we had breakfast, got dressed and then went to micheals - to buy feathers for rachels project, to staples - to return grace's diary, to stop and shop - to buy eggs, to the liquor depot - to buy supplies, to old navy - well just because we could, and we were lost looking for target, so the obvious thing to do in that situation is to shop (i brought chloe a shirt, me some cute peachy coloured shorts and some blotting papers for my face haha) then to target (once we found it) - to buy another diary, and finally to starbucks - to buy an iced coffee, which i paid for out of my coin purse.. don't you hate it when people do that? lol
so we got home and finished rachels dinosaur.. we put in all the feathers, red and purple ones, and now it looks awesome.
then grace went for her second and last driving lesson with ed while i ate lunch and watched criminal minds.
then the kids got home and three of them went straight with their dad so we only had harrison and he watched youtube all afternoon so grace and i baked my going away dinner cake for tomorrow night.
it took about three hours altogether - and that included a trip to stop and shop to buy more chocolate to melt and icing, which convieniently didn't come in the packet - and now it is a two tiered cake with chocoalte shards around it and its just beautiful.
oh and we had this awesome frozen dinner, watched say yes to the dress and i tested out my 'space saving vacuum sealer bags' thats came today and they are bloody great! they actually work! best $40 i have spent all year.
then we went to the movies to see 'mirror mirror' which was hilarious.
came home and discovered that i have the new internet explorer because my computer updated last night, so yay for that.
and now i am waiting for dad to call me back - he called when i was about to go into the movies - and i am hoping its soon because i didn't even nanna nap today and i am extremely tired.
goodnight! xo

23.

hey!
this mornign the kids went to school and grace and i met aluren at the gym for spin class.
and it was wayyy extra hard today. the weight lifting was insane.
then we left there and decided that we wanted fruit salad for lunch so grace practiced her driving and we went to stop and shop, got fruit salad, as well as 20 single yogurts because it was 20 for $10, got milk, grace got a diary which we need to take back because it doesnt have the day on the pages which is stupid.
dropped off some clothes at the consignment, then came home to eat and watch tv.
i had a shower and then a nap while grace went for a driving lesson with karen's dad and then by the time she got home the kids were home.
so then we had to help rachel and garrett both make dinosaur hats for their projects that are due on monday..
got those finished and dinner done and now were done and watching vampire diaries.
goodnight xo

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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