Hot as !

News just in....Adelaide made it to 44.7 degrees at 12.40pm - the hottest day in 70 years - so its the hottest day in my lifetime....

The above photo was taken on Australia Day on the Yorke Peninsula here in SA - it was a lot cooler that day - well about 10 degrees...Stansbury is very tidal and we had a lovely swim around in the warm water.... For the first time we saw a seal there, came in for a rest, then got tricked by the sudden tidal change.

Kids school air-con wasnt doing a very good job - lets hope they can head into the library later...I have been driving around in air-con comfort always on the search for a tree to park under....

Home is a different story - we have evaporative air-con so it can only do so much, it does a great job at night though - it only got down to low 30's outside last night. Can't complain though as until the kids came along, there was NO aircon in the house. One of the families at school have NO air-con so I am thinking of them.....

Well the shower screen went in yesterday, so I'll be able to have a proper shower tonight ...yippee....it has one of those special heads so it will be a treat.... here is a bit of the bathroom (minus paint) the spa is devine!

Hopin for a good week...

Had a few days away....a long, long weekend so to speak...

Lots of fresh air (and Happy Hours), not much net surfing - well as much as I could squeeze in on my phone.....

Expecting the bathroom to be finished off when the shower screen (finally) arrives later in the week...will get around to posting a photo - gee this blog needs some work....havent been able to get onto the computer during the school holidays...minute I sit down....they are over my shoulder whinging and fighting over who should go next.....(not Mum I can tell you)

Must head off to bed now....kids are back to school tomorrow and I have to set up for a huge party!

Cheers......Kim

Crappy Friday

It was one of those days that just keep getting worse.

Carpenter arrived at 7.10am UNANNOUNCED....hey lets get it over and done with, hubby goes off at him for his poor pre-Xmas work, I hide in the adjacent bedroom too scared to make eye contact with him.

Visitors due at 11am, trying to tidy up while negotiating with carpenter, phone calls, mms's to hubby to show correct positioning (and to avoid extra drama's) Visitors arrive amongst the work....cool, their dad is renovating, they understand!

Into pool, James drowns the clothed mum on the sidelines, then attempts to semi-submerse 3yo son...preparing lunch, while going back and forth to stop carpenter leaving before he has done all the jobs, food in oven starting to burn! Make rolls, young visitor knocks my arm and plate of prepared food scatters over floor AND black glass/ceramic type plate smashes over floor into smithereens - literally thousands of tiny pieces of plate all over tiled floor - never seen anything like it! AND did I mention the vacuum just died and I have 5 kids under 7 with bare feet.

3yo boy in tears that wont stop after James yelled and smacked him..phone rings - charity worker - not now! Carpenter exits, phone rings shower screen wants to come and measure - this day was meant to be a nice day with our visitors - barely got to spoke to the mum (which is why you ask school friends over isnt it).

This was just a summary of the day - it was sprinkled with other dramas....then to work at 5.30 - Fridays are my long day at work - ahhh a rest....NUP...busy busy, broken machine, exit work at 2.30am....hubby gets up when I climb into bed at 3am (did I mention I have been up since 7am?)

Hubby doesnt return to bed (what is going on?) Hubby wakes Hosky.....couldnt sleep MAJOR issue with the bathroom - work started on this back on October 13th, 2008 and we have been showering outside ever since (well at least it is summer!)

Turns out that we are just about finished - minus said shower screen - and the shower taps are spitting the wrong water - cold side of taps/pipes is hot water! A heap of the tiles will have to come off, plumber back, tiler back, tempers flaring all over again......

Oh joy.....its going to be a brilliant week !!!

So STUPID !

I am kicking myself.....over and over again!

Cleaning up my blog, deleting posts with big photos etc....very pleased with myself! Then it dawns on me, copy and paste the kiddie funny ones to a word document to keep (and print) for them...

Great idea Hosky! But wait, you just deleted some FOREVER!

OK start from this moment then!

So - for the last almost 8 years I have said I should be keeping a 'fun' diary for the kids - we do actually have lots of 'fun' moments, its just some time the 'bad' and 'dangerous' moments take over!. I also have a couple of thousand (yes bloggers I reckon there are 2000) digital photos floating around on the PC, memory cards and multiple cameras.

All this is wonderful, a lovely legacy for the kids! But wait....what to do with all the hours of almost extinct technology video footage.......

still trying 2 phone blog

May have worked it out,this is a test..can hide from the kids! The minute i turn on the pc the kids line up 2 kick me off.

Happy New Year

Like every New Years resolution, I fell over before I even got started......

Left over Lions Fruit Cake is not helping one of my causes.... Mum gave it to us, soaking it in brandy for a while to keep it moist....did the trick...

Driving home from our recent holiday - I realised its such a good time to talk to hubby.....he HAS to listen - something he doesnt normally do very well. It was a 2 hour trip and after the first half an hour my phone ran out of battery and that meant the end of facebooking.... So, I talked, and talked and talked his ear off....well he is always whinging he doesnt get enough time with me....

When we finally got home, the fridge was bare....and after lazing in the car for 2 hours I had an amazing amount of energy (hubby had nodded off on the couch by this stage) So....I cleaned the fridge out....the bins were due to go out...they too were very empty, so I ran around the house like a mad women filling them up with stuff that wasnt nailed down....

Unfortunately....that was as far as it all got....the following day I met my sister and we saw "Marley and Me" with only 4 tissues - take a pack of 10 if you go!

Now its midday, the kids are still in their PJ's and I havent had a shower yet - back to my lazy holiday ways again...

BUT I have made a Geotrax (Fisher Price train) video of James' recent track setup (we were inspired by some we saw over at YouTube)...and a few dishes have been done....

Off to work tonight, will be nice to get the brain back into gear again...