Smiley Saturday Swap Time!
Posted on May 17, 2008
Filed Under links, links and more links!
I just popped over the Lightening’s blog to see what she’d been up to this week, just in time to read that she is doing another Smiley Saturday Swap and this time it is for something that features quite a lot in my life… STICKERS!
The Twinadoe’s LOVE stickers. I used to love stickers, I am big kid at heart and decorating my list book or the odd card with a few stickers always made me smile. I loved stickers a lot more when they were not stick all over the lid of my toilet, on my hard wood floors, in the Twinadoe’s hair, on my bum (why didn’t anyone tell me I had a Hello Kitty emblazoned bum??)… Yes right now I have a bit of a love hate relationship with stickers but I enjoyed Lightening’s last swap that I can’t help but put my hand up for this one too!
So if you are up for a it of a sticker swap head on over and sign up!
What Can We Do Today Posts??
Posted on May 17, 2008
Filed Under blog-keeping
I can’t be the only one with kids who ask ‘What are we could to do today?’ as soon as they open their eyes so I am thinking of making this a bit of a regular feature. Maybe there are others out there who would like some suggestions of fun things to do with kids? Maybe there are others out there who can share their suggestions with me??
I am not very good at keeping a regular blogging schedule (look how badly I did with Grateful Friday) but I do have the power of Mr Linky and I could try to pick a day of the week and stick to it? If people (and if you are reading this then that means you!) would be up for that? Which day though? There are so many other ‘linky things’ for specific days I never know which ones are already way too filled up?
Anyway just mulling this over and thought I’d put it out there… let me know what you think. You know even if you hate the idea I am probably going to write the posts anyway, I just won’t expect your participation!
What Can We Do Today?
Posted on May 16, 2008
Filed Under children's activities, muski the monster, the twinadoes
It’s been one of those weeks in this house. You know, the ones that seem to fly past without you getting anything done at all, yet at the same time it drags so incredibly slow in moments you are sure you will never make it to bed time.
The Twinadoes and Muski and I went to traffic school with kinder on Monday but the girls missed kinder the rest of week as they’ve been too sick. That has meant being house bound and inside almost all day for the past three days. They did get out in the sunshine for a bit yesterday while the Baldy Boy and I renovated the chook house in hopes of getting the first of our new chooks tomorrow (except that it is going to hail and be freezing tomorrow for the farmers market so not sure the chook lady will be there, not even sure we will be brave enough!). There has been a lot of coughing, a lot of arguing, a lot of DVDs, a cocktail of medication and a lot of ’she said that this house wasn’t a castle and I want it to be a castle and I don’t love her any more… waaaaaa’ and not so much sleep.
By today I was getting desperate. At 8am they asked me in stereo (don’t you love that about twins - freaky and cool all at the same time) “What can we do today??????” What can we do? Anything, anything to get away from the whining, to get out of the house, to share the misery with the general public and so dilute it a little for me. So we went to the library. I’ve discovered if you go around lunch time you are generally the only people there - which was probably a good thing as although I know the girls are much improved, if someone else heard them cough they’d probably call an ambulance and report me for neglect.
I love the library. Despite discovering that it can be a very unsafe place, especially for teeth, I still love the library. It’s warm and snugly on a cold windy day like today. It’s quiet (well until we arrive) and full of possibilities. Just think of all the books on so many different subjects! Just think of all the things you could learn and know and do if only you had time to just sit and leaf through books for ever and ever….
So while contemplated the possibilities, the girls got busy making a huge stack of books that they simply HAD to borrow. Muski was busy winning friends and influencing people when he decided to crawl off and have a conversation with the only other people in the place, two little old ladies. Oddly they seemed to perfectly understand what ‘duckem duckem duckem’ meant which impressed Muski no end.
After a blissful two hours we emerged from the building with 6 story books (only two of them about fairies which must be a record for us), one book about budgies for Izzy (I am encouraging this pet idea, it seems a bit easier than her initial request for a guinea pig), one kids recipe book for Zoe (sadly it is American based and uses a lot ingredients that we don’t have here but I think we might be able to adapt one or two items to cool) and three books for me - one on chooks (see above), one on herbs (I am contemplating a big herb garden) and “No Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers” for obvious reasons! (The only copy of the original version for babies our library has in is in Arabic so this will have to do for now)
So the next time your kids ask “What can we do today” - take them to the library!
What did you do today?
Just a Little Bit Sick?
Posted on May 15, 2008
Filed Under the twinadoes
Why don’t my girls ever get just a little bit sick?
There is no such thing as ‘just a cold’ with the Twinadoes. It might look like just a cold when it first starts, but that little bit of snot is just the beginning of the end. A ‘little cold’ always turns into a full blown chest infection/asthma incident and means pumping them full of ventolin and steroids and hoping that we won’t need to make a midnight dash to the hospital this time. All this within 24 hours of that first, innocent looking snot.
Izzy ‘cold’ peaked on Tuesday night and I was up and down to her over night making sure she stayed hyped up on ventolin and steriods and doped out on antihistamine….and watching to see if that would be enough. Zoe peaked last night and by the look of her at about 8pm on her way to bed I was pretty sure we’d be at the hospital by midnight, but the massive amounts of ventolin did the trick and she has steadily improved since then.
They both sound terrible today, coughing and wheezing and snotting… but really they are both much better. Both back to playing and driving me nuts after three days stuck at home. So while I’ll probably be up a few times in the night to ventolin someone I am confident that a trip out in the cold and dark is not on the cards tonight, thank goodness.
So yes, they have really just had a cold, but for us it means so much more. Mostly I just deal with it all without too much bother. It is just the way it is for us, a little legacy from being born at 29 weeks. We are lucky really, they don’t get sick all that often, they don’t get asthma unless they are unwell (or allergic) and considering they were born so prem we are lucky to have very few lasting complications, lucky just to have them both with us at all. So we know that a cold will mean they get asthma with it and generally we deal with it and move on.
Unfortunately I caught a second or two of some show on ABC on Monday night (Australian Story? 7:30 report? no idea really) which showed a woman caring for her husband who was now pretty much a vegetable after a massive asthma attack left him brain damaged. Holy Crap…. I’d never really thought about how the lack of oxygen during an asthma attack might be messing with their brains! Now that is a nice comforting thought isn’t it! Just another worry to add to my midnight ponderings of how on earth I’d cope if I had to call an ambulance if I was home alone with all three kids….
Still….no point on dwelling on the negatives is there? They are both much better, and they will go back to kinder on Monday… five sleeps and counting!
Almost Wordless Wednesday - Glitter
Posted on May 14, 2008
Filed Under wise words
“A little glitter is good for the soul”
(not to mention good for occupying small unwell children …. but why is it that you can clean and clean and still hours later there will still be a speck of glitter on the side of your nose that you can almost see in your peripheral vision that drives you nuts?)
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