Yay it's spring.

So spring is finally here after the coldest winter in 15 years.  I love spring because it means that summer is just around the corner and I LOVE summer.  I love the hot weather and during winter I dream of the hot days and warm nights.

I get sick and tired of nights that are in the minuses and days lower than 10 degree Celsius.

Spring means that flowers come out and the world brightens up.

Mega washing day.

Well today I had had enough the washing was mounting up and needed to be washed.  So as soon as the kids were up and ready for school while waiting for the time to kiss them goodbye I started washing and to be honest I haven't stopped.  Load after load has been done and hung out and brought back in now waiting to be ironed if needed(yeah right) and folded and put away.

I HATE mega wash day but for some reason can never get myself to do washing on a daily basis.  I need more than standing at the washing machine loading dirty clothes and linen into the machine and waiting for it to wash.

Have we taken to bubble wrapping our kids to much.

I was recently reading something about how parents can now be charge with child neglect for allowing their children under the age of 12 to walk to and from school alone.  WTF?  If it's child neglect send the child workers around to my place.  I allow my children to walk the 5 minute walk to school alone.  I get them up get them dressed, feed them breakfast and make their lunches then it's a kiss on the cheek and out the door you go to school AROUND THE CORNER.  All bar child3 who has only in the last week been allowed to walk themselves to school under the constant eye of child1.

How can giving children a little independence and self reliance be child neglect?  It's not like I am shoving them out the door not dressed or without food they are fed and dressed with food to take with them for lunch their hair is brushed and everything else has been done.

How can children learn to be confident, self reliant, productive members of society as adults if we continue to wrap them up in cotton wool or bubble wrap.  How do they learn things if mummy and daddy do everything for them?  How do they learn to trust their instincts if they have never been taught to use them?

The answer is very easy they don't they don't learn anything and the first time they are on their own and a major crisis happens(or it could be a minor one) they fall apart because they haven't been taught or used the skills before to get themselves out/through it.

I refuse to allow my children to be wrapped in bubble wrap, they will continue to be allowed to walk to school on their own it gives them a sense of achievement and allows them a little independence, they will be allowed to ride their bikes without me hoovering over them like some control freak who can't let her children out of her sight for fear of what might happen to them.  And most of all I refuse to allow fear of what might happen control my children's right to a happy carefree childhood.

Happy Hump day

I was shown a few pictures that I just have to share for Hump day

You are most welcome Enjoy your day.

School Holidays are over.

School Holidays are tough most of the time in this household because husband is either working or sleeping depending on the shift he has, but these holidays just passed were doubly bad due to the fact that I was sick.  I could barely stay awake and was really really sick.  But husband had to work and I had to care for the kids.  I couldn't take them anywhere because I didn't want to infect other people.

It was a LONG drawn out two weeks the kids had cabin fever I just had a fever and husband was working. I had all sort of plans for these holidays but they just never came to pass because I was to sick.  But now that school is back and the last few days was nothing but FIGHTS.  I am sort of like this
                            


PARTY I get a break and can relax for a while.

Next Holidays we are heading south to visit family and friends.

The Difficult boy

I love child 2 with all my heart but he is by most my most difficult child.  From the time he was born he has been a handful a chucky baby at best(he had pyloric stenosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001965/ ), That fixed but he was still chucky and when he was 8 months old we found out he was actually allergic to milk proteins and I was actually making him sick by breast feeding him.  Specialist formula and no more chucking he was walking at 9 and a half months and running soon after and has never seemed to stop.  He was a major runner(he would run everywhere) and could get naked, climb a fence(3 feet) and be running down the street in seconds flat from about 18 months old.  It wasn't unusual for it to be seen me running after him and him streaking down the street.

His other favourite pass time was pulling things apart to see how the worked, we lost Radio's, DVD players, alarm clocks and the list goes on and on and on.  Or he was climbing things he should be and breaking a TV which almost crushed him.  He is a boy of many trials but some many more great delights.  He is so loving and snuggle with his mum, He loves his friends fiercely and is so loyal.  He will be nasty to his sisters but won't allow others to do so.

But there is this total other side to him which is the violent child.  We had him assessed and he isn't on the spectrum he is just a high spirited child.  The child he was becoming wasn't the child I wanted to raise he was out of control but we got help and finally things are starting to settle down.  We did get him and us professional help and they were great and we have now also gotten him into Martial Arts which is helping his self esteem and his self control, there are still many moments where he can get out of control but they are shorter and not as explosive as they use to be but the more calm and rational child is more there as well.

While he is my most difficult child he is also the most loving, sweet and giving boy as well.  And I love him with all my heart.

Damn Flu

First day of school holidays and I have come down with the flu.  I have never felt this sick my bones get cold, I am snuffed up and I am hacking up stuff I can't describe.  I alternate between hot and cold and sweaty and I am either so tired I can barely stay awake or wide awake and my head hurts like hell.

I am hoping the kids don't get it because that is the last thing I need a house full of very sick kids and no anti biotics will help.  Plus husband is working as he doesn't have any leave left due to taking it off when he was sick.  I hope I get better soon I can't stand being sick and in charge of 3 kids who's idea of fun is to fight 24/7.