stopping work

Totally natural - I'm sorry to say - no matter how much i miss my girls - paris especially - i find myself hanging out for daycare again after having her home for a few days - which is alot lately cos of sickness, last 2 weeks were study leave, and of that time she spent only 3 days at daycare! she gets bored, i get tired and cos she's used to having everything there and activities planned all thru the day, i just can't live up to that most of the time.


all i can say is right before baby is born - go get something tnew that will keep Jake REALLLY occupied - mike got paris a dolls house and that's all she did for the first 2 weeks after i had ayja. kept her quiet and gave me some sanity.   It is hard, especially at this end of pregnancy - cos you can't run around and play and all that, I hang out for times when both the girls are asleep so that i can do stuff, assignments, maybe catch up on sleep - but usually end up on here just so i can have others going thru the same stuff as me, and just as stir crazy as i am half the time. lol.

hopefully the weather gets better soon.
It's funny how when you are away from them you just wish they were there, but when you have em 24/7 you think thank god for daycare. Maybe i'm just as depressed but hopefully not - i'm sure others can agree and know what you're going thru too.

Thanks! Christmas is just before B2 is due so hopefully that will help. I'm going to but him a little bag of toys to have up at the hospital to keep him occupied, and he has some new DVDS that I haven't brought out yet (mum doesn't have a dvd player...yet). Am feeling better today.
I might see if I can get Jake into some kinda daycare. I know he really misses playing with other kids. At Ezibuy the other day he accosted some little girl and grabbed on. He wouldn't let go and she got a little upset. He thought it was funny and giggled. her sister grabbed on and pulled her and Jake grabbed her hood. the poor little thing was almost strangled. Luckily Mum was with him and intervened. I was embarressed and tried to pretend i didn't know them!

For me, the first six months at home were sweet, then Maya went to daycare, and then it was xmas holidays and I found myself thinking "How on earth am I going to entertain this kid for weeks on end?"

In fact, it wasn't as bad as I worried it would be, and now I love having her home during the holidays, but I am still veeeery glad when she goes back to daycare!

I also must admit that I don't do any of the "mummy" type things at home like playdoh, painting etc. I figure she gets all that at daycare. Instead, I have her very well aquainted with St Lukes shopping centre, and she can recognise "The Warehouse" sign.... hmmmm, sensing I maybe shop too much!

lol Emma - when paris is playing she will tell us she is going to farmers/warehouse/kmart to "pay off the layby"

oh dear!

Haha funni children we have!!

I go to the Playgroup twice a week (runs 3x here but 3 mornings is too much for the little one - and me!) And it is great!! Jake can run off with the other kids, paint, play with water / bubbles / sand, draw, decorate, read etc etc and you can sit with him and help him draw (Arna is only just doing this by herself @ 17 months) or sit down with the other mums and talk or there are also childcare courses you can do. I am doing the first one now and that one is free - not sure about the rest.
You get extrememly involved with Playgroup though, at the mo we have a Garage sale this Saturday to raise money to take the kids to Lollipops for Xmas, have a BBQ on the 11th, Santa is coming in the last week of term etc etc... It's Great fun though!!

I have only worked for two months since Arna was born so what we usually do in a week is:
Mon Arvo: Walk at the beach
Tues: Home day (me to do washing etc!)
Weds Morn: Playgroup (She sleeps for 4 -5 hours in the afternoon!)
Thurs: Walk up and down the road (in the country) or go to the park
Fri Morn: Playgroup, Afternoon: Shopping day in Palmy
Weekend: Dad gets her when he is home!!

Naturally it changes depending on weather, mood, laziness etc but I spend most of my "home" time on here , reading a book or watching Sky (movies and discovery!!)

Good Luck!! *The Novel Writer*

Baby Einstein are so cool! I saw them at the Parent and Child show, and they are gorgeous!

weve been watching madagascar for about the past 3 months as we have a burnt version(tsk tsk) Xander loved it snd would watch it 10 timesa day if he was allowed.hes now into robots and thiomas

we went to see madagascar at the movies when I was still pregnant. Peter loved it, I thought it was funny and Joey (in my tummy) wouldn't stop moving the whole time so I guess that means he liked it too!

we r buying it too cos the burnt copy we got is scratched to buggery and lil fingermarks galore.Plus the "legal" copy will have the penguin mini movie on it

they r aye!! even better than the main characters i reckon