Whats on my phone?!

It's Sunday evening and i've just finished 178543 loads of laundry, folded it and put it all away.  I've also done the shopping, cleaned the house, played with the girls, fed the dogs, fed the kids, bathed them, did Eve's reader and other reading homework and now i'm sitting in front of my Laptop having a drink!.  I feel good that i've been so productive.  It's all in preparation to the start of yet another week of work, school, daycare, thinking of what to have for dinner, drop off's, pick-ups etc. etc... - all you mothers out there know exactly how I feel!. 

This was our week in phone pics:

Cheeky Girl!

OH SO yummy homemade chicken parmigiana!!.  It was delicious.  Yep, I gave myself a pat on the back for this one! 

My little chicken devouring and loving her bowl of cut up pears and apples. 

Can you tell that we are a house full of girls?!.  We do a load of "pink" each week - amongst the whites and dark loads!

Took a trip to Costco - $$$463.00 later!!!!

What can I say other than she insists on eating yogurt by herself!!

Lilahs trying to put her shorts on!

Oh what a life!.  My cat, Sweetie hasn't a care in the world. I think her daily dilemma is whether to sleep on my bed, or sleep in the window!. 

Lilah loves Molly!

My little Leftie!.

We sit on chairs backwards in this house. 

My Sunday night drink!.  Low Carb beer.  So tasty. 



Smack!

The title of this post seems like it could be funny, but it's a mushy and gushy one.

I'm almost 2 years into my move here to Australia.  2.whole.years. Can you believe it?.  I can't.  I try and not think about the fact that it will be 2 years since i've seen my mom, rest of my family and my friends.  I saw my sister last year - so thats a whole year since i've seen her too. 

I go about my daily life appearing to be happy and content.  Ok, correction - I am happy and I do love my life here but theres always something missing.  Then Sundays roll around and S.M.A.C.K!.  It hits me and stops me dead in my tracks.  That was the day we almost always went to my parents and spent the day there and made a nice yummy dinner.  Sometimes my sisters and I would fight, but we always had a good family filled day.  I miss that so much.  I really hate Sundays now and always try and still make a yummy dinner for the girls, hubs and I. 

So as much as I may seem to be happy i'm always missing my family.  Nothing or no one could ever come close to measuring up to them.  I will forever love them and miss them terribly and feel that guilt I talked about in a previous post. 

I miss them.....

Whats on my phone!!!

I've been wanting to post this for a while but was having trouble figuring out how to get the pictures off my iPhone and onto my Laptop -did I mention I'm not very computer literate?!?!

I managed to get them on here and thought that since I rarely have my camera handy but always have my phone handy I would blog each week about whats on my phone.  I love having a phone that takes pretty decent pictures because i'm able to capture those moments when the kids do really silly and cute things.

This was our week in phone pictures:

 Lilah insisted on pushing the little trolly in Bunnings - for my Canadian readers, Bunnings is like Home Depot

 I got a new 2007 Honda Accord!.  LOVE IT!!!!

Have I mentioned how difficult Lilah is lately?!.  Well I think I honestly had forgotten how much work and how demanding 17 month olds can be!.  We've had a few time outs this week and this is one of them.



Needless to say, Lilah's not very thrilled about being in time out!



 She threw a fit to get this juice box.  I gave in.  I'm a terrible mother - I know.  I shouldn't give in to her, but it was definitely easier than having another tantrum and another time out.

Somehow Lilah got into the markers.  I turn my back for 1 second and BAM...she's into something!  I asked for the marker back and the picture below was her reaction to handing it over!. 

 The pictures below is Lilah's reaction once I had to take the marker away before she coloured on the walls!

 I got my tattoo coloured in on Friday

And we finished our week on Sunday evening with some fun in the bath. 



M.O.T.I.V.A.T.I.O.N.....WHERE ARE YOU????

My motivation seems to be lost.....I can't find it. 

I'd like motivation to get up in the morning

I'd like motivation to make a healthy dinner at the end of the day

I'd LOVE the motivation to exercise at the end or start of each day

But, it's just not there. 

If you have any motivating tips - please leave a comment!.  I really appreciate it.

Family Day

We decided yesterday morning that we were going to spend the day together as a family and head up to lake Eppalock. 

Our day started out getting up at close to 9 am (a record for the girls in sleeping in).  We got dressed, had brekky, and packed a picnic.  We were in the car for a little over and hour and finally reached Lake Eppalock.  It wasn't what we thought, and soon after Hubs realized that we were at the wrong place.  So we got back in the car, and headed to the Metcalfe Pool.  We got there and it was beautiful!.  Beautiful green grass (living in Australia, green grass is hard to come by), a kiddie pool, playground for the kids, the sun was shinning and it was 28 degrees.  When we went in to pay the fee to enter they said they were full and turned us away.  So we got back in the car again and headed to another destination.  This other place was not what we thought again and since we'd been in and out of the car a few times and had been in total in the car for about 3 hours, we just decided to layout our blanket and have our picnic lunch right there. 

Just as we were finishing our lunch it started bucketing down rain, so we quickly packed up and headed back to the car.  We decided to just head home. 

After dinner we played in the playroom:

All in all the day didn't go as we planned, but we spent it together and made the best of it so that's all that matters. 

My favourite time of the day...

is NOT 4-6 pm!. 

Thats the time of day I get home from work,

 pick Eve up from school,

pick up Lilah from Daycare,

try and get dinner ready,

put on a load of laundry,

 clean up the remnants from breakfast that morning,

all while trying to listen to Eve as she tells me all about her day at school and entertain Lilah!!!. 

To say I feel like doing this would be an understatement!!!

It's pretty much chaos at the Wellon house between 4-6 pm!.

BUT...I wouldn't have it any other way!. 

Grand plans

I had grand plans of getting so much done this weekend....and unfortunately didn't accomplish any of it!

I did however, have a really good weekend.  We spent the day with friends yesterday at a birthday party.  We were surrounded by happy, positive people and great food and fun.  The girls were e.x.h.a.u.s.t.e.d when we got home!.  Lilah was in bed by 6:30 last night and slept until 7:30 this morning. 

Now it's Monday morning, and the start of a new but busy week.  We bought a new car on Friday and we have some running around to do before we pick it up Wednesday.  I have cake class Thursday and have to make a fruit cake before class.  This is all mixed in with Eve's school, Lilah going to daycare, me going to work, Doug on shift work and trying to maintain some sort of order when it comes to laundry and keeping the house clean.  Oh, and making sure everyone is fed and has lunches everyday.  Gosh, i'm tired thinking about the week already!

On another note, i'm doing the Relay for Life walk this Saturday.  I'm pretty stoked about it because I've wanted to do this walk for a long time.  I'm walking Saturday afternoon, and am booked to walk for an hour but will likely walk longer. 

So, back to the title and my grand plans....stay tuned to see what they were.  Pictures and a tutorial will be posted soon!