Got the Lurgy..

Last night I went to bed so early because I felt a cold coming on. I must have been tired out from working two full days, then I had Chelsea yesterday. Or maybe I just caught it off Fletcher who has had a runny nose for days and days and days!!

Been a bit more diligent about giving him Pamol today though. Went to the pharmacy this afternoon to pick some more up.

So other than that, I have done very little! Been looking through the house budget this afternoon (that was a more positive experience than I thought!!) We bought a heat pump today. It is going to be a floor console one that will sit nicely under the new TV, on the only wall we have in the lounge! That is a bit of a weight off my mind really. Nice to know we will have one for frosty nights next year.

I'll go and get ready for an early night.

Update from a Working Lady!

I am posting from work. I worked all day yesterday, and a full day today. I am filling in for the receptionist at work and doing my own work too. I have been enjoying being at work, I must say. However, I say that from the privileged position of having my husband at home with the boys. I am sure that if I was getting up the crack of dawn to organise myself for work and the boys for daycare, it would be a different story!!

Anyway, back to normal life tomorrow. Although I will be looking after Chelsea tomorrow!

We've been busy this week sorting out things for the house. I paid a big bill on Monday (at least I get some airpoints out of that!) and put a deposit on the kitchen. Met with the electrician and added a few lights and towel rails to the electrical plan. Unfortunately we've had big hold ups this week with the joinery. They ordered the wrong head flashings (whatever they are), and the correct ones won't be here until Thursday afternoon. So I hope that Chris will be back out there finishing off the cladding and putting in doors and windows from Friday morning. Still, there has been someone out at the house every day this week doing something, so that is encouraging.

I also got some test pots from Resene to sort out the colours for inside and also for our shadowclad exterior.

Back to work!

Zac's Birthday!

He he hee, we'll get a post about it up before his own mother does!!

This afternoon at 2pm we went to Zac's 5th birthday party. I tried to get both the boys to have a nap before hand but I was out of luck.

Here is the birthday boy patiently smiling to have his photo taken.


Here is the birthday cake, sooo cool!! (Lachie brought home his "Cars" paper cup but refused to wear a party hat.)

Martin & Zac playing "It's in the Bag". Or rather, "It's in the Bucket".

Even Lachlan was smiling for photos!!

Fletcher is very tired tonight and we have had a bit of trouble getting him down to bed. All silent at the moment.

We've had loads and loads of rain today. Jamie ended up being called to work so I went to church with the boys without him. They were going to do a fire drill today at church, but fortunately the weather was so bad they postponed it for another time.

Chris the builder phoned Saturday night to say there is a problem with the head flashings for the windows. So they won't be back at the house until Wednesday.

A busy week ahead for me, I am working two full days, filling in for the receptionist at work. Hope I can cope!!

New House Pictures!

We went out to the house this morning - I hadn't been out for a look for a whole week. Look what they had been up to in the meantime! Most of the windows & doors are in. And they have started on the cladding. I think the last picture I posted, it was just framing.

I am really pleased with how the joinery looks next to the palliside (the weatherboard look cladding). The palliside will not be painted - that is the colour of the house.

Here is my front door. I think it is so cool! There is a different cladding going around the front door. But I will post a picture when it is up.

A back view of the house - they have done most of the cladding here.

Dave the Plumber came and piped it all up yesterday.

This morning we spent a good while sweeping up all the mess inside - lots of sand!! I lost interest after an hour or so, and so had Fletcher. So me and him went to the supermarket and home. Jamie stayed to do some more tidying & Lachie stayed to do more digging with the sand. Then our neighbours who are build came by and he had a good yarn with them, and talked about fencing!

A Birthday Party

Today we went to Joe's 2nd birthday party. Joe is in our coffee group so it was mostly coffee group Mums, and a few extras. The kids had an awesome time playing with all the toys. They even went to the neighbour's and played on their trampoline.

I didn't hear a peep out of my boys all morning, and Fletcher didn't even have any party food! Obviously he was full up from breakfast. (I have noticed a slight improvement in Fletcher's eating of dinner this week. I gave him lasagne and casserole, which he typically won't eat. He ate a bit of lasagne and had two helpings of the casserole!)

As you can see from the picture, this morning the sun was shining brilliantly. Now, not so much. I have the fire going - it is nice to be cosy inside. And I have three (yes, Chelsea is here today) lovely children ALL SLEEPING!! How lucky am I??

Just an at home day today. We did go in to town briefly this morning to do a few errands, including a visit to the orthodontist. I took the boys with me. It usually only takes 15 minutes so I decided it wasn't worth the trouble of finding a baby sitter. I took crackers and sandwiches for them and all you could hear was the sound of the boys munching!! Phew. I was very proud of them.

After that we went to the library and paid some bills.

I got a call from our project manager about half an hour ago. I need to go to the plumbing store THIS AFTERNOON and pick out all my bath taps and mixers. Luckily I already have stuff in mind! The plumber is going tomorrow to pipe it all up. How exciting!!

I see that the Population Adjusted Olympic Medal Table has been adjusted as we have won a few more medals....we are in the #2 spot.

Olympic Trivia

Did you know, that according to a Population Adjusted Olympic Medal Table, New Zealand ranks Number 4.

Not bad....

Bathtime!

Ahh... sucking on the face cloth. Yeah, its gross. But you know you did it and you loved it!!

Happenings...

Here is Lachie showing off the railway bridge he made a couple of Fridays ago.

It has a been a rather full few weeks. Jamie ended up being at the hospital that Friday night with his Poppa. Poppa had a bit of a bad turn at home. They think it was delayed concussion - he went to bed 8pm Thursday and woke up 5pm Friday with no recollection of anything in between. But from the state of his house it was clear he had been up to something. So he is now set up with one of those medical alarm bracelets, meals on wheels and daily visits by family. He is 86 and lives happily by himself in the house which he has lived since the 1960s. That was a bit of a fright for his children.

I drove him to Tauranga last Thursday to stay with his son John. I took the opportunity at the same time to visit a Lighting Plus store and pick the lights for the new house. I was very pleased with my decisiveness!

The house is coming along, plenty being done I guess, but not much of interest to the non builder!!

We finally got some more firewood (also on Thursday). I was in two minds about whether to get it, thinking that winter is nearly over and we probably won't use it all. However, it is supposed to be -2 degrees tonight so I am glad that we got it!! It was also quite a miserable weekend with the weather so it was great to have a warm house.

For those of you who know her, Yvonne Winger (spelling??) (nee Kennedy) had her New Zealand wedding ceremony on Saturday. Yvonne and Stuart got married in Gibralter about two weeks ago. Her family could not make it over there so they had a celebration here on Saturday. Then they are going to Ireland for a ceremony there!! She gets to wear her wedding dress three times. Lucky thing!

Jamie is back at work this week, but just doing day shifts to ease himself into it. He picked up a puppy on the weekend. Faris will be trained to be his new police dog over the next year.

OK. I think you are up to date!!

To update you

Wow, nearly two weeks since I have posted.

After last post on Friday the 15th - about two hours after, Jamie went up to the hospital because he still felt absolutely terrible from his flu. He wasn't showing any improvement. Turns out he was badly dehydrated and had a throat infection and a minor case of pneumonia.

Anyway, once he started taking antibiotics for the infection he started to feel better. He was home all of last week though. It was nice to see him take it easy on the couch for a change.

A quick post while my potatoes cook...

We have just been out to the house for a look. The building wrap is on and the cladding has arrived - it will start going up next week. How exciting!! I need to take some photos though.

Poor Jamie has a bad case of the 'flu. He has been in bed since Wednesday. He's doing pretty well all things considered. But I think it will be a while yet before he is up and about.

We had Chelsea today and that went really well. We didn't go out - just watched the boys playing outside this morning.

A mate of Jamie's brought around a truckload of DVDs, so we might watch one of those tonight.

Me and Jamie just got home from an early evening out at the movies. We went and saw "The Painted Veil" (I know, its ages old but only just released here). We really enjoyed it. I would go so far as to recommend it.

Steve & Ann kindly looked after the boys for us. They were in town looking after Chelsea today, so its been quite a busy one for them!!

Its a cold night here - clear skies - because of all this rain we haven't had one like it for about a month.

Have a good Wednesday!

This afternoon we had a family outing to Awakeri Hot Springs. We had a lovely ole time. At first Fletcher and Lachie were a bit nervous - but the nice temperature of the water helped. Fletcher was crying at the beginning, but by the end was giving us the heebie jeebies as he sauntered around, as confident as you like! Lachie also enjoyed walking around the toddler pool. Hopefully we'll do it again soon. (And unfortunately, I didn't take the camera, sorry).

On the way home we stopped at the house. The roof is completely on, but they have some loose ends to finish up. The first half of it went up on Friday, but it got too windy for them to continue. We had a look on Friday afternoon. We couldn't really see what it looked like, but there were some sheets of the corrugated iron on the ground we looked at. We were very concerned to see that it wasn't the colour we picked!! We stressed about that all Friday night. Then I went back on Sunday, and realized we had been looking at the wrong side!! Oops. What a relief!! So the roof is indeed the sandstone grey that we wanted!!

The kids are totally whacked, so I had better get them to bed.