15 October 2017
Is it hot or is it me?
16 October 2017
Hi and Welcome to Kylie's Life, today the hot weather arrived.......finally but we are not going to have it for long. In a couple of days we will be back to cold weather and rain :(.
So it will be getting the pasty white legs out so that get a bit of sun, might have to get out some dresses and skirts. I am not looking forward to putting them back untill the weather gets warmer again.
Ok so it is my birthday in 7 days and while I am glad it is my birthday I feel like there is something going on, I think here is something being planned and it is starting to send me mental wondering what it could be.
I have no issue with getting older, I am not one of those women who is going to start denying her age, I may start putting a colour in my hair because I find the odd grey but other than that I am cool with it.
The kids are fighting......again and its not even over anything important, its over what to watch on TV. I swear that they are the ones that are giving me the grey hair!.
12 October 2017
Its a new day
13 October 2017
Hi and Welcome to Kylies life, as most of you know we have been unwell. I was over my cold in two days, Hubby took longer and Oscar is still having the lingering effects. He did end up in ED but once he got some Prednisilone ( Redipred, it is a steriod that opens up the broncial tubes so that he can breathe easier) he was fine.
Yesterday I bought a bread maker, the first loaf of bread has been made and we are 4 slices into its consumption!!! I bought a bread maker because I spend a fortune on bread, I want to try and cut down on what I have to buy at the grocery store and I figure that making my own I can add ingredients - fruit, nuts, chia seeds, psylium husk and so forth. This is going to go hand in hand with my menu planning and becoming a more effective house wife and mother, I am working on the theory that it is a new city a fresh start. I would like to say that I am going to be able to be a SAHM but the reality of the situation is I need to work - unless I win lotto! So I need to look at ways of making my life a wee bit easier. Now I can hear you say if you want your life to be easier why did you buy a bread maker so here is the plan, on the weekend I want to get at least four loaves of bread made and if I get one made every second day then we are not going to run out of bread, I have been able to control what goes into the bread and I have made it myself.
Making it myself is becoming more important to me, so I am knitting a scarf , I am not a fast knitter so I figure if I start it now that it will be ready for winter, my goal is to make scarves and beenies for troops that are serving overseas and for babies in hospital - hospitals can never have enough beenies and booties for babies. I also wouldn't mind learning how to sew, I really like the 50's and buying clothes that are reproductions from that era are very expensive so sewing them myself will be cheaper and I will get a great sense of achievement.
But first is to get the scarves and beenies knitted, and to figure out how to get them to the appropriate place I guess the first place I should contact is the RSL they should be able to help they may even be able to put me in touch with the local CWA.
So today Carrissa gets home from camp, Oscar has missed her so much but I am pretty sure that within a hour of her being home they will be fighting.....it will be like she had never left :(. I do wonder when they will get to the stage when they don't fight and do actually get along I am getting worn down with their constant bickering and the fact that they can't entertain themselves - without watching a electrical device. It makes me wonder if there is a way off the slippery slope and if I can turn it around before it is too late?, is it to late once they have already become so used to using electronic devices for entertainment?. Maybe if we start with some little changes so that they don't go into elctronic device withdrawl and go bat crap crazy.
The weather has changed again, we had a week of spring and now we are back to winter, I knew that the weather changes heaps in Melbourne but this is not funny. I feel like I am in long pants all of the time and I am desperate to get into my dresses, skirts and summer shirts. Maybe I should just wear them and put cardigans and stockings with them.
Ok thats all for now toodles xxxxxxx
Hi and Welcome to Kylies life, as most of you know we have been unwell. I was over my cold in two days, Hubby took longer and Oscar is still having the lingering effects. He did end up in ED but once he got some Prednisilone ( Redipred, it is a steriod that opens up the broncial tubes so that he can breathe easier) he was fine.
Yesterday I bought a bread maker, the first loaf of bread has been made and we are 4 slices into its consumption!!! I bought a bread maker because I spend a fortune on bread, I want to try and cut down on what I have to buy at the grocery store and I figure that making my own I can add ingredients - fruit, nuts, chia seeds, psylium husk and so forth. This is going to go hand in hand with my menu planning and becoming a more effective house wife and mother, I am working on the theory that it is a new city a fresh start. I would like to say that I am going to be able to be a SAHM but the reality of the situation is I need to work - unless I win lotto! So I need to look at ways of making my life a wee bit easier. Now I can hear you say if you want your life to be easier why did you buy a bread maker so here is the plan, on the weekend I want to get at least four loaves of bread made and if I get one made every second day then we are not going to run out of bread, I have been able to control what goes into the bread and I have made it myself.
Making it myself is becoming more important to me, so I am knitting a scarf , I am not a fast knitter so I figure if I start it now that it will be ready for winter, my goal is to make scarves and beenies for troops that are serving overseas and for babies in hospital - hospitals can never have enough beenies and booties for babies. I also wouldn't mind learning how to sew, I really like the 50's and buying clothes that are reproductions from that era are very expensive so sewing them myself will be cheaper and I will get a great sense of achievement.
But first is to get the scarves and beenies knitted, and to figure out how to get them to the appropriate place I guess the first place I should contact is the RSL they should be able to help they may even be able to put me in touch with the local CWA.
So today Carrissa gets home from camp, Oscar has missed her so much but I am pretty sure that within a hour of her being home they will be fighting.....it will be like she had never left :(. I do wonder when they will get to the stage when they don't fight and do actually get along I am getting worn down with their constant bickering and the fact that they can't entertain themselves - without watching a electrical device. It makes me wonder if there is a way off the slippery slope and if I can turn it around before it is too late?, is it to late once they have already become so used to using electronic devices for entertainment?. Maybe if we start with some little changes so that they don't go into elctronic device withdrawl and go bat crap crazy.
The weather has changed again, we had a week of spring and now we are back to winter, I knew that the weather changes heaps in Melbourne but this is not funny. I feel like I am in long pants all of the time and I am desperate to get into my dresses, skirts and summer shirts. Maybe I should just wear them and put cardigans and stockings with them.
Ok thats all for now toodles xxxxxxx
08 October 2017
You have got to be kidding me
9 October 2017
Hi and Welcome to Kylie's Life, ok so this week has started not great Hubby is sick - he has a bad cold, Oscar now has it and I am starting to get it and to top that off there are warnings out for Thunderstorm Asthma. Now I hear you asking what Thunderstorm Asthma is well it is when there is a Thunderstorm and it whips up the pollen and it somehow breaks it down so that the pollen is finer, so it enters the airways easier and causes the reaction - both Oscar and Hubby both have Asthma. So having a cold and Asthma is not the best but then throw in the Thunderstorm that makes it even worse.
Oscar and Carrissa are going on a camp this week - well Carrissa is, Oscar is not going anywhere. Carrissa is excited to go but is kinda worried about Oscar at the same time, they fight ( like normal siblings) but when you seperate them they will be sitting cuddled up and Carrissa will be mothering Oscar and he will be lapping it up.
I have been offered a job that will in essence mean me working full time, I have yet to sign the contract. It will mean a quiet alot of changes and I am trying to figure out how I am going to juggle it all. I am sure that if I have a specific routine and stick to it that I will be able to keep everything happening.
Ok that is all for today - I am feeling in need of a cup of tea and a lie down and it is only 9:40 am, sleep was not a thing that came easily last night.
Toodles xxxx
03 October 2017
Oh the places you will go
4 October 2017
Hi and Welcome to Kylie's Life, yes I know it has been a while since I sat and did this blog and to be honest I did fall out of love with it for a long time and I think that is because in a way I did not have anything to say - which for me very rarely happens.
Ok so I will catch you up on what has happened, as you know I started working, we had moved to Perth, then the owners of the house wanted to sell it now we looked at buying it and it was just to far out of our budget so we did find a house to buy. It meant that the kids had to move schools - which was hard on them but to soften the blow we bought a house with a pool. So 5 days before Christmas 2016 we moved into our new home, the kids started at their new school in the new school year- the school only had 150 students, I was still at my job, had become a Cub Scout Leader, completed a Certificate 3 in Business and was just about to start a Certificate 4 in Frontline Management. So everything is travelling along nicely.
I had finished work early one day and asked if Hubby wanted to meet up for a late lunch, while at this lunch he mentioned that he had a rather interesting conversation with his boss, it was at this point my heart started to race and pound in my ears - yes I feared the worst, believe me when he said the next thing I was stunned. He said there was a job opening in head office and that the boss asked if he was interested in the role ( I was so excited for him) the problem was head office is in Melbourne Victoria - which is on the other side of the country.
Now that was a problem we talked about it for ages without letting the kids know what was going on, I looked at houses to rent - I didn't want to buy in the wrong area and if we didn't like Melbourne and wanted to go back to Perth we would have a house that we would either have to rent out or sell.
Looked at schools and to be honest the more I looked the more confused I became, to the point where I said "I just can't look anymore, you decide where we are going to be". So eventually the day came where we told the kids, and the family. My Mum was so excited and encouraged us to go for it, my Dad was not happy about it at all, and even said "When are you going to stop moving", it wasn't until a month later that he said "I think it is a good move and give you my blessing" to which he was told " We are going weather you give your blessing or not. Hubby's family were accepting of the idea of us leaving, but in reality I don't think the fact we were moving to the other side of the country really set in until the day it came to pack the Sea Container.
So the 2nd of July we left Perth to drive across the country to start our new lives, now it took 2 days to get out of Western Australia - and they say Texas is big!!, now they were days where we drove between 8 and 10 hours. Driving across Australia well the most uninteresting part is driving across the Nullabore - it is a road that is straight, and nothing to see either side of the road. There were Semi's, Caravan's and they didn't come along with any regularity, there was even a point where my back became sore, my butt became slightly numb and I started making up the words to a song that was on.
So after driving through South Australia - that took 1.5 days, then into Victoria - our first night in Victoria was spent in a town called Dimboola, when we left in the morning the temp outside outside was -1 and ice on the windsheild. So we drove into Melbourne and for me it was a white knuckle ride as I lost Hubby, now that is not as easy as you think considering he was towing a caravan but the fact of the matter is I wasn't prepared for the traffic and the trams. So we made it to the house - without me causing a accident, and wanting to turn tail and head back to Perth. Besides the fact that the kittens had just spent the last 5 days in the back of the car and were desperate to get out, I had listened to the same 6 CD's for the last 2 days, I was actually excited to start the new adventure.
So after a day the sea container arrived and we got unpacked, so hubby went back to work and I was taking care of the things at home - school uniforms, getting dentist's, Doctors organised, getting winter clothes. Now you may think hmm she is in Winter and they don't have winter clothes and I will explain why- you see Perth in Winter is not as cold as winter in Melbourne, the need for flauffy sheets, thick jackets, and beenies is not really an issue in Perth in Melbourne - even the locals were complaining how cold it was.
On the plus side we did get to do something that you would never get to do on the west coast and that was to see snow. So now it is school holidays, school goes back next week for the final term, I am trying to find a full-time job, and we are experiencing daylight saving ( for the first time) and a Melbourne spring.
Tooodles xxxx
Hi and Welcome to Kylie's Life, yes I know it has been a while since I sat and did this blog and to be honest I did fall out of love with it for a long time and I think that is because in a way I did not have anything to say - which for me very rarely happens.
Ok so I will catch you up on what has happened, as you know I started working, we had moved to Perth, then the owners of the house wanted to sell it now we looked at buying it and it was just to far out of our budget so we did find a house to buy. It meant that the kids had to move schools - which was hard on them but to soften the blow we bought a house with a pool. So 5 days before Christmas 2016 we moved into our new home, the kids started at their new school in the new school year- the school only had 150 students, I was still at my job, had become a Cub Scout Leader, completed a Certificate 3 in Business and was just about to start a Certificate 4 in Frontline Management. So everything is travelling along nicely.
I had finished work early one day and asked if Hubby wanted to meet up for a late lunch, while at this lunch he mentioned that he had a rather interesting conversation with his boss, it was at this point my heart started to race and pound in my ears - yes I feared the worst, believe me when he said the next thing I was stunned. He said there was a job opening in head office and that the boss asked if he was interested in the role ( I was so excited for him) the problem was head office is in Melbourne Victoria - which is on the other side of the country.
Now that was a problem we talked about it for ages without letting the kids know what was going on, I looked at houses to rent - I didn't want to buy in the wrong area and if we didn't like Melbourne and wanted to go back to Perth we would have a house that we would either have to rent out or sell.
Looked at schools and to be honest the more I looked the more confused I became, to the point where I said "I just can't look anymore, you decide where we are going to be". So eventually the day came where we told the kids, and the family. My Mum was so excited and encouraged us to go for it, my Dad was not happy about it at all, and even said "When are you going to stop moving", it wasn't until a month later that he said "I think it is a good move and give you my blessing" to which he was told " We are going weather you give your blessing or not. Hubby's family were accepting of the idea of us leaving, but in reality I don't think the fact we were moving to the other side of the country really set in until the day it came to pack the Sea Container.
So the 2nd of July we left Perth to drive across the country to start our new lives, now it took 2 days to get out of Western Australia - and they say Texas is big!!, now they were days where we drove between 8 and 10 hours. Driving across Australia well the most uninteresting part is driving across the Nullabore - it is a road that is straight, and nothing to see either side of the road. There were Semi's, Caravan's and they didn't come along with any regularity, there was even a point where my back became sore, my butt became slightly numb and I started making up the words to a song that was on.
So after driving through South Australia - that took 1.5 days, then into Victoria - our first night in Victoria was spent in a town called Dimboola, when we left in the morning the temp outside outside was -1 and ice on the windsheild. So we drove into Melbourne and for me it was a white knuckle ride as I lost Hubby, now that is not as easy as you think considering he was towing a caravan but the fact of the matter is I wasn't prepared for the traffic and the trams. So we made it to the house - without me causing a accident, and wanting to turn tail and head back to Perth. Besides the fact that the kittens had just spent the last 5 days in the back of the car and were desperate to get out, I had listened to the same 6 CD's for the last 2 days, I was actually excited to start the new adventure.
So after a day the sea container arrived and we got unpacked, so hubby went back to work and I was taking care of the things at home - school uniforms, getting dentist's, Doctors organised, getting winter clothes. Now you may think hmm she is in Winter and they don't have winter clothes and I will explain why- you see Perth in Winter is not as cold as winter in Melbourne, the need for flauffy sheets, thick jackets, and beenies is not really an issue in Perth in Melbourne - even the locals were complaining how cold it was.
On the plus side we did get to do something that you would never get to do on the west coast and that was to see snow. So now it is school holidays, school goes back next week for the final term, I am trying to find a full-time job, and we are experiencing daylight saving ( for the first time) and a Melbourne spring.
Tooodles xxxx
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