Are You Happy Living Where You Live

I have a question for everyone

If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

Do you love the country you live in?

How about the area you live in, your neighbourhood is it all you want it to be or do you often feel like moving but can’t afford to do so.

I have lived in this area all my life yes I have lived in a couple of different suburbs but always around the same area and I can tell you I am happy where I am. Do I like all my neighbours? No bloody way do I some of them are right sods and I wish they would move but I have nothing to do with them and keep to myself. 

Both I and Tim have said that we will grow old in this house and that we are settled and happy with where we are, my parents are the same they have lived in the same house since 1980 and also have no interest in moving. Is it an age thing do people not want to move as often as they get old? 

I know that we have been pretty lucky in that even though we don’t get along with some of our neighbours we haven’t had a lot of trouble with them, unlike some people who not only don’t like their neighbours but are always fighting with them.

Do you think living in the same area or even the same house is better for children, or do you think moving about often is ok and doesn’t bother children at all. I personally think it is better for children to be settled into one house/home for long period of times. As a child my parents moved 4 times I don’t remember the first place but the  other 3 I do they only moved as the family grew and they needed more bedrooms……………..Me and Tim have only lived in 2 homes and moved here before Jessica was born so the girls all pretty much grew up in this house.

Up Way To Early Today............Meaning It Is Going To Be A Long Day.............

Well I never got around to writing yesterdays post no particular reason just didn't but we all have days like that don't we.............last night or should I say this morning at around 1am Leo started crying in his sleep and wanting his mum, who came in to see to him and then got up with him and asked me if I had anything for an earache but I didn't all I had was disprin which is like asprin so I crashed a disprin mixed it with some water then of course he didn't want it but I mangae to get him to swallow it and what did he do....................He threw up just missing me although he did get a tiny bit in my hair.

Jessica then got angry with him she said it was because she was so tired, like I wasn't anyway she got me a towel and I cleaned up the vomit I then changed Leo's shirt and stayed up with him till 3am. Now I know you are all saying why did I stay up with him instead of his mother well she was just in such a mood that she was only makeing matters worse, after going back to bed he couldn't decide who's bed to be in mine or in with his mum he ended up back with me.

We have been up since 6.15am this morning he says his ear still hurts and I will ring the doctors when they open and see if I can get an appointment for him this afternoon and I will have to get some childrens pain medicine today. At the moment he is having breakfast and seems fine but he also seemed fine when we were watching tellying in the wee hours it was only when he went to lay down the pain returned.

You know the last couple of days it has been so bloody hot here with tempertures in the 30's or for those who don't do celcius that would be in the 90's anyway it has been hot enough  that we have had the air con going and this morning it is cool and wet.

Back to watching telly Leo really loves Tom & Jerry cartoons he likes a lot of different shows but Tom & Jerry are his favourite at the moment, well they have been his go to show for most of the year............Little Sydney-May loves to watch Dora and My Blain loves superhero cartoons like spiderman and batman he is very much into his superheros. So I bought him a personalised Spiderman birthday card his birthday is next month but hey I don't leave things to the last minute...............lol

I am going to have to go and get dressed ready to go to the school for his transition to school morning.  I think I will need a nap this afternoon............lol

Another Day Another Post About Nothing Much

This week Little Leo has his first day of his transition to school program it will be on Wednesday and every Wednesday during the month, so I went and spoke to Miss Emma at the day care and arranged for him to go to day care on Tuesdays for the month of November he will have 3 transition to school days during the month. I hope he enjoys the days there is also a picnic in the playground day with will be the first Tuesday in December. 

So tomorrow I will go with mum to see nanna at the nursing home instead of going on Wednesday since of course I will be going to the school with Jessica and Leo on Wednesday.

It is another very warm/hot day here I have the air con going and I am glad that I managed to get the washing on the line before the day started to heat up. During summer I eat a lot more fruit salads I don’t have traditional salad dishes as I don’t eat salad food but I love my fruit and have fruit salad most days. I buy tin fruit salad and add an orange or mandarin, I will also often add banana or apple but that gets added when I dish it up and of course some days I have custard with it or ice cream but I also like to have chocolate mousse with my fruit salad. Many days I will have fruit salad over having a so called proper meal because it is so hot that I just can’t be bothered trying to prepare something else.

I also changed the sheets time for summer sheets I think as last night we had the fan going all night and even then I woke up a couple of times drenched in sweat…………….

I am also getting a bit pissed off with http://www.vistaprint.com.au I am doing my Christmas cards and also getting something for my brother for Christmas and it will not load the checkout page grrrrrrrr………………….I have been trying to get it to load for the last 2 hours……..yes 2 bloody hours I have tried many things but nothing is working, I have closed the page and came back to it but still it will not load.

 

How Serious Are You

Are you a serious person? Or are you somewhat silly?

Or maybe you are a bit of both, in fact I think most of us are both.  I like to think of myself as being both I can be silly at times and serious when it is needed but my husband Tim is more a serious person in fact I rarely see him laugh or even smile except when he is drunk and then he will say he is in a good mood and happy but in fact like most drunks he is just annoying………………..

I laugh most days and I am happy and can have moments when I am all bubbly inside I am that happy and excited about nothing really I just am. Tim however doesn’t get like that and I feel sorry for him at times because when I will ask him what makes him happy he will often not have an answer, although I know he loves his grandchildren having them around makes him happy just not on a day to day basis.

Being silly is good for us, it helps keep us young I feel people who rarely laugh or do silly things feel older than they are. I am turning 50 in a couple of weeks’ time but I do not feel like I am that old I generally think/feel like I am in my 20’s but that I think is normal for many of us as well. 

Tim however will often say he feels old more like someone in their 70’s or 80’s and of course he is only 51, I do think the fact that he rarely laughs of acts in a silly way plays a part in how old he feels.

Leo, Cousins and Tim

Yesterday was a busy day for me, yes I know that doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone but anyway it was nice and busy I did manage to get online for a little bit before I left the house in the morning but that was about the size of it, I was just so busy that didn’t even open the laptop up again yesterday and it was yet another early night since I didn’t have time for a nap during the day………….Tim said he would be coming to bed early too as he had to get up at 3am to go to work, he is working in Sydney this weekend but when I got up at 9.30pm I found him asleep in his armchair with the front door wide open and the car boot opened so I shut the boot and closed the door and he looked at me and wanted to know what I was doing, I told him and went back to bed at some point he came to bed.

This morning it looked like it was going to rain so I throw the clothes in the dryer and by the time I got them out it no longer looked like rain, oh well I don’t use the dryer very often and Tim isn’t here to complain although when it comes right down to it I am more of a nag about wasting power then he is just don’t tell him I said that…………..lol

Yesterday little Leo was sent home from day care again this was the third day in a row that he has been sent home and both his mother and me are very disappointed with him. When she picked him up yesterday afternoon and brought him back here while she had her lunch we made him sit and watch boring tv with us instead of letting him go and watch something in the bedroom and of course he wasn’t allowed to have lollies or ice cream. It is very stressful for Jessica she just doesn’t know what to do about him he has had a few really good months and the last week has been terrible for him, the staff were asking Jess if there had been any changes in his routine or home environment but there has been no changes  and we are at a lost to know why he is acting up……………….on one day he head butted a staff member the next day he scratched her and yesterday he was just throwing things around and not taking any notice to anyone…………

He did tell me on Wednesday night that he now has 2 cousins at day care with him and he thought it was amazing that 2 of his cousins go to the same day care as him. The cousins are Sydney-May and my niece Temika the first day Temika was there he came home and told me that the other little girl was there but not the one who he called “the other Sydney” that is Liarna and she goes to another day care but he is getting use to Temika now and but at this stage I haven’t heard him call her by name.

Still on the topic of cousins when Kathy told him that she was having another baby and he would get a new cousin he was upset saying he only wanted 2 cousins and he wasn’t sure how he would go loving 3 cousins………….it was so adorable to hear him tell her that…………………he does love his cousins……………lol

Growing up I don’t know how close I was to my cousins we saw each other and sometimes I would go over to their house but I don’t remember being as close to them as my girls were to their cousins and as close as my grandchildren are to each other…………….

Friends, Change and Me.....................

“Real friends won’t ask you to change who you are” have you heard this saying it makes one wonder what are real friends are they only those people who you have met face to face in the real world or do you count your online friends as real friends…………………….as everyone knows I do count my online friends as real friends in fact they may know me better than some of those who have met me in the flesh. 

I share a lot of myself online as everyone knows it is just the way I am……………….but how about this would you change if someone tried to get you to change who you are would you or would you think no bloody way this is me take me the way I am or leave me your choice and your loss if you chose to walk away from our friendship…………….no one is going to make me change that said I did try to change my ways when years ago my sister Sue use these 5 words to describe me.

Aggressive, Abrupt, Rude, Judging and Insensitive as I never thought of myself as being judging, insensitive or aggressive although I could sometimes be rude or abrupt but I tried really hard to change those things as it came as a bit of a shock when Sue used those words to describe me.

Somewhere I saw this but I can’t remember where but I think it is pretty spot on so I am adding it to this post…………………….

The RIGHT people for you will love all the things about you that the WRONG people are intimidated by.  Don’t change so people will like you.  Be patient, keep being your awesome self, and pretty soon the RIGHT people will love the REAL you.