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| Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | | 12:31 am |
Annual update
It's been a while, I know. I have just been to Suzuki Conference with Patrick. It went very well. In his pre-cello classes he just runs around and doesn't do much, but at the conference he took part 50% of the time, and then 90% for the next three days. Quite a break through. He had never seen a child play an instrument before, and on the first day he asked for his own little cello! He spent a lot of time trying to run away from me as I am sporting a foot injury and can't run. Scallywag! So it has been a while, so what else has happened: Patrick does swimming and kindagym and pre-cello, and two playgroups, and one day of childcare, and it is member of the zoo, aquarium, art gallery, Carlton Museum and Scienceworks. I think Sceinceworks is his second home. Hothoused? No, I don't believe in hothousing... Since moving I have been invited to join a new mother's group, so Patrick and I have some great new friends. We meet once a week, as well as the above mentioned activities. Patrick is also unweaned, untoilet-trained and has uncut hair. I will rectify all these things before he starts school, promise. My sister is in Aussie again, and my wonderful mother is still cycling and teaching grandparents to spite being diagnosed with terminal cancer a year ago. All our lives changed for ever, there is before and after diagnosis. Hubby has lost so much weight cycling that he doesn't need the CPAC machine: he now weights less than me (?##%&^*!). I am very pleased for him. He looks like the man I first fell in love with, rather than the man I married.... (hands off girls, he's mine!) Still don't have a dog in the new house. Still working once a week for half a day. And I have started playing cello! It is a lot of fun, when I get time to practise that is! I've played viola for thirty years so it is time for a change. I have not been to my old orchestra for over six months, I am thinking of starting a local orchestra in my area. | | Friday, May 9th, 2008 | | 4:26 pm |
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not too crash hot today
I am not to well right now, a nasty virus staged a multipronged attack on my body and then I put back out too. I missed the ABA mothers' day lunch, and will even miss my EMS concert, I am not very happy. Anyway, I should be getting ready for work but I am not going and Patrick is at the park with his grandparents - bless 'em. | | Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | | 8:24 am |
settling in to the new house
Well we have been in the new house for a while, and some people have been winging that this blog is not updated often enough (or at all). So here are some shots of Patrick: Patrick helping to unpack:   Patrick checking out the back yard:  ![](http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p245/therase/2008/settling%20in%20to%20new%20house/IMG_5827.jpg?t=1209249262") | | Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | | 4:46 pm |
cotton socks
I am in a quandary. I like to wear plain old cotton socks but I can't find any to buy. The men's section often has them but not he women's. Does anyone know where I can buy cotton socks (size 7 women's ) in Melbourne? The situation is getting urgent, I am going bare foot. | | Sunday, January 27th, 2008 | | 2:47 pm |
Thoughts on Australia Day
Happy Australia Day to all and sundry. We had a Keith Ledger special on last night, so they showed some American War of Independence film with Ledger and Mel Gibson. For Australia Day? Really! I couldn't sleep so I watch the end of it (after Six Canoes ended) and the whole thing was a little disturbing. I mean all the bloodshed and loss of life for what? Freedom of course. I don't doubt its importance at the time but now the US is no more free today than Canada or Australia or New Zealand. I never thought I would say that as I have always been an avid republican, but it seems to me that the biggest threat to our freedom today is not the Crown but the infringements to our civil liberties as part of the "war on terror". The lack of freedom of speech and right to a fair trial is seriously eroded in this country and I believe in the US as well. So we have a party in the city and at private homes but David Hicks is still recovering from torture that was US sponsored and later US inflicted and approved by the Australian government. | | Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 | | 9:21 pm |
child care
Patrick had his first day of childcare today, but he did not go very well. To start off, he didn't cry when I left, doesn't he love me or what? Then he managed to have a great day, and he ate his lunch (often they do not eat much at all on the first day) and played outside and went up and down the play area on the little push along bikes. He was supposed to cry for Mummy for at least a few hours... He even managed to sleep without "boobie". I left him is favourite teddy bear and the t-shirt I wore to bed. He snuggled up against my shirt. It is just one day a week. I will put my name down for casual work but today I slept for four hours! We have already seen some change in his behaviour. When he wanted his nappy changed this afternoon he climbed onto his change table and lay down! | | Thursday, January 17th, 2008 | | 11:38 pm |
off line
We are going to be off line until Wednesday next week, so there will be no posts for a while, and no email, and no landline. Life will be very difficult but thanks to mobile phones we will soldier on. We are not at all ready but he movers come tomorrow. | | Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 | | 9:49 pm |
settlement day tomorrow
Yes, tomorrow is Settlement Day. Oh dear, and the day after we move. I am nowhere near ready, My parents-in-law and my brother take turns in coming over to help by looking after Patrick. They take him to the park where runs and runs and runs around. He loves the swings and ducks and hills. Then he falls asleep in the pram on the way home. Then he always wakes up before he has finished his sleep so he is rather unsettled. | | Monday, January 14th, 2008 | | 9:41 pm |
Real estate agents
You would not believe how some real estate ageant want to run things. I thought that it would be good to meet the current owners of our new house (Mr and Mrs Seller) so I looked them up in the White Pages and gave them a call. I prefixed my call with "I understand that you may not want to talk to me out of privacy" etc. The lady was very pleased to talk to me and we agreed to meet sometime after Christmas. She had been leaving messages with neighbours to give to us so she was delighted to meet me and "hand over" in person. I told my buyers agant and she said that it was cheaky of me to ring them at all. Yesterday we finally met up and it went quite well. Mrs Seller was particually interested in meeting Patrick. We found out about the house and its history. The woodden sleepers in the backyard came from the old Williamstown Pier and the bluestone from Altona Sailyards. The brick paving was from the origional brick kitchen chimney. We found out how the heaters worked, that the outside furniture was going and the wardrobes were staying, why the front door has two keys, how to drain the bath water into the front garden, where new bulbs are planted in that garden, the types of trees in the back yard and how to care for them, the birdlife and so forth. It was really useful and I am very pleased that we did it. I was great to meet the Sellers too. We got all the neighbours names and the history of some previous neighbours and neighbourhood history. Now there is this thing called a "Formal Inspection" which takes place in the seven days before settlement. I tried to arrange for this and rang the real estate agent. "I heard that you had done that on Sunday" me: "No, the was an informal meeting" He claimed that he did not have the key, that the owners were not available, that he could try but it would not be easy, and he can't believe that we want to see the place again. I contacted our buyer's agent to see what the deal was, it turns out that he is very miffed that I dared to contact the Sellers behind his back. She also said the technically he could refuse as we had seen the property in the seven days before settlement. So we said fine, we won't do the inspection. No one told us what the inspection was for or what it involved anyway. Our buyer's agent said that what I had done was "highly unusual", a nice idea, but just not usually done. Some people need to get a grip. We are buying a house that has been around since before living memory and will be around for a lot longer. We are taking on a property where others have loved and lost and laughed and cried. Why should I not take the oppertunity to meet the last owners? It should be standard practise unless anyone has any grave objections (the buyers and sellers that is, not the frigging agents). So that is what I think of real estate agents. So there. | | Sunday, January 13th, 2008 | | 10:23 pm |
| | Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 | | 12:08 am |
I'm back
Hi folks, sorry it has been quite a while. Some people have been complaining that I do not post often enough, so here is a quick update...  This photo sums it all up really. As you can see baby Patrick is now a little lad. He is 18 months and into everything. The drama of the last year was when Patrick's face was bitten by a Jack Russel, the good news is that is healed up so well that he will not need any surgery. (it is amazing what a splash of breast milk can do!) It is just under his nose down to his lip but some days you can't see his scar at all. You may also gather from the photo that we bought a new house! We spent months looking for a house, and almost thought that we would never get into the market. There is always the thought "if only we had done this X years earlier!" Even in the last year prices have gone up over $100,000! We thought that we would end up with a two bedroom house, or a renovators delight, or somewhere out whop whop, but we have a beautiful fully renovated 3 bedroom house. Lot's more pics of the house: ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 | | 1:58 pm |
The little "bub" is turning one soon, and he walked at ten months. I am looking at getting a bicycle seat. Any ideas from parents out there? | | Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 | | 2:03 pm |
latest tricks
clapping his hands (22/03/07) standing by himself - two weekd ago maybe four teeth | | Thursday, March 29th, 2007 | | 11:47 pm |
good news
Wonderful news, we are going to ban trucks from going through the main CBD streets of my suburb! The pollution is really bad so I am very happy about this decision, there has been a lot of lobying going on and now it has paid off. Also, I am going on music camp this weekend, but just for the day. I will go to camp and my parents-in-law and husband will take the baby to a wildlife scantuary to see some kangaroos. Should be fun all round. | | Friday, March 23rd, 2007 | | 10:24 am |
babyless dinner update
Oh my gosh, we had so much fun... I have not had that much fun in a long time. This was the first time that I had been out to dinner without Patrick since he was born (well concieved actually). Don't get me wrong, I love my baby, but it is always a juggling act with a baby and highchair or on your lap or feeding him suitable solids or breast feeding him or something with him, all the time. Last night I just talked and socalised and let my hair down and drank one and a half glases of wine (I usually have none or half a glass). Wow, that chardonnay went to my head. There was plenty of food, and good company, and it was so much fun, oh boy, what sort of mother am I? I go to work but that is different as I am working, not like going out for several hours just for pleasure. |
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