Priorities

How do you prioritize? I am feeling quite overwhelmed with things that need to be done. For example;

Domestic jobs

• tidying
• cooking
• cleaning
• laundry
• gardening
• sorting
• food shopping
• packing lunches/snacks (and tying to be healthy about it )

  2.  Administrative jobs

• opening the mail! Not to mention completing and returning forms!
• reading numerous newsletters to stay informed with goings on
• signing permission slips
• paying term fees for outer school activities 
• locking into the diary important dates 
• then finding someone to look after the kids if it is not a child friendly appointment! 

  3. Family jobs

• reading and writing with each child
• kicking the footy or playing trucks or helping write a ballad (with Hero!)
• Roma's tummy-time
• Roma's feeding time
• Finding lost toys (Hero's Leap Pad has been lost for 2 weeks and i still haven't managed to find time to have a good hunt for it!)
• my exercise time
• my eating time
• seeing my husband!

All this is pretty much day-to-day jobs, and of course at the moment life is really busy, so figuring out which is most urgent or important is really hard!

It feels as if any of the above things were left unattended it would have a serious impact. I am really quite unsure how to manage it all.

Struggling with time..

Iggy & Roma
This was a sweet moment!

I look forward to reading my favourite blogs regularly and find myself getting disappointed when they haven't blogged for a few days.

I always intended to blog quite regularly and am annoyed with myself that i haven't managed to make it happen. I know i am busy with all the kids but it also has to do with the content. I am still unsure as to how personal i want to be or how impersonal too, if that makes sense.

I have always thought of my blog as a type of diary about my life and all the drama's and stories that come with it. I think blogs work best when they are personal, consistent and regular.

I find too, that when i have a quite moment (which is not very often) that is when my mind turns to things other then the kids and domestic chore's. It is then that i ask myself question and ponder issues and ideas which lead to blog entries.

As i write this i can hear Roma waking and already my mind has shifted and i have lost my train of thought.....

So anyway, stick with me guys! Maybe i need to lock in some time to blog like i do with exercise and shopping!

Getting there.

 room is slowing coming together. We finally got some much needed roman blinds made and installed yesterday, and Mum and i found this very cute desk in a geelong op-shop for $25 dollars, which is dressed up with my beautiful Eames Chair   that were brought for me as a present specifically for our brunswick reno that didn't get reno'd!

She has her very funky Frankie 2012 calendar on the wall, (thanks Mum) and wardrobes with a bookshelf built-in will be installed at the end of the month. I like the painted walls behind this bookshelf and thought it might work well in this room too.This weekend we might get to melbourne to pick-up my old bed that i slept in when i was Hero's age, and pull out the old rug from her room in brunswick from storage. The biggest challenge will be trying to make this look less ugly! I wish i could paint it!

A little character!

I just had to share this photo of Iggy, it was taken in September and got buried in my photo album.

He was having the time of his life in the back of Jem's ute. And it is a the combination of where he is, what he is wearing and the his enjoyment that make this a classic photo.

Our Iggy is such a character.Not a day goes by where he hasn't managed to make us all laugh.

Hero's Self Portrait

The Art room at Hero's school has been open at lunchtime and Hero as been really enjoying it!

She brought home this self portrait yesterday and there are so many things i love about it.

• Her signature
• The ponytail sticking out the back
• The eyelashes
• The angular nose and the tiny nostril
• The fact that she coloured in the wrong parts of her eyes

She still has a touch of the beautiful naive children's perspective, but is getting more conscious of making things look correct. This is a nice combination. Before long she will get self conscious  of how she draws.

My Dad would have loved to see the kids drawings, and they could have learnt a lot from him.

Iggy turns 2!

It has been a really busy month!

Not only was Roma born, we also had jeremy's birthday, the start of school and  Iggy's 2nd birthday!

It did  pass quietly, but we the family made it pretty special for him.

Iggy loves cake! Almost as much as ice cream and jelly. And would much prefer these sweet treats over big expensive presents, and with Iggy being the 3rd child we have most toy categories covered! So our present to Iggy was a cake and Jelly extravaganza.

Iggy loves to cook, so he helped me make the cupcakes and Hero and i did most of the decorating the night before. I wish i had a picture of his face when he first saw the tiered cup cake stand filled with cup cakes! He could hardly contain his excitement. He had a great dance that he would do every time Banjo said "Birthday Cake"!

But i did get a photo of him blowing out the candle! What a classic! 

Happy 2nd Birthday Iggy! 

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Banjo started school this week, and it was an easy transition, one he absolutely  enjoyed and one we loved watching.

Banjo was ultimately ready for school, and in fact needed to go. I was unable to mentally stimulate him at home anymore, and this was fast becoming an issue at the end of last year with him miss behaving due to boredom.

I did have to fight back some tears, but it was easy to do, due to his excitment and enthusiasm.

I think your child starting school is a Mum's first step to slowly letting go. Letting go of control and testing if your first 5 years of parenting has been successful enough for them to thrive and socially navigate themselves without your guidance.

I must admit i felt a little nervous about this, (remember this post !?) But i have faith that I have done my job, now i need to sit back and watch him learn when to put these attributes in place.