I would just like to say a big congratulations to my 3 cousins over in England.
I'm not too sure if it's old news & i haven't heard of it has recently happened but my cousin Scott & his girlfriend are expecting a baby, my cousin Adam & his girlfriend are also expecting a baby & my cousin Lee & his girlfriend have a beautiful baby boy who is 15 months old.
I am so happy for all of you & i can't wait to see photos!!
finally got to celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary this weekend. As most of you know my waters broke on our anniversary so we spent the night in the hospital! What good timing Charlii has :)
We went up to a place called Nagambie which is about 1.5hrs away, just south of Shepparton. We stayed at a place called Nagambie Lakes Estate which is a small Resort with about 10 cabins next to a huge lake.
The place is so relaxing & so peaceful we thought we were miles away from home.
It was quite strange looking out of our window at the lake full of water when we are in the middle of a drought. There are differen't activities there like go wine tasting, play tennis or even kayaking.
We were going to to kayaking but we were so exahusted we just wanted to veg out & relax.
The man that own's it, John is a really good friend of dad's so he invited us up for the weekend which was really nice of him.
We went up Saturday morning & came home about Sunday lunch time. We had all day to spend on Sunday but as it was our first night away from Charlii we decided to come a bit earlier than we were going to. We missed her too much.
So off we headed, back to reality.
Take a look at John's website......great place to go to get away & relax!
www.nagambielakesresort.com
I am so grateful that we have such great friends.
I really hate it when people do not concentrate when they are driving!
I was heading over to Bec's yesterday as we were going to visit her niece's headstone at Lilydale & then go on to do some shopping.
I had nearly made it all the way there...i was 5 minutes from Bec's when i encounted "the stupid driver".
I was heading down Springvale Road which is a 3 lane main road. It was pretty busy so there were cars everywhere. I was pulling up to a set of traffic lights which were red & i had no-one in my lane. I was braking & i noticed that a car in the lane next to me began to pull out, but then he stopped. So i carried on & then all of a sudden he decided to pull out into my lane & then stop smack bang in my lane!!!
What he was trying to do was go into the 2 right hand turning lanes....but he didn't do it quick enough.
He stopped in my lane to check if there were any cars coming into the turning lanes....you would have thought he would have checked before he came into my lane. I am a bright yellow car, how can you miss me?!
So i had to think quick & slam on my breaks (& toot my horn at the same time)
Instead of driving away he just sat there like he was waiting for me to hit him!
My tyres were screaching & there was smoke everywhere. Luckily i managed to stop about a foot away from him so i didn't have a crash.
He was asian & had a child in the car as well.
At first i was so angry that someone could be so stupid, so i kind of yelled at him a bit then just burst into tears.
I was so scared that i was going to have an accident (which would make it my first) & scared because i have never in my life been that close to hitting someone.
I was just thinking to myself what could have happened, especially if i had Charlii in the car....we would have been toast!
I had to pull over & give Clint a call straight away to calm me down.
I then rang mum to give Charlii a big kiss for me......thank god is all i can say.
I just makes you realise just how short life really is.....please everyone give your kids & family a big kiss everyday & tell them how much you love them.....you never know what could happen.
Our poor state is under a lot of stress at the moment.
I think about 1/3 of the entire state is under threat from bushfires. There have been thousands of people evacuated from their homes & still many many more under threat.
I take my hats off the the firefighters, they risk their lives for people & in this searing heat i do not know how they manage in the big suits they wear.
Luckily the fires are nowhere near our house but we are still getting a lot of smoke haze around. Some days it is so bad that you can't even see the houses down the street from you!
Yesterday the fires got so bad they cut off a major power connection. Half of Victoria lost power....which means no air-conditioners & it was 41.5oC yesterday!
It was total mayhem. There were over 1000 sets of traffic lights out, thousands of houses with no power & shopping centres & hospitals with no power. Families were ringing in asking how to keep their kids cool, very hard when we are on water restrictions.
The train system was packed as people were catching the trains home instead of battling the traffic but little did they know that the trains were running an hour late as they didn't have traffic lights either!
Luckily the state has their power back on now but sadly the fires are still blazing.
We are in for another scorching hot day today but hopefully some relief will come for us soon.
I'm trying very hard to get fit & lose some of my baby weight by going to the gym twice a week.
It was my new years resolution for 2007. So far i don't think i have stuck to any of my new year resolutions but i am planning on sticking to this one!
Every Monday mum, Anna & myself head down to our local gym to do water aerobics. We only started last week for the January course so at the moment i can't see any difference, but give us a few more weeks & i'm sure (well i'm hoping) there will be some kilos lost.
It's really fun cos when you are in the water you get a good workout because you are going against something rather than just pushing air.
We all had a good laugh & felt like jelly when we got out.
On Wednesdays we all head off again but this time we do a program called "Body Combat" It's a mixture of aerobics, martial arts, karate & boxing.
What a laugh!!! It was so hard & by then end of it we all walked out looking like sweaty tomatoes!!!
The instructer told us in the beginning that we would not get every move the first time & just to have fun.....boy we did that.
We didn't get much time to have a laugh as it was so full on.....i worked every muscle in my body & even ones that i didn't know i had!!
The next day i woke up so sore, felt like i had been run over by a truck.
Even though it was so hard we are heading back again this week for some more gruelling sessions.
Dad & a couple of other women we know are coming to water areobic this week so there will be a whole group of us burning the kilos....we will just see how long i stick it out!
Our poor little spud didn't have a very good day on Wednesday....it was yet again time for her immunisations.
I think that i can now call our local doctor a friend. I have been there so often lately that as soon as i walk in me & the reception lady are on a first name basis!! hahaha
I took Charlii back to see the doc on Monday to see how her ears were going now that she had finished her course of antibiotics & to see if all the gunk had stopped coming out.
So he had a look & straightaway said that they haven't cleared up, she still has the infection in her ear & so she needs to go back on another course of anti-biotics. He said that it is unusual for a baby to get a burst eardrum & also that it should clear up within a week of being on anti-biotics. (so what's going on i'm thinking to myself, kind of panicking a bit cos they haven't got any bettter)
He asked me a few questions about her diet & things like that & to cut a long story short the doctor now thinks that she is allergic to the cow's milk in her formula. He said that there is something that we are giving her that is making her infection stick around.
So now we have her on Goat's Milk formula for a week & we go back on Monday so see if the cow's milk was the problem.
I have had a look & to me it looks like her ears have cleaned up but the doc knows best. Charlii seems to really like the goats milk which is good but the only problem is it costs about $9 more each can than our other one.......that would be right!
Hopefully if she is allergic to cow's milk then by the time she is about 3 she will be grown out of it. Who knows!!
Today was a good & bad day all in itself. I finally found out exactly what is wrong with Charlii & while it is not such good news at least we now know how to treat it & make her better. What has happened is she has got a cold & due to her cold it has busted her eardrum!!!
After another restless night of screaming she was no better so this morning i took her straight to our local Doctor. Straight away he noticed that her ear was all gunked up (beagn in the wee hours of the night) & that it was busted. He sent me off to the chemist to get her some anti-biotics & i gave her some of that. Even since her first dose her ear has been leaking & so sore....poor little munchkin.
I am quite disappointed with the hospital actually. They checked her ears out & said that they were perfectly fine & that she just has a virus. Clint had a search on the net this morning & all the symptoms that Charlii has are the one's for a busted eardrum. She had those symptoms before we took her to the emergency & they didn't even pick it up! just sent us packing on the advice to give her panadol. Next time anything happens i won't take her to the same hospital, i will go straight to the Royal Children's Hospital in the city.
To make things even worse i was brought to tears last night by a nurse! Over in Australia we have a free service called "Nurse on call" & they are there to answer any questions & to give you advice on what to do. SO i have been chatting with them & they have been suggesting things to make her feel better. So i rang last night as Charlii's temperature shot up again & basically she made me feel so stupid & that i need to realise that "she is a little human being & that of course she is going to be crying". She then proceded to tell me that i had already rung them & nothing much has changed so why am i ringing? "what do you want from us, why are you ringing AGAIN" those were her exact words... i couldn't belive it. i felt like saying for some bloody advice! but i didn't.
She ended the phone call by saying that if i am that worried then i should take her to my local hospital, & then she hung up on me.
I tell you i wasn't expecting that. I was already fragile from worry i definately didn't need a lady telling me off.
I just broke down & rang Clint. I couldn't help my baby & the tears were just rolling down my face cos i felt like as a mum i should have known better.
In the harsh light of day today i have realised that she is the mean one & i have been doing everything correct. (I need to give myself some reasurrence)So i think i am going to put in a complaint about her because she is there to help not judge.
Sorry...that's my little vent out of the way so i think i am going to go have a lie down, i am so tired i can hardly see the words that i am typing.
Firstly i would like to say a HUGE Happy New Year to everyone, i hope you had a really great night & that 2007 brings luck, health & happiness to everybody.
