Ramblings

There has been a change in the weather over the last week or so- the cool breeze feels just a little bit cooler each day. The next 6 or 7 months are my favourite part of the year. The Gold Coast is stunning in Autumn, Winter and Spring. I love being able to play outside with the kids without wiping sweat from my upper lip, and walking from the carpark to the shop without getting sunburnt. I love cold-weather clothes. Not that it actually ever reaches a temperature that Southerners would call cold. I love blue skies on a cool day, brown leaves underneath trees with naked branches, porridge for breakfast every day, hot cups of coffee, and warm cuddles.

The kids are loving their 'new' swing set (actually T's old one, which I've been nagging DH to set up for 5 years). Elizabeth and Jimmy sit on the double swing together and have a jolly old time. Jimmy keeps asking me if I can buy him 'a green slide or a yellow slide'.



The littlies are now in the same bedroom together. After the absolute BLISS of our night away, little miss woke up for her dummy 6 times and I decided the next day to move her our of our room. Yep, completely selfish, but she is with her brother and not alone. I fully expected it to be a huge failure, but she has settled in really well. There have been a couple of really crappy nights where I've had to go in 2 or 3 times for each of them, but mostly it's only once or twice. We have been putting them to bed at the same time (except for last night when she was really tired and he was awake until 8:30), reading them a story together on Jimmy's bed. It's a bit crowded in there but nice and cosy and they love it.




Psychologist appointments are going well. This week I am working on not treating T like persona non grata all the time. On Friday I'd promised we'd go to Dreamworld, but instead of taking the littlies like everyone assumed I would, I got Gran to come look after them and just the two of us went. We had a ball- went on heaps of rides. I made her go on the Cyclone (big roller coaster) even though she was saying she was scared and as soon as the ride finished she made me go on again- then asked for a third time but my almost 33 year old guts couldn't handle it!

DH and I have been very close lately. The night away did us more good than I could have imagined. We have been really affectionate with eachother. I've been enjoying giving him a big kiss and cuddle when he gets home from work, instead of 'letting' him plant a peck on my cheek.

Our house looks awesome with its freshly painted roof and awesome new patio roofs.

I've got a few sewing projects to get done. I made E a cute pair of corduroy pants with cuffs, just liek the ones I made Jimmy for his birthday. I'm now making a little vest in the same corduroy but it's proving to be an absolute ARSEHOLE of a garment. I need to make some items for friends' daughters, and a tunic top for me. Time to update my Works in Progress thingo.