It's been...swell

So as most everyone knows, i had my wisdom teeth out Monday just gone.

Was a minor horror story.
I chose to have them out via a local anaesthetic only, because, 1) the head dentist was unavailable for up to 2 weeks and we'd have to book hospitals etc and 2) i didn't want to fork out $1000 odd dollars for an anaesthetist to come to the surgery.

So we had the appt, and turns out i have a low/high tolerance for the anaesthetic because they needed gallons of it for me to go numb and it also wore off rather quick and needed a few top ups through out the procedure.

Then... she could only get 3 of my teeth out! we had to go back in 3 hrs later for the head dentist- who wasn't supposed to be available?- to yank out the last one. it was mighty stuck! at one point i was convinced my nostrils would come out also!!! The head dentist - Alex - did nothing for the fear factor caused by his profession! he was quite stroppy - he got cranky at the dental assistant because she changed her gloves, because she didn't want to put blood on my face, and even had a go at me, because i was making noises because i could feel stuff!! sheesh!

but out it came (though i think he chipped some enamel? :/) and along with some of my jawbone i have them as 'trophies' hmmmm i wonder what the tooth fairy will give me??

I'm going to throw in a warning here for you....i AM going to put in a photo of my toofy pegs so you can choose not to look if you like.  I will post it as the last one even though it makes sense to put it here :D


I am also - must still be affected my the pain medication! - going to show how swollen i got - it actually got a little worse the next day, but has gone done considerably now :) I go back on Tuesday to have the stitches removed. And i sooooo cannot WAIT!!! they are driving me batty!! they are on the side of my gums, so i can feel them ALL.THE.TIME!!! ugh!

We have been house hunting again, as we want to move from this house, we have found a few and have been looking far and wide. We just looked at one today, and it was the very 1st time i've regretted the truck being so big. this is the first house we have looked at and actually applied for. We are hoping the owner will be open to our proposal... cross your fingers for us :D

Possibly the link for it might work?  our new home in Yanchep??
I have been driving everyone mad i think posting all my favourites on facebook :)

Ok are you ready.....

Me first......

at the moment it looks like i've not cleaned my face properly
 after a messy meal as bruising has come up all
 yellowed around my mouth  :/

Ok eyes shut for the squeamish!!  .....

see the 5th smaller piece??  that's part of my jawbone! a part that they saved at least,
they pulled out a fair few chunks i think!! 

Ok you can open your eyes now!!
Jamie is still home, he goes back to work next friday, We are postponing my birthday lunch until his next R&R, but even that may get post poned again because i'd much rather we were movng instead!! :)
So happy 30th birthday to me for tomorrow. Say. Maybe Jamie will buy me that iPad afterall my suffering and sacrificing..... ;P lol  I will have to come back later and add in the photo of the flowers he bought me!! 30 Gerberas - he may have started something now,as he got me 29 gerberas for last year's birthday :)

Thank you all for your well wishes and thoughts.
Till next time
OXOXoxoxoxoxox
BJslkcs

Well I've been in denial haven't I...

I'll admit now, though it took for me to read it on a friends facebook status for me to believe it...
we've all had the flu...

The children and I  have spent the last week huddled in blankets or sprawled lifeless over the couch or floor, we've lived on barely made peanut butter sandwiches and biscuits.

Sunday night after the Medieval festival, we came home and Lily went down first, Monday morning Samuel and Kaytie were down for the count too.Wednesday It was 6 for 6! WOW I have never in my memory felt so awful....EVER!! to be honest i think i can honestly say until this week i've never had the flu if this is what it's like!!  Tuesday afternoon I reluctantly dragged the children to the corner shop where they sat listlessly in the car while i raced around getting the essentials. it's a good thing i did it then as i could barely move come Wednesday!

Needless to say we have not done a second of schoolwork, we've watched hours of mind numbing TV - did you know ABC 2/3/4 runs ALL day! you could plonk your toddler in front of the box and they can watch endless shows from around 6am until 7:00pm!! crazy!! and there is a huge mess all over the house.

You know i would have much more preferred for me to get sick first, so i would have the energy to tidy up properly before Jamie comes home on Monday.  That's right you read properly. Jamie has been told to cut this shift short, because they don't want him doing long shifts, so he wasn't going to be home for my birthday after all. But he decided to take holidays so he will be home for 18 days instead :)

And since he is going to be home for an extended period, we have decided that now is the best time to sort out my wisdom teeth.... so don't expect any photos of me from my birthday as my appointment is the 13th....
Jamie's the superstitious one not me.....right?

I'm going to head back to my little cave under my blanket on the couch as my panadol is starting to wear off again and it's all getting a little foggy ;)

OX(OX)oxoxoxoxox
B(J)slkcs

"saluto Samuel salveo" part 2!!

What is it with my kids!!

1st there was Sophie with this and then late this afternoon, the girls run in almost hysterical "Quick! quick! Samuel! Samuel's hurt!"  knowing they'd been on the trampoline my stomach dropped, went out to discover him sprawled across the trampoline quietly sobbing! Now, this boy is not known for being quiet! if he is hurt you know about it, heck 3 streets over knows about it!!, so you might guess i was a little concerned... I was looking for weirdly angled arms and feet but he tells me it's his back!! eeeek, there goes that stomach again. so after carefully surveying the situation and being relieved to know he could move his feet and legs, i carefully dragged him to the edge and helped him up. All the time my mind racing at what the heck i was supposed to do!! This boy weighs close to 50 kilos!! I was gunna have a hard time carrying him!! He managed to get off and i helped him hobble inside where he lay down on the couch. Thinking to myself, i really REALLY didn't want to have to go to the hospital with 5 hungry children on a Saturday night!!! I called a chiropractor (it was 5:08pm, i know this for a fact!) the first place i called went to message bank, but the 2nd guy i called, phew, picked up. turns out he is transitioning between offices at the moment, so was working from his car, woohoo!, turns out he was only 5 minutes away. double woohoo!! :D

 so after an examination (apparently, the boy has strong reflexes) a bit of a twisty crunch this way another crunchy twist that way, he was declared "better". turns out he sprained his facet joint via an overextension

So he was strapped (with tape ;p ) and banned from the trampoline for a month and no homeschool teamsports or rough housing with his sisters (or anyone else for that matter,) for 2 weeks , and expected full recovery in 4-6 weeks.

He's complaining the tape is uncomfortable and tight
LOL, it would be a lot more uncomfortable without it mate!!

So thank you Seb from Biotune Chiropractic especially lovely that he is coming to me for Samuel's follow up, rather then me having to drag 5 children to a dr's surgery :) AND this 'housecall' only cost me $50!! AWESOME!!

Well, I did say last time i would be back with the next blood or excitement...i just didn't expect it so soon :)

OX(OX)oxoxoxoxox
B(J)slkcs

PS Jamie is home on Monday night...for 9 days woohooo !! :D

"saluto Sophie salveo"

Now obviously i am not a latin scholar (I got my words from here)

But  roughly (very!!) it translates into "to wish well Sophie to be in good health"

Why?? well first she did this....

Don't ask me about the shower cap...
I have NO idea??

and then less than 5 minutes later she did this....

you see the purple cheek and busted lip?? well she face planted the springs on the trampoline! :/

and her neck?? well We have a 'problem' at the moment, of certain little bottoms insisting on being on tables/bench tops and desks. Anything above regulation chair height and you will find  two little bottoms perched upon it.

So this particular morning, two little bottoms were, again, perched upon a desk, despite repeated removals and requests for them to get down. Finally when some excitement was happening outside, a slightly bigger bottom jumped down, causing the younger bottom to fall and slide off her perch :( she did a slow motion tumble - I think i was able to grab her a bit ?? - and she landed upside down, on her neck, on the chair leg brace! OUCH!! I am VERY thankfull it wasn't worse!!   She was fine after a cuddle, before she headed ouside to the excitement which caused the original trouble, but was back in in less than 5 minutes after her altercation with the trampoline springs :(

All is well now....though it's amazingly louder and messier, than when i had 5 extra children here for a last minute child-minding request!!

till the next show of blood or excitement,

OX(OX)oxoxoxoxox
B(J)slkcs

How did you spend your Sunday afternoon??

Mine was spent in the Joondalup Hospital emergency dept. Nothing drastic, just an X-Ray for Samuel's thumb.

Okay, let's rewind and start from the start.
I'll take you back far, far into the past, aaaaaalllllllllll the way back to Friday morning. Friday's are our homeschool group social days and this particular day was very VERY wet. Friday mornings, we meet up at one of the families homes, and play ball/team sports in the park across the road. As i mentioned it was a very wet day, so team sports were re-directed inside. now usually it is our little family that makes up the half of the players, literally my mob, against the other 2 regular families  OK well not against, but you know. Anyway we had 2 new families join us this day, One family has just moved from Minnesota with wait for it....6 cherubs!! hurrah, we are no longer the biggest :D, oh! but pooh! we are no longer the biggest ;).

So long story short (I'm really building this up far too much!) lots of kids inside, playing rambunctious games, he tripped/fell/was pushed, and landed his knee, CRUNCH! on his thumb.

doesn't look like much huh?

So we left it, it was 'fine' he didn't complain at all.  Saturday came, we headed into Perth for the library book sale, he even managed to 'interact' with an "art installation" (see further below) without discomfort.
Sunday morning, and after over hearing me speak to Jamie about it, it was 'oh so sore and i can't bend it.'

So 2pm Sunday (today) we headed up to the hospital ED. and waited...and waited...and waited :) we were 'lucky' 2 of the parents waiting had been there since 11am! (but, to be honest i think they only had croup, and a mild case at that) Now, is it just me, or am i just completely negligent in my children's health?? The mother who i chatted with, was surprised we'd never been to the hospital before, even still, when i mentioned we'd only been here since November.  In Samuel's 11 years of life, we have been to the hospital ED twice...including today, the first time was for stitches which SHOULD have been done at the Dr's surgery. but he said the chemist would have some 'glue', they didn't, and so the hospital was closer than going back to the Doctors. Kaytie is the only other one who has visited the ED, when i fractured her fingertip, after accidentally running over it with an overladen trolley :( and they didn't even do anything for her. just washed it and put tape on the open wound...i had already done that!

So how did we spend our 3hrs? well we did a bit of this

We did a bit of that

And we made ''stop-motion" movies on the camera,
which i would love to add in, cos they were pretty good i thought! (they are all mental about that 'vodaphone/virgin' ad about the Gary the mime who can now practice his passion, because of the free txt deal??) they are always trying to be mimes around the house...good thing we've started a "drama club" with our HS friends ;D Anyway i digress (again!) So he got his x-ray, Completely fine and a finger splint, we went our merry way home. i tried to scan in the X-ray, but it wouldn't work, so here is Mr Cheez showing off his battle wounds. apparently if it's not healed properly in a week or so, he is to go to "hand therapy" Are they serious!! -bend...straighten,bend...straighten - it's not rocket science! besides, i happen to know two O.T's i could ask ;P

So... lessons learnt today, don't complain and whinge about it, unless it's actually broken, as hospitals are DEAD BORING!!!  Oh and guess who thought he had a valid excuse for not doing school work!! HA! "nope, your brain still works my dear boy ";)

Mishaps over, what else have we done, well this post was going to be about what we did SATURDAY!. We discovered also Friday afternoon that there was a library discard Sale on and that the next day (Saturday) would be the last day!! So 12pm Saturday we headed into the city to the state library, (slightly disappointing, but it was the last day after all) I did still manage to find some good looking titles, i might have found more if it wasn't for Jamie 'rubbing off' on the children who were insistent that i stop buying books and spending money!! I had promised myself i would only spend the $60 cash that i had on me, and wouldn't use my card, well that idea fell through, when she crossed over that total, and stopped at 75. i twisted my arm and said it's only 15 more, that's not so bad.... "because it's the last day, children's books are half price, so that's $37.50 thanks" "Alright!! awesome!" says I, i was tempted to grab a couple I'd culled, but i had 5 impatient (but beautifully behaved) children and a phone reminder about the parking meter to contend with so we headed back to the car - happy we'd brought along both strollers - and added money to the meter. Since they had behaved so well, we headed back inside to the children's section, i was again slightly disappointed, it was more of a play space than a library, with maybe double the amount of books we own...and we sadly don't have that many! They had an 'artwork' there taking pride of place.  They called it a 'book totem'

ppffftttt Me, i called it an abomination!!! I had a look through some of the titles they had stabbed through the heart! i cringed every time i saw one i owned/liked/wanted or NEEDED!! *sigh* some were in such good looking condition :(

after a tip off from another parent, we headed across the courtyard to the PICA where we had an 'experience' saw an "immersive installation".   Brook Andrew's "The Cell",  basically a huge zig-zagged bouncy castle, with the added fun of costumes!

Apparently they thought the suits made them Ninjas
LOL yeah real stealth-like ninjas too!

Oh believe it or not, but i also donned one of these striking outfits, mine was blue like Samuel's, from here it gets a little hazy...not because i don't remember, but because i only had the phone camera, so, well, the photos are....crap. :/

Lily is consoling Sophie, she HATED it!
even though you have to drag her
kicking and screaming from the trampoline!

that's the kid with the 'broken' thumb remember.
He looks like he's in agony doesn't he :)

After our play ahem immersion , we were able to do a related art activity, we had to make our own black/white pattern. Mine's the triangle-y spotty one ;p

To be honest, after reading the bio of the artist, i have to wonder if anyone has actually "got it" I seriously doubt, except for the pretentious lame-os.

So by now it was nearly 3pm, meter was running out again soon, so we had a late afternoon snack of raisin toast and banana bread, before we headed home, with plans for a full day next time.


Have i told you lately. I.LOVE.PERTH!!
Seriously, i do! it's awesome, y'all should come visit us sometime :)

OX(OX)oxoxoxoxox
B(J)slkcs

Complete AWESOMESNESS!!! and more happy birthdays :)

Guess who is excited!!!

ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back story first. - Went to the library the other day to return some books, as i was - ahem - overdue, that's ok, we hadn't got to most of them because of Grandma Robyn's visit and i can reborrow, right?

So Monday morning (remember Sophie was off colour today) we lugged our  +/- 70ish books back to the library (Jamie did the heavy lifting heh heh) and waiting, waiting, waiting in line "no dear, i'm not selecting more today, i'll just re-borrow some and pick up the reserves" waiting, waiting, waiting some more. We are finally served and having previously returned 50 odd books through the chute on entering the libray asked to reborrow the ones i had left "sure no problem," says the librarian.
 Uh oh problem, all the cards that were swiped were full and overdue, so another 5 minutes were gone sorting thrrough which had been returned or were still at home. thats ok easy, now lets re-borrow these - cool!.........no, not so cool :( out of the 15-20 books we wanted to re-borrow, we came home with about 5! Two of which, to Samuel's dismay were the wrong ones! it seems we had some popular titles as they had all been put on reserve :( and were not available for me to take home again. Aww mannn! i had plans for them!

So my question could be, Is it wrong of me to perhaps next time borrow an awesome book, and then reserve it again and again, alternating each of our six library cards? Sure i'd have to take it back every 3 weeks, but i could do it.......Right? I guess if i have to ask, it just probaly isn't right LOL

So that was about 20mins gone! - and as most of you know us, Jamie doesn't tend to have the most patience for the boring and mundane....or very slow!

OH CRAP!!! i've just spent the last 20 mins (i'm a slow typer ok!) writing all that and i've come to the realisation, that it has absolutely NOTHING to do with why i'm excited!! D'oh! oh ok it has to do with the library - but that's it . Ha Ha Ha - i couldn't bear to delete - it was 20 mins after all!

So why am i excited then?? Well, while at the library again, we borrowed a tonne of DVD's, one of which was "Sculpture by the Sea - the 10th anniversary"
We, ok me, I have been feeling a bit 'arty' at the moment, and thought i'd try introduce some ideas to the children. Dvd was a big hit ( i was a bit annoyed by the "children's short film" included - bah!)
So talking to Daddy about it that night and - bless his heart :} - what does he tell us? "that's on at the moment!? it's been all over the radio"
SO COOL! How is THAT for timing!!! - i swear my guy knows more about whats going on in Perth then I do! and he's half a state away!?! And right he is! March 3 - 22 "Sculpture by the Sea - Cottesloe Beach" here we come!!

On another awesome note, guess what we have discovered!!!

This place was so cool!! it was where we met for our last homeschool group on Friday, except we met around the 'corner' at a smaller quieter beach. It's Hillarys Boat Harbour (Hillarys is a suburb) Its a cross between Sugarworld and Southbank and a touch of sideshow alley? to the left behind the trees they have awesome waterslides, a huge rope  climbing course and rockwall and trampolines and kiddy chair swings and, and , and ,and everything!! it's called the great escape and then they have that awesome free SHADED playground (a rarity in WA??) on the 'beach'. TOTALLY WICKED!!!! :)

But like i said we were 'around the corner' in a little bay, the water was about knee deep for a good 10-15m and only gradually got deeper i think about 50m out before Samuel was chest deep??

But get this.... it's a BOAT HARBOUR!?!?!? to the right is a huge long jetty/wharf? separating the swimmers and the boats, but the water is sooooo clear!! so clear in fact that we spotted this, yeah ok it was in shin deep water, but still!

JELLYFISH!!  :)

We think it was dead. I'm pretty sure it would have been after Samuel kept throwing sand on it to see if it was dead!! -ugh! boys ;)

Well Karma got him back, because when we were at the big beach he thinks he was stung there. he says he spotted 5 jellies + the one that got him + a crab + 100's of tiny little translucent fishies darting here and there. I spotted a couple (maybe same?) fish jumping about out of the water here and there. Apparently jellyfish have been pretty common this summer because of the extra heat or something, with lots of people being stung.  Well thank goodness we aren't in QLD as it could have been a LOT worse - but then again in QLD they wouldn't have been in the water at the beach! Samuel has vowed NEVER to go into the ocean again! we'l see how long THAT lasts LOL.

 a BIG  Happy Birthday xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo to my handsome hubby mwah!

Sadly he is over 1500 kms away at work for another 3 weeks :( but we did get to skype and chat on the phonea couple times :)

Darn it was just trying to upload a photo of my handsome hubby , but blogger won't let me :(

So on that note i shall depart, and go and properly watch my fav. show.

OX(OX)oxoxoxoxox
B(J)slkcs

The 'Pinnacle' of our life here so far :)

 We  Jamie had a spur of the moment idea last night, which resulted in us today going on a 400ish km round trip to visit... did you guess? The Pinnacles yay! With the new Indian Ocean Drive just opened, they are practically just down the road.

So many people, very windy, and very nicely managed.

Ready for it? Lots of photos......

Roads are understandably not permanent.

You could drive a 4km oneway loop
or walk a 1.2km trail..... after 10min in the sun and a pink baby,
guess what we chose??

Looking where galahs have made nests in the softer limestone.

there were 'parking bays' to park in and get out to have a closer look

we had to squeeze our BIG truck through that little gap
the truck is over 2m wide,and about 7m long so there were
 some "hairy" bits :)

Not this 'hairy' though, seems a lot of people have misjudged
the 'course'

We took over 100 photos, but i won't bore you with them all..... well maybe just a couple more.

This sand dune was in the middle of nowhere, I'm not sure where it thought it was going?, but it was in a hurry..

that's not a blurry photo, it was the sand dune on the move

see the sand blowing across the road?

All in all,  was a lovely day, with a promise of a lot more :)
our plans for the future?

Kalgoorlie and the super pit

Meckering and it's Earthquake history

Wave Rock

Bunbury to see the dolphins

There's acouple for now, Ill let you know how we go :)

Oh yes, last couple

after a day of this (claire is in there somewhere)

Samuel ended up with this.....

but not from what they were doing..

Samuel was asked to turn the radio on, and Miss Kaytie (as usual) ran ahead to do the job instead, Samuel tripped over her and cartwheeled over the door of the TV unit, thus resulting in his (now yellow) bruise. Both recieved a time out on their beds. Oh why Samuel? i hear you cry. Well his reaction was completely over the top and unacceptable in our home, I'm sure if Jamie and I weren't in the room, Kaytie may have ended up with a bigger bruise then his, judging by the 'daggers' thrown from his eyes at her.

Anyway better go, Sophie is "sweeping" and I'm sure the windows don't need it:)

Jamie goes back to work Tues AM :( but only for 2 weeks :) - to get him back inline with his roster.

OXOXoxoxoxoxox
BJslkcs

My day sucked! How was yours?!?

This all happened on friday but it didn't post properly last night - grr :D

 I guess it was off to a bad start when i didn't even get to  bed until after 2 this morning, but anyway here's a rundown of my day

LOL funny story really :D

Woke up this morning a little after 6 , and thought "crap that doesn't feel good"

jumped in the shower with  full hot on a sore neck, *FAIL* D'oh "crap that still doesn't feel good" 

I can't turn right!

 'got' kids in car (TY  Samuel & Lily oxox)

drove to earlville to chiro there (Samuel was an ACE Right hand SIDE man!) 

and *FAIL* she was shut even though it was opening hrs.

 called office number "sorry we @ conference" d'oh!...

went to smithy hoping one in centre *FAIL*! d'oh!
dealt with pain until 10ish when i could do it no more
and phoned closest chiro, they said "yeah come on down"

 We hung around extra 15/20 min wait for another friend to arrive,

got call from dr "where are you?"

i sez "umm err i have 5 kids and they all wanted a potty break??" fib fib lie lie :O!

raced down to clinic nearly got lost, finally got there and

KARMA! me busting 4 loo.

meanwhile can't move head @ all!

in loo, 'nurse' finds me "you going to be long Dr has to catch a flight ASAP! d'oh!

raced back and

crick crack crunch YAY!!! could turn my head about 3/4 better,

"come back nxt week b4 u go" woo!

get back to town, 2 more errands, combo of a/c and whingey child me thinks (won't name her! ) and

 SUPER DOOPER pain - but still movement :?

cry cry sook sook moan moan

(have some WONDERFUL, CARING, WORRIED! children)

Called my lovely  MIL and her beau, they come over asap do all my little jobs i had planned,

MIL uses her 'magic' powers and 'machines of mystery' oh yeah and some panadol forte ;p

neck feels 90% better,

 jobs done pizza eaten they go home.

 me on computer of evil time wasting panadol wearing off too and my necks hurting again :(

best quit now before i cry on my keyboard

am gonna pop some more pills and go to bed early for once :D -

that was my day how was yours?? ;D

OXO B(J)slkcs

OUCH!!!

Just a quick one today as i'm supposed to be packing some more, this happened to me on thursday, guess where it is!

It's NOT by bum or hip/thigh it's my BOOB!! :(  doesn't hurt too much even when you poke it, my knee hurts more and has similar colouring though not as vivid! - wondering how those completely different parts were damaged at the same time?  i slipped in some water left laying around from some little people, hence my knee, but as i 'landed' the above fore mentioned body part collected the handle of a ride on bike/car VERY hard! looking on the bright side... if i was more flat chested i could have cracked a rib! as it certainly took my breath away! well thank goodness they are finally good for something (besides babies ;P)

Oh ok here is something not so Arrghh! and a little more awww

This was a little late afternoon fun yesterday (fri) even the little girls got a go at steering by themselves, they all did surprisingly well, and it seems the 'need for speed' is a hereditary gene we have passed to all 5 children :D - I also took part in both passenger(!!) and driver roles, not just behind the camera.

Till next time

OXoxoxoxoxox BJslkcs