WHAT A MORNING!

You know when you lose the plot with your kids & then you sit back & look at the situation & feel really bad about how you handled it, well that was my morning.... I am so frustrated & I don't want to be, sometimes I just want to crawl back into bed and stay there and not deal with the everyday life stuff, silly I know, it is raining very hard, very dark and just the weather for crawling back into bed, but the day must go on... I think I just have to realize that we are all human and make mistakes (especially with our children) and start again, but sometimes I don't understand what can be so hard about getting ready for school - so this was my morning.... we all get out of bed & middle daughter informs me that she doesn't want to go to school because it's wet & cold and she just doesn't want to go... she is so hard to get motivated in the mornings... it's like Maddy get dressed, Maddy what are you having for breakfast, Maddy go get the brush so I can do your hair, Maddy brush your teeth, Maddy get your shoes and socks on, Maddy have you got your lunch, Maddy make your bed.......................... IT"S SO FRUSTRATING..................... meanwhile the other two are ready to go & we are waiting for her, well this morning I didn't say anything and when 8:30am came I went in there and said - are you ready it's time to go, then there was screaming and yelling and her telling me how mean I am and BLAH, BLAH, BLAH and now I feel like a really CRAP Mum... anyone else ever felt like that, I think that as Mothers we do so much for our children that sometimes they just expect everything but I think there comes a point where they have to take a little bit of responsibility.... RIGHT?? Hopefully tomorrow we will be a better day, and as much as they frustrate me I love them to peices - my life wouldn't be the same without them...

so on a much brighter note, my cousin had here 4th baby the other day, so yesterday the girls and I went to the hospital for a vist and they were like 3 little mothers - my cousin said ahhh look you should have had another one and sometimes I think I should have had a 4th but when I sit back and look at our 3 girls they are well and truly enough to keep me busy, but little Charlie is the cutest little thing it's enough to make anyone Clucky! I didn't even get to have a cuddle so I think I might go up today for a cuddle. Have a great day..... Raech :o)

GUESS WHAT I GOT?

My very own brand spanking NEW CANON SLR EOS 400D Digital Camera! I am so excited that I can't wait to take some photo's. I've been wanting to get one of theres cameras for a while and lovely hubby said I could get one (doing a happy dance here). I've only been able to have a little play with it yet & it is a little different to operate than my little point and shoot digital camera, and as it's been raining here for the past couple of days haven't been able to venture outside, but this morning it was nice & sunny and I said to the girls that I was going to take them to some spots to get some piccies and all my subjects declined the invitation and wouldn't be apart of it (it seemed that playing with there friends was far more important than there Mum getting photo's - I couldn't beleive it!) so now I will just have to read the book abit more and try and learn some of the features (it has so many buttons). Well I have been sitting here trying to add some photo's and this Blogger won't let me, so I am off to my nice warm bed. Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.

Raech :o)

Beauty...

Dove has taken it upon themselves to try and redress the balance...
they start the ad with a statement...
"Only 1 percent of Australian women describe themselves as looking beautiful while 30 percent of Australian women describe themselves as average looking."

PLEASE!!!!! Tell me this isnt true.
really.. this statement makes my heart ache.
Not beautiful???? YOU?????
You are, you know.

and this is why I love this campaign.. because it is all about enabling women , and girls to see how "beautiful women come in all different shapes colours and sizes," and ages too.

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.
BELEIVE IT.
Raechel :o)

BEAUTY....

I was reading this over at Ngaire Bartlam's Blog and thought I would share as it is so true and I thought it was really special...

I've been TAGGED!!!

By the lovely Tess, who has been at me to update my BLOG, sorry I don't seem to think I run a very exciting life that people would like to read about so here it goes:

Name three things that scare you. Fast rides that go backwards (it makes me sick just thinking about it), snakes (any snake is a dead snake to me), Canetoads (they are just so ugly and ewww)

The daggiest thing in your music collection. Ummm THE WIGGLES (but it's the kids)

Your three favourite clothing items. Denim Cargo Shorts, my hide my spare tire tummy magic T-Shirts (lol well I think they are magic anyway) & my seam free undies (do they count as a clothing item - no I don't think so), my Pink Panther jammies!!!

Your partners most annoying habit. Oh he has lots of annoying habits, but let me say I think he has far more good qualities that out number the bad ones (love you baby - most of the time LOL) but his most annoying habit to me would have to be since he was bought up in a very proper house he is always onto the children about little things that I don't even realise like chewing with there mouth open, chewing chewing gum, shutting doors so fly's don't come in the house, crunching apples when eating them, crunching ice when eating it........ do you get the picture.

What stresses you out. I try not to stress out about the kids but I do every now and again, driving in the passenger seat with my husband I feel much safer when I am in control and at least I know I keep my eyes on the road where as he looks every other place but the road, childrens birthday parties LOL especially the sleep over ones with 6 hyperactive girls that won't go to SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!

If I could change the world I would hmmmmm... make it so there was no povety in the whole world - that everyone could be as priveledged to live in such a wonderful country like we live in Australia.

Your favourite household chore…. I hate housework especially when the kids can mess it all up in a matter of about 10 minutes, I relly have to get in the mood for housework but since I got all my new ENJO products I have been a cleaning machine and my house is sparkling!!

If you had fifty bucks to spend at Target which section would you head straight for…. Clothing section, Target have the best clothes.

In my next life I would like to come back as ….. probably ME, but this time I would have the heads up and I would do a much better job at being ME lol.

Your least favourite celebrity… I can't stand Jim Carey!

So now I think I have to tag someone so I'll tag Erica & Yvette. (thanks Tess that was Fun)

RAECH xxx

FINALLY...

I have a chance to update my BLOG, things have been so crazy around here and it's been a while so I'm just going to do the random post thing.

The week before school finished the girls had there school disco with the Easter Theme - Sophie was the only one that wanted to dress up & she looked so cute.

School holidays came & went - it was so good to relax & not have to do the everyday routine things, we went away for the day to visit our friends who were camping in Airlie Beach & it was so great to catch up with them & the kids had a blast - the place where they stayed had his huge AIR PILLOW which the kids loved.....

but apart from that we just veged out at home - I took the girls to the movies to see 'MEET THE ROBINSONS' which I really enjoyed to LOL.

Sophie celebrated her 6th birthday on the Sunday before school went back & we had organised to have a jumping castle, we woke up on the day & it was very cloudy and didn't look promising but the skies cleared and the weather held out for the 2 hours that we had it, the kids had a absolute blast on it, the birtday girl got hit in the lip on the last 5 minutes that we had it but apart from that no other injuries thank God. I made the prettiest cake - it looked so nice I didn't want to eat it & man it tasted good to LOL... I think this is the best cake I have made yet!!

I'm still trying to work out the best way to post pictures (my BLOG doesn't seem to want to co-orparate!!) Well I have to go get the girls from school.

Chat soon,

Have a great weekend,

Raech :o)

HAVE A HAPPY EASTER....

Today Sophie had her Easter Hat Parade that they do at school, the older 2 girls don't do Easter Hat's anymore (to old for that) and every other year when the other girls have had there parades I have gone up to the school to help them decorate there hats, but since were at a new school this year I didn't know what to expect and didn't get a note to say that they needed craft items (with the other girls we had to buy all that stuff) so just thought that maybe they didn't do Easter Hats at this school, but was told yesterday that the Easter Hat Parade was happening today, I asked Sophie if she had made a hat and she said YES I made it and decorated all by myself so I was interested to see how her creation turned out & she did a wonderful job - you can't really see all the detail in this photo because she stuck the ears on the front of the paper plate instead of the side & it kept flopping forward LOL but she had chocolate wrappers stuck on it, cotton wool and the most beautiful set of coloured in ears I was amazed at how good all the kids hats looked with different colours and ideas... they did there march around and it was so hard to get a decent photo with so many kids marching around but I was glad I got some good ones of the whole class before they went over to do there parade...

I can't beleive it is the end of Term 1 already although I am really looking forward to the holidays, we aren't really going away anywhere there is so much that we need to do around the house & I have to get everything organised for Sophie's birthday next week (we are hiring a JUMPING CASTLE, which will be so much fun for the kids, I just hope it doesn't RAIN!) she absolutely loves Frangipanni's so we are going with that theme, we even found a Frangipanni Cake in one of my cake books so it will be good to have the kids home so they can help me out.

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OMG!!! Is this really my 11 year old daughter, she went out tonight with her friends to the movies and asked me to straighten her hair and I couldn't beleive how grown up she looks, which made me feel really old LOL! I am so NOT READY for this Stage but it just doesn't seem to wait until you are ready & I don't think I will ever be ready - it was just a taste of the things that I have look forward to over the next LOTS of years, she is not a girly, girly at all and my other two are Girly, Girl so I think I am going to go through lots of hair products, make-up, lipgloss & all that girly stuff.....

Well I just wanted to wish everyone a SAFE & HAPPY EASTER - if you are travelling please take care on the roads and ENJOY your time with YOUR LOVED ONES... hope the Easter Bunny brings you lots of choccies (I don't think he will bring me any this year as he knows I'm on a DIET, but I think I might sneak a few of the girls...... SSSSHHHHHHHH).

Take Care,
Raechel :o)