Many things I am

We had our work kiddies Christmas party today.  The venue was lovely, lots of place for the kids to run and swim etc.

I dragged poor hubby and the 3 kids along, which meant that he ran after Daniel for 3 hours and I had the girls.  We were FINISHED when we finally got home and all literally passed out.  We have 4 weeks of holiday ahead of us of which we will be without any form of domestic help for 2 of them.  Ohmigod, I’m petrified!

I have several friends living overseas with small kids and we almost also took the plunge earlier this year to move to Dublin, but decided against it.  Thank goodness we stayed and for nannies and domestic help, because I would have been on some serious medication to cope (or an alcoholic!).

So, to all those far away friends and my friends that are single parents, you rock!  There is a special place in heaven for each of you!

I can’t believe a whole week has gone by since I have managed to post!  Every couple of days I log in to read some entries and get so wrapped up that I run out of time to post my own entry!

I have also had to go slow on the blogging at night as hubby is really moaning about me being on line and he reads everything over my shoulder, he is SO nosy!

We were up for an hour last night trying to break a 38.8 fever, Mignon has had this silly fever for the last 2 days, but not enough to take her to the doctor and we have managed it with Empaped.  It has been up and down, 38.4, 37.6, 38.6 etc etc and we eventually washed her down at 1 this morning and that seemed to do the trick.

Thing is, even though I’m not that new at this I never know when to phone the doctor with a fever.  You worry so about them, but you don’t want to be like a hysterical mommy and call if it’s something I can manage at home.  I end up feeling like an idiot and all they do is tell you to bring them in anyway.  R450.00 later.

What is the general feeling about fevers and when to call the doc and any useful tips on getting fevers down??

Vomit, that is.

Some nights I think I might have a vomit free night, but noooo, it feels like most nights I am changing at least one baby’s clothes, bedding etc etc etc.  And I know by now that if they don’t hurl within 5 minutes of drinking that bottle, we generally are cool.  I feel like shoving the bottles in their mouths and running for the hills.

Some nights Etienne has to leave poor Daniel to come and help when it is a double whammy.  Those nights I swear like an effing storm trooper (ok, I swear anyway)

I sometimes wish I can take 5 minutes to feel sorry for myself, but I’m too scared I’ll get stuck there, so on we go.  Just climb into bed and literlly pull the covers over my head.  Maybe that’s why I am the lucky winner of an ulcer? 

One last unhappy topic:  my nanny, who is amazing, had to send 2 of her children to her aunt in the EC as she couldn’t afford to have them here and apparently a lot of children are going missing in the townships.  She has been waiting for the aunt to bring her children back to CT tomorrow and sent money for the bus, only to be told by this woman that she “might” bring them next week as she had to give the money for the busfare to someone else.  She is, needless to say, devastated as she has literally been counting the hours until they arrive and this is now the 3rd postponement.  I wish I had money to help her!  If I had the time I would get my car and drive there to get them myself!!

Anyway, sorry about all the complaining, had to get it off my chest.

On the upside, if you are in the Durbanville/Kenridge area at night, do yourself a favor and drive by the duck pond above the 7/11 as there is a house with the most amazing Xmas lights.  I sometimes get in the car when it gets dark (and I have cleaned up all the vomit) and drive by just for a good giggle.  It looks like the whole house and garden is moving, really funny!

I hope this is right!  I couldn’t find the thingy that looks like the earth. 

List of last 10 people that left comments on my blog:

1.  Blommie aka Minx
2.  http://blogs.24.com/rebeccav
3.  http://blogs.24.com/parent24ed
4.  Raven
5.  Tertia
6.  Deids13
7.  Mom & Moody
8.  Kimstories
9.  http://blogs.24.com/weebee
10.  Dinx
 
1. How often do you comment on number 4’s blog?
Haven’t yet!

2.  Do you wait for number 8 to post excitedly?
Will soon!

3. How did number 5’s blog change your life?
Ok, freaky, I have followed Tertia’s blogging for a long time as we also had fertility challenges

4. Do you know any of the 10 bloggers in person?
Have met Tertia

5. Do any of your 10 bloggers know each other in person?
I think Parent24ed and Tertia know each other?

6. Out of the 10, which updates more frequently?
weebee
      
7. Which of the 10 keep you laughing?
Rebecca.  We have very similar lives and are equally sleep deprived:-)

8. Which of the 10 has made you cry (good or bad tears)?
She’s not on my list, but it’s definately “Van 3 na 2.5”

Oven Temp : 180 degrees

1. Mix 4 eggs and ½ cup oil

2. Add 2 cups cake flour, 2 tablespoons cocoa, 1.5 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tsp bicarb

3. Add 1.5 sugar to 1^st mix then add dry mix (mix 2)

4. Add 1 cup Amazi

Pour into an oven pan, the big one yes, otherwise it doesn’t bake in 15 minutes.

Let me know how it goes! 

I was going to lament about all the vomit we had to clean up tonight, but after reading Tertia’s entries for today, I am reminded of how lucky we were against a lot of odds.

To cut a long story short, I had to have both my fallopian tubes removed and after going through 3 years of denial and dealing with a lot of stuff, I finally took the plunge and went for IVF in July 2004 and it worked first time, resulting in Daniel.  

We then thought that we most likely would not be that lucky again and decided we wanted to try once more when he was a year old, resulting in identical twin girls, Mignon and Isabel.

So, 2 IVF’s and 3 children!  They are all very special.

Then, we are doing Secret Santa at work this week, so I thought I would bake this allegedly easy chocolate cake and leave piece of it on my person’s desk.  It literally takes 15 minutes to make and 15 minutes to bake.  (excluding icing time)

No kidding.

It worked well, so let me know if anyone wants the recipe!   

Please help, I want to know who wrote a whole post on treating gastro recently??  One of my friends’ baby is really ill.

Thanks!
Tania

Never, ever mess with me when I have PMS.  And I mean never.

Hubby did this weekend, much to his demise.  (and ultimately mine too) 

This is how it went:

• 3 sick children, a long Friday night.
• hubby tries for 3 minutes to feed the girls breakfast and declares himself irritated.  (yes dear, and who do you think does all the feeding normally anyway??)
• I wanted to invite friends over for supper on Sat night, hubby then informs me that he is inviting his single friend over to watch the rugby and have a braai. (WTF??)
• a kiddies party from hell, where Daniel proceeded to take his clothes off and jump on the net over the pool. 
• some harsh whispering back home so as not to upset children
• Daniel woke up miserable from his nap with a fever, so I loaded all 3 children in the car, buggered off, dumped the girls with my mother and took D to Durbanville Medi Clinic to see a doctor.  All this whilst darling dearest piece of shit husband watches rugby in peace and quiet at home.  (he offered halfheartedly to look after the girls, but I shudder to think)
• mission to chemist to spend R500 on tonsillitis medicine and then to shops to buy a wide array of foods D MIGHT eat

I then decided to stay with my mom until I had calmed down, which I hadn’t by 20h00 and the kids needed to get to bed, so off home we went again. 

Aaarghh, why do I have to be a grownup?  I could quite easily have stayed at my mom’s house just to punish him in some childish way and also just to get a break, but anyway.

What I don’t understand is that this man is fantastic with Daniel, but for some reason cannot cope with the girls and everything is an effing mission when it comes to them.

Oh, and then he burnt their food I was cooking when I tried to take a shower yesterday morning.  How difficult can it be to stir?

I mean, come on, get over yourself!!

Roll on period, I like my family intact..

Mignon is crawling at 8 months and 9 days!  After absolute weeks of groaning and moaning its like the penny just dropped and off she went!  I think we need to get her one of those bouncy things as it seems to be her favourite thing to do, although I don’t really believe in them. 
Any comments on this?

Isabel is also now doing the moaning and groaning bit, but not entirely with such fanfare as she is the more reserved twin.  Shame, she also has terrible allergies when the wind blows, just like her mommy, so she has red and puffy eyes.  My poor baby.

I also have the habit of calling them my “koekeloekke” (it’s an Afrikaans thing I think) and yesterday morning Daniel leant over his chair and said to them: “hallo my koekeloekke!”.  How cute.  Moments like that make up for a lot of whining…

Don’t get me wrong, I love my boy to bits, but can someone please explain to me why he whines? 

Its not just any whine either (trust me, I’ve tried to imitate it). It starts in his stomach, working to the back of his throat.  Even though I generally ignore it so as not to make it worse, I also have to stop myself from overreacting to the other stuff as it irritates the living crap out of me.

Is it a boy thing? 
Is it a 2.5 yr old thing?
How do I make it stop?
Can I make it stop?

Whine done 🙂