Footsteps in the night....

Finally! JA heard them too!

Many many times since we've lived here I have heard footsteps running down our hallway... they sound exactly the same as when B4 runs down the hallway [his room is at one end, ours is at the other]. So I have always put them down to B4 being up and running back to bed.... even though after checking on him [because I have 'heard him up'] he is tucked under his blanket sound asleep when I get to his room.

I heard them again last night, but JA got up just as I was about to, so I nodded back off to sleep... JA checked on B4, covered him up, then went to the loo. While in there he heard it again.. so leant back to see out the toilet door to tell him to go back to bed... but B4 didn't go past the doorway.. and when he went back in to check B4, he was sound asleep tucked under his blanket like JA had tucked it over him just before going into the loo....

JA had heard it before, and checked on B4 who was sound asleep every time, but had never said anything to me before today.

The last 2 months it has been happening alot more, every time B4 is asleep in bed. Always middle of the night, or early hours when the birds are waking up... So it appears we have a little person here in the house with us maybe. So now to find out more about our house! The house isn't that old, which is why we are curious now... we know of one bloke who lives here in town [he's our neighbour across the gully] who has lived in the district all his life and remembers when this house was built... so we're going to ask him if anybody has passed away here.

The only child we know of who has passed away in the general area, was a little bloke who was hit by a train on his way home from school one day. But the crossing is 1km down the main road...

So hmm we have a little ghost living with us, I wonder who he/she is?

Santa!!!

This is as close as we got to a Santa photo with B4 LOL B4 taking the photo of Santa!

And how cool is this Santa? He just kept waving every time B4 looked his way trying to get him to not be shy. maybe next year he'll at least look at him without hiding!

Oh well I have a pic of the most awesome Santa on his most awesome purple Santa chair!!

Bloghopping...

Ignore my bloghopping lists for the moment.... I'm going through them, so there may be some double ups atm :)

Saturday Morning Ogre Mum.....

... thinks there is such a thing as Sunday Morning Ogre Dad!

But the difference is Dad gets the shits because of wild crazy children, Mum just wants to weekly cleaning of the house done!!

Yesterday was spent trying to get the wild children to get their shit together and clean up their rooms... LOL what a joke! It took forever! And STILL J11 has crap all over the place. It appears J11 is just plain lazy when it comes to actualy doing something! I AM NOT A SLAVE! I refuse to clean up kid crap. They're all old enough now, THEY need to haul ass and clean up their own shit!

So here I am today STILL awaiting J11 to clean his stuff up in the boys room *sigh*

So anyways Sunday Morning Ogre DAD is.... well like the Grumpy Old Troll... LOL Maybe that's what I need to call him! The kids are being FERAL, seriously full on no joke feral today. Yes they are driving me nuts, but Ogre dad is grinding his teeth... I swear he'll have none left by the end of the day LOL I've decided to hide out in my room with my lappy... I mean I can just say "out!" if they come in here, this is mine & Ogre Dads space after all... well silly Ogre dad is trying to watch TV in the loungeroom... "DERRRR" Ogre Dad! Sheesh 5 kids and he thinks on a day that's wayyyy tooo hot to be outside they are going to leave him alone LOL FAT CHANCE! So the grinding of the teeth goes on.... LOL

Way to go Baby Beehinds!

How cool! Modern Cloth Nappies are going on the little screen!!! Well done BBH for getting the clothy word out there even more!

It's a BOY!

Welcome to the world to my beautiful newest nephew Morrison Eli.
Born 3.12am this morning.
Weight - 8lb 6oz
Length - 54cm
HC - 37cm
With lots of dark hair. A clone of all the other kids!

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39 weeks - this was yesterday :)


I'll update with a pic of Morrison as soon as I have one.

Congrats to L & G xoxo

So who is up for more kids? "YES" this is a VENT!

It's hot, we all feel like shit cause it's hot.... AND THE KIDS ARE DOING MY HEAD IN!

How does it make you feel better fighting and carrying on when it's hot? ARGH!

And to make matters worse the bleeding noses from overheated kids is beyond a joke! B4 is now in the league of inheriting mine & Himselfs bleeding nose thing. Oh yay... NOT! Yesterday 3 of the kids had them, so far today B4 has..... but I can put money on B14 & T13 will join in on todays nose bleed count *sigh*

Okay vent over.... off to figure out where the scary "poo" smell is coming from.... although it kinda smells like a dead smell too.....

What's in a week?

We've had a pretty basic week here in the Cinders house the past week. Nothing *that* exciting going on....

Geez where to begin..... Hmmm.... Well last Friday night we had a very UNwelcome visitor into the loungeroom...



.. this peoples is a Juvenile Eastern Brown snake.

It came under the laundry door, then under the adjoining loungeroom sliding door, right to where my boys [J11 & B4] were laying on the loungeroom floor watching a movie on TV [B4 was actually asleep]. T13 was on the lounge, I was at the dining table on the laptop, Himself was on the desktop at the other end of the loungeroom near my stock cupboards.

The kids were about a foot from the laundry door... Mr snake came across to the mat the kids were on without being seen... then as it came out from under the side of the mat towards me T13 seen it and yelled "SNAKE!". My feet came straight up onto my chair cause I couldn't see the floor because if the dinign table being in the way.. J11 jumped up onto the 3 seater lounge where T13 was sitting.... and B4 [who was asleep] was scooped up by his big sister so frickin quick she actually may have saved his life... the snake which was heading in my direction, turned and went in the direction of my boys.... it was a ruler length from B4 when T13 scooped him up.... I can tell you a Mothers heart beats that fast it stops beating when you see something like that! T13 must have scared the poor thing when she moved, so it turned again... this time straight towards Himself, who was on the desktop computer.... he moved, it went straight past him into my paperwork pile.. poor thing must have been so scared.

And because right at that moment we didn't know what type of snake it was, there was no way to get it before it got lost between my work area... and the fact it was IN the loungeroom with the kids... DH done the insane thing and had to grab it's tail to get it out into the open, killing it with my egg flipper. TWICE coming a cm or two from being bitten.

I don't know how long it ook for my heatbeat to settle down, but I know it took ages. B4 who was asleep at the time... slept through the rough handling by his sister, and was happily snoozing on the lounge for the rest of the night. I am so proud of T13, she showed AGAIN she can keep a clear head when a situation arises where snakes are concerned. I guess them 6 years of living in the bush DID have some positives come from it.

Anyways... hmm what else... OH! I got the dye urge this week. Been forever since I did any, so I dyed some flannel cloth nappies, a shirt for me [which I am wearing atm] and 3 singlets for B4. This is the outcome of B4's singlets.. pretty cool huh :) As I said it's been ages since I dyed and I did stuff them up... but Sssshhhhh don't tell anyone ;)



Ummm what else.... nothing else so far I don't think LOL

Oh yes there is! Christmas is coming!!! I L.O.V.E Christmas, so just cause I love it so much, between this week and Christmas I am having weekly specials of 10% off... This week is Bubblebubs nappies. But only until Saturday, then something new will go on sale :)



And lastly.. I want to send out lots of love to my friend Cath & her family who are dealing with a huge fight right now. Cath was diagnosed with Breast Cancer back in September, and is fighting this thing head on with everything she's got. Cath is a fellow member of EB... if you'd like to show your support to this beautiful lady steal my sig and use it on EB. Cath wants to get the message out there to EVERY Woman to check their breasts EVERY month. The best time is right after your period. So go cop a feel of your (.Y.) and make sure they are okay... Do it NOW!

B4 & Thankyou!

So we had B4's follow up at with the Gastro Paed on Monday. Man it's a trip and a half to go down to the city!

Anyways, it's all good :) No increase in meds, and we can start eliminting more foods that he reacts to YAY! So I think we might have a 'normal poo' child very soon! LOL

It was a really long day for poor B4. Dr was 6 patients behind, so we had a HUGE waiting time. Thankfully considering his workload Dr was in a great mood skipping, and singing with his little patients LOL Anyways, while we waited for Sista to pick us up B4 discovered little girls can have no hair, and they blow AWESOME bubbles... and the front doors to the hospital are magick!

Just under an hour wait, and this is what he did the whole time [which also included chasing bubbles said little girl was blowing].... Gotta love how the doors opene EVERY time you jump on that mat! LOL Some close calls with people walking in and out, but nobody was injured, so it's all good!



Well most of B4's nappies have a new home now with my Sister. I didn't want $ for them, and Sista wanted to give me something.. so this is what I got :)



Now I can't drink tea, or coffee anymore because of my blasted kidney... so this is the fix that replaces them. And yes it STILL has the bow on top LOL Bet nobody else has a tin of milo with a purple bow on top in their kitchen!

The mad dash to the finish line...

Why oh why every year is it the same old thing? I always leave it to the last minute. WHY do I do it?

So we are nearing Christmas.... only 42 days to go. I have diddly squat in the present department. I have 2 small prezzies for T7, one small for T13, one medium for B4.... and that's it. I have T7 & B4 Santa ones on layby plus some smaller prezzies for J11 & the two youngins. But B14 has nothing at all yet! Argh! I hate living where I do, I'd have it done in no time if I lived in a decently sized town.

Maybe my new years resolution next year will be to buy one present every week..... LOL Yeah right, good intentions and all that *sigh*.

On a better note, my Mummy is coming to visit in December. Well technically she's coming down for my sisters new babys birth, but since it coincides with xmas, she's going to stay longer. family xmas the weekend before *oh yay* LOL Nar just kidding, it'll be fun, the kids will have a ball and so will I. Just have to figure out a REALLY cheap solution to some prezzies for the neices & nephews.