Oct/Nov 2008 mommies!

LOL Ally @ wedgie comment!! Oh and good for you telling that nosy bitch off! I would have done exactly the same!

OOoohhh I also heard about Jamie Olivers 30 minute meals book thats coming out!! I can't wait to try some of those recipes.

Food=shmood - strict=shmict!! I love cooking good food - not just healthy food. And I absolutely adore cooking with cream!! LOL That's probably why I look like I'm 50 meals ahead & about 150 shits behind! LMAO!!

Ally that sounds perfect. You get so bored with the same old meals and Neil is very strict with what we cook. No cream etc and I am sure Jamie Oliver's new book has healthy meals. Thanks for the tip. x

well said re looks etc.

Elwyn says exactly the same , well he means the same LOL what he actually says is that if i am no longer here he will never get into a long term relationship with anyone else, he'll just have a few women to service his needs and send them home after LOL MEN!

we bath together at night because it's our conversation time (which is crazy really because we both talk non stop from the time he walks in the door) and the minimum time it takes us to bath when we do it together is 1 hour but some nights when we're onto a really hot topic we look and it's been 2hrs from when i ran the bath LOL Some nights in winter the water goes cold that i get out and sit on the loo and talk to Elwyn whilst he stays submerged to keep warm, silly really because we can still talk out of the bathroom.

But i must say, i love having a relationship like this. I love having my mommy friends but if everyone else fell off the face of the earth and only Elwyn and i were left we'd actually be just as happy.

ABout the smacking/scolding thing, Jess, I thought you did the right thing yesterday. I wasn't shocked AT ALL by Bryce's behaviour. My 2 fight like CAT AND DOG at home but they're relatively well behaved when we are out. They are both less assertive with other children but VERY bossy with each other. But I know how you feel when your kids don't behave. I felt like that with Aidan yesterday even though I knew he wasn't feeling well.

I'm also not very sympathetic. ESPECIALLY not when I've warned them that whatever they are doing will result in EINA! Like this morning they were playing with the door and pushing each other with it (one on either side of the door) and I said they have to be careful about twice and then Aidan pushed Abi hard and she fell on her bum and bit her tongue. I just told him to say sorry to her and left it. C is the softy I think.

Vix, C and I are also like that. Well recently anyway. The first year of having the twins was REALLY hard for us and we barely spoke. We obviously spoke about the babies and all their stuff but we never focussed on each other. It came down to us almost splitting up in December last year for us to wake up and realise that we are just made for each other. I love that we have reconnected and we can also sit for hours chatting.
Julz, I know what Neil means! I can't live without C because I talk to him about EVERYTHING! I mean, the man even takes my wedgies out when my nails are wet! lol

This INCREDIBLY bitchy girl said the other day "it's so strange that you are taller than your husband", because well, I am. And I am SO sick of people looking at us and I can just see what they are thinking. She even had the audacity to ask "so do you wear the pants?" and I said, 'yes actually, I wear pants all the time' and then I got bitchy and said that yes, my husband is shorter than me but he's more man than most of the men I know. She said, I doubt that he's manlier than my husband and I said well does your husband stay up all night with the kids and allow you to sleep when you are really tired? Does he help you with the dishes? With the cooking? Does he deal with the kids when you can't anymore? Does he fix almost anything for you? Being tall and big doesn't make a man, being a good husband and an EXCELLENT father is what makes you a man. She shut up really quickly after that lol.

Anyway, Jess, that dinner sound fan-flippen-tastic! I will DEFINITELY be trying that soon!!

We are having Thai-Beef salad tonight. It's too hot to really cook something but the steaks at Spar were on special and they look soooo good. Thick and juicy! So I'm just going to grill them, mix some thai stuff together for a dressing and dunk it onto lettuce, red pepper and sprouts. YUMMO!!!!

OOOOHHH Julz, I am busy reviewing the new Jamie Oliver. It's called Jamie's 30 minute meals. It's being released next Friday and I would seriously recommend it to anyone that's too busy to cook. THe meals are SOOO yummy and REALLY only takes 30 minutes!

Vix sounds as if you and E have the same type of relationship as N and i do. We can sit and chat over a glass of wine all night long. Love it. Best friends for sure. Neil always jokes and says I can't leave as I am the only person in the world he could live with. x

Lelani is leaving at like 1am tonight/tomorrow morning. they're booked off work for this whole week i think but wanted to come hom early so they can relax before going back to work.

we really enjoy throwing a little something on the Braai, Elwyn also built a nice big one by the patio, even just the 3 of us then we take out the camping chairs and chit chatter away the whole afternoon/evening.

Elwyn is like my bestest friend, we talk about absolutely everything and anything. Last week i had a day where nothing seemed to happen to either of us and we kept wandering around looking at each other trying to find something to talk about.

I will have a look at Pep. I buy cheap clothes especially t shirts which fit him but only ackermans pants fit him at the moment. I will buy him some of his school's shirts and he can wear them and then some nicer clothes for weekend from ackermans or pep.

We bought a nice gas braai and buit in a braai area vix so that is exactly what we have been doing more often now which is so nice. Just wish the weather would play along more. Still got odd weather here. Looks like it is going to rain.

Lelani are you still in JHB. I thought school started today?