January 2010 mommies

I can just see you Jems!! What a sight!!

Stellie, Biltong is the best teethers ever!! I always buy a extra piece of biltong and dh cuts it up in sticks big enough for lg. She looves it. Doesnt get much in, just sucks on it. The other day i gave her a little sausage with cheese in (almost looks like a vienna) and everytime she started mouning i had to break a piece off coz she would suck out all the insides. was hillarious!

I think motherhood is unrewarding in a sense that you dont get much time for yourself anymore. i cant remember when last i put make-up on.

Shame Juanita, you're right - it is hard being all nice and happy all the time for them. Strange but true. Sometimes you just feel like not talking or just being quiet or whatever but you can't because this lo's needs you to be upbeat. It's hard blady work! I'm very fortunate in that I have loads of help with my MIL down the road and hubby being home most of the time but I know how you feel. And then still trying to keep the house clean is another story!

Yesterday I walked to my MIL's cos it was nice day and the kids and I needed some fresh air. Anyway, Jade started off on her little Barbie push bike and Troy was in the pram and that was fine. Jade got tired of riding so she walked a bit and I carried her bike and pushed the pram. On the way back I had her in the pram, the bike shoved in the rack under the pram with all our stuff and troy in the sling on my hip and was pushing her majesty who weigh's like 16 kg's one handed! I looked at myself and thought OMG but felt so happy a the same time. At least I had a little workout... How the hell do parents with like 6 kids do it????

Ah hahahaha Juanita - jy is weer baie entertaining vandag
But I agree. 2 is enough! If you want another one just ask me and Jems how it is and we can put the idea out of your head instantly! What is sleep? Can you eat it? Its hard but I wouldnt change a thing! A thing I have learnt is gooing a deaf ear. Logan can wine and moun till he is blue in the face, if I dont want to hear him I dont hehehe... you wil learn the tricks

Had such a laugh yesterday. We were watching the soccer and eating biltong and droëwors and I gave Zani a piece of droëwors to eat. She was sucking on the droëwors like it was the tastiest thing she has ever had in her life! Was going all “mmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmm” the entire time and when I took it away (it had gotten all soft and squishy) she started crying, so I had to give her a new piece. Well, if mommy and daddy can eat it, why can’t I?

In her armpits. Dis glo 'n ou boereraat, maar ek moet sê dit het regtig gewerk. Wonder watter ander boererate ook sal werk???

Thanx Stellie, then im definately going to try it tonight. Stupid question, do you rub in under her arms like in her arm pits or under her arms arms??

Jems dont be green!! I dont know how you do it, i take my hat off to you!! You're a great mom!! Just yesterday my mom and i were chatting and i said to her, being a mom is actually a very unrewarding job!! I do everything for lg, dh works very hard and only comes home after 7! By then lg is fed, bathed, been played with the whole 10 yards and ive made supper (most nights) and he just sits on his arse and expects me to listen to him complain about how tired he is. and im like, shame my poor angel, all i did today was, uhm nothing! WTH?? And then he takes lg for a couple of mins before she goes to bed and she looooves him so much, she laughs, and giggles and has a ball with him but with me you really have to pull out your funniest stunts before you get a laugh!! I wanted to leave lg with my mum while i went out yesterday, but they were also on their way out so i took her with coz i really needed some more winter stuff. But the whole day i was miserable coz dh was at work half the day and i was left to look after lg again, not that i mind, i love her with my whole heart but some days i also need a break, you know!! i had a good heart to heart with my mom and at one stage i even said that im sick and tired of being a single mom, coz thats how i feel some days!! Having a baby is alot harder than i thought, not the work but emotionally and i often wonder if i really could handle another child!!

Glad you had a great shopping trip Juanita. Now I am even more green! Can't wait for you ladies to have 2 kids and then feel my no sleep any more pain!

Jade is waking up in the early hours with a cough and then snores so loudly! It's crazy. She then wakes Troy up!