4 favourite foods

Cammy only has four things that he will eat for dinner... and it's been such a long road to get to that many foods lol...

For many many months the only food Cammy would eat for dinner was Easy Mac Macaroni Cheese... and only the cheese flavour... we have now branched out to include the chicken flavour also...

Then we were able to add spaghetti... and variations of spaghetti... but have yet to successfully add mince to this meal...

The other week we discovered he had a love of noodles also... chicken and beef flavoured...

The latest addition to our dinner menu is Mashed potato {real or packet} mixed with creamed corn... which happened to be tonights dinner...


This bowl was full!!!

not bad going for a kid who up till 6mths wouldn't eat solids unless he was starving!!!

I just wish he would eat more variety... Food is and prob always will be a big issue with this boy... he took to eating solids with gusto at age 4mths... enjoying so many different foods




Piklets {top} and Pumpkin {bottom}

But then at 8mths he just stopped eating... this is the same time he stopped breastfeeding also... he went on a total hunger strike... it was awful... after 3 days of no food, I relented and gave him formula which he took.. and it was then pretty much his only source of food till 12mths... he ate the odd gingernut biscuit, rusks, toast and iceblocks...

to this day, we still don't know why he did this, or why introducing different foods has been such a struggle... but we just plod along... I'm sure that when is 16 he will eat me out of house and home, like a normal teenage boy... :)

end of the working week

*phew* the end couldn't have come fast enough this week... even though I was only at for 2 days this week, it felt like such a long week... there were still some positives to the week though... like my Pay Rise, and the discussion with my boss about the new job opening up in our office that I want :) {watch this space on that one}... but it was still long... I was still harrassed by imbosils who have no f*&ken idea about anything... I still had to deal with the stupid questions.. the new staff member that no one likes etc etc...

I miss S... my colleague and close friend who has gone on his OE for 12 mths... new staff member no likes is sitting in his seat for the year, but she is a cow... she has bad manners, is rude, and doesn't actually like to work... which increases my work load tenfold... my boss is a softie... and the downside to this is that she wont do anything about lazy lady... meanwhile, I still try to do my 8 hr job, the the 5.5 hrs I am there at the same time as taking on half of lazy ladys work!!! grrrrr... no wonder, I'm not in the best head space at work at the moment... I keep thinking to myself... "only 10 more months" lol... I sure hope that time really does fly... even if you are not having fun :)

ah well... it's the weekend now... and I have a lovely one planned... not sure bout anything tomorrow.. prob just a rest day... no housework needing to be done, due to my new cleaner starting today {thats another post}... Sunday is coffee group with the auckland girls from www.cheekymonkey.org.nz :) YAY I can't wait...

Day 3

Day 3 of Paris' trip, and things seem to be getting a bit better... Although she has managed to churn through $40 credit on her cell phone - she was playing a game that was on the phone we borrowed, but she didn't realise it connected to the net lol... I have promised her I will sort out some credit today or tomorrow... we spoke for quite a while last night, and it was only when it came to saying goodbye that she broke down...

I'm almost a little scared to call her tonight, but know that I need to... I miss her so much it hurts... I don't miss her like this when she stays at the caravan for a week with my mum and/or sister while I go to work... but for some reason, this is so much more to me... maybe it's cause she is in oz... or maybe it's just cause she is with her dad... who knows... I may never find out the reason... but I think I may always "hurt" when she is over there without me...

only 5 more sleeps till she is at home in my arms again...

Cam is missing her like crazy... goes into her bedroom all the time "papa, papa" he says {papa is her nickname}... he doesn't cry when he can't find her like he did the week she was at camp, but he is still missing her... He doesn't seem to miss Josh as much {Josh is at his mums this week} but then he is used to Josh going away all the time...

I am enjoying all the me and cammy only time that we are getting at the moment, and have decided that on Paris' return, I'm going to start spending more 1 on 1 time with both her and Cammy...

D-Day

so this morning at 3am I awoke, to get ready to take Paris to the airport... the day had finally arrived, She was finally flying unaccompanied to Melbourne to spend a week with her dad... her dad who she has never spent more than 1 night in a row with... her dad who she has only stayed with 4 nights in total since she was 13mths old!! But she was excited... and I wasn't letting on to her at all that I was anxious about it, or worried in the slightest... in fact - I wonder if I was too calm about it...

we checked in at 4am... no probs there... then went and had a bite to eat together, before she was collected at 5.10am to go through customs, and onto board...

her dad txt me at 11.30 to say she had arrived safe and sound, and she txt me also...

and now... at 7.30pm, she has called me... sobbing her little heart out, she misses me too much she says... and I can't do a damn thing about it!! and while I was strong on the phone... I've been a blubbering mess since then...

maybe I need to go to bed... after all, I've been up since 3am... and only had 4hrs sleep last night...

but I'm sad... I miss Paris too much too... she is my world... and I hate to think of her over there, crying, wanting me...

I'm a little angry too... cause he dad failed to mention to me or her, that he has moved back in with his psycho mum... his mum, who I don't want having too much contact with Paris... and he knows this... she is so poisonious that her own daughter refuses to have anything to do with her... how sad is that... and my poor baby is with this women!! that pisses me off...

Easter

What a great Easter Weekend we have just had... Josh went of to his mums at midday on Friday.. then me, Paris and Cam headed up to the caravan {Ian had to work saturday and cam up after that}... The drive up was good, not much traffic at all, however we did have one incident where a total dickhead going the other way, did a very illegal overtaking move, and if it weren't for the shoulder that I was able to move into, we would have been hit head on boy was it scary... Sundays newspaper informed me the car was stolen... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10636228 but I wasn't very suprised to be honest...

The rest of the weekend was really good though.... We caught up with a few friends over the weekend, who live quite local to our camping ground, which was awesome...

however, we packed the caravan up today, and it wont be used again till October... I always find it very sad doing the whole packdown - like to me, it is the official end of summer!!

boots, boots, boots...

I don't know about the rest of the female population, but I find it extremely hard to find boots in my size {size 6} that also fit my calves {not the smallest in the world}... I have to go up a couple of sizes in boot, just to be able to put them on, but I love boots so much that I do this...

the only boots I actually own in the correct size are my docs! and they are 14 years old lol... and I don't think they are the right "boot" for work haha

I have also been struggling to find boots that I like... last winter, I went without boots as I couldnt' find any...

Today, I finished work early, and went to the Hannahs clearance store in Mt Wellington, as it's just down the road from work...

I found a pair of boots that I loved... and they were reduced from $99 to $49... so I decided to buy them... get up to the counter and the salesperson says "do you want to purchase a second pair of shoes or boots for 1/2 price?" I don't normally do that sort of thing, but I thought 'what the hell'... so I bought 2 indentical pairs of boots!!! lol....

My theory is - that when I destroy the first pair, I will automatically have a pair of boots, that I like, sitting in my wardrobe waiting for me... clever aye...? lmao

the washing war... and more...

The kids arrived home from School Camp this afternoon... full of noise, and not much energy lol... I had definately gotten used the quiet in the house with them gone... Cam was very excited to see "his kids" and made them both read to him heaps this afternoon...

But of course, the return of kids, heralds the start of copious amounts of washing, as I try to get everything washed and dryed by tomorrow mid morning... 2 loads on line now, and the third load is in the machine... And I still have Cam's nappies to wash too...

Josh is off to his mums tomorrow for the next week, so we need to make sure he has enough clothes for that... I get peeved off though, as I am constantly forking out $$ buying him new undies and socks, and then they all get left at her house... it's just as much her fault as his... in fact more her fault... she is the adult.. it should be her responsability to return all the gear we send with him... but dont' get me started on her.. or i'll never stop lol

Me, Paris and Cam will head up to our Caravan at Ruakaka midmorning which I am soooo looking forward to... Ian will join us after work on Saturday. There we will stay for the Easter weekend, relaxing and enjoying time spent with my parents, my sister, BIL, and my niece... nothing could be better to be honest... We will travel home on Monday mid afternoon/early evening to start the washing war all over again, in order to get Paris ready for her trip to Melbourne...

Yup - Paris is heading off to her Dad's in Melbourne on Tuesday morning... I have so many different emotions running through my head with this... this is her first ever solo flight... she has never stayed with her dad for more than 1 night in a row - and she is going for 7 nights... she has not stayed with her dad for more than 3 nights total since she was 15mths old... you can see why I am nervous, scared, sad, worried, stressed about it all aye...? But there is nothing I can do about it, and she is excited, so thats the most important thing right...?