7 sleeps and 6 days to go...

Today was a rough day. Well truthfully the morning was ok. We had mother's group here. The boys were pretty good but not really in the "sharing" kind of mood. After their sleeps we played for a bit, and then we shopped for dinner tonight. Bec, Matt and boys came for dinner which was lovely but Micah and Toby were "difficult lemon difficult" tonight. Was glad when they went to bed... I fell asleep on their floor before they went to sleep. I miss Scott!!!!!! Tomorrow marks the half way point, so from Sunday it's all downhill. Can't wait for him to be home. Micah cried A LOT today over wanting "Daddy to come home". Can't imagine how difficult more than a couple of weeks would be.

10 sleeps and 9 days to go...

Well so far so good. We've made it through our first few days of Scott being far, far away. There's been tears, mostly from me, but a few from Micah. Toby seems a bit oblivious to it all, but Micah feels Scott's absence. Mostly when he's tired, he realises he wants to be with his Daddy. I explain again and again, 10 more sleeps Micah, just 10 more sleeps. He fell apart tonight, made me cry a little too!!

Today I worked and the boys were in daycare. Tomorrow we have options not sure what we'll do. Have a friend coming for dinner and Micah has ordered spaghetti for dinner! I think he'd eat spaghetti every night of the week given the chance!!

Night world. Will write more another night. Have I mentioned how much I love my boys, and how desperately much I love their Dad?

12 days to go...

Well here I am, a single mum for 12 nights and trying not to feel too sorry for myself. I know there are those whose husbands are in the armed forces and they spend months away. I guess I'm spoiled to have a husband who is always so constant and present, so when he's not here it really feels like my world is off kilter. He's only been gone a couple of hours but already I feel his absence keenly.

But I am so proud of him. Off he goes to interview some famous dude in Berlin for a couple of days, and then to present a paper at a prestigious conference in Krakow, Poland. I wouldn't wish him to miss it, but miss him I will. And the boys I imagine when it settles in that Daddy's not just gone to work :( Father please give me strength and grace.

cars 2

Our family is pretty excited about Cars 2. Obviously, my children have several of the cars already as their Dad SPOILS them. But they do love to play with them LOTS and lots!!

Bring on June 23!!!

superheroes

Being a mum to boys is definitely different to girls. Our house is full of superheroes, supervillains, fights over superhero t-shirts, battles and set-ups and hilarious conversations.

Just the other day, Micah is lying on the floor coughing and acting like he needed to spew. This is our conversation:

Me: Micah are you ok? Do you need to spew?
Micah: I've got green stuff stuck in my throat?
Me: [worriedly] Micah do you need to throw up?
Micah: The green stuff is making me so weak.
Me: Micah are you being superman?
Micah: Yeah, I'm so weak.

There are some days when it's all worth it. This morning they were up at 4:43am and I was wondering if it was worth it. But they are exceptional lads. We have just finished reading Flanimals...

I would say this a boys thing, but really my beautiful 10yo step-daughter finds them hilarious too. I struggle to find the attraction, but the names of the flaminals are fun to say :)

The other day we had a family day at Movieworld. What a wonderful, truly exhausting day!! I had two favourite moments.

Scott told Micah to "hold mummy's hand so she won't be worried" in the 4-D movie Journey to the Centre of the Earth. So before it began Micah takes hold of my hand and says "just so you won't be worried". A few minutes into the movie he looks up at me with a concerned face and says "mummy I'm a bit worried", a few minutes after that "mummy I'm scared" and we left. But what a sweet, sweet boy he is turning into!!

And this is my other favorite moment, have you ever seen anything this cute... In your life??

Location:my favorite batman

ahhh bliss...

This week Scott and I had our very first night away, just the two of us, since before Micah was born. Now I know some people never get away without the kids, and some do often, but for us, it was wonderful.

We were up sometime around 3:30am to get ready and catch our cab to the airport. We had a 6am flight to Sydney. We checked into our hotel, Citygate at Ultimo and then Scott had to go and do a full days work. Whereas I: slept, read, watched tv, had nearly a 3 hour lunch with long time family friends, then I slept and read and Scott returned a bit before 7pm. Now I know what you're thinking, how is this a night away with just the two of us??? Well then we went and had dinner at Scott's favourite little Thai place, it's literally just a hole in the wall with a VERY busy kitchen and a few tables and chairs. Most people get take out as there's no room to sit. Best Thai I've eaten and cheap. In the morning we had coffee and a bagel each and it cost more than dinner!! After dinner we had gelato even though we were FULL, and then watched the Swedish version of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

By the time we got back to our hotel we were exhausted. But it was wonderful spending time doing stuff for us, with each other, knowing that our beautiful boys were being taken care of by their grandma, and thankfully they were having a great time!

We had to get up at 7 which was quite frankly, painful, I could have slept the day away. But we had a cosy brekky together and then off to ABC studios. Here I met some of Scott's colleagues and watched one of the Compass episodes due to air in a few weeks. Chatted about future projects and then off to the airport.

It's important, I feel, if at all possible to be able to spend time with one's spouse away from the children and the house. To be able to stop, dream, sleep, relax is rejuvenating. To find each other in a peaceful place instead of chaos... ahhh bliss.

I know we're spoiled. Not everyone has a generous, kind hearted mother to take the kids for 24 hours. I'm grateful.