Tuesday 29 March 2011
16 Month old's version of online shopping
Children are sponges! From a very early age they watch us like hawks, learning from us, mirroring us, and storing it all in their memories. This morning I caught my 16 MONTH old son trying to jam my credit card into my computer!
Online shopping!
Online shopping!
Monday 28 March 2011
Nits! Arrrrrrrgh!
Are you scratching after just reading the title of this one? Nits! Those ferral little crettins that make your skin crawl (literally!). No matter how many times you treat your kids hair they just keep coming back and we all know that it's because of those few families at school who neglect to treat their kid's hair when the break outs happen, wether they are just too lazy or they just assume that their children are too good to have nits and don't bother checking, I don't know, but I have the solution!
Solution! Nit treatments are expensive! My daughter had a huge breakout once and over the course of about 4 weeks I spent over $80 on different treatments to try to get rid of the little buggers and they just didn't work! And some of them would smell so strong my daughter was walking around on cloud nine! My sister in law told me to use conditioner and a nit comb and comb them all out. This worked better than all the expensive treatments I tried, and was cheap as chips. You might have to do this a few days in a row in bad brekouts, but prevention is way better and easier than cure, and guess what, I found the prevention!
Prevention! Quite by accident, I stumbled upon what I have found to be a full proof prevention to nits! When ever I brush my daughter's hair in the morning I always spray it with a spray bottle with water and a little conditioner in it, originally I started this to make brushing easier as my daughter is a screamer when it comes to knots! One day I lost the spray bottle, I lost it for over a month, and that is when the big outbreak I spoke of before occured. When I had the outbreak under control I checked with the nit comb every day after school and would find the odd 1 or 2, I realised that after finding my tangle spray bottle and using it daily again that I was not finding any nits at all! Even when other parents in her class were still complaining about the problem. I am 100% convinced that this prevention works, we spent a year in Darwin where the schools have huge problems with the creepy little pests, our school had a nits blitz every month and rewarded kids who have been checked and treated with icey cups! And through the whole year, not one nit! And my daughter's hair is always shiny and silky. Try it, and let me know if it works for you. You only need about a table spoon of conditioner in about 250mL of water.
ps, while writing this post I think I have scratched my scalp right through to my brain!
Solution! Nit treatments are expensive! My daughter had a huge breakout once and over the course of about 4 weeks I spent over $80 on different treatments to try to get rid of the little buggers and they just didn't work! And some of them would smell so strong my daughter was walking around on cloud nine! My sister in law told me to use conditioner and a nit comb and comb them all out. This worked better than all the expensive treatments I tried, and was cheap as chips. You might have to do this a few days in a row in bad brekouts, but prevention is way better and easier than cure, and guess what, I found the prevention!
Prevention! Quite by accident, I stumbled upon what I have found to be a full proof prevention to nits! When ever I brush my daughter's hair in the morning I always spray it with a spray bottle with water and a little conditioner in it, originally I started this to make brushing easier as my daughter is a screamer when it comes to knots! One day I lost the spray bottle, I lost it for over a month, and that is when the big outbreak I spoke of before occured. When I had the outbreak under control I checked with the nit comb every day after school and would find the odd 1 or 2, I realised that after finding my tangle spray bottle and using it daily again that I was not finding any nits at all! Even when other parents in her class were still complaining about the problem. I am 100% convinced that this prevention works, we spent a year in Darwin where the schools have huge problems with the creepy little pests, our school had a nits blitz every month and rewarded kids who have been checked and treated with icey cups! And through the whole year, not one nit! And my daughter's hair is always shiny and silky. Try it, and let me know if it works for you. You only need about a table spoon of conditioner in about 250mL of water.
ps, while writing this post I think I have scratched my scalp right through to my brain!
Saving money- shop fortnightly and PLAN
We have just done a new household budget and I have come up with a really simple way of saving money. Shop fortnightly! Try this, log onto your internet banking and scroll down your transactions, (scary I know, if you are anything like me you avoid this like reverse parallel parking!) look at how much money you spend when you do your groceries! I spend $ grocery store, $ other shops near the grocery store, $on lunch at the shops, $ take away coffee, $ fueling up the car, $ drink at the servo, it all adds up! Have you heard the expression "poor men count their money in dollars, rich men count it in cents" I'll expand on this in another post, but basicly it means every cent counts and it all adds up, if you are diregarding the small amounts of money you are spending here and there, over a long period of time you are throwing away heaps! I figure if I do a big grocery shop once a fortnight I will be saving in 2 ways, I will be saving on all the extras you buy when you do the shopping, and I will save money by buying in bulk. This will be particularly relevent to the more costly items I use every day like nappies and wipes (have you ever added up how much money you literally spend on shit!) meat, fruit and veg.
It takes more planning, but in the end, the savings speak for themselves!
PLAN do a meal plan for the fortnight, plan exactly what you are going to have each night and make a shopping list. Be specific, 12 chops, 6 chicken legs, 6 chicken wings etc. Start your shopping list at the start of the fortnight so you don't forget anything, stick to your list when you do the shop and don't forget to take the list with you! Buy a cheap packet of freezer bags, buy your meat in bulk and divvy it up into meals when you get home before you freeze it. (how often do you eat an extra chop or chicken leg just because it's there and you don't want to throw it out, yes even though you eat it, it is a form of wastage, there goes another dollar! And an extra cm to your butt!)
Same with fruit, 6 bananas (allthough I you won't see them on my list at the moment $11.98kg!pheff!), 7 apples etc and also buy some canned fruit so you get just enough of the fresh stuff to last until it's getting "unfresh" then have canned fruit until the next shop, it's still full of nutrients, some even more so than so called "fresh" fruit, and you won't be throwing away rotton fruit.
Plan thoroughly and stick to your list and shop fortnightly = saving $$$$$$$
It takes more planning, but in the end, the savings speak for themselves!
PLAN do a meal plan for the fortnight, plan exactly what you are going to have each night and make a shopping list. Be specific, 12 chops, 6 chicken legs, 6 chicken wings etc. Start your shopping list at the start of the fortnight so you don't forget anything, stick to your list when you do the shop and don't forget to take the list with you! Buy a cheap packet of freezer bags, buy your meat in bulk and divvy it up into meals when you get home before you freeze it. (how often do you eat an extra chop or chicken leg just because it's there and you don't want to throw it out, yes even though you eat it, it is a form of wastage, there goes another dollar! And an extra cm to your butt!)
Same with fruit, 6 bananas (allthough I you won't see them on my list at the moment $11.98kg!pheff!), 7 apples etc and also buy some canned fruit so you get just enough of the fresh stuff to last until it's getting "unfresh" then have canned fruit until the next shop, it's still full of nutrients, some even more so than so called "fresh" fruit, and you won't be throwing away rotton fruit.
Plan thoroughly and stick to your list and shop fortnightly = saving $$$$$$$
Again with the "normal"!
Same 9 year old son: "it's good we are normal now"
Mum: "What do you mean?"
9 year old son: "Well before christmas we weren't normal, but now we have DS's and Austar we are normal"
Mum: "What do mean normal?"
9 year old son: "Like everyone els!"
Where does he come up with this rot! When did my kids become so... materialistic? What do I reply to this? "What ever takes the attention off your ADD and freckles son!"
Mum: "What do you mean?"
9 year old son: "Well before christmas we weren't normal, but now we have DS's and Austar we are normal"
Mum: "What do mean normal?"
9 year old son: "Like everyone els!"
Where does he come up with this rot! When did my kids become so... materialistic? What do I reply to this? "What ever takes the attention off your ADD and freckles son!"
From my 9 year old son
Son "Mum, why don't you come out and play like normal kids?"
Mum "Because I'm not a kid, I'm an adult"
Son "Well why are adults so....boring!"
hmmmmmm he has a point!
Mum "Because I'm not a kid, I'm an adult"
Son "Well why are adults so....boring!"
hmmmmmm he has a point!
Welcome
Welcome to my blog for Mums! I am assuming that by reading this you are probably a Mum yourself, so I'd like to start by saying congratulaions and well done! You have the most demanding job in the world! After all, we are raising the next generation of Australia! I recently posted on FaceBook asking for Mums to add to the following quote "I'm not JUST a Mum, I'm a....." and I realised that we are selling ourselves really short! I blinged up the replies a little and here's what I came up with...
I'm not JUST a Mum, I'm a
cook-gourmet chef, cleaner-domesticus spotlessicus, child carer-early years educator, hair dresser-follicle engineer, laundress-clothing alterations specialist, tutor, Doctor-Dr Mum MD, psychiatrist, party planner-events coordinator, taxi driver-chauffer, law enforcement officer-police, judge and jury, sex slave? bread winner, account keeper,driving instructor,swimming coach,lawn mower,cuddler, snot, spew and poo wiper-persona getsshitupona! And my favourite; LEGEND!
We do it 24/7, 365 days a week, hail, rain or shine, we don't get sick days, or superannuation or penalty rates, we do it all for the hugs and snotty kisses of those little angels we call our own! So there you go, time to update the resume! You are pretty darn Awesome if you ask me! Can you imagine how much you would get paid in a career with this job description?
As awesome as you are, sometimes the whole Motherhood thing can become a little overwhelming, and we could all do with laugh now and then, and if you are open to ideas to save you a dollar or a minute of your precious time then welcome, I wrote this for you!
I'm not JUST a Mum, I'm a
cook-gourmet chef, cleaner-domesticus spotlessicus, child carer-early years educator, hair dresser-follicle engineer, laundress-clothing alterations specialist, tutor, Doctor-Dr Mum MD, psychiatrist, party planner-events coordinator, taxi driver-chauffer, law enforcement officer-police, judge and jury, sex slave? bread winner, account keeper,driving instructor,swimming coach,lawn mower,cuddler, snot, spew and poo wiper-persona getsshitupona! And my favourite; LEGEND!
We do it 24/7, 365 days a week, hail, rain or shine, we don't get sick days, or superannuation or penalty rates, we do it all for the hugs and snotty kisses of those little angels we call our own! So there you go, time to update the resume! You are pretty darn Awesome if you ask me! Can you imagine how much you would get paid in a career with this job description?
As awesome as you are, sometimes the whole Motherhood thing can become a little overwhelming, and we could all do with laugh now and then, and if you are open to ideas to save you a dollar or a minute of your precious time then welcome, I wrote this for you!
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