Random Ramblings... and a dishwasher named "Emily"

Been flat out in our neck of the woods!


The move is complete, my battles with Telstra are ongoing (whose aren't!?) and after a doozy of a meltdown in the REA's office - I have my bond back on the old house.


The girls are both loving the new house. I'm happy to have some places to put stuff.


We also now live near a park ;) 

We now have a dishwasher, named "Emily" (It's got "Emilia" stamped on it, I'm guessing it's the brand but overheard Cooper telling Bailey that 'she' has a name, haha)


In other exciting news - Bailey now has an awesome pod/egg/swing chair - just need to work out how/where to hang it! I entered a FB competition and thanks to a computer glitch, a group of awesome people, and the generosity of EQUATOR Homewares, B has somewhere to go to chill out!


We've also just started with an OT - B will have her initial appointment on Tuesday and I'm looking forward to working with her to (hopefully) get the monster on the road to a good start to school in 2013!


Cooper's showing signs of anxiety/depression, so off to the psych with her - can't blame her living with 2 quite unstable people! Poor kid is feeling quite awful and coming out with phrases such as "It feels like my whole family is dead" or "It's like everyone wants me to kill myself" ... for a generally-happy 5yo it's pretty concerning to be dealing with this stuff and I'm thinking it needs to be sorted out!

In more positive news! It's been birthday-central in these parts of late!


C&B were invited to a big sis/little sis party on Saturday, before heading to their Dad's place to celebrate his birthday...then back Sunday to celebrate MY birthday, before heading to Brissy with Daddy for another kiddy party. 


Add to that their own party on the 26th and you can imagine the excitement! B has requested a "rainbow party" and C wanted Katy Perry to come along (and um... do the face painting haha) 


Does anyone have any party-related hints, tips, or DIY info they'd like to share? I'm thinking I need all the help I can get! 

While there's silence...

Crazy just doesn't do it justice!


This week has been..... challenging! After having a backyard full of police and forensics and detectives early last week (the people renting the granny-flat behind me were doing a spot of cooking...) I made the (very easy!) decision to move the heck out of my house.


So - this week has been filled with mountains of paperwork! Thankfully the "finding a house" part was easy.. but then there was the application, the letters to get out of my lease here, the signing of the lease at the new place, the bond loan application and finally - the changing-over/redirection of LOTS of stuff!


Oh, and on top of this - filling out all the paperwork for Centrelink and Autism Queensland to get the ball rolling for funding etc for Miss B!


Add in the whole packing/moving drama and it's been a tad chaotic! (So chaotic, in fact - I completely forgot about B's daycare photos - conveniently planned for 2 days this week that she does NOT attend care! Thanks to the school mum who reminded me! Oh, and it looked like a great shot!)


So - in light of this - I've not had a lot much else to share (I see I posted last week about B being sick, but actually have no recollection of doing so. I never claimed to have a functioning brain though ;)


On the upshot - the new house is gorgeous (check out this kitchen!!)

2 more sleeps! Woohoo!!


Oh, and excuse me if I'm doing this wrong, but have bluffed my way through joining the IBOT fun ;)