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WooooHooooo Girl!!! Yay for the interview!!! I am so excited i just did a wee jiggy dance in my rickety computer chair when i read your news… and nearly fell off it… and had a quick check at the window to make sure neighbours didnt see me!!!! haha how funny would that have been?????
I’m with RG – just be yourself K. If this job is meant for you – it’ll fall into your lap anyway! Cant wait to hear all about it.
I reckon it might be your lucky week any way….. you hit page 100…. and then your 1000th post…. and scored a fab job interview!!!!!??? Yay – the angels are swingin the bat for ya this week babe – for sure!!!!
Hope school hols are going okay….. sigh… i love my kids but damn they’re hard work sometimes eh (haha). My 7 yr old boy is still on a post-easter chocolate-come-down and behaving like a little a***! He’s in full-on ‘battle-mode’ with both me and his sister ( i think we’re BOTH exhausted).
Good luck for the interview babe. shoulders back – head held high – go kick butt!!! LOL
LOve and light
meg xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hi chook
I too, am sorry to hear about the sick/vomit thing! Ugh! Its just one of those things we do as a parent isn’t it…but thats when i REALLY wish there was such a thing as a fairy god mother or magic genie…….. " um…three wishes??? gee…. actually i just have the one at the moment……WILL YOU PLEASE CLEAN UP THE VOMIT FOR ME?????? Thanks!"
I hope your weekend has improved and that the washing all got done (with or without a fairy godmother to help!). Was it the chocolate that got him or a bug? My boy is dreadful on choc. Always has been. doesnt stop him eating it though..and i curse every other person that walks through the door bearing more easter eggs in my house LOL! He turns into a maniac and then has quite a reaction to it (not pretty, but suffice to say it doesn’t agree with his digestive system!). Thankfully THIS easter at least he didnt puke! But he suffered in the other ways, and was a demon!
Last week, i had every intention of hailing your dawning of ‘PAGE 100!"…. but obviously the week got away on me and i missed it!!! bum! Anyhow, It is noteworthy chook…. because if; what you write, and the responses you get; was not worth reading, you’d never reach 100 pages! But you inspire! You make us laugh – yes, sometimes at you, and sometimes at ourselves, but either way laughing is good for the soul, and you provide it!! You also let us share your lows and your sorrows, and thats what keeps your thread so lively and honest. Its you, and its real! Thankyou for being YOU! and for sharing it with us.
Hope school hol’s are going okay. catch ya soon.
much love and light
meg xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hiya chook
What a lovely post about your late sister. Wow, what a big age gap you had in your family?! From what you say its not too hard to imagine that she is watching over you in your recovery, and supporting you everystep of the way. I have no doubt you have made her very very proud!
It was lovely to catch up with you on chat this weekend, and others too. I love the weekend chatroom!!!! (thanks GT!)
Glad to hear that someone loves watching the wrestling (LOL)! I HATE it…with a vengance!. my poor son never gets to see it (unless he sneaks it when i’m sleeping in on a sun morn haha). I know it is to my daughters advantage that he not watch it though, coz he’s 7…and believes its all real. and the last time he watched it, his sister ended up in a dodgy head-lock that could easily have landed her in the emergency room LOL! My dad, who’s 70, loves it too…but I am such a killjoy that i even have him trained to turn the channel over if my son walks in the room!!!! (i can totally understand though, that if boys outnumbered girls in my house I’d maybe struggle to control the remote on this one haha).
Enjoy your first week of school holidays m’love! Ours starts friday!
love and light always xxxx
Meg"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hi Chook
Oh my god, I am imagining the smell of that rancid coffee too! (been there done that). Actually I just found a suspect smell in my daughters room tonight and investigated her school bag…… one mouldy (but rock solid) sandwich, half a stinky (and very squishy banana) and an apple core! Ewwwwwww! How does she not notice the smell????
It is, however marginally better than the time i found rotten broccoli (yes, i mean rotten – as in yellow!) in my sons school bag!!! Hmmmm, unusual you may think, to have brocolli in a 6 year olds school bag… but they were making vegetable animals as a class activity. parents were to send ONE piece of veg along to school…. I, stupidly, sent a potato AND some brocolli (incase he felt extra creative that day haha), and it never ocurred to me that the only creation that came home that day was a potato hedgehog!!!!
Congrats of course on your 9 months babe!! Hope Dames has ‘pulled his head in’ a bit this week, and has also acknowledged your 9 month milestone (?). I’m sure he has. I know you feel you can never be complacent, but you must remember to jump for joy at your achievements eh!!!
Much love and light to you my friend
Meg xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
P.S. I hope the "eyebrow stare" was not that of a monobrow????????!!!!!!!! (LOL)
"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hey party girl!
Hows the head today? were you dancing on the tables?! I hope so chook.
I was gonna say how sorry i am that i missed your 8 month milestone…. but I’m not too sad about it – coz i just know there will be SO MANY MORE! Woohoo to you!
So how did Dames cope with turning the big 4-0? There are so many of us on here turning 40 this year eh. When’s yours again? Mine is april. Currently attempting to plan a combined 40th/70th party with my dad. He and I keep working out the details….and then my mum pokes her nose in. Then she tells me Dad doesn’t really want a fuss and is just going along with whatever i say, coz i’m his girl and he wants me to have a great party. And she keeps mentioning how much its gonna cost (i’m paying half). Dad and I are both good organisers and we work well together, so i’m sure it will be fine (if she ever butts out haha – god i love her….but she just never stops worrying). I desperately want to hire a DJ (rather than stereo or jukebox) but i know she’ll go into orbit about the cost of that ontop of catering LOL. Families eh.
Cant wait to hear about your night! (and i hope theres still plenty around to help with the clean-up!!)
Love and light
Meg xxxxxxxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hi Chook
Well, its not often i find you way back in page 3!? Whats with that? Thought i should drag you back to the top (as you have so often done for me. x)
How’s your week been? and how’s your head (ie- where’s it at?). We are so used to you sharing your thoughts with us, your highs and lows, that your silence makes me wonder.
It could be you’re back at work and just busy…..hmmmm. maybe. I’m guessing that it must also be a strange head-space at the moment with your oldest about to start uni, and with that, becoming SO independant – while at the same time your baby starts school, and takes those first real steps towards his own little indepandance!
Wow, thats quite alot for a mum to get her head round (well, it would be for ME!). I hope you are also taking the time to step back and admire these wonderful young people you created – and give yourself a damn good pat on the back. Any steps towards independance that our kids take is a credit to us all, as parents, that we are strong enough and trusting enough to ‘let go’ of them!
Have you and jodes started your new regime? (by the way when does she have to wear "that dress"?). I very half-heartedly started some weight training last week LOL. I’m really gonna have to push myself to do it, coz i’m determined to be able to decent press-ups by april. (dont laugh but i dont think i’ve ever actually managed a REAL press-up in my life!). Since being separated i have truly realised what i’m lacking…………muscles!! I nearly break my back every time i have to chop wood, dig the garden or open a really stuck jar!haha. Some people are just born with some degree of upper body strength, and, well…some of us are just puny! Figure i need to find me a strong man, or build me some decent bi-ceps! LOL LOL. (i reckon the bi-ceps might be less hassle so i’ll work on that- but i’ll keep you posted!)
We had a beautiful bright full moon at the weekend, and as always i thought of you! I hope the oldies werent going too ‘loony’.
Just wanted you to know i’m thinking of ya.
Love and light always
Meg xxxxxxxxxx "We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hey girlfriend
I dont even know who tommy haas IS!!!!! ….but if he was checkin you out – then the man must have a great eye, and good taste!!!!!! LOL (so, did he win his game?)
Glad you had a cool weekend. Sorry to hear your mojo might’ve gone walkabout a little (still), but might i remind you ….. THAT IS PERFECTLY NORMAL! Mojo’s have a habit of doing that!!! But then they miss you, and they come back!
We all know you’re not really superwoman, though you do a fine impression of one hehe. You dont have to be!!! Life really IS the roller-coaster ride kathryn, and without the lows, we’d NEVER appreciate the highs. Roll with it babe – and remember too……kids go back to school next week (YIPPPPPEEEEEEEE)!!! It will be nice to get back to the routine (yes i know that involves me getting up about 2 hours earlier than i do during school hol’s, but i’ll deal with it!!!).
I STILL dont have the kids school uniforms sorted… but frankly I dont care WHAT they wear on the first day back. I just know I’ll be skipping in those school gates with all the other mums, eager to kiss their little faces GOODBYE! lol
and BTW…. yay, to ‘no thoughts of gambling’! You rock!
Love ya much. Love and light
Meg xxxxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Yay for getting your MOJO back chook!!!! Sometimes we have to lose our mojo for a bit, just so we can rejoice and appreciate it when it returns! LOL!
In all seriousness, you should be commended, for your constant HONESTY! You say it how it is. you speak your truth. I know you may not have always done that when you were gambling……….but you do NOW! Thank you for sharing – even on the days when you feel you have nothing to say. Believe me kathryn, when you do that, it reassures so many of us – that its OKAY to have days like that! I’ve said it before….i will say it again…. YOU ARE SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO SO MANY ON THIS SITE!!! Thank you.
Love ya! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Meg"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hi Cranky!!!! Happy 7 months! Woo Hoo!!!! Go girl!
Your thread ALWAYS manages to make me smile! Tonight I would like to thank marilee for her hilarious description of dressing teenagers (or NOT dressing them in this case LOL LOL LOL)…thanks M.
AND… did you realise… on your last page you have Micky AND Minni!!!!!!!!??????? How cool is that?
Given that I have just decided to dub you ‘cranky’ (but only for today) as in ‘thomas the tank engine’, you now just about have the whole walt disney/looney tunes thing goin on! (how fitting for us lot huh?)… What could you possibly feel blue about!!!???? haha.
Stop me, before I get into a whole new Roller-coaster scenario where we assign a different character to each GT member! Hmmmmm… where will we start…..?
Love and light
meg xxxxx
PS: You should feel VERY proud of yourself babe! There is a whole lotta love for you on this site – and we are all proud of ya too! Not just for what you have achieved for yourself, but for the support you give daily to others! You rock! xxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hello my beautiful Aussie friend
Thank you so much for your lovely New Year wishes!!! Right back at ya!
I am just back from holiday, which was a wonderful break with fantastic friends (the family you ‘choose’ as opposed to one you are ‘given’), amazing food, a healthy (or not) dose of bubbly, great scenery……………..but crap weather!! (yeah yeah i know…i live in the south of new zealand – what should i expect!!!!? LOL. but it is meant to be summer here too!)
I must add that i am NOT complaining about the ‘family i was given’ – as my mum and dad came to stay at my house (they live out of town) while the kids and i were away. It was a wee holiday for them, and they spent their time cleaning up my whole garden!!!!! including tending the amazing vegie garden that my dad planted with my kids while i was in aussie back in sept! I am so so grateful, and the kids are getting so excited about the crop that is coming to harvest. (what a fantastic way to get kids excited about vegies LOL)
I have not yet caught up on your last couple of weeks, but i am cracking up about your latest kmart trip! When do your kids go back to school? Mine go back in 3 and a half weeks, so i am certainly NOT as organised as you are! BUT i also have to go to kmart on the hunt for…..yes, you guessed it…blue shorts and red polo shirts! Good old kmart, I love them, but why oh why do they ALWAYS seem to have racks and racks of blue shorts and red polos when my kids have NOT outgrown their current sizes???????!!! And when they have outgrown them, kmart has colours like ORANGE!!? I swear theres not a darn school in a 100 mile radius of here with orange polos as part of their school uniform!!!
I will hold my breath before i venture in there (and maybe i’ll book a table for three at Mcdonalds on the way home haha).
I will get back to catching up. Just wanted to pop in and send you big cyber-hugs!
Much love and light
Meg xxxxxxxxxxxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hi chook
LOL about the lamb casserole….and EEK about the mother in law coming. i’m not even gonna talk about the DNA thing, coz I agree with laura – it hasn’t happened, and most likely wont!
I hope your night out was fantastic, and you can truly celebrate your 6 month milestone, knowing you have been tested (yet again), and passed with flying colours (yet again)!!!!
Look forward to your update.
Much love and light as always
Meg xxxxxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hi Chook
Well I had a crap day, so thought i’d pop in to check on you (coz you always cheer me up with your fab stories), and low and behold….I couldn’t find you anywhere!!!! I was starting to question my own sanity while searching for your thread, and truly thinking my memory issues might be major (see my latest post for details)… when all of sudden, your thread reappeared!!!
Turns out it was just our mate harry, fiddling with those GT buttons again (as he does!) LOL (P.S, Love ya harry x).
So….now…. much relieved that you have not disappeared off the planet….. HOW was the Valadictorian dance? Did you look FABULOUS?????? (of course you did!) Did Brea have a good time, and look radiant (I bet!), and did poor dames manage to suffer thru the whole thing with a smile on his face????? (i hope?)
Look forward to all the details. hope all is well with you K.
Much much love and light
Meg xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hi Chook
What a perfectly normal life you have these days!!!!LOL. A teenager that doesn’t pick up after herself? or moans about a couple of chores!? Sounds pretty normal to me!!! So does having a b****h at her about it!!!!!
And what WE know is, that she will be the one realising how much YOU do for her when she leaves home (not the other way around haha.) Thats life. she’ll figure it out!
Go get ready to put your glad rags on and look gorgeous. Brea will do the same. And i hope you all have a fab night!
Much love and light
Meg xxxxxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hey chook
I am thinking of you and brea in sydney! …….
I hope the spanx aren’t riding up too much, and the skinny jeans aren’t riding down!
I hope britney sang her heart out without lip synching, and that you two are ho**** from screaming!
I hope Sydney has turned on the sunshine, and the hotel left yummy chocolates on your pillows.
I hope you and Brea share those moments where you cannot believe how lucky you are that she’s your daughter, while knowing that she is so proud to have you as her mum.
…and i hope you come back and tell us ALL your wonderful, insightful, funny stories of your trip, because without you on here GT would be a little less ‘sunny’ every day.
Hope you are having a BLAST my friend.
Much love and light
Meg xxxxxxxxxxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"Hi Chook
Busting out sounds HILARIOUS, but i truly cannot visualise any of those routines in my mind …let alone what those womens breasts look like after all that contortion!! What a crack up.
Good on ya busting out the skinny jeans (thats busting out…. not busting out of!). All jeans these days ride down at the back, unless ya buy the styles that come up to your armpits! A flash of your spanx is STILL better than a flash of ‘builders bum" anyway!!!
Are you all packed for sydney? I just popped in to say have a blast! savour every moment! Celebrate the fact that 5 months ago or more, you’d never have been able to do this! What a milestone. You are an inspiration babe. Have so much fun, and tell us all when you get back.
Much love and light
Meg xxxxxx"We are each of us angels with only one wing… we can only fly by embracing each other"