Hey NaoSky! OMG what a shocker of a day. My son was screaming all morning because he's sick. I had to eventually put him in my car to go for a one hour drive. It's not helping that it's raining today so he can't go play outside. Grrrrr. And he's been bored outside. I couldn't even bribe him with a chocolate biscuit. He's lost his appetite that's for sure. Thankfully he's down for a nap but I'm not sure how long that will last. My nerves are shattered.

It's good that your daughter manages to get a decent amount of sleep. It's probably relative to the same amount of hours my son gets. I don't think kids using tablets are all that bad! There are a number of educational apps that my son uses and I don't have a problem with it. I know the arguments against it but if anything it's helped with his counting and learning the alphabet. Lol look I sing to my son all the time and I have the worst voice ever. It's only been in the last month or so that I can really point to which nursery rhyme he's singing. Usually it's the daddy finger daddy finger one or the other one I'm hearing quite a lot of is twinkle twinkle little star. And occasionally Alice the Camel. Usually when I change him that's the song I sing to him. He can be really stubborn and he hates it when I put clothes on him so it's a huge fuss in the morning to get him ready for daycare. He's an extremely strong willed little boy and he's got no qualms about letting people know about what he doesn't like. As for the fussiness during eating well that's a whole different matter. I can barely get him to eat absolutely anything. If it's not a sandwich or yogurt he just says "no" when I try to give it to him. It's a worry. I don't know when last he ate vegetables or meat and he doesn't eat anything at daycare either. Sigh.

I don't usually go on rants at work but when I do oh boy I do. That lady with the closet story sounds like a good old b with an itch. In my last week at work I sent the other assistant principal a ranting email about how autocratic and dogmatic the one year level was that I was working with. Like I was just "told" I'd be the one in charge of organising morning teas every Friday. Like hell no! How about you consult the team and ask me if that's what they wanted to do. I moved to coordinating Year 8s for a month and that was going to be my move for next year too. After my rant I told him I want to move back down to coordinating Year 7s because I can not work with such a culture. It was quite an explosive email because I was quite angry. The other rule they devised was no talking in the office. It wasn't directed at me per say but I don't do blanket statements. And the cherry on the cake was when I was told I can't do application forms for funded students with special needs. Like....um I've done that all year this year and get them over the line in Year 7 so they can have a teacher aide with them. I was told no that's the student support person's job and it's not on my job description. I said to the assistant principal since when do we follow job descriptions to a T. Whatever happened to everyone just jumping in and helping out one another when there's work to be done. I really don't like being told what to do. We have a new Year Level Leader next year for Year 7s who's coming from the UK. Let's just hope she makes her flight and that she actually arrives to do her job otherwise we're all screwed. I'm not sticking my hand up for that if there's a temporary delay. I don't need the stress.

Yeah a theatre is the room that they use for operating in a hospital particularly c-sections. And by natural I meant with epidural or no epidural ie no c-section. Yikes I've heard of epidurals wearing off before and I can't imagine anything worse. I don't think I could have laboured and birthed a child without an epidural that's hectic. I don't think I have a high pain tolerance to say the least.

When I had my c-section my partner was sitting by my side and he had my daughter's camera in hand ready to take the shot. The OB lifted him up and over the sheet that blocks the view of everything but as he went to take the shot he realised that it wasn't set up properly so damn we missed the perfect opportunity. With my eldest son and daughter I have the perfect shot of them being lifted up and over the sheets for us to look at. Funny thing is with my 2 year old the moment they lifted him out the first thing I said to my partner is OMG he looks just like you. And he still does to this day! His facial features at least. My partner has blue eyes and red hair (although it's really light now over the years) and my son has blonde hair and blue eyes. I've got brown hair and brown eyes so he missed the gene pool on that one. My eldest son looks like me with the same colouring.

We have something similar to FMLA .... I think! We get 14 days every year for sick leave / carers leave and if you don't use it it just rolls over to the next year. I used a lot of that with my son this year every time he couldn't go to daycare because of a cold here or there and he's had hand foot mouth before and couldn't go for a week. Also before I officially applied for work cover I had used a bit of leave. So when I was running out of leave which would have become unpaid I switched to work cover. We get a thing called long service leave. Not sure if you guys have that there. Basically you accumulate leave that's separate to holiday leave for each year you work. After 5 years is the first time you can take it. I think I've clocked up about 6 months worth of leave that would be fully paid if I took it. I've thought before maybe I should take the first 6 months off next year but you have to apply 6 months in advance so that wouldn't work.

Right let me go enjoy the last bit of my sanity before my son wakes up and causes bedlam around the house. He truly exhausted me this morning! I type a lot slower on my phone I'm pretty fast on a keyboard. Except when my son's awake he always tries to bang my Mac onto the floor. Oh happy days!