christmas is nearly here

hi everyone its nearly Christmas being here it doesn't feel like Christmas and i just can't get in to the spirit of Christmas it is probably because we are used to the cold weather and here it is 33 today we went shopping for our Christmas food I'm not used to it being just us on Christmas day as we always went to my mum and dad for dinner and this year I'm doing the cooking when i cook for the kids and its not burnt they often ask if its cooked so you can imagine what Christmas dinner is going to be like i think we will have a BBQ and i will let Greg do all the cooking as BBQ are a mans thing .

today i woke up with a bad back so I've been on pain killers and lots of water all day i just hoping it better tomorrow i don't fancy spending Christmas day in hospital . for those who suffer from back pain if you get dehydrated that can effect your back .

callum got a Christmas card today from one of his friends in the UK this made him want to go back home but I've been having the same feelings over the past few weeks i don't like feeling unsettled and at the moment we are renting a house and come march the 25Th we might be moving on and its the thought of packing again and finding a new place to live i just want my own house at the moment we don't know if Adelaide is right for us and we have been looking at moving to Sydney in the future . anyway i've got to go its bedtime speak to you all soon
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

10 days till christmas

hi everyone last week was the last week for the kids at school for 6 weeks the only good thing about this is i don't have to get up early to take them to school i think that schools have to many holidays you are probably thinking 6 weeks but yes in Australia there summer holidays are over Christmas . we went to our first Ozzy Christmas party this weekend with the kids it was no fun because i don't drink and i was in a house full of drunk people i felt sorry for Greg because he was driving and could not drink, i met a few nice people and some that like to drink and drive the police would have had a field day. yesterday we gave the kids one of there Christmas present it is a trampoline ever since i put it up they have been outside the reason we gave it to them was so they burn off all there energy and to keep them from under my feet for the next 6 weeks i have also started helping them with there school work because the education here is differant here than in the uk so the kids are behind with reading and maths so i have 6 weeks to get them up to speed its going to be hard but i think we will get there i will keep you up to speed got to go now . merry christmas and a happy new year it would be nice to see how many people follow my blog so could everyone that reads it leave a christmas message good bye
hi marie+ philip are you ok? are you all set for christmas
hi pauline how are you ? merry christmas give our best wishes to the family i have sent out christmas cards but today i found some that i forgot to post with the rest of the cards so i will post them tomorrow but you might not get them until after christmas

sorry I've not posted anything for a few weeks but nothing much has happened the kids are still doing my head in i know they are still settling in but they are such hard work more so callum i think he has become the bratty teenager abit early he is going through the everybody hates me phase he had a bad day today because its Caitlin's birthday tomorrow he wanted games for his DS because everybody gets toys and he does not but little did he know we went out a got him a PlayStation 3 and a 17" tv to help him settle in because he had to leave his xbox 360 and wii back in the UK until we can get it shipped over i know you are probably thinking that we are stupid and Christmas is only a few weeks away but its a good think because it keeps him and Greg form under my feet because Greg is just like the kids for doing my head in .

about three weeks ago Greg got me a car as i told you in my last post anyway i had to go and change my licence over to a south Australian learners permit all the info on the transport website says you can change your licence over if you are from certain country's and the UK was one of them on the list but nothing in Australia is simple i spoke to someone on the phone at the licensing centre and i was told that could get my full licence in 6 months because in the UK i had my provisional since 1997 and i got up to doing my test before i got pregnant with callum so with that i took my paper work in to the office thinking that it would be simple they would change it over and that would be that but that was not the case i had to wait for 30 Min's then i was seen by a woman that had never seen a UK provisional before so she had to show 3 other people before telling me that it was none transferable and i had to start from the beginning again but ever that is not as easy as sighing a form like to UK she wanted me to sit a test so i had to buy the highway code book from her and a week later i went back and another 30 Min's and 4 people later i got to sit my test i went to do it without telling anyone not even Greg just in case i failed it so i got took in to a room and sat in front of a computer Connor was with me he had just woke up so he spent the whole time screaming and throwing thing i dread to think what thought of me but even with that i still pasted my test so now i have to do 50 hours of driving and another test just to get my provisional 1 then i have to do another test to get my provisional 2 and in two-three years time i will get my full licence so if anyone is thinking of coming to oz pass your test before you come or bring proof of how many hours driving you have done from you driving instructor .

greg took me out for my first lesson last week on a car park he wont take me on a road he had me driving up and down up and down stop start i ended up giving up after 25 mins he was starting to shout at me it didnt help having connor and caitlin in the car and every time i stoped they took there belts off and wanted to get out the car and go the park and since then he has not offered to take me out again and to top it off he has offered to pay for my 50 hours driving do you thik he trying to tell me something .

i forgot to tell you connor has started to sleep in his own bed this week for the first time in 3 years he has done it for a full week and we are now trying to get him out of nappies but its like pulling teeth trying to get the nappies off him because he wont wear underpants he hates them and screams the place down if there is a potty of some underpants in the room because the first week we moved into this house Connor found a white tip spider in his potty so he wont go near it now so i had to go out and buy him a wiggles toilet seat up to now he has used it 5 times and that was only because i ran out of nappies so i keep my fingers crossed that he will be out of them by Christmas anyway got to go now if i don't write anymore before Christmas MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

hi Philip and Marie sorry Ive not got round to replying to your email how did your weekend go
hi Pauline how r you how is rach and baby
hi Gerry got your email this year Ive made a DVD for you all so that will be sent out this week
i will be sending you all some Christmas cards and DVD that i made myself of the Golden's in oz I'm hoping you will get it before Christmas anyway bye for now