Turning 45

It's my birthday today!

I'm 45.

Middle middle aged! Where did THAT come from?

It doesn't help when Miss D said last week, while explaining someones age to me "I think she was middle aged....around 30!". I guess I'm screwed then.... I've been thinking alot today about what it means to turn 45.
 
Mid forties. 

Middle aged.

At times, I can't believe I'm this age, but my body is telling me that I am.

I'm tired. My back aches. I need reading glasses. My flexibility is not good. My hair needs colouring more often. I have lines on my face.

I've had 45 birthdays.

The Hubbster gave me a six month membership at the gym. I can't wait to get started.

To do something for me.

To get this body (and mind) back into gear.

I suppose it would be easy to feel sorry for myself because I'm getting older, and to worry about all of the little things in my life that bother me. But I really thought about it today..about how lucky I really am.

To have my family, and to have been blessed with my three little birds.

So my birthday resolution is to appreciate the little things, the things that are free and easy, that sometimes we don't acknowledge.

That is what I did today. And I wanted to share with you..the little things...

I've had such a fabulous day! I was determined to have a good one, after last years shitty, non event birthday.

I started planning my good birthday, two days ago, by pumping my body full of sudafed and vitamin C, to ward off the raging headcold I was getting. #Iwillnotbesickonmybirthday.

And I wasn't!

My children woke me with big smiles and gave me various gifts, and random objects that were already mine.

Miss T gave me a rock from the garden. I have no idea why, but I love it already.

I'm going to keep it.

They sang and talked in funny voices in the car on the way to school, which made me happy.

I drove into town to the movies, to see The Avengers. I'm so in love with Marvel Comics and I was excited to see Thor. I was hoping he'd take his shirt off again, but alas he didn't.




After the movie, I went through the drive through for lunch and there was only ONE care in front of me!

The girl behind the counter farewelled me by saying "have a lovely day".

Why thank you, I certainly will!

There were good songs on the radio in the car on the drive to AND from town. I sang along and didn't care who saw me.

The sun was shining, something this guy was oblivious too, as he talked on his mobile phone while driving.



I tried to get his attention with the universal hand/phone sign, but when that didn't work, I took his picture instead. If I see him doing the same thing again, I'll post his number plate.

See, happy happy happy!

I visited my daughter at school in the afternoon for her art show, and we sat and coloured in and drew pictures together.

Her face lit up when I walked in. 

And I got a good carpark at school!

All of these little things, making my birthday so special.

We went out to dinner, and the kids drank lemonade and behaved in the car all the way home!

A fine, fine ending to a happy happy day x

It's beginning to look alot like.....

There is something about Christmas that gives me butterflies in my belly and excitement that I just can't contain.

It usually starts around September, when the weather gets warm, and when I start seeing Christmas decorations in Kmart. In September. I kid you not.....

I love Santa shopping, and I love choosing gifts for the kids that I know they will absolutely adore!

It's such a magical time for me, the end of usually a long, busy 12 months, with thoughts of the new year, new beginnings and exciting ventures.

And the great thing about blogging is that I can look back to this time 12 months ago where I was saying and feeling the exact same things....where on earth has this year gone?

Is time moving quicker each and every year? I'm sure it is, because it feels like only yesterday I was writing this.

So I find myself here again, nearing the end of the year, still not in our house (but alot closer) and wondering what on earth Santa will be bringing this year....

Another reason I feel mellow and dreamy is because two of my children have birthdays during Christmas week (and before you ask, yes - our wedding anniversary is 9 months prior......)

So the festive season, to me, is also a celebration of motherhood, and the arrival of my Christmas babes.....

I remember my first Christmas Eve as a first time mum, in the still of the night, with my baby sleeping next to me in hospital and how I silently sobbed for no reason I could imagine.....

I had my brand new baby, I was finally a mother, but I had never felt so alone.

I'll never forget that moment.

We have lots of Christmas traditions, including several movies I enjoy watching, that make me feel warm and floaty.

My favourite of course is Christmas Vacation...it's a standard we watch every Christmas Eve, before the kids go to bed.



It never dates, and it never fails to have us in stitches...

I also enjoy Christmas with the Kranks. Jamie Lee Curtis is a hoot.



And of course, my guilty pleasure...Bad Santa. Strictly adults only.....



So do you "do Christmas"?

Birthday Eye Candy!

It's my birthday.

Since The Hubbster wouldn't pose for me, I thought I'd treat myself whilst keeping with the farm theme of course!

Take a breath Farmers Wifey

Could my life get much busier? I could always get a full time job and then I'd be completely screwed.

I thought I'd bring you my "two weeks of hell on a stick that I should be enjoying" or "stuff that makes me drink too much wine" just to prove how busy I am.

I'll post in point form and remember people - some on this list I have done, some I have yet to do, and some I have done three times.

I'll date it from last Wed to next Wed which should be two weeks, which sounds like it's only one week but it's really two if you read the fine print...

football training

blogging

play practice for Miss D's musical

dress rehearsal for Miss D's musical

3 kids dental appointment

last game of football for Mr C

football presentation

apply, remove and apply nail polish to both daughters nails

embarass Miss D (aged 9) on numerous occasions by actually doing nothing

drink wine on the deck of The Money Pit with The Hubbster watching the sunset

threaten Miss D if she doesn't put her hat on at the football presentation, I will stand next to her at the jumping castle (see above re embarrass)

have sex with The Hubbster

chase dressmaker re Miss D's new dance costume

run around at the last minute to buy a present for a kids birthday party

break up numerous fights between the kids involving blocks, barbies and basketball

second visit back to the dentist for one kid to have 2 small fillings (oh the horror)

attend Miss D's school musical

refuse to pay $50.00 for a flimsy, fluffy hair and makeup box for the Eisteddfod, and instead buy a $20.00 fishing tackle box that is perfect, and pat myself on the back for thinking outside the square

go to a kids birthday party

treatment on Miss D's bum length hair so I can actually get a comb through it

take Mr C to Auskick

realise he's obsessed with football

kid wrangle 3 kids while sorting out dance costumes at the dance shop

have sex with The Hubbster as we forgot before

attend one kids' school Environmental Display

carry a dead chicken up the back of the property and throw it onto an ant hill

have a mammogram

walk the boundary of the property with The Hubbster in the middle of the day (for exercise (torture)) and sweat my arse off

sew straps on two dance leotards

play Barbies on the floor with the girls and sulk when I have to be the maid (reflection of daily life perhaps?)

sew snowflakes on organza

get my period

remove lightening bolts from lycra leggings *sigh*

go to work

threaten the chooks with the axe if they don't start laying

find one egg the next day

finally return overdue dvds and paid the big fine of $2.60

realise that's a better amount than my last overdue fine of $154 (clerical error)

coordinate 10 different dance costumes

coordinate 10 different lots of accessories including hair stuff, shoes, stockings, makeup, arm bands and hair ribbons

coordinate 3 noisy kids while coordinating the above

try not to stress at the Eisteddfod during the 10 performances Miss D will be dancing in..........

hug, kiss and tell my kids how much I love them every day.....

Happy Birthday Lynda

It's Lynda's birthday today HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYNDA.

You may remember my friend Lynda from this blog entry.

Lynda got her own list of followers that day.

The missing blog entry detailed a conversation that Lynda and I had on facebook. You see, Lynda is a wannabe blogger. She won't admit it. She's in DENIAL.

We chat on facebook all the time and usually late at night, and sometimes, we don't know what we are talking about. Well I do, but somewhere along the cyber highway, the words and thoughts get muddled up and when they get to Lynda, they look like this:-

gnowiuy vhgrp93y hg94hf9654 lololol dohy6to vch49uy90hry40y4 fuck, owyt9o5hy4590haha fucking hell.

You see, they are okay when I write them, but then Lynda can't decipher what I'm trying to say. I think she could be drunk at these times....or maybe I am drunk..who knows.

So we had another conversation the other night, and it went like this...oh by the way, when you figure out what we are talking about, email me at farmchicky3@gmail.com because I have no idea.


4.45 pm Lynda
you didnt go to work today did you
4:45pm Me
yes
4:45pm Lynda
oh crap crap crap
soooo sorry
4:45pmMe
why lol
4:46pmLynda
i left it on my bench at the door at home by mistake and didnt give it another thought...then realised i had left my mobile at home
woops
woops
4:46pmMe
I'm not in town today though, I'm in tommorrow so its all cool
4:47pmLynda
huh
oh lmao
4:47pmMe
what u think I work in town lolol
4:47pmLynda
i should of explained better...i meant my work
lmao
4:47pmMe
huh lol
confused
oh YOUR work
4:47pmLynda
no no i know you dont...my opening sentence...i was referring to if you went in to my work not your work
lmao
hahahahahaha
4:48pmMe
haaaaaaaaaa I'm thinking why she want to know if I'm at work and what the hell has that to do with trueblood
4:48pmLynda
lmfao
anwyays I will put it in my bad tonight so I dont forget it tomorrow
4:48pmMe
i'll be in tommorrow can u maybe leave it in ur letterbox as I don't come in til 5.30
4:49pmLynda
*bag
4:49pmMe
what?? in a bag
4:49pmLynda
oh ok no probs
lmfao
4:50pmMe
u drunk or something...
lmfao
bit early to get flutty
4:50pmLynda
we are not on the same page this arve are we (Farmers Wifey - well I know what I'm saying)
hahahahahahahahaha
4:50pmMe
well I know I'M okay....lmao
4:50pmLynda
lynda pissing herself laughing atm
4:50pmMe
thanks gotta run and get tea ready
4:50pmLynda
rolling on the floor in fact
4:50pmMe
so letterbox then
4:51pmLynda
yup
no probs
ok chat later
4:51pmMe
haaaaaaaaa bye now
hehehe
4:51pmLynda
hehehehe
7:17pmMe
hey
7:18pmLynda
hey
hahahahahahaha
7:18pmMe
just reading
7:18pmLynda
lol
7:18pmMe
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa can i post it on facebook
fucking funny
7:19pmLynda
lol
it is pretty funny
7:19pmMe
will I?
7:19pmLynda
i dont mind
its like we were like one step in front of the convo the whole time
7:21pmMe
can't get it to work, how funny is it,,,,bag, what bag??
haa
7:21pmLynda
lmao
antonio or rob??? hbahahahahaha
7:21pmMe
haaaaaaaaaaa
7:21pmLynda
lmao
funny as
i just keep laughing whenever i think of i
bag? in a bag>? are you drunk
lmfao
7:23pmMe
haaaa it was funny, I thought doesn't she know I work out of town..
7:23pmLynda is offline.
7:24pmLynda is online.
7:25pmMe
gotta run, having an early night with a book, so tired today
7:25pmLynda
just another funny conversation to go in the Michelle/Lynda Hall of Fame
ok
you are quiet on the blog front lately
whats the story
7:26pmMe
just haven't had a chance to update it, must get into it again...
and I wanted to finish my course which i now have done..
7:27pmLynda
ahhh cool well done
ok enjoy your book...chat soon
disc is in the letter box
hahahaha

Happy Birthday Dad.

Happy Birthday to my dear old Dad. I miss you.

31/05/1938 - 16/10/1999

Happy Birthday to Me..

It's that time of year again. Today is my birthday. I have had a wonderful day, in contrast to last years birthday.

I have been totally spoilt and I am currently typing on my brand new laptop while admiring my brand new sewing machine over in the corner. More about that tommorrow.

The most important thing, though is that I got to spend the day with The Hubbster and my children. We had a long sleep in (apart from The Hubbster who was painting the house), we did some craft, we played tennis and went out for dinner.

The kids fought all day so it was great. Normal and great. I am so totally blessed.