Worth it...

Do you know what makes it ALL worth it? When your little one looks into your eyes and tells you she loves you. That just makes all the hard times, and the temper tantrums, and the messes, and just everything about being a mom - Worth it...

Not Working Mom

I put TLT to bed one night, and I go about my other evening activities. MUCH later, as I am heading to bed, I hear this little voice coming from TLT's bedroom asking me what I'm doing. I ask why she isn't asleep yet as she has been in bed for a long time already! Her response:

My eyes don't want to work Mommy!

SynAck and I just cracked up. It was just WAY too cute...

Stuff

Less than 2 weeks till SynAck starts his new job, and I'm hoping to have an offer by the end of the week... Things have been a bit hectic...

And then TLT has been at her best worst behaviour! Driving me nuts, but then again, I may just have a bit of a short fuse thanks to everything going on. Although it is sometimes really tough to get angry with a little girl who suddenly tries to give you open mouth kisses! *shock, horror* Or bite your butt while your warming up in front of the heater after your bath and before you get dressed... No-one said life wouldn't be interesting with an *almost* four year-old around!

Oh, and lets not forget her abject HORROR at the words SHUT UP! *big grin* She LOVES drawing in this HUGE breathe, accompanied by this high-pitched sound before telling you in a very stern voice that "You are NOT allowed to say that!"

Attacked in the kitchen!

Standing in the kitchen, preparing supper... SynAck still has his big jacket on as he is still a tad cold. Suddenly I hear a growling noise and SynAck feels these strange tugs on the back of his jacket. We take a look and there is TLT, gripping a piece of the jacket between her teeth, shaking her head from side to side, growling like a dog...

When asked what she is doing, she just grins back...

? Um... Ok... *confused*

We haven't disappeared...

Just in case you are wondering... It may have been a while since we last posted, but that does NOT mean that we have disappeared, or even that the fun has stopped... ;-) It just means that life has been a tad busy and we will hopefully update more regularly from here on out...

Please forgive us for not doing so to date.

And check back here again soon!

LONG Memory

I'm in the kitchen busy with my part of supper (SynAck is braaing (BBQing) the meat) and TLT is finishing off her orange over the basin in the bathroom (incase she spills ;-) ). She obviously finishes her orange and is busy coming out of the bathroom when I hear this "klink, klank, ding" as she obviously trips over the cats food and water bowls.

Now, our cat disappeared easily two months ago, but procrastinator me has not removed the empty bowls from the bathroom yet. (I really should make a plan to remember to do that!)

So TLT trips over the bowls and as she regains her balance she says - STUPID CAT!

How to annoy your mother - Plan 1

Driving home one evening after work, we had just picked TLT up from Peanut, and we had had a rather LONG, boring, horrid day at work (or so I recall it anyway). TLT pipes up from the back seat:

TLT - Mom?
Jade - Yes?
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes?
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes?
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes? (Starting to get a little annoyed, but trying REALLY hard not to show it)
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes? (No longer trying too hard to show the annoyance)
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes? (Wondering whether she is EVER GOING TO GET TO THE FREAKING POINT?)
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes? (HIGHLY GRATED VOICE WITH FRUSTRATION!!!!!!!!!)
TLT - Nevermind...

*GRRRRRRRR!!!!!*

So, we never got hear what she wanted to tell us... :-(

What to do when...

So, you get guests over, and while you are visiting TLT goes VERY quiet, and you just KNOW that she is doing something she shouldn't, and knowing that her latest penchant is playing with SynAck and my pc's... *sigh* Sometimes it's really tough having an overly bright kid!

So, I call her out of the study (after being told she is doing nothing and she isn't there, only for her to walk out of the study door), but 5 minutes later she is right back in there. This time I go into the study and call her out. She was playing around on SynAck's machine, so I warn him to just go and check his machine as she has been messing around there.

Lo and behold - the visitors leave, and when we come to the study - Its MY machine that has been messed up! :-O A whole bunch of new tabs opened on Firefox, my gmail gone and replaced with a google search for tttttttttttt and the address bar filled with nonsense, and then last, but not least - my blogger dashboard in some incomprehensible little squiggle of a language! *sigh*

Thanks to SynAck for the suggestion to open HIS blogger dashboard in IE to get the correct language back... *sigh* Now I'll REALLY have to start locking my PC before stepping away from it...

How to know the Flower Girl is getting bored

My sister recently got married (the Oros Girl one, TWB is still too young - she is only 12). It was a lovely wedding, and fun was had by all, but during the photo session after the ceremony there were a couple of clues that TLT (who was the absolutely GORGEOUS Flower Girl) was getting bored...

First, she started blowing her lips like a horse (can't think of another way to describe it, sorry). Looking idly around swaying her arms, blowing her lips like a horse... RIGHT!

Then, she starts grabbing her braids, pulling them across the front of her neck, sticking out her tongue going "Bleh!" at the top of her voice... Of course, this mostly happens just as the photographer tells those in the proposed picture to smile, so we most certainly have a couple of pictures where the subjects are laughing hysterically at our totally insane little 3 and a half year old...

All in all, a wonderful experience, letting us know that yes - even though she is adopted, she definitely fits in with this Anything but Ordinary family...

My Little Parrot

I'm driving home from a meeting this evening (BYC for those of you who know what that is), giving someone a lift home. We are talking about a couple of different things (TLT's antics among them) when I suddenly realise that absolutely EVERYTHING I am saying and doing is being mimicked, including my laugh... So I let it go on for a while and then I turn around to my friend and I say "Did you notice we have a parrot in the car?", followed by a perfect immitation from my parrot... :-) It was quite weird having everything repeated back to me, and it made me realise just how careful I have to be about what I say...

And there was something else funny I wanted to write about, but now it has totally slipped me mind... *sigh* The joys of getting old...

When (or perhaps IF) I remember what it was that I wanted to say, I will come and say it...

New Blog

SynAck and I each had our own blog, but we have since decided to combine them... We still have to migrate the older posts, but watch this space - it'll happen soon... :-D

And THAT is why there are now only 2 posts here...

How do they do it?

I submitted an assignment for my one module I am studying this semester... The assignment was 10 multiple choice questions - Obviously each question is worth 10% because you can score a maximum of 100% for the assignment...

SO - I log in to the online student site and check out the results for my assignment - 56%

Um... Ok? How? Can anyone explain? Seems a bit impossible to me...

*sigh*