Back Again

Well life sure ticks along at a fast and furious pace doesnt it.

We have been busy but with nothing in particular....we have been running the kids around a bit at the moment.

Last wednesday was a doozy....Zoe had to be at basketball in renmark by 5.30. Leigh had to be in Berri for Hockey at 6pm then back to Renmark by 7 for his airbrushing course he is doing. Meanwhile i worked until 5 and Daz had to do some running around.

In the morning i took Leigh to the orthodontist who announced that he is now ready for his braces!

He said well i dont need to ask if he has grown ,,, i can see he has....i measured him in Sept 06 and until Mar 07 he had gone from 159.5cm to 164cm tall.....im guessing he will be around the 6 1 or 6 2 mark. My grandpa was VERY tall and my brother is tall as welll should be interesting and in so saying i think Zoe will be his height or taller. She has to have braces too and will be going back for her check in Dec......

We are off to Adelaide on the 19th March to get his moulds and xrays done......im hoping to pop into Scrapbook Station for a visit..it is a nice forum i have joined lately, there are alot of new names to me but also some names i know...it is a smaller forum and it is a very friendly bunch of gals.....close to the riverland for a visit too...LOL

While in Adel i want to go to visit IKEA......daz said so we are going to take the ute then....i said yeah may as well,,,never know what you night find haha.

Ummm lets see what else have we been up too...we cut our pears...yay...this year we only had about nine bins and last year we had 19...blame the mini tornado we had in Jan and the lack of water...grrr

We pruned our apples the other day,,,,we have needed to thin htem out to let the sunlight get into the middle of the trees or they dont colour up...would be a shame if we cant sell then cause theyre green....

Been having issues with DS...grrrr why do they be charming one minute to get what they want then the next minute you say no and they have jsut gone off and done what you have said no to....on the weekend to cut a long stroy short...leigh wanted to take his bike to my sisters where we were going for lunch....we had said no because he didnt hang out the washing like i asked him too.....i left to go to my sisters with zoe and he msgd me saying oh ive hung out the washing...yeah well too bad cause if you had come with me you wouldnt have had the time to hang it out so basically NO BIKE. We get to my sisters and are there for a while then there is a msg on my phone...going to get my bike...i msgd back good for you.....anyway dad went and got him and told him off...

he walked off with his cousin and home is like 6kms from sisters....you know what he told his dad........mum said good for you but the whole reason i got pis*ed off was he made it sound like i told him too....GGGRRRR.

Anyway later on during the weekend Leigh told me dad wanted to take him to a councillor and *he wasnt going* and why....i said because dad and i need to find out how to help you thru this and how to cope with your moods

and he doesnt seem to be doing to well at school...he thinks he is failing,,,,,so we are going to follow up with a visit to the school and try to sort this out....although i can thelp feeling each time we want to tlak to him it comes across as a lecture....and i hate that....any ideas from anyone with teens??? Is it just boys???

We have implemented a roster with points here at home to try to tackle this no chores business and the kids earning the right to go to town or friends.....where leigh seems to think its his right to go and bugger any one else LOL

He doesnt seem keen to give it a go and he just had a go at his sister saying she takes everything over......the reason she does this is cause he wont even try.... this councillor visit will be interesting,....i hope we can manage it soon...i think there are issues there too...

Im generally just rambling this post i guess just trying to get some things straight in my head.....i know everyone else has issues with their kids so i guess im just wondering how others manage...are we jumping the gun with the councillor bit or not.....or is it a good idea...im all for ways to keep on track with him cause sometimes i just wanna throw my hands in the air and go to my room...LOL

Thanks for listening...even if you dont have any hints for me drop a line to say you have visited here:)

Im going to be blog hopping later so i shall pop in and say hi :)