In our house there seems to be many periods of chaos....well, to be expected I suppose with 4 kids and a 6mth old puppy. Said puppy loves biting our youngest son, apparently quite common with boys, who like to energetically play with dogs. She also enjoys stealing socks and pens and running off with them! Socks can be saved without too much damage but pens are another matter. She has also developed a habit of chewing up her bed (luckily not expensive, old lounge cushions from the tip shop). She has the opportunity to chew other things, bones and rawhide bones and kongs but she's at that age where she is chewing everything. So tonight we've had her running around stealing (and chewing up) pens, biting smallest son (S9) and generally running amok!
I have nearly completed all my Christmas shopping, only small gifts this year (postage is a killer when your family lives interstate) but I also made a calenders, on the Big W photo websites, for both sets of Grandparents and my sister, with photos of the kids and ones we have taken since we've been down in Van Demons Land (Tasmania). They have worked out really well and I am getting them posted straight to them - rather than me posting them which is an added benefit. I also found the perfume my sister likes and that doesn't set her allergies off, thanks to a very lovely employee in the chemist I went to. Very unlike the snobby, bitchy woman in the Perfume Shop in the mall. It's a Halle Berry perfume. "Oh we don't stock that here, you might want to try Priceline or Kmart." (insert very snooty, snobby voice....grrrr! needless to say I shan't be going in there again.)
It's hard to believe that we have been in Tassie for nearly 2 years! Sometimes it feels like longer (in a good way) and then others not. This posting has been very challenging for many of us and this year hasn't been the best, physical health wise for me and stress wise for hubby and me too. There have been work related issues to work out for both of us. I think this posting has not lived up to his expectations and he is very keen to get back to a land command unit. He's had a third deployment to a tropical island - for 6mths this time, which was the longest deployment in our army life so far and even with leave in the middle - it is still a long time. This has been our first interstate posting - not bad for 10 years - but for my job, teaching, it has seen me overcome many of my own mental hurdles - relief teaching being one of them. But two years in and I have met many fantastic people, made lots of new friends and professional contacts. I am hopeful of possibly getting the same job at the school I have been teaching at for the last 2 terms. If not it's back on the relief teaching wagon, until I can get another contract.
If the universe shines upon us next posting (or maybe I should say the army lol) we will get back to the Sunshine state where a job is just waiting for me to go back and claim. I was able to put in for 3 years special leave, but if we get posted to another state I will have to resign my job up there, which would be sad. However we haven't been to all the states yet....so......we'll see next year what happens.
I have nearly completed all my Christmas shopping, only small gifts this year (postage is a killer when your family lives interstate) but I also made a calenders, on the Big W photo websites, for both sets of Grandparents and my sister, with photos of the kids and ones we have taken since we've been down in Van Demons Land (Tasmania). They have worked out really well and I am getting them posted straight to them - rather than me posting them which is an added benefit. I also found the perfume my sister likes and that doesn't set her allergies off, thanks to a very lovely employee in the chemist I went to. Very unlike the snobby, bitchy woman in the Perfume Shop in the mall. It's a Halle Berry perfume. "Oh we don't stock that here, you might want to try Priceline or Kmart." (insert very snooty, snobby voice....grrrr! needless to say I shan't be going in there again.)
It's hard to believe that we have been in Tassie for nearly 2 years! Sometimes it feels like longer (in a good way) and then others not. This posting has been very challenging for many of us and this year hasn't been the best, physical health wise for me and stress wise for hubby and me too. There have been work related issues to work out for both of us. I think this posting has not lived up to his expectations and he is very keen to get back to a land command unit. He's had a third deployment to a tropical island - for 6mths this time, which was the longest deployment in our army life so far and even with leave in the middle - it is still a long time. This has been our first interstate posting - not bad for 10 years - but for my job, teaching, it has seen me overcome many of my own mental hurdles - relief teaching being one of them. But two years in and I have met many fantastic people, made lots of new friends and professional contacts. I am hopeful of possibly getting the same job at the school I have been teaching at for the last 2 terms. If not it's back on the relief teaching wagon, until I can get another contract.
If the universe shines upon us next posting (or maybe I should say the army lol) we will get back to the Sunshine state where a job is just waiting for me to go back and claim. I was able to put in for 3 years special leave, but if we get posted to another state I will have to resign my job up there, which would be sad. However we haven't been to all the states yet....so......we'll see next year what happens.
