Well Christmas has come and gone and the tree is packed away. The kids have left for a weeks holiday in North Queensland with Grandma and Athalie is resting up after a busy couple of weeks shopping.Whew!!!
We had a great Christmas Day with just us this year. Don't know haw many more we will get as the family is getting older and the two bigger kids are wanting to spend time with their girlfriends and boyfriends as well.
Rosina had everyone up nice and early (she was really excited this year) at 5.30am, that was after me finding her awake in the lounge room at 3.00am waiting for Santa to arrive. She crashed at 1.30 in the afternoon and woke up at six the next morning.
Athalie is enjoying the relatively cool weather we are having at the moment, hope it last a lot longer.
Well just a short one today,
Will try to be a bit more regular in the future.
Tim
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Catching up
Howdy all,
Just a quick catch up to let you know whats been happening in the O'Sullivan household.
Well Athalie is doing really well. She is starting to do more around the house and i think it makes her feel a bit more independent. It still tires her out but she feels like she is achieving something by helping out. It's funny how some of us view some jobs as chores, while others view them as little challenges.
Chris has finished his year twelve exams and only has one week of school to go (officially), he is only required to attend a first aid course on Tuesday and graduation on Friday. He has applied to go to Uni next year and has a real interest in Multi Media, specialising in Television and Film editing. It's been a big year for him with his mum being sick and me needing him to help out more and more. It's taken it's toll because he is a bit of a worrier like me, so it didn't surprise me when he got sick half way through the year. But i am proud of him and he has done really well.
Now Caitlyn (KT) is just starting her year eleven exams on Monday and has one week of school and one week of work experience to go. Now KT is in "Love" with Rodney and has him on the brain from sunup to sundown. So it will be interesting to see how her grades are this term. She too has stepped up to help me in the house (not so readily as Chris) but lately she has been wearing Rodney coloured glasses and that is all she is focused on. hope it wears off soon. LOL
Rosie (the baby of the family) is still a little traumatised from Ath being sick, but she seems to be improving slowly. She is still being home schooled and is starting to be integrated back into a school two mornings a week. She really enjoyed it at first but i think the novelty has worn off a bit lately. She also started nippers this year and loves it.
Finally me, myself and I. last weekend was the first weekend i had away for a very long time, now i know this is going to sound selfish but i needed it. I don't know if your are aware or not but i am a Director on the AFL Brisbane Juniors Board of management and last weekend we had our Presidents conference at Marcoola on the Sunshine Coast (my first one). It was so good to be surrounded by people with the common goal of improving Junior football in Brisbane. Oh and to talk on my favourite topic AUSSIE RULES. lol
By all reports Ath and the kids survived the weekend without me. Although i must admit my mobile bill is going to be a little high next month (from ringing every break to make sure everything was going OK). Hey i'm a worrier!
OK have to sign off now
Tim
Just a quick catch up to let you know whats been happening in the O'Sullivan household.
Well Athalie is doing really well. She is starting to do more around the house and i think it makes her feel a bit more independent. It still tires her out but she feels like she is achieving something by helping out. It's funny how some of us view some jobs as chores, while others view them as little challenges.
Chris has finished his year twelve exams and only has one week of school to go (officially), he is only required to attend a first aid course on Tuesday and graduation on Friday. He has applied to go to Uni next year and has a real interest in Multi Media, specialising in Television and Film editing. It's been a big year for him with his mum being sick and me needing him to help out more and more. It's taken it's toll because he is a bit of a worrier like me, so it didn't surprise me when he got sick half way through the year. But i am proud of him and he has done really well.
Now Caitlyn (KT) is just starting her year eleven exams on Monday and has one week of school and one week of work experience to go. Now KT is in "Love" with Rodney and has him on the brain from sunup to sundown. So it will be interesting to see how her grades are this term. She too has stepped up to help me in the house (not so readily as Chris) but lately she has been wearing Rodney coloured glasses and that is all she is focused on. hope it wears off soon. LOL
Rosie (the baby of the family) is still a little traumatised from Ath being sick, but she seems to be improving slowly. She is still being home schooled and is starting to be integrated back into a school two mornings a week. She really enjoyed it at first but i think the novelty has worn off a bit lately. She also started nippers this year and loves it.
Finally me, myself and I. last weekend was the first weekend i had away for a very long time, now i know this is going to sound selfish but i needed it. I don't know if your are aware or not but i am a Director on the AFL Brisbane Juniors Board of management and last weekend we had our Presidents conference at Marcoola on the Sunshine Coast (my first one). It was so good to be surrounded by people with the common goal of improving Junior football in Brisbane. Oh and to talk on my favourite topic AUSSIE RULES. lol
By all reports Ath and the kids survived the weekend without me. Although i must admit my mobile bill is going to be a little high next month (from ringing every break to make sure everything was going OK). Hey i'm a worrier!
OK have to sign off now
Tim
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Sleepless Nights and Lazy Days
Well here it is again, 11pm at night and still wide awake. So this is the third night in a row now and i am getting sick of it.
So we did some investigating today (with the new Doc) and the problem could go all the way back to my shift working days.
There is a small gland in the centre of the brain called the Pineal Gland and it's a quite interesting little critter. It seems that this gland is responsive to light and dark and it releases a drug called melatonin. The Pineal Gland is thought to control things like body rhythms including the day/night cycle. What happens is during daylight hours the pineal gland inhibits the release of melatonin into the blood stream and at night time it allows it to be produced so we can sleep. When we start screwing around with our sleeping patterns our body clock gets all out of whack and melatonin is allowed in to the body during the day causing lethargy and stress and at night it's not there to help me sleep causing insomnia.
Melatonin is also produced in some plants and there are pharmaceutical companies producing it, but no significant testing has been done to see if it will help people like me. But there is always hope.
Good night
Tim
So we did some investigating today (with the new Doc) and the problem could go all the way back to my shift working days.
There is a small gland in the centre of the brain called the Pineal Gland and it's a quite interesting little critter. It seems that this gland is responsive to light and dark and it releases a drug called melatonin. The Pineal Gland is thought to control things like body rhythms including the day/night cycle. What happens is during daylight hours the pineal gland inhibits the release of melatonin into the blood stream and at night time it allows it to be produced so we can sleep. When we start screwing around with our sleeping patterns our body clock gets all out of whack and melatonin is allowed in to the body during the day causing lethargy and stress and at night it's not there to help me sleep causing insomnia.
Melatonin is also produced in some plants and there are pharmaceutical companies producing it, but no significant testing has been done to see if it will help people like me. But there is always hope.
Good night
Tim
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The First Blog
Hi all,
Original title but it is the first, i will be more creative as the days go by.
Well i started this because of the inspirational Jessica Watson. If you haven't caught up with her blogs yet i urge you to do so as she is so creative for someone so young.
Why am i doing this? As an outlet i suppose, i have so many thoughts going through my head that i can't sleep at night sometimes. So hope this will keep me busy.
Ok got to go, will update my profile and add some photo's later.
bye for now
Tim
Original title but it is the first, i will be more creative as the days go by.
Well i started this because of the inspirational Jessica Watson. If you haven't caught up with her blogs yet i urge you to do so as she is so creative for someone so young.
Why am i doing this? As an outlet i suppose, i have so many thoughts going through my head that i can't sleep at night sometimes. So hope this will keep me busy.
Ok got to go, will update my profile and add some photo's later.
bye for now
Tim
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