tell grumpy to be careful up that ladder!!
well I've had a very panicky moment today. completely self inflicted and I've definitely learnt my lesson.
It was raining for kindy drop off, so I decided to leave Oliver in the car so he would stay dry, while i ran Sasha inside. drop off normally takes all of 2 minutes, so I hid all the valuables in the car, (wallet, ipad....) under my car seat and left. now, when I leave a child in the car, i never lock the car, as, should something happen to me, someone can get into the car easy, I also leave a window a bit open for air, again, for the same reason.
So, I did the drop off, came back to the car, reached under my seat, and only my wallet was there!!
queue the panic. the mad panic, and I mean panic. im on my hands and knees, scrambling through every nook and cranny of the car. I checked everywhere, even though I knew exactly where I had put it, but i'm so ditzy at the moment that I started to doubt myself. I took off around the block hoping to see the culprit with it in there hands, drove round the block, ran back into kindy in case I had actually took it inside, by now I'm almost in tears. back into the car, another lap around the block and rung hubby and told him. he told me to check under the seat again as he couldn't understand why the ipad was gone and not my wallet. so while driving along, i reached down under my seat, and there it was. sitting there waiting for me.
que a bit of hyperventilating, bit of a head spinning....... What had happened was there is a couple of bars directly below my seat, and it was sitting between the seat and those bars. not on the floor under the seat at all which is why I couldnt see or feel it before.
so lesson learnt. never leave a child in an unlocked car. sigh.....
if it makes a bad newspaper headline, don't do it..........
before you judge, I would never in a million years do this in some parts of Auckland, but on the whole it's still pretty safe here and i've never heard of a car being driven off with a child inside here.
so for the rest of the day, got a coat of varnish on my bathroom door. The tilier has got most of the wall tiles up. Most of the kitchen is now packed up.
Babysitting now for a friend, so the chickens, and their coop, have just taken a trip over the harbour bridge and will stay in my friends garden till after we move. She will soon be only 5 mins away from me. Anyway, better go settle in the chickens with food and water before it gets dark. I had to wait till the 3 kids were asleep.
have a good day everyone. Good luck at emergency Ton.
winter coat on when I go out 
) the the eye doctor this morning.
All the kerfuffle means that means she won't have time to pick up the work experience form from the vets that I took in to be signed yesterday, so guess who'll be schlepping up there again this afternoon? 
