Hi all!
Tonight my husband got home quite early, at 6pm, he usually comes at almost 7pm and when you have two kids for the day and don't know what else to do to entertain them, an hour is a huge difference!
So he gets home tonight at 6pm and I say to him how happy I am that he got home earlier and how much it is great.
I have dinner ready and we have it.
So he goes to the TV to watch the political debate while I am trying to make milk for one, the other one is screaming, pushing the tv, and I just Yell once more for my 1000th time for today if he could help me with the boys and he appears in the hole way with a face like you are disturbing me... I just say to him if he really thinks he helps me coming home to seat in front of the TV!
Please tell me what is wrong with them?
Nite Nite
xxx
Karina A Mum of THREE Boys
Wednesday 28 August 2013
Wednesday 17 July 2013
Food for a Little One that Doesn't Want Food
How can they survive with no food and playing so much?
My oldest son Rafael, he is 2 years and 5 months old, is on a terrible stage with his food. The only thing he wants to eat is the beloved Hi Five Chicken nuggets and Dinosaur pasta, the problem is not that as I can make him them, the problem is that he is probably getting sick of those options too : (
After a big day playing with them and doing some work I decide to make him some dinner, what a waist of time, he didn't even touch and even worse is that he looks at it and says a big "YAK".
My heart just breaks in little pieces and I get angry and send him to bed without anything in his little tummy!
My heart breaks even more just in thinking that he went to bed with empty tummy.
It has been like that now for the last couple of months, not even his juice that I make fresh almost every morning, with some veggies and fruits and he just used to smash it in no time, almost a litter in the morning and more if had left over a bit later but now he hardly drinks a cup!
Is it worth getting stressed? I guess if he gets really hungry he will eat what is on offer because hungry people eat anything. He has plenty of food available and they are usually the healthy option so he won't starve I don't think.
My heart still hurts though!
Thanks for reading
Karina
A Mum of Two Boys
My oldest son Rafael, he is 2 years and 5 months old, is on a terrible stage with his food. The only thing he wants to eat is the beloved Hi Five Chicken nuggets and Dinosaur pasta, the problem is not that as I can make him them, the problem is that he is probably getting sick of those options too : (
After a big day playing with them and doing some work I decide to make him some dinner, what a waist of time, he didn't even touch and even worse is that he looks at it and says a big "YAK".
My heart just breaks in little pieces and I get angry and send him to bed without anything in his little tummy!
My heart breaks even more just in thinking that he went to bed with empty tummy.
It has been like that now for the last couple of months, not even his juice that I make fresh almost every morning, with some veggies and fruits and he just used to smash it in no time, almost a litter in the morning and more if had left over a bit later but now he hardly drinks a cup!
Is it worth getting stressed? I guess if he gets really hungry he will eat what is on offer because hungry people eat anything. He has plenty of food available and they are usually the healthy option so he won't starve I don't think.
My heart still hurts though!
Thanks for reading
Karina
A Mum of Two Boys
Thursday 11 July 2013
Mums x Dads
We are very different, mothers and fathers are different in every single way.
The other day I went to a play ground and I saw this father pushing his little daughter (around 8 months) on the swing, but the swing was that one that doesn't have the protection chain or belt, not even my 2 year old son goes on it. The problem wasn't him pushing her quite hard I can say, the problem was when I saw the poor little girl falling from it slowly! I bet it wouldn't happen to you mum. Would it??
My husband came the other day from the playground with my 2 year old son and said like it is very normal and common, "He got bitten by a dog" and I just couldn't believe what I was hearing with my little years. It wasn't too bad but it probably wouldn't happen if I was there, it could happen, but probably wouldn't.
I am not saying us mum are perfect an nothing happens when we have our kids because we do get together and talk lots, we have coffees but our eyes and years are always turned to our kids, we try to prevent before something bad happens, we have common sense!
Fathers, maybe not all, but they take all the risks, they don't think something bad can happen, everything is fun and not dangerous at all.
In my household is not different at all. It is always Me x Husband, Mum x Dad.
No rights or wrong, just different thinking and acting.
You can see how safely my husband plays with my kids : )
The other day I went to a play ground and I saw this father pushing his little daughter (around 8 months) on the swing, but the swing was that one that doesn't have the protection chain or belt, not even my 2 year old son goes on it. The problem wasn't him pushing her quite hard I can say, the problem was when I saw the poor little girl falling from it slowly! I bet it wouldn't happen to you mum. Would it??
My husband came the other day from the playground with my 2 year old son and said like it is very normal and common, "He got bitten by a dog" and I just couldn't believe what I was hearing with my little years. It wasn't too bad but it probably wouldn't happen if I was there, it could happen, but probably wouldn't.
I am not saying us mum are perfect an nothing happens when we have our kids because we do get together and talk lots, we have coffees but our eyes and years are always turned to our kids, we try to prevent before something bad happens, we have common sense!
Fathers, maybe not all, but they take all the risks, they don't think something bad can happen, everything is fun and not dangerous at all.
In my household is not different at all. It is always Me x Husband, Mum x Dad.
No rights or wrong, just different thinking and acting.
You can see how safely my husband plays with my kids : )
Thanks for reading
Karina
A mum of Two boys
Tuesday 9 July 2013
A Day Off
Some days are just hard hey!
There are some days, like today, you wake up wanting to be anywhere but home, probably wanted to be in a day spa, a day doing massage, facials, manicure, probably a weekend or maybe a week away.
The nights with little sleep or no sleep, the unstoppable cleaning, washing clothes, feeding (them, not you).
Your head is just exhausted, your body is not doing what needs to be done anymore.
A day off is probably something you have to have soon, but is that such a thing? Even when you have a "day off" you still have to do things, you still have to worry about food, cleaning, washing.
Today I wish I was in a island, with just some friends, no man at all, KIDS are prohibited in this island. The problem is, we probably will be thinking if our kids are eating ok, if they had enough water, if who ever is looking after them are doing everything right.
That is why I need wine! Do you?
You know you worry about your children like no one else would and you know a Day Off doesn't exist for mums and if you get one, when you get home you, for sure will have double cleaning to do, double washing to replace the day you missed.
I wish I was in my dream Island right now!
Karina
A very tired Mum of Two Boys
There are some days, like today, you wake up wanting to be anywhere but home, probably wanted to be in a day spa, a day doing massage, facials, manicure, probably a weekend or maybe a week away.
The nights with little sleep or no sleep, the unstoppable cleaning, washing clothes, feeding (them, not you).
Your head is just exhausted, your body is not doing what needs to be done anymore.
A day off is probably something you have to have soon, but is that such a thing? Even when you have a "day off" you still have to do things, you still have to worry about food, cleaning, washing.
Today I wish I was in a island, with just some friends, no man at all, KIDS are prohibited in this island. The problem is, we probably will be thinking if our kids are eating ok, if they had enough water, if who ever is looking after them are doing everything right.
That is why I need wine! Do you?
You know you worry about your children like no one else would and you know a Day Off doesn't exist for mums and if you get one, when you get home you, for sure will have double cleaning to do, double washing to replace the day you missed.
I wish I was in my dream Island right now!
Karina
Sunday 30 June 2013
What You Shouldn't Do
Just a quick post to show you guys what you shouldn't let your husband do to your 6 week old child, you actually shouldn't even let him hold the baby, any movement is dangerous
xxx
Karina
A Mum of Two Boys (and almost a widow)
Dreamworld, dream or nightmare?
Hi all,
I was just thinking to myself if when we decide to take our kids to a themed park if we are doing because we want our kids to play or really just to make them tired?
Well well, yesterday, Sunday, I took my kids to Dreamworld, so Rafael, my 2 year old son, could play and enjoy the rainy day, didn't think much about the poor Gabe, 9 months old!
I do think in making them tired when I take them out, selfish me hey! Are you that selfish too?
The thing is, I get home and I am more tired than my little man is, I am exhausted because we were so worried about making him "tired" playing around that we didn't eat properly, when I say we I say my husband and I, my kids did have food and drinks.
Any way, Rafael just wanted to play at the Wiggle world, everywhere we went, any ride we went, he just would care about the Wiggle World, where there is pictures of the Wiggles everywhere and Dorothy the Dinosaur comes out to take pictures with the kids, but saying that Rafael was scared of the lovely Dinosaur, so no pictures.
In the end we had a great day, Rafael played at the Wiggles world for as long as he wished for, we went in some rides, they are tired, we were exhausted and it was worth it, it was worth going on school holidays and on a rainy day to see my boys happy and of course, TIRED!
I was just thinking to myself if when we decide to take our kids to a themed park if we are doing because we want our kids to play or really just to make them tired?
Well well, yesterday, Sunday, I took my kids to Dreamworld, so Rafael, my 2 year old son, could play and enjoy the rainy day, didn't think much about the poor Gabe, 9 months old!
I do think in making them tired when I take them out, selfish me hey! Are you that selfish too?
The thing is, I get home and I am more tired than my little man is, I am exhausted because we were so worried about making him "tired" playing around that we didn't eat properly, when I say we I say my husband and I, my kids did have food and drinks.
Any way, Rafael just wanted to play at the Wiggle world, everywhere we went, any ride we went, he just would care about the Wiggle World, where there is pictures of the Wiggles everywhere and Dorothy the Dinosaur comes out to take pictures with the kids, but saying that Rafael was scared of the lovely Dinosaur, so no pictures.
In the end we had a great day, Rafael played at the Wiggles world for as long as he wished for, we went in some rides, they are tired, we were exhausted and it was worth it, it was worth going on school holidays and on a rainy day to see my boys happy and of course, TIRED!
xxxxx
Karina
A Mum of Two Boys
Thursday 27 June 2013
Toilet when they are ready or we are?
That thing about toilet training! It keeps coming to my head.
Pee or not to Pee, that is the question!
I am a lazy mum that I know my son is doing very well at childcare and they tell me that he is doing so well with toilet training that I can take some undies for him, he doesn't need nappy any more at day care!
Oh gosh I got so excited, the next day was a Saturday and I decide to let him just in undies and try the apparently, so well done toilet training. All starts well when my husband takes him to the toilet for the first time, that day, and he does a wee.
Not so long after all the terrible things you can imagine starts happening, we seat down to have breakfast and that moment comes, Rafael, the one training, starts crying and saying mum hurts, mum hurts, if I know that would hurt that much I would have ran to the toilet quicker than I could even imagine.
After he said his tummy was hurting I could see his undies filling with poo, yes, poop, not only that, it was a number 3 if you know what I mean!!!! But I am lucky enough, my husband was the one holding him. Don't you feel relieved for me, I do!
You probably think, that stupid learnt with that and will put a nappy on a boy with diarrhoea, no the stupid parents tried again, and again got the shits!
Well, I have witnessed wee on the floor more than a few times, poop on his undies too.
My conclusion is let the people at the childcare do the work, they are doing so well and I am just screwing it up!
xx
Karina a mum of two boys
Pee or not to Pee, that is the question!
I am a lazy mum that I know my son is doing very well at childcare and they tell me that he is doing so well with toilet training that I can take some undies for him, he doesn't need nappy any more at day care!
Oh gosh I got so excited, the next day was a Saturday and I decide to let him just in undies and try the apparently, so well done toilet training. All starts well when my husband takes him to the toilet for the first time, that day, and he does a wee.
Not so long after all the terrible things you can imagine starts happening, we seat down to have breakfast and that moment comes, Rafael, the one training, starts crying and saying mum hurts, mum hurts, if I know that would hurt that much I would have ran to the toilet quicker than I could even imagine.
After he said his tummy was hurting I could see his undies filling with poo, yes, poop, not only that, it was a number 3 if you know what I mean!!!! But I am lucky enough, my husband was the one holding him. Don't you feel relieved for me, I do!
You probably think, that stupid learnt with that and will put a nappy on a boy with diarrhoea, no the stupid parents tried again, and again got the shits!
Well, I have witnessed wee on the floor more than a few times, poop on his undies too.
My conclusion is let the people at the childcare do the work, they are doing so well and I am just screwing it up!
xx
Karina a mum of two boys
Thursday 20 June 2013
Big Brother's Jealousy
Hi There,
Worry, is that what comes with having kids? Or is that comes just in being a woman?
Well I used to worry about how good I looked when went out, or if I was going to be accepted by the others, if people was going to like me or not. Today my worry is much more important, I worry if my Oldest son loves his little brother : (
Yes, it has been hard times to me with Rafael (2.4 years old). Every single time he looks to Gabe (9 months old) he has this anger kind of face and it always comes with a slap on Gabe's head or face or even a kick.
I ask him if he likes his brother and he says " NO!" and even on his voice I can see anger. I know he is only little and doesn't understand lots of things, probably have no idea what love is.
I try my best to be a good mum and sometimes it is so hard, the patience just is not there anymore specially days I am tired because I didn't have a good night or I am just tired for any other reason.
I will be trying the corner punishment to see if I can help him to understand that hitting his little brother is not a way to get anything, but being nice and a good boy it is!
I am sure it shouldn't be easy being a big brother and having someone taking all the attention that was once all his and I will never know as I am the youngest of three girls.
One thing I know that helps lots and lots, is giving cuddles. He has been more affectionate lately, all the time he wants cuddles from me and I have been trying to give as much as he needs or more.
I wish I had an answer for every single question I have in my head but I am afraid I don't. I think some things just comes with time and experience but then you think, well I will learn how to deal with that and I stop and thing again, wait a minute, I needed to learn that before, to deal with the firs child's jealousy because now I have the second child and I am not going for thirds, so when am I going to apply again what I am learning from it?
xxxx
Karina
A Mum of Two Boys
Worry, is that what comes with having kids? Or is that comes just in being a woman?
Well I used to worry about how good I looked when went out, or if I was going to be accepted by the others, if people was going to like me or not. Today my worry is much more important, I worry if my Oldest son loves his little brother : (
Yes, it has been hard times to me with Rafael (2.4 years old). Every single time he looks to Gabe (9 months old) he has this anger kind of face and it always comes with a slap on Gabe's head or face or even a kick.
I ask him if he likes his brother and he says " NO!" and even on his voice I can see anger. I know he is only little and doesn't understand lots of things, probably have no idea what love is.
I try my best to be a good mum and sometimes it is so hard, the patience just is not there anymore specially days I am tired because I didn't have a good night or I am just tired for any other reason.
I will be trying the corner punishment to see if I can help him to understand that hitting his little brother is not a way to get anything, but being nice and a good boy it is!
I am sure it shouldn't be easy being a big brother and having someone taking all the attention that was once all his and I will never know as I am the youngest of three girls.
One thing I know that helps lots and lots, is giving cuddles. He has been more affectionate lately, all the time he wants cuddles from me and I have been trying to give as much as he needs or more.
I wish I had an answer for every single question I have in my head but I am afraid I don't. I think some things just comes with time and experience but then you think, well I will learn how to deal with that and I stop and thing again, wait a minute, I needed to learn that before, to deal with the firs child's jealousy because now I have the second child and I am not going for thirds, so when am I going to apply again what I am learning from it?
xxxx
Karina
A Mum of Two Boys
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Right or Wrong?
Hi There,
Being a Mum is never easy, is it?
We never know if we are doing right or wrong, if we are raising our children well or not.
I try my best but sometimes I am so tired that I don't really.
Like the other day, after I had a terrible night with my almost 10 month old son (Gabriel), he woke up about 4 times during the night, every 2 hours I was awake and the day after I was exausted and didn't make anything for lunch, so I just went to the KFC drive through and got some chicken and chips and gave that to my two sons, the 2 year old (Rafael) and Gabriel, ow my, I still feel guilty for that.
I don't give them fast food all the time but when ever I do, I don't feel ok with that.
Are you the same? which frequency do you feed them fast food if you do?
Even with the toilet training with my oldest, I just feel that I am a lazy mum, I should be taking him every hour or so to the toilet but I just leave him in nappies.
Not sure if it is because I have two boys, 18 months apart in age that makes me tired all the time. Not sure if I will ever be able to know if I am doing right or wrong, but whatever I am doing I do from the heart, I am thinking on their best.
Is that a mum out there that is sure about anything?
Please if there is let me know the secret!
xxx
Karina
A Mum of Two Boys
Being a Mum is never easy, is it?
We never know if we are doing right or wrong, if we are raising our children well or not.
I try my best but sometimes I am so tired that I don't really.
Like the other day, after I had a terrible night with my almost 10 month old son (Gabriel), he woke up about 4 times during the night, every 2 hours I was awake and the day after I was exausted and didn't make anything for lunch, so I just went to the KFC drive through and got some chicken and chips and gave that to my two sons, the 2 year old (Rafael) and Gabriel, ow my, I still feel guilty for that.
I don't give them fast food all the time but when ever I do, I don't feel ok with that.
Are you the same? which frequency do you feed them fast food if you do?
Even with the toilet training with my oldest, I just feel that I am a lazy mum, I should be taking him every hour or so to the toilet but I just leave him in nappies.
Not sure if it is because I have two boys, 18 months apart in age that makes me tired all the time. Not sure if I will ever be able to know if I am doing right or wrong, but whatever I am doing I do from the heart, I am thinking on their best.
Is that a mum out there that is sure about anything?
Please if there is let me know the secret!
xxx
Karina
A Mum of Two Boys
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