Archive for July, 2011

My 100th Post – What Blogging Means To Me.

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Welcome to my 100th Common Chaos Chronicle blog post.

When I first started blogging almost 6 months ago, my main aim was to use this blog as a means to store my ideas and to release them out of my mind. I knew I wanted to ‘write’, I just wasn’t entirely sure what direction I was going in.

Then it crossed my mind that this was a perfect way to keep an online diary or sorts, a record for the children to [...]

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Week 3 – My Weightloss Journey – Keeping Committed.

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What a week!

This past week has been a big test on my behalf. It was the 2nd week of the winter school holidays. I was trapped indoors most of the time with 6 bored children and a dog.

I was tired, really tired and to top it off, ‘that’ time of the month was upon me again.

I was craving sugar, feeling lethargic and generally unmotivated. I pushed through and only made a few little mistakes along the [...]

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Winter Holiday Blues – Our Overnight Trip Away!

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After several days of utter chaos, my head was close to exploding clean off my shoulders. The rain had set in, I was miserable. The kids were housebound, bored and not willing to cooperate on any kind of normal level. No matter what I suggested, I was faced with an overwhelming lack of enthusiasm.

Something had to be done or school holiday survival was looking pretty grim.

I got online and started searching for cheap accommodation. I mean sure it would have [...]

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Week 2 of My Weightloss Journey – Another Win!

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This past week has seen us bite the bullet and go out and purchase a treadmill.

Why?

Well getting out and walking has proved difficult on several occasions and having a walking machine at home is just far more convenient at the moment.  We have had gale force winds, constant rain, icy days and with 6 kids in tow, the walking was definitely losing it’s appeal factor.

I dont like exercise. I never have. It’s just not something that [...]

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Monday Motivation – Week 2!

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This weeks goals:

* Survive the remaining week of the school holidays.

* Finish our new office area.

* Walk everyday.

* Catch up on all housework before school goes back.

* 3 blog posts.

Last week I hoped to get some items listed on eBay, but never got around to doing that. We decided on the spur of the moment to take the kids on a weekend away so that bit into a huge chunk of my ‘doing things’ time. On [...]

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The DIY creation of Levi’s New Bedroom – June/July 2011

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I wont keep you all in suspense any longer. Although I wanted to wait until the whole area we have been working on was finished, I will give you a look at Levi’s new bedroom now. Here goes:

Here are a few photos of the area we had to work with for Levi’s room. It had previously been an exit into a veranda/porch but had been ‘renovated’ before we purchased the house.

As [...]

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Where The Wild Things Really Are… The School Holidays From Hell!

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Excuse me Chaos fans I need to vent.

These school holidays are doing my head in. I haven’t lost the plot yet but by golly I am getting close.

Saturday 2nd July – Brian disappears all day in an 11 hr round trip from our place to Wodonga and back. The kids are so excited that they will soon see their big sister, that they are completely out of control all friggin day. It was like some naughty [...]

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Proud Mummy Moments – Jai Gets A Goal!

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This morning sees me adding a new category to the blog.

Last night I got myself caught up in checking out some old photos on the laptop. I just love looking back at the special moments, the silly moments and the amazing things we have done.

I was flicking through some photos that I had taken with my new camera and a sense of  overwhelming pride came over me, shortly followed by a sense of overwhelming sadness.

Let me explain…

My son Jai is [...]

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My Weightloss Journey – 1st Weigh In!

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I must be honest, I laid in bed last night with fear in my heart that I had tried so very hard all week to behave myself, eat properly, exercise, and that I would glance at those scales in the morning and they would tell me the worst.

I mean the last 5 years the scales have been telling me the worst. I almost just expect it these days.

So when my eyes opened this morning, the first [...]

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Monday Motivation – A Fresh Start.

Written by commonchaoschronicle

When I first started to blog, I would often do a page each Monday stating the things I would like to achieve each week.

As life became more and more hectic, I was running out of time, chaos was taking over and Monday became less and less about motivation and more about survival… Hahahaha

I am taking a step back in the ‘stress zone’ in order to take a heap of steps forward in life itself.

What does this [...]

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