#648 Sunday 22 July

Since Kaylia seems to have become very aware of my departure plans, we're going to change how we handle it. Previously I'd planned on going to the airport as late as possible ..... leaving K in bed at home. Now we'll do an early trip to the airport .... and keep the normal schedule for her during the day.  I need to plan her week. I'll use her own method and do a plan in " Notes" on her iPad.
(When she woke, she wanted to look at her schedule! I hadn't said anything!  When she saw the week schedule I'd prepared, she was intrigued and clearly satisfied.)
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On another topic, she has invented a new game ..... she 'arranges us' on the couch either side of her and covers us all with a blanket! She clearly gets great pleasure from this .... she looks from side to side with a very happy, satisfied expression. Trouble is .... it gets quite hot!
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Midday ... she is in 'control mode' .... she is very demanding and it gets to be wearing on us.  We handle it by outlining her options and allowing her to choose one option.  The trouble is that her options and things that might interest me rarely coincide!  It's another case of sitting on the volcano .... hoping that you can manage it well enough that it won't explode.
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I mentioned recently that it was tax time .... a Kaylee makes for many deductions!  Our spending on medical/dental/chemist/therapy  this year was over $17,000 .... $12,000 of this is therapy.  Then on top of that is the cost of having our 'sanity preserver'  (au-pair) .... another $10,000.  It's amazing where all the dollars go!
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The statistics of this blog are quite incredible .... since I began the blog there have been more than 18,500 page views .... over 1,100 just last month!  I wish there was some way to see who was looking.

This is a summary of where the blog has been viewed from since it was begun.
It's no surprise that the bulk of the audience is in Australia .... and the audience in Germany is understandable (most of our aupairs have been from that area)  but the size of the audience in the US and in Russia is quite puzzling.
These stats total 17,714 ... a little short of the reported total ... I wonder where the others come from?
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Heard this on a mad ABC program ..... What if the CFMEU .... had instead called itself the FUCME?
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..... oh .... and a 'shout out' to JH!