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The Lotto Ticket Conspiracy

Please note this is just weird thoughts from my brain about a possible scenario and it is not real or accurate in any way—all 100% fantasy.

Filling out a lotto ticket, hopefully, a winning ticket

A long while ago I purchased a ticket to the lotto. I forget which one just that it had a tremendous amount of money to win….something like 50 million.

I alongside many others purchased my ticket to have the chance to dream and of course, win an ENMOROUS amount of money. Even a small percentage of $50 million would be nice, I am not fussy.

For my ticket I got an auto pick as I was feeling lucky and then went about my day thinking of all the possibilities winning even a little bit of this cash would bring me. I would be able to travel, invest in my projects, build the house that I have been dreaming about, fix the house we are currently living in, invest in the kid’s future and oh buy an electric car that I have been lusting over (this would now be possible due to being able to upgrade the house to solar and also having finally enough cash to buy the car in the first place).

My fantasy to win lotto

I kept my ticket in my purse for a while and totally forgot about it. I also didn’t hear anything on the news about how someone won and they couldn’t track them down.

I finally decided to go to the newsagency and get my lotto ticket checked…you never know it might be the winning ticket.

I handed my ticket to the lady behind the counter and she scanned it, and then said, no nothing.

Really…..it’s not a winning ticket!!! Well, there goes my lotto-winning day dream.

There was nothing that came up on the screen. No way to know deep down it wasn’t a claim for any money.

I know that deep down it really didn’t win but what if? What if others were telling me lies to pocket my prize money? If this fantasy is real I’m owed millions in prizes.

Have you ever thought that maybe every ticket that wasn’t a winning lotto ticket was in fact a winning ticket? I hope I am not the only one. Let me know if you do this too.

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When is it Fully Dark?

Last night hubby said he needed to leave on Saturday (tonight) when it was “fully dark” this announcement made me laugh. Actually, I couldn’t stop laughing. Are we now saying the night is partially dark or half dark? And then when it is finally really dark, it is then called, “fully dark”.

Fully dark night sky….yes it is fully dark!

When is it determined to be “fully dark”? Is that the same as pitch black, or nighttime? I had no idea how you check for the night being “fully dark”, wouldn’t it just be very very dark?

Maybe this is a new way to measure the darkness, you can ask people is it fully dark yet?

After my giggling subsided for a bit, I asked him why he needed it to be fully dark bro…. yep I thought I would get into the lingo that he was using.

He mentioned that he and a mate were wanting to go and take photos of the glowworms. We are lucky that this is in our area and we can visit easily.

Maybe this is what the glowworm photo will look like

I then started my giggle festival again, two men in the fully dark capturing photos of glowworms bums in the dark. Yes, I was off and giggling. I did mention that this was a bad date and that elicited more laughter. Walking in the dark to take photos of worms and in the freezing cold!

This silliness could be an outcome of lockdown or just due to me being super tired at the time.

So tonight the guys will venture out only when it is fully dark or getting close to it. Let’s just hope that the fully darkness doesn’t cause other issues, like not allow them to see where they are going. I am sure both will have torches to allow them to see where they are going, but if it is fully dark that might make it harder to see everything.

Has your partner said something that is rather strange? Is it now a phrase that all the family use? Let us know what words you are saying.

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Isolation Done Right

You asked for funny stories and now I’m giving you what you asked for…you might now wish for something different.

Last week I went shopping with the kids, we bought some essentials and then came straight home. I unpacked the shopping and then got dinner ready. A few days went by and I thought it might be nice to take all three kids to the local oval. They were driving me mad and I thought if they had some exercise and room to run around it might make things easier, and mean that bedtime might happen quickly due to everyone being tired…well I could live in hope.

So I went looking for my car keys to take my feral bunch to the park. I couldn’t find them. I looked and looked and still no keys.

I asked my kids to help but their looking skills are not great. They currently walk into a room stand there and stare. Then yell about how it is so hard to look for something and why do they have to help when it’s not even their keys!

One of the other kids walked into another room and just touched a few things on my desk and then walked away saying…no it’s not there.

It was all too hard to help mummy so they raced outside to play on the trampoline and to ignore my pleas for help.

I know it sounds funny but due to not having to be anywhere, no deadlines, no school and so on, I didn’t immediately notice that I had lost my keys.

Once I figured out they were lost I did a bit of a freakout, but then quickly calmed down. They can’t be outside the house, I got home, locked the car and brought in the shopping. So at the very least, the keys were somewhere in the house and I had no idea where.

I started wondering where the keys were.

I looked where I thought I put them and they were nowhere to be found.

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Part of me thought the youngest had put them in the bin and by the time I had this thought the garbage had already been collected…so if this was indeed true they were gone by now.

I then started cleaning up parts of the house, making sure to look under the lounge, piles of unfolded clothes, toys and more.

Still no keys!

It had been about a week I think, not sure as I am losing days due to not having to be anywhere and staying at home. I still thought they were where I put them originally.

I had an idea they had fallen off the cabinet where we put the fruit. Yesterday I decided to move the cabinet and finally saw some keys looking at me. I reached and finally had them in my hand, and thank goodness it was my keys. They had been found.

Insert huge happy dance!

Now my keys are super safe, I put them up high to make sure that little kids cannot decide to place them anywhere around the house.

If this had happened at any other point in my life this would have been a huge disaster, however, due to being at home due to COVID-19, it didn’t matter much. Although I wanted to find them to ensure I had them from a safety standpoint. If hubby was out and I was home with the kids and something happened, at least I would have the keys to the car to go somewhere if it was urgent.

It did get me thinking…if you want people to stay home just take away their keys.

Simple really, Isolation done right.

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Lorraine You Have Forsaken Me

I have been suffering for days with hay fever and it is doing my head in. Yes very funny it is a head cold type illness and I have said it is doing my head in… well you would be over it if you cannot leave the house without the massive amounts of tissues, hankies and other things that might help.

Normal smells that don’t annoy me are causing all sorts of dramas. Hubby put on his aftershave and it made me sneeze for hours afterwards. I have now told him to do it elsewhere as I find the smell over powers the bedroom and surrounds. This then means that I have constant sneezing and upset for hours.

I usually take a pill of Loratadine which I have called Lorraine and it fixes up the hay fever.

Loratadine or Lorraine as I like to call it. I have nicknamed this hay fever medicine to make it easier to remember.
Loratadine or Lorraine as I like to call it. I have nicknamed this hay fever medicine to make it easier to remember.

Now you might be wondering why I have called the pill Lorraine? Well, I could never remember the official name and just called it part of what I remembered. So it has always been Lorraine to me.

I know it is not correct and a bit weird but I’m sure I’m not the only one that does this. Do you have odd or weird names for things that you use all the time? Do others think it is odd as well? What are the names you have given to everyday items?

Last year while pregnant with Alexander I was suffering again from hay fever. I called the medicine hotline to make sure that I could take Lorraine (or otherwise known as Loratadine) during pregnancy. When the lady on the phone what I called the medicine she could not stop laughing.

I told her I could never remember it and decided that Lorraine sounded better. She thought this was brilliant. I hope that my phone call brightened up her day, at the very least it was different. In the end I was able to take this medicine during pregnancy and it worked a treat. However it is not doing its normal magic and making my hay fever go away.

Normally 1 pill does the trick. No sneezing, no itchy eyes and no need to have a constant supply of tissues, hankies and the like.

However my go to pill has not been working at all. Lorraine has not been doing the amazing job she once has for me.  What is wrong with her, what is wrong with the pill that it has decided to stop working????

I did think that maybe I had a cold and also hay fever. Maybe that is why it was not working as well as before. I tried some cold and flu tablets but that did not help. OH how annoying!

One last ditch effort was to get the sinus and hay fever tablets from the chemist. They seem to help more. Some days are better than others but it seems to be an especially bad season for hay fever so far.

I just hope that it gets better and I don’t have a whole summer feeling like this. I hang for summer and the hot weather. I don’t want to be forever head in a tissue and having a bad time.

Have you been suffering from hay fever lately? Do your remedies work to make you feel better? If you take any medicine what are the ones that work for you? Oh and if you have a nick name for your pills like I have please share.