update update update

I thought it was time to have a little update. Only thing is all I can see is a white screen. No pics.
And I can't figure out why. Let me know what you can see and what you think, ok? Ta

Technicolour Yawn

I wonder what it is about Panadol that makes kids spew? Poor BMW tonight was complaining that his head was hurting, he said he bumped it at school hours before, but just started saying it hurt during dinner, to the point where when he got up to go to the toilet he started crying in pain.

Of course our only panadol was locked up in the caravan, so DH dutifully went to retrieve it. Not 5 minutes later after being carried upstairs, bmw vomited everywhere. Luckily he was in the bathroom at the time. All I could hear was TJ get your mother, get your mother now.

So I consoled my poor boy and gave him a shower and DH well he cleaned up the bathroom...:D :D :D

He's sleeping now, his mattress on the floor and bucket beside. My poor boy. I hope he feels better in the morning.

Great Nannas 94th

Tomorrow is Great Nannas 94th birthday, so today we gathered for afternoon tea. The we is the local Newcastle clan and us. Sisters, aunties & uncles, cousins, grandchildren and great grandchildren. We travelled up the freeway to join in. It was nice to catch up and check out some of the photos from the recent wedding we attended of DH's relies.

While we were eating birthday cake and chatting, our nephew took our kids off to eat some mulberries since the trees fruit is now ripe and ready for eating. They came back with him full of mulberries, they didn't eat any, but he did manage to convince them to pick some of them for him. Needless to say there was lots of stained purple hands.

It wasn't until after the drive home that I discovered TJ's nice white shoes are now also stained purple where she had walked under the mulberry tree. I've managed to clean off a lot of it, but the underneath - the sole - just has mulberries stuck in the grip. Its really quite funny to look at. I have no idea how she got so much mulberry juice everywhere.

I so should've had my camera. We are so busy always doing things that to have them just being kids - country kids really - is just beautiful.

Friday Night is Movie Night

For a long time we had Friday night as movie night, but then we started swim club on a Friday night, and we have ballet and had soccer Saturday morning, so somewhere along the line it got lost.

Well tonight I resurrected it. Tonight, after ballet, was Movie Night! We picniced on a blanket on the floor. I got out a new DVD that had been put away for Christmas, turned on the stereo and there we sat transfixed for 2 hours, just breaking myself away long enough to make everyone ice cream with choc ice magic. Yummo!

We watched the Incredibles which we hadn't seen since it was released at the movies. With the stereo blasting we could have been at the cinema, lol. So even though we still have early ballet in the morning, and I've got all the dishes and kitchen to get clean, it was fun. A shame DH is at work and missed it all. Maybe we can tell him in the morning before he goes to sleep for the day.

Such simple things are sometimes the best.

Hope things are good for you.
Cheers
W.

Chicken is as chicken does

According to TJ...

Chicken will forever, and always be, chicken.

We now return you to your normal programming

:D

I really haven't been ignoring my blog, honest. I tried to upload the gorgeous pic of TJ's communion. Blogger would not be a part of it.

And then last week there was a wedding and all DH's family was here from interstate. It was very cool to have everyone together. The wedding was brilliant.

And now tomorrow we are going to Yamba. Can't wait.

So now must rest these tired tired eyes. Lots more to do in the a.m. before heading off.

Chow 4 now.

Lets play tag

glo girl tagged me. Here it is...

The rules are : List 5 weird things about yourself or your pets. Tag 5 friends and list them. Then, those people need to write on their blogs about 5 weird things, and state the rules, and tag 5 more people. Dont forget to let the people you tag know by posting a comment on their blog!

Yah thanks for that. I've spent all w/e trying to come up with something. I asked DH if he could help me out. I could see his face change as he thought of things, but would he share - NO! Maybe he thought it was safer that way.

All right so here I go...in no particular order of weirdness.

1. I like to keep my pantry very straight and neat. I have all tupperware containers and can't stand things being in the packets, I take them out of the packets and put them into the tupperware containers.
2. When I type if I make a spelling mistake or leave a letter out I erase all the letters with the backspace key to get back to the one that is wrong/missing then type them all again. I know I could use the mouse or the arrows to insert the letter, but I don't.
3. Every morning I weigh myself. I get up, use the toilet and then weigh myself and then wash my hands. In that order. Feels weird if I try to convince myself not to.
4. I will cook up a storm in the kitchen before cleaning the storm in the kitchen.
5. I stick all my photos to my pages when they are blank before adding anything else, just with a little peice of adhesive in the middle and then will take them off again later when completing the page.


So who to tag... V, Chrissy (because your blog hasn't been touched since April), Agent713, and if Mel and Nell got a blog for themselves then I could tag you too.

Its been a full on day today, although when are my days not like that? Its 10:15pm and I've just finished my chores. Today TJ had dancing, then the kids had a swimming carnival, inbetween I raced home and made a picnic lunch for them, Then this afternoon, it was get in the washing, make dinner, do TJ's hair in rags for tomorrow and wash it, wrap her present for tomorrow, wrap the present for BMW to take to the birthday party, make the birthday card. ::sigh:: And somewhere this afternoon I fitted in going to the shop, buying said pressies and getting extra holes punched in the tie of her new shoes for tomorrow.

BMW got 3 2nds at the carnival, TJ got a 4th, 5th, 3rd, 6th and a participation ribbon. Nath didn't swim.

Oh and tomorrow - my girl is doing her First Holy Communion. I'll post a pic tomorrow. I'm sure she'll be gorgeous in her white gown and shoes and headpeice. Hopefully she won't pull a face at the taste of the bread. lol

Anyways shower time for me, gotta steam up the bathroom and try and get the creases out of her dress. Lata!

BLOG CHALLENGE: Acrostic

This challenge was set by Cowtown Stacey on SS.

W: whirlwind. This is how I feel my life is on most days.
E: enjoyment. I really am trying to enjoy those little special things that just happen.
N: nice. I'm not the person that someone would travel miles to be with, but people don't dislike me either. I'm just 'nice'.
D: dreams. I have lots of dreams. Some will be revealed soon.
Y: youthful. I do try and keep up with the kids, and I am certainly younger than lots of other people around here I know. And how many other things start with y apart from yellow!?!

today...

today they are laying bitumen in the coldesac (sp?) at the end of the street. they are making a mess, but it is getting done

today I gave the workers a small thrill as Nath wanted to check out the machines and we had just got out of the pool. Bikini top and boardies. Not so hot, but it made them stop and look.

today it is really hot. 31degC. Blimey what will summer be like?

today I finished TJ's headpeice for her communion on the w/e. It looks lovely.

today I am going to take the kids to the beach after school so DH can get some sleep. The trucks have kept him awake all morning out in the street.

today I did a load of washing and remembered to hang it out 5 hours later

today I mulched around the palms I planted on the weekend

today I treated DH with hamburgers and chips for lunch which I picked up while out doing some chores.


And its only 2pm. More of today left yet.

All caught up

Ahhh, finally caught up. Yes its taken all morning - with a trip to school to drop the kiddies off, and to the hardware store for the pool chemicals, but I am finally caught up - on glo-girls blog. ::smiles::

So since I don't have the time to comment on everything I wanted to, glo this 'tis 4 u.
1. bananas: cost a fortune because of the cyclone that wiped them all out earlier this year. Hopefully the price will be reasonable again by Christmas. I am so hanging for a banana!
2. I also love spring. I feel like I am smiling everyday. And I luv your happy pics.
3. Nettles hurt. I got one it my butt one time when trying to have a squat whilst camping. Not fun!
Oh there was more but I can 'member right now.

Thanks for the email on how to refresh. Took about 5 minutes before the dumb 'puter would do it. I so gotta clear some space on this laptop. Its not happy.

I've been creating lat night. Its still spread across the kitchen table. I've oficially taken over 3 rooms now, the study - aka my happy place, the dining room and kitchen table. I so love it. I need a trip to the lss for some more goodies. I am craving some cute embellishments. I am hanging out to share, but I want to wait until its finished.

Chrissy shared pics of her new happy room. So I was thinking I need to buy myself some desk lamps and actually work back in my study. Something to cover the doorway would be cool too. One of those frangipani bamboo things.

On another note, my Mum retired last week. Her birthday was the Thursday , a week and a half ago, and she retired on the Friday. So I spent most of last week with her. It was actually pretty cool which was nice. Although we did clean my house. She doesn't stop when tired, so I had to keep going until I was ready to drop! Sad part is, although still tidy, it needs cleaning again. ::frown::

So on that cleaning part I've got a stack of dishes to wash, floor to sweep and the patio man coming over soon to give us the quote on finishing the rest of our awning. Better make sure I sit down for that one. Oh and I have to iron. I hate ironing.

Yesterday we gardened. We are moving part of the pool fence to accomodate the water slide that Santa bought last year. So that meant creating a new garden so we can move some of the pavers to go under the slide, and move the plants out of the garden - the ones that were actually growing and surviving this drought. I only have 2 weeks to water them with a watering can and then on October 1st we go to level 4 water restrictions and can't water at all. I so hope they survive. They are gardenias - my favourite.

All right, better go clean up.

::mwah:: !!

Proud Mummy Moment

Tonight TJ received her results for her tap exam that was on last Sunday. I am very proud to say that she received the highest grade available - gold star (98-100%) and was the highest mark in the studio. I am so proud of her achievement.

Last week

I went to blog last week, but silly blogger wouldn't let me log in. It does that alot. I'm thinking the 7pm time to blog is a bad one. Maybe everyone takes that 5 minutes they have after dinner before having to get the kids into the shower and bed to Blog.

When it wouldn't work I did my blog rounds. They are very slim rounds, but I happened upon Cowtown Staceys blog. I can feel in my heart what a wonderful person Stacey is, not that she knows me, nor I really know her. But I just know. Her blog that day was about all the abandoned blogs. Those that were given life but then just left hanging out there by themselves, forgotten and desserted. I wondered to myself if the actual Blogger site had something to do with that afterall I couldn't even post to my own blog.

Now today I found a post on SS by Cowtown Stacey about a topic to blog about. Its about the contents of your purse. And I found it interesting after reading a few posts that your handbag not only reveals alot about you, but is very personal.

One of the ladies at dancing yesterday turned up with a new handbag. It was very stylish and I really liked it tones and size and style. Its by Guess. $180AUD. Way way out of my price band. But just for a moment I tinkered with the idea of having something like it. Then I realised it totally wouldn't fit with the rest of my things - like the worn out jeans, mostly falling off because even my new ones don't fit, the mismatched style, I have things that I still wear that are 8-15 years old, very sad.

But then I thought about my current handbag. Its a back pack. Supposedly leather. It was very practicle because I could use 2 hands to push the pram when I got it. Its quite large inside and holds a heap of stuff, so when I ditched the nappy bag I could store a couple of emergency items (wipes/nappies/undies) in there just in case. Now things just get lost in the bottom of it, never to be found again. It has a compartment at the front which is magnetic - definately not good to put your eftpos or credit cards in there as it wipes the information, and it has side pockets which I store my phone in one of them. Only problem with that though is that you can't hear it when in a shopping centre, and even the vibrate is useless because the back pack is only touching your body by the straps, so you can't feel the vibrations. And I'm always worried that in a crowd it would be very easy for someone to open the zip on the bag and take my wallet, since its hanging behind me and I can't see it.

The thing though that makes me think its coming to the end of its lifespan, not that the straps are worn out, or the bag is wearing through, but the little leather tags on the zipper have broken off, so you have nothing to pull the zipper with. Surely thats a sign of plently of use, definate value for money, I think I paid about $20AUD for it. So do you think its time to be retired so I can get a nifty summer purse? I think so. Sure hope DH thinks so too. Maybe I can find one 'on sale' :D

I'll do the purse contents tomorrow. Gotta get the kidlets into bed now.

Later.

A better tomorrow

Theres been stuff going on at school again. 2 girls have been fighting over TJ. Its turning out really not pretty as the parents are now involved. Anyway one thing I keep saying is that so many people who live here, being a new area, tend to bring their old problems with them. The don't really do the fresh start, but redo the old and wonder why their life really hasn't changed just because they've moved.

And now I've found a quote to support my theory. Its from Reality Therapy, Part II
By Robert Ringer

"When the past no longer clogs your thought processes, it paves the way for you to focus on exercising the self-discipline to act responsibly in the present. Acting responsibly today is the key to fulfilling your needs and getting where you want to be in life tomorrow."

Heres to a better tomorrow...

Goodbye July...

What a big weekend we had. TJ made her Confirmation. I have a pic of her and the Bishop, but I haven't uploaded it yet. Brendan played 2 games of soccer, they flogged both teams,11-0 and 9-2. Nath got to go to his first birthday party, poor little guy had to go solo as DH and I were split between soccer and church, but he had a great time. Sunday we hit the beach. The kids had heaps of fun playing in the sand. I even went for a jog (shock horror). TJ and I made it to the point which was really cool (2km round trip). And in the afternoon we took the dog for a walk. Plus I worked Sat nite.

Yesterday I went swimming-laps, which was fine, but man was I exhausted last night. I could hardly lift my arms up, not even above my head, but just off my sides. Oh man.

Cheers

scrapaholics anon...ous

::sigh:: Its almost 8pm and the sweet darling children of mine are all in bed - here's hoping they stay that way, wait no, someones up already... I am hanging to do another page in my album. I've been tearing through the pages in the last couple of days, trying to make up for the rest of the year I think, lol.

I have some lovely pages to share, just no batteries in the camera at the moment, they've been borrowed for a toy, the life of being a Mum. I will need them back for the weekend though, big weekend ahead....that I will share later. Can't having you get all excited with too much info all at once!

Later!

Well its been a couple of weeks since I've blogged but I've been unwell. Not really sick sick chuck your guts up type of stuff, but now real well either. But today I felt a little better.

I think running TJ around to all her dance eisteddfods last week really did it for me. Not her mind u, she's fine. Just exhausted me. Must be getting old, lol.

Anyway for those that haven't seen it already, here's a pic of my girl looking gorgeous after her slow tap.

A whirlwind of activity

So much has happened since I last blogged. I lost another kilo and 1.5cm off my waist. My diet has basically bombed this week so I am hoping to not have put anything on. I did though fit back into an old pair of jeans, and I've decided to toss my other ones that keep falling down into the poor bin as soon as they are out of the wash.

I finally got to see my neice. She is cute and cries a lot. Trying to get to see her was a huge ordeal and I've been coping some grief about it all, but I'm not going to go there and share. Family. ::sigh::

TJ enrolled in a course for her confirmation last night. She has a 4 week course and then in July she will be confirmed by the Bishop. We have to find her a Patron Saint. I've been searching for a female Patron Saint of Dance, but there just doesn't seem to be one. So hopefully I can find her a saint that hasn't been hung,drawn and quartered. Those 1500's must've been an awful period of time.

There is dance eisteddfod's coming up so I've been sewing costumes and have a lot of sequining to do. My business is a little quiet, but after putting all these weeks of effort in, for little result I can really see that my family needs me. They need Mum. BMW needs help with his schoolwork. Nath needs help learning to write and what all the letters of the alphabet are. TJ just needs me. Some girl time. I so want to have a close relationship with her. I don't want to be so busy that I don't see her needs or help her when she needs it. And my house is a little tidier which always makes me feel better.

I baked this morning - cinnamon bun. And this week I've made chicken and pesto pies (yum) apple pie, and chicken and veg soup from scratch. It even tasted good. I've been a whirlwind of activity. Like I am nesting - just not preggers! Hopefully I can get some more pages finished in my album.

Later dudes and dudettes.

Just no luck

do you ever feel that you just don't get a break? I don't mean you're busy, I mean luck never goes your way. My upline deactivated. Yah me. So she sends her customers a letter saying she's deactivated and gives me their info to contact them. I gave her a heap of business cards to give to them. So I start contacting them. Oh I met 'leanne' at the markets and I'm going to go through her now. But can you send me a catalogue? Well no, not if you're going to buy through someone else. I guess she never bothered adding the business cards. Actually on confirmation, she never told them I would be looking after them.

Sometimes I just think maybe they're right. Maybe I should give up this 'silly thing I do' and get a 'real' job.

Diet update

I promised to update you as I weighed in each week. Unbelievable that I made a week, but I did.

I lost 3kg and 3cm from my waist (although I'm pretty confident that I was bloated last week, but hey I'll take the 3cm).

So back to eating more rabbitt food.

Later!