So last night was the first night we put Max in undies to sleep ... I was sure I would get woken up in the night to change the sheets.
I've been meaning to start TT him at night for ages, but wanted to buy another waterproof mattress protector before we tried. Finally got one on the weekend, so we could start.
He was so excited and proud of himself. No accidents, no wet sheets. So one night down, who knows how many to go ...
I'm very proud of him.
I ran my first 10k race on the weekend - you can read a riveting blow by blow account on the other blog if you're so inclined.
We're trying to decide what to do with the house renovation wise. It's very confusing and I wish we had a crystal ball to know what the right decision would be.
Uni is really dragging me down at the moment. I'm not enjoying it at all, I'm hating the subjects and wish it was all over. It's completely stuffing up my work/exercise/life balance - very inconsiderate really! ah well ... grit your teeth and get on with it.
Gotta go, the kids are climbing all over the dining room table ...
Monday 23 April 2007
Tuesday 3 April 2007
Tuesday twitters
I took the kids to one of the Kiddies Cushion concerts put on by the QLD orchestra today.
I must remember not to bother to go again. We've been before (not last Christmas but the one before) and I came away with exactly the same feelings. It's just too long and too over their heads, even though it's marketed at ages 2 - 6.
Maeve was scared, it was too noidy, and the conductor was dressed as Buzz Lightyear and she was terrified of him. Max was attentive for most of it, but by about 10 min to the end he's had enough and wanted to go.
Don't get me wrong, I think they do a fantastic job, I just don't think my kids appreciate it as much as I would like them to!!! I may take Max again, but won't take Maeve.
Other news - I registered myself for the 10k race at the Brisbane Marathon on April 22nd. Come along and see me come last!!!! Cheer me on - I'll be happy to cross the line regardless of my place or pace. I'm excited about it and am looking forward to it. It's a bit of a last minute decision, but the right one I think.
The lovely Trudi got booted out of the RS team at SBC. I am shocked. She knows what I think and how I feel, so I won't go into that any further, I am just really surprised she's out. Good luck with the pregnancy issues at the moment too Trudi.
I'm not missing scrapping at all. I even got my mag in the mail the other day and was even unphased by that.
Uni is stressing me out - and I'm avoiding what I know I should be doing!
A is in Melbourne for work until Wednesday night - he's been gone since Sunday. The kids are behaving themselves mostly. Stupidly I stayed up until midnight last night catching up on West Wing episodes (I just LOVE that show) and then Maeve decided to wake at 5am this morning ... argggghhhhh!!!!! I managed to stay in bed until 7am, but it wasn't a very pleasant nor un-interrupted sleep in.
Did I mention we have Guinea Pigs?? Max got one from my mum for his birthday - we have 2 of them as she brought another one 'round on monday "for maeve"!!! They're very cute actually, but I've nearly lost one of them, twice, when it escaped Max's lap and made a mad rush for under the fence to the neighbours yard. So we're a pet owning family now - it's nice. The kids are really enjoying it, I hoe the novelty lasts.
Ergh, I can smell a very stinky nappy. I'ts bath time, then bedtime ... for the kids, not me unfortunately - I won't be far behind them tonight that's for sure.
I must remember not to bother to go again. We've been before (not last Christmas but the one before) and I came away with exactly the same feelings. It's just too long and too over their heads, even though it's marketed at ages 2 - 6.
Maeve was scared, it was too noidy, and the conductor was dressed as Buzz Lightyear and she was terrified of him. Max was attentive for most of it, but by about 10 min to the end he's had enough and wanted to go.
Don't get me wrong, I think they do a fantastic job, I just don't think my kids appreciate it as much as I would like them to!!! I may take Max again, but won't take Maeve.
Other news - I registered myself for the 10k race at the Brisbane Marathon on April 22nd. Come along and see me come last!!!! Cheer me on - I'll be happy to cross the line regardless of my place or pace. I'm excited about it and am looking forward to it. It's a bit of a last minute decision, but the right one I think.
The lovely Trudi got booted out of the RS team at SBC. I am shocked. She knows what I think and how I feel, so I won't go into that any further, I am just really surprised she's out. Good luck with the pregnancy issues at the moment too Trudi.
I'm not missing scrapping at all. I even got my mag in the mail the other day and was even unphased by that.
Uni is stressing me out - and I'm avoiding what I know I should be doing!
A is in Melbourne for work until Wednesday night - he's been gone since Sunday. The kids are behaving themselves mostly. Stupidly I stayed up until midnight last night catching up on West Wing episodes (I just LOVE that show) and then Maeve decided to wake at 5am this morning ... argggghhhhh!!!!! I managed to stay in bed until 7am, but it wasn't a very pleasant nor un-interrupted sleep in.
Did I mention we have Guinea Pigs?? Max got one from my mum for his birthday - we have 2 of them as she brought another one 'round on monday "for maeve"!!! They're very cute actually, but I've nearly lost one of them, twice, when it escaped Max's lap and made a mad rush for under the fence to the neighbours yard. So we're a pet owning family now - it's nice. The kids are really enjoying it, I hoe the novelty lasts.
Ergh, I can smell a very stinky nappy. I'ts bath time, then bedtime ... for the kids, not me unfortunately - I won't be far behind them tonight that's for sure.
Saturday 31 March 2007
Happy Birthday to you
well, my little boy is now offically 4.
I'm a bit sad really. Where did those 4 years go, and where did my cute little baby go? Who is this young boy in his place?
Max was sooooo good at his party. I had had my concerns and thought we might see a few rude comments over presents, tantrums, fights etc. He was perfectly behaved. A little overwhelmed at the flow of presents at the start, but aside from that was really a good little boy.
I must say, Max has managed to find himself some really lovely little friends. Every child that was there had lovely manners and played wonderfully the entire day. Anyone with a 4 year old knows that this doesn't always happen, especially with the excitement and sugar rush of a party thrown in the mix.
The kids loved the Pinata and the treasure hunt. My wonderful sisters and mum helped me so much with the party. Bekah did all the games and even arranged little lucky dip presents for each and every child (and they were great presents, it must have cost her a heap - I offered to pay her but she refused), Beth brought a heap of face painting stuff with her and did beautiful face painting for any child who wanted it, Mum brought 'grown up food'. Beth and Bekah both flew here especially for the party, and Beth's help this morning while I was icing the cake and doing other preparations was invaluable. I'm lucky to have them, and I hope Max will one day appreciae how lucky he is to have a family who loves him so much.
Max was given some wonderful, and very generous presents.
It was great to have Grandma, John, and all the vdb's there.
My fears of a home party being declared 'boring' or not fun enough were far from being realised. Every parent there gushed over the home made cake, pinata, lucky dip prizes, DIY face painting, food etc etc ... I think there's such a tendancy these days to pay someone else to do everything else for you, to see someone doing it themselves is a novelty!
Anyway, I'm declaring the day a great success. I'm exhausted.
Aside from the success of the party, Max has croup. He's coughing like a seal, and has barely any voice. Poor little fella. The dr wrote a script for Prednisone (sp?) which is quite concerning - such a strong steroid. This is supposed to be if his breathing becomes laboured - whatever that means. Dr said Maeve will probably get it ... He was ok at the party, but what could we do, couldn't exactly cancel it could we?
I'm off to bed because I plan to run 6.6k tomorrow.
I'm a bit sad really. Where did those 4 years go, and where did my cute little baby go? Who is this young boy in his place?
Max was sooooo good at his party. I had had my concerns and thought we might see a few rude comments over presents, tantrums, fights etc. He was perfectly behaved. A little overwhelmed at the flow of presents at the start, but aside from that was really a good little boy.
I must say, Max has managed to find himself some really lovely little friends. Every child that was there had lovely manners and played wonderfully the entire day. Anyone with a 4 year old knows that this doesn't always happen, especially with the excitement and sugar rush of a party thrown in the mix.
The kids loved the Pinata and the treasure hunt. My wonderful sisters and mum helped me so much with the party. Bekah did all the games and even arranged little lucky dip presents for each and every child (and they were great presents, it must have cost her a heap - I offered to pay her but she refused), Beth brought a heap of face painting stuff with her and did beautiful face painting for any child who wanted it, Mum brought 'grown up food'. Beth and Bekah both flew here especially for the party, and Beth's help this morning while I was icing the cake and doing other preparations was invaluable. I'm lucky to have them, and I hope Max will one day appreciae how lucky he is to have a family who loves him so much.
Max was given some wonderful, and very generous presents.
It was great to have Grandma, John, and all the vdb's there.
My fears of a home party being declared 'boring' or not fun enough were far from being realised. Every parent there gushed over the home made cake, pinata, lucky dip prizes, DIY face painting, food etc etc ... I think there's such a tendancy these days to pay someone else to do everything else for you, to see someone doing it themselves is a novelty!
Anyway, I'm declaring the day a great success. I'm exhausted.
Aside from the success of the party, Max has croup. He's coughing like a seal, and has barely any voice. Poor little fella. The dr wrote a script for Prednisone (sp?) which is quite concerning - such a strong steroid. This is supposed to be if his breathing becomes laboured - whatever that means. Dr said Maeve will probably get it ... He was ok at the party, but what could we do, couldn't exactly cancel it could we?
I'm off to bed because I plan to run 6.6k tomorrow.
Saturday 24 March 2007
catch up
OK, so I haven't done a real post here for a while - there's more to life than scrapbooking ... yeah, like running!!!
Ahhh, ummmm, what have we been up to?
Last night took the kids for dinner at Decks (southbank) - Maeve absolutely loved the huge albino fish they have in a tank at the front, of course, this meant she didn't want to stay in her seat at all and wanted to keep getting down to look at the fish!
As far as seafood goes, it's a pretty crappy resturant - we won't be going there again. But it was quick and easy and the kids were tired, so it was ok I suppose.
Uni is gearing up with major assignment topics released this week ... arghhh, who am I kidding?! I have so much on my plate right now ... I really have to get better at managing my time and not wasting it fluffing around on the computer. I'm managing to keep up with most of the readings and required on line comments ... just, feels like I'm treading water a bit and any minute now it's all going to go under! I so prefer to study on campus though. But that's not going to happen, so I guess I just stop whinging about it and get on with it.
I've decided to take a break from scrapping for a while. Perhaps a few months. I just feel like I'm not keeping up with everything at the moment ... study, housework, spending time with the kids ... I just feel so disorganised and my life feels a bit out of control. I need a bit more order and organisation. So I'm packing all my stuff away - which means we'll have a dining room table again!!
Feeling a bit unmotivated with the gym lately. Most days I'd rather go out for a run than work on the cardio equipment at the gym - this means good things for my running, but I just paid for a 9 mth membership at the gym, so that kinda sucks, not that I want to stop going, I;m there 4 days a week and I'm a bit bored of it at times I suppose.
I'm going to do a 5k fun run at sanctuary cove on the 15th of April - mum's going to do it with me - my first ever - and a lead up for my first ever 10k race at the GCM in July - I didn't want to go into that without having ever lined up on a starting line before. So that's in 3 weeks - it shouldn't be hard as I'm running 5k at least once a week now anyway.
Max is 4 this week - thursday - can I believe it? Nope. I look at him sometimes and wonder what happened to that little baby boy ... He's having his first ever real party next saturday - a million kids, face painting, junky food, pinata, games, the works. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. SHould be fun though. I hope he behaves himself and is gracious in receiving gifts, remebers to say thank you and I hope there are no tears and no fights - am I asking too much?! I've got my brother lined up to take lots of pictures on the day - so will come back with a party report and post some pics!
So in line with getting more organised and cutting out a few things to make room for others, I'm not sure how much I'll blog here. I'm going to keep the other blog going, so if anyone wants to be submitted to my ramblings about running, trying to lose weight and get fit, feel free to head on over to : http://fattyboombaladah.blogspot.com/ which is on the sidebar here too. Your comments there will be as welcomed as they are here. I'm sure I'll update this page occasionally, just not as often as the other one...
Ahhh, ummmm, what have we been up to?
Last night took the kids for dinner at Decks (southbank) - Maeve absolutely loved the huge albino fish they have in a tank at the front, of course, this meant she didn't want to stay in her seat at all and wanted to keep getting down to look at the fish!
As far as seafood goes, it's a pretty crappy resturant - we won't be going there again. But it was quick and easy and the kids were tired, so it was ok I suppose.
Uni is gearing up with major assignment topics released this week ... arghhh, who am I kidding?! I have so much on my plate right now ... I really have to get better at managing my time and not wasting it fluffing around on the computer. I'm managing to keep up with most of the readings and required on line comments ... just, feels like I'm treading water a bit and any minute now it's all going to go under! I so prefer to study on campus though. But that's not going to happen, so I guess I just stop whinging about it and get on with it.
I've decided to take a break from scrapping for a while. Perhaps a few months. I just feel like I'm not keeping up with everything at the moment ... study, housework, spending time with the kids ... I just feel so disorganised and my life feels a bit out of control. I need a bit more order and organisation. So I'm packing all my stuff away - which means we'll have a dining room table again!!
Feeling a bit unmotivated with the gym lately. Most days I'd rather go out for a run than work on the cardio equipment at the gym - this means good things for my running, but I just paid for a 9 mth membership at the gym, so that kinda sucks, not that I want to stop going, I;m there 4 days a week and I'm a bit bored of it at times I suppose.
I'm going to do a 5k fun run at sanctuary cove on the 15th of April - mum's going to do it with me - my first ever - and a lead up for my first ever 10k race at the GCM in July - I didn't want to go into that without having ever lined up on a starting line before. So that's in 3 weeks - it shouldn't be hard as I'm running 5k at least once a week now anyway.
Max is 4 this week - thursday - can I believe it? Nope. I look at him sometimes and wonder what happened to that little baby boy ... He's having his first ever real party next saturday - a million kids, face painting, junky food, pinata, games, the works. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. SHould be fun though. I hope he behaves himself and is gracious in receiving gifts, remebers to say thank you and I hope there are no tears and no fights - am I asking too much?! I've got my brother lined up to take lots of pictures on the day - so will come back with a party report and post some pics!
So in line with getting more organised and cutting out a few things to make room for others, I'm not sure how much I'll blog here. I'm going to keep the other blog going, so if anyone wants to be submitted to my ramblings about running, trying to lose weight and get fit, feel free to head on over to : http://fattyboombaladah.blogspot.com/ which is on the sidebar here too. Your comments there will be as welcomed as they are here. I'm sure I'll update this page occasionally, just not as often as the other one...
Monday 19 March 2007
I'm out
Not surprisingly my otp item didn't get me through to week 7 of the comp.
In a way I'm relieved. Uni has slipped behind and we're only a coupld of weeks into the semester, my housework is piling up and my kids are being neglected. So at least now I don't *have* to worry about scrapping, although I'd like to keep playing for minor prizes etc... but it won't be a priority.
I never expected to make it to the end anyway. I wish everyone who is still in the game all the best and I truely hope the best, most deserving person wins, despite the twists and turns (which, although I wish no one ill will or anything of the sort, has been a source of annoyance to me - but that's the game I suppose)
Now, off to catch up on some housework! yay ...
In a way I'm relieved. Uni has slipped behind and we're only a coupld of weeks into the semester, my housework is piling up and my kids are being neglected. So at least now I don't *have* to worry about scrapping, although I'd like to keep playing for minor prizes etc... but it won't be a priority.
I never expected to make it to the end anyway. I wish everyone who is still in the game all the best and I truely hope the best, most deserving person wins, despite the twists and turns (which, although I wish no one ill will or anything of the sort, has been a source of annoyance to me - but that's the game I suppose)
Now, off to catch up on some housework! yay ...
Saturday 17 March 2007
Week 6 - FNG and challenge
So FNG was to make a thank you card for our team mate, had to be a 2 fold card, had to have sewing, 3 buttons and couldn't use the phrase "thank you"
here's what I came up with - It didn't really come out the way I wanted it too ...
The challenge this week was an OTP thing - had to be something to go on or on top of the fridge - which kinda put me off to begin with - our fridge isn't magnetic and is surrounded by cupboards ... in addition to that I'm just not a fan of OTP. Don't get me wrong - I love what some people do with altered stuff etc, but for me, scrapbooking is about preserving memories on the page. My house is cluttered enough without adding OTP stuff to the chaos!! My house is very simple, clean lines, neutral colours, and I just don't see a place for OTP stuff in it - IYKWIM????
This week I bought a pot of Gesso and a pot of texture past from Bunnings - I used the Gesso to paint the bills container white and will hopefully get brave enough to useteh texture paste on a LO sometime soon!!
Had a bit of a cruisy Saturday today - went out early for a run at new farm park as I was meeting some girls from church there for a picnic breakfast. Came home did a bit of tidying up outside in preparation for the big birthday party for Max in 2 weeks (arghhhhhhhhhhhh!!) and that was about it really!!
A's at his brother's watching the football and the kids are in bed ... I'm all on my lonesome tonight!
here's what I came up with - It didn't really come out the way I wanted it too ...
The challenge this week was an OTP thing - had to be something to go on or on top of the fridge - which kinda put me off to begin with - our fridge isn't magnetic and is surrounded by cupboards ... in addition to that I'm just not a fan of OTP. Don't get me wrong - I love what some people do with altered stuff etc, but for me, scrapbooking is about preserving memories on the page. My house is cluttered enough without adding OTP stuff to the chaos!! My house is very simple, clean lines, neutral colours, and I just don't see a place for OTP stuff in it - IYKWIM????
Plus I had that essay due, and just couldn't even think about scrapping until that was done.
So, enough excuses - here's my effort - very simple, and I don't think it'll get me through this week ...
This week I bought a pot of Gesso and a pot of texture past from Bunnings - I used the Gesso to paint the bills container white and will hopefully get brave enough to useteh texture paste on a LO sometime soon!!
Had a bit of a cruisy Saturday today - went out early for a run at new farm park as I was meeting some girls from church there for a picnic breakfast. Came home did a bit of tidying up outside in preparation for the big birthday party for Max in 2 weeks (arghhhhhhhhhhhh!!) and that was about it really!!
A's at his brother's watching the football and the kids are in bed ... I'm all on my lonesome tonight!
Friday 16 March 2007
quick entry
I have to drop max at kindy on about 10 minutes ...
I've started my OTP project for the comp ... but I'm not sure it's going to get me through this week anyway ... I'm sure of them will be fabulous. Anyway, whatever, I've done what I can in the time I had and the other committments which unfortunately took a higher priority.
Some idiot nearly rear ended me in the car yesterday. He was following me so closely and I had to stop rather suddenly for a car which entered a round a bout and didn't indicate. Well, the guy behind me had to slam on his brakes and pull up to the side - then he had the nerve to toot his horn at me!!! Needless to say I had a few words with him via my rear vision mirror. grrr.
Submitted my first assignment for uni yesterday. Major essay questions are released today. Must start some research in the next week or there will be nothing left in the library. The plan for uni this year is just to pass. Distinctions and high distinctions would be a bonus, but I just want to get it done and finished, then I'm not sure what. I don't really want to work right now, but at least it will be done.
Today I have to tidy my house. My housework has suffered significantly during this week ... and seeing as though I'm not exactly a domestic godess, that's saying something. The place is a mess and I'm feeling very disorganised.
Off to the gym this morning for Box. I love that class! The running is going well - but that's all on the other blog.
Well, I don't really have anything much else to say. Max's lip is better and the dentist gave him the all clear (after a bill of $200, thank you very much - barely got anything back from extras either - what a con).
Gotta go or we'll be late for kindy. Oh, I've decided to do cupcakes for Max's birthday - I spoke to one of his teachers and she said they'll have one cake & song at morning tea and the other at lunchtime, so 2 seperate celebrations. So now I have to find a cupcake recipe that is good. Anyone got a failsafe tried and tested one??
I've started my OTP project for the comp ... but I'm not sure it's going to get me through this week anyway ... I'm sure of them will be fabulous. Anyway, whatever, I've done what I can in the time I had and the other committments which unfortunately took a higher priority.
Some idiot nearly rear ended me in the car yesterday. He was following me so closely and I had to stop rather suddenly for a car which entered a round a bout and didn't indicate. Well, the guy behind me had to slam on his brakes and pull up to the side - then he had the nerve to toot his horn at me!!! Needless to say I had a few words with him via my rear vision mirror. grrr.
Submitted my first assignment for uni yesterday. Major essay questions are released today. Must start some research in the next week or there will be nothing left in the library. The plan for uni this year is just to pass. Distinctions and high distinctions would be a bonus, but I just want to get it done and finished, then I'm not sure what. I don't really want to work right now, but at least it will be done.
Today I have to tidy my house. My housework has suffered significantly during this week ... and seeing as though I'm not exactly a domestic godess, that's saying something. The place is a mess and I'm feeling very disorganised.
Off to the gym this morning for Box. I love that class! The running is going well - but that's all on the other blog.
Well, I don't really have anything much else to say. Max's lip is better and the dentist gave him the all clear (after a bill of $200, thank you very much - barely got anything back from extras either - what a con).
Gotta go or we'll be late for kindy. Oh, I've decided to do cupcakes for Max's birthday - I spoke to one of his teachers and she said they'll have one cake & song at morning tea and the other at lunchtime, so 2 seperate celebrations. So now I have to find a cupcake recipe that is good. Anyone got a failsafe tried and tested one??
Tuesday 13 March 2007
wwek 6 reality scrap
well, trudi & I made it thorugh another round and now they've split the teams up and this week's challenge is an OTP. I suck at OTP. I can't think of anything to make, it's really stressing me out!! I think I'll be packing my bags this week ...
Friday 9 March 2007
some weeks are just crap
for seemingly no real reason.
Scrapping has been a real challenge this week - just not feeling into it - I'm just glad the comp is a road block this week and it's up to Trudi to get us through (no pressure Trudi!) because if I think it was up to me, we'd be in certain trouble.
Just been feeling really flat this week.
We had an interesting morning on Thursday - long story short - Max slipped over inside whilst running and smacked his face on the ground, split his lip open and gave his front teeth a bit of a knock. Spent a good hour at the doctors with one very upset little boy. Thankfully A had only just left home and not on the bus yet and he was able to come home and look after Maeve while I took Max to the Dr. His lip is pretty swollen and we have a dentist appointment on Tuesday to see if there's any damage to his teeth. Lots of blood, lots of tears, but I think he'll be ok. Here's a pic from last night:
I really ought to go and try and finish this scrap page (it isn't supposed to be this hard y'know?).
Finished the LO - I am constantly frustrated at the lack of picture quality we have to submit due to having to reduce the pic size. If anyone knows how to reduce without losing so much detail, I would love to know.
Journalling is the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem "How Do I Love Thee" ...well part of it anyway because I couldn't fit the whole poen onto the page! Reads:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Scrapping has been a real challenge this week - just not feeling into it - I'm just glad the comp is a road block this week and it's up to Trudi to get us through (no pressure Trudi!) because if I think it was up to me, we'd be in certain trouble.
Just been feeling really flat this week.
We had an interesting morning on Thursday - long story short - Max slipped over inside whilst running and smacked his face on the ground, split his lip open and gave his front teeth a bit of a knock. Spent a good hour at the doctors with one very upset little boy. Thankfully A had only just left home and not on the bus yet and he was able to come home and look after Maeve while I took Max to the Dr. His lip is pretty swollen and we have a dentist appointment on Tuesday to see if there's any damage to his teeth. Lots of blood, lots of tears, but I think he'll be ok. Here's a pic from last night:
Onto other matters ... It seems A & I never really get to spend much time together these days. Between work, kids, church, scrapping and my obsession with exercise, we're like ships passing in the night. It's not good, but I don't know what to do. This week we've spent only one night at home together (monday night). Tonight will be no different, the weekend will see a bit of a change, but it's just not enough really is it? It's all about balance and at the moment I don't feel like we have much balance as a couple.
I really ought to go and try and finish this scrap page (it isn't supposed to be this hard y'know?).
Finished the LO - I am constantly frustrated at the lack of picture quality we have to submit due to having to reduce the pic size. If anyone knows how to reduce without losing so much detail, I would love to know.
Journalling is the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem "How Do I Love Thee" ...well part of it anyway because I couldn't fit the whole poen onto the page! Reads:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Tuesday 6 March 2007
Finally ... !
Finally found out we made i t through to the next round of the comp ... yay! This week is a road block challenge, which means only Trudi's LO contributes to our group points ... I ahve every faith in her and know she'll come up with something great. It's a Basic Grey challenge this week, using their Blush papers, so will be great to work with papers that I love.
Took the kids to the library this morning and Maeve had a total melt down as we were leaving, then when she got over it, Max decided it was his turn to throw a tantrum. I was very embarrassed. He was hitting me and throwing himself on the floor, screaming and just being plain silly. All because I wouldn't buy him a cheese & bacon roll from the bakery (because the ones they made at that particular bakery were horrible in my opinion) - instead I bought him one from Coles. I don't know what to do with him these days. He's so defiant and disobedient and talks back and shouts at me and hits me ... where did my sweet little boy go??? I hope he gets through this stage very quickly.
You can't help but think you've done something to create this little monster ... my parenting skills must really suck or something. I don't know. I just feel terrible about it. I can see that people get quite sick of him quite quickly - he's so bossy with other kids (and adults for that matter) telling them they're doing it wrong, or "that's a bad idea" is another favourite. I'm extremely frustrated with him and myself for my lack of being able to deal with him.
Just had a call from my brother - him and his 2 flatmates got an eviction notice last night - the unit is on the market and they want them out in 2 weeks!!!! For some reason they want to sell the unit vacant - which seems very strange to me. I think one of his flatmates is OS for another week as well. 2 weeks to find an affordable, decent 3 bedroom appartment in this part of town is just ridiculous. I told him to call the RTA and find out what their rights are. Anyway, I told him he could crash at our place for a few weeks should he need to. He should just buy the unit ...
I've painted all the kids windows and the first coat of gloss on 2 of our windows. 1 big window to do in our room - will do the undercoat tomorrow morning and then gloss on thursday morning and then again on friday morning, with the weekend to dry totally and then the blinds go on on Monday .... woo hoooooo!!! You have no idea how long I've waited for these!!! It's going to make a huge difference to the bedrooms and look of the house. Now if we can get the lounge room done and get our wooden blinds back on this house would be almost finished!!!!!
Better go think about what's for dinner tonight.
oh, I was very bad today and bought myself a polar HRM - should arrive tomorrow - I can't wait.
Took the kids to the library this morning and Maeve had a total melt down as we were leaving, then when she got over it, Max decided it was his turn to throw a tantrum. I was very embarrassed. He was hitting me and throwing himself on the floor, screaming and just being plain silly. All because I wouldn't buy him a cheese & bacon roll from the bakery (because the ones they made at that particular bakery were horrible in my opinion) - instead I bought him one from Coles. I don't know what to do with him these days. He's so defiant and disobedient and talks back and shouts at me and hits me ... where did my sweet little boy go??? I hope he gets through this stage very quickly.
You can't help but think you've done something to create this little monster ... my parenting skills must really suck or something. I don't know. I just feel terrible about it. I can see that people get quite sick of him quite quickly - he's so bossy with other kids (and adults for that matter) telling them they're doing it wrong, or "that's a bad idea" is another favourite. I'm extremely frustrated with him and myself for my lack of being able to deal with him.
Just had a call from my brother - him and his 2 flatmates got an eviction notice last night - the unit is on the market and they want them out in 2 weeks!!!! For some reason they want to sell the unit vacant - which seems very strange to me. I think one of his flatmates is OS for another week as well. 2 weeks to find an affordable, decent 3 bedroom appartment in this part of town is just ridiculous. I told him to call the RTA and find out what their rights are. Anyway, I told him he could crash at our place for a few weeks should he need to. He should just buy the unit ...
I've painted all the kids windows and the first coat of gloss on 2 of our windows. 1 big window to do in our room - will do the undercoat tomorrow morning and then gloss on thursday morning and then again on friday morning, with the weekend to dry totally and then the blinds go on on Monday .... woo hoooooo!!! You have no idea how long I've waited for these!!! It's going to make a huge difference to the bedrooms and look of the house. Now if we can get the lounge room done and get our wooden blinds back on this house would be almost finished!!!!!
Better go think about what's for dinner tonight.
oh, I was very bad today and bought myself a polar HRM - should arrive tomorrow - I can't wait.
Monday 5 March 2007
A good weekend
We're back from our family reunion weekend at Sommerset - it was really enjoyable. In fact, I enjoyed it more than being at someone's house for a day - at least at the camp we had our own space and could escape the madness for a while if we wanted/needed to.
I think the general consensus was that we should make it an annual event, although next time make sure there are a few more structured activities and a timetable, and perhaps make it 3 days instead of 2.
The kids had a ball, although the vdb kids and the waters kids didn't really mix much - hopefully that will change as they grow older. Mostly Liam, Max, Joss, Ellie and Maeve palyed really well with minimal fights and arguments, so that was nice. By the last day everyone was a bit tired and ratty and I was very ready to go home!
Still no news on results from this week of Reality Scrap ... they're having some technical issues (again) with the forum, so we're waiting for that to be resolved. The LOs this week were amazing though and I think it'll be a tough week to make it through. It's a little frustrating that the voting/scoring isn't a little more transparent - I'd love to know how the DT scores each LO (i.e their criteria) and I'd love to know what effect the winner of the FNG has on who goes through (like, are they told the scores before they choose who to take a point from etc) ... but I'm trying not to get too worried about all of that and just scrap. It's just a game and I'm not going to get caught up in the twists and turns and voting and scoring etc etc ...
2nd week of uni this week and I already feel like I'm behind in my reading - thanks mainly to my textbooks not arriving in time - Boy there are some whingers in the world. The units I'm doing, one of them is purely on line - they post electronic versions of the study guide and readings for you and all communication and tutorials take place on line ... there's this one guy who keeps complaining about how long it is taking him to access these documents (cos he;s on crappy dial up) and how much it is costing him in time and resources to print stuff - Man, get a life - you enroled in an ON LINE UNIT - what do you expect????? pffft.
Still haven't sold the other car - no one wants a V6 these days. Wish we could sell it then we might just be able to get a builder to come and do our deck and bathroom and finish this palce off. I would soooooo love to have the decks done.
Our blinds get installed next monday - YAY!! I have more painting to do before then ... boooo! I don't mind the painting, but it's the cleaning the brushes with turps and stuff after that bugs me. But there's no getting around that. We bought some good brushes this time - it makes such a difference.
Anyway, I'm just procrastinating I really ought to go and paint or put children to bed, or clean my house, or do uni reading, or do anything other than this!!!!!
I think the general consensus was that we should make it an annual event, although next time make sure there are a few more structured activities and a timetable, and perhaps make it 3 days instead of 2.
The kids had a ball, although the vdb kids and the waters kids didn't really mix much - hopefully that will change as they grow older. Mostly Liam, Max, Joss, Ellie and Maeve palyed really well with minimal fights and arguments, so that was nice. By the last day everyone was a bit tired and ratty and I was very ready to go home!
Still no news on results from this week of Reality Scrap ... they're having some technical issues (again) with the forum, so we're waiting for that to be resolved. The LOs this week were amazing though and I think it'll be a tough week to make it through. It's a little frustrating that the voting/scoring isn't a little more transparent - I'd love to know how the DT scores each LO (i.e their criteria) and I'd love to know what effect the winner of the FNG has on who goes through (like, are they told the scores before they choose who to take a point from etc) ... but I'm trying not to get too worried about all of that and just scrap. It's just a game and I'm not going to get caught up in the twists and turns and voting and scoring etc etc ...
2nd week of uni this week and I already feel like I'm behind in my reading - thanks mainly to my textbooks not arriving in time - Boy there are some whingers in the world. The units I'm doing, one of them is purely on line - they post electronic versions of the study guide and readings for you and all communication and tutorials take place on line ... there's this one guy who keeps complaining about how long it is taking him to access these documents (cos he;s on crappy dial up) and how much it is costing him in time and resources to print stuff - Man, get a life - you enroled in an ON LINE UNIT - what do you expect????? pffft.
Still haven't sold the other car - no one wants a V6 these days. Wish we could sell it then we might just be able to get a builder to come and do our deck and bathroom and finish this palce off. I would soooooo love to have the decks done.
Our blinds get installed next monday - YAY!! I have more painting to do before then ... boooo! I don't mind the painting, but it's the cleaning the brushes with turps and stuff after that bugs me. But there's no getting around that. We bought some good brushes this time - it makes such a difference.
Anyway, I'm just procrastinating I really ought to go and paint or put children to bed, or clean my house, or do uni reading, or do anything other than this!!!!!
Friday 2 March 2007
challenge 4
Just thought I'd quickly post my week 4 challenge for the sbc comp. The challenge guidelines are below.
I'm really pleased with the way this came out in the end.
Now, off to pack for our weekend away - I have 1 hour in which to do everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Reality Scrap Survival Kit contains two Pink Martini papers. These are the preferred papers for this challenge. Requirements: ABC-123 (Challenge inspired by Nancy Kupec, USA) EASY OPTION The following are your required inclusions. You may also add other items to the layout, but are restricted to the clauses below (meaning that if it says two patterned papers, you may only use two patterned papers, for example). * A - Adults, topic of layout must be concerning adults - siblings, parents, friends, etc (NOT children, animals, etc) * B - Bling, use some bling on your layout - gems, rhinestones, glitter, etc (unlimited amount, it just has to be there) * C - Chipboard, use THREE (3) pieces only * 1 - ONE Photo, any size * 2 - TWO Patterned papers, preferably from the Pink Martini Range. * 3 - THREE x 6" lengths of ribbon (hint: they do not have to remain in three lengths, you may cut them, but still have to use all of the lengths on your layout somewhere; they do not have to be from the kit) DIFFICULT OPTION * ABC-123 as above PLUS... * Go "Freestyle" - Make it arsty, lots of doodling and interesting journaling style. * Add some random machine stitching. * Finally, NO paper or photograph can be 'square on' on the page. 'Square on' meaning parallel to the edges of the layout.
Monday 26 February 2007
crazy
It's midnight ... I will have to be up in 6 hours ... I can't sleep ... my mind is racing with all the things I have to get done this week - I wish we came with an off button!
made it through to the next round of the comp at SBC ... thanks mainly to the skill of my wonderful partner, Trudi ... she was awesome this week - her score this week was just amazing! She totally deserved it and now I feel like I'm dragging the chain a bit there! Hopefully this week will be a better one for me. I really want to try and break out of the normal style I normally do - It's such a comfort zone and can get so boring. This weeks challenge might help me do that a bit - some freestyling ... arghhhhh!!! I think this is why I can't sleep!! I'm going to give it a go and see what happens! Who knows, I may just like it!
This week is going to be such a busy one - I'm not sure where I'm going to find the time for everything.
I have to try and get our windows painted so the blinds can be installed!!!
I have New Beginings night for the girls at church on Wednesday and have altered notebooks to finish for that as well as a bunch of food to organise and other stuff
I have to pack for our family camp on the weekend
I have uni starting this week, so have readings and questions for that to do
I have the scrapbook comp LO to do
I have to send invites for max's birthday party
and lastly I have a house that looks a bit like a disaster zone ...
I'm sure I've forgotten something!
So I'm feeling a little stressed and anxious about getting everything done.
Had my PT at the gym today and over the last 5 weeks have lost 17cm combined off my bust, waist, hips, thighs and arm ... so pretty pleased about that.
Maeve has been so grizzly lately, I hope she passes this phase soon - it's driving me nuts.
We had the Kindy guinnea pigs for the weekend - it was much more fun than I thought it would be. Both the kids absolutely loved it, and once Max got told off a few times for hurting them (not on purpose I don't think) he was quite gentle with them and enjoyed playing with them, feeding them and patting them. Maeve was funny - she spent most of the time squealing at them!
I'm tired, now if my legs would stop aching from my PT this morning, I might be able to get to sleep.
made it through to the next round of the comp at SBC ... thanks mainly to the skill of my wonderful partner, Trudi ... she was awesome this week - her score this week was just amazing! She totally deserved it and now I feel like I'm dragging the chain a bit there! Hopefully this week will be a better one for me. I really want to try and break out of the normal style I normally do - It's such a comfort zone and can get so boring. This weeks challenge might help me do that a bit - some freestyling ... arghhhhh!!! I think this is why I can't sleep!! I'm going to give it a go and see what happens! Who knows, I may just like it!
This week is going to be such a busy one - I'm not sure where I'm going to find the time for everything.
I have to try and get our windows painted so the blinds can be installed!!!
I have New Beginings night for the girls at church on Wednesday and have altered notebooks to finish for that as well as a bunch of food to organise and other stuff
I have to pack for our family camp on the weekend
I have uni starting this week, so have readings and questions for that to do
I have the scrapbook comp LO to do
I have to send invites for max's birthday party
and lastly I have a house that looks a bit like a disaster zone ...
I'm sure I've forgotten something!
So I'm feeling a little stressed and anxious about getting everything done.
Had my PT at the gym today and over the last 5 weeks have lost 17cm combined off my bust, waist, hips, thighs and arm ... so pretty pleased about that.
Maeve has been so grizzly lately, I hope she passes this phase soon - it's driving me nuts.
We had the Kindy guinnea pigs for the weekend - it was much more fun than I thought it would be. Both the kids absolutely loved it, and once Max got told off a few times for hurting them (not on purpose I don't think) he was quite gentle with them and enjoyed playing with them, feeding them and patting them. Maeve was funny - she spent most of the time squealing at them!
I'm tired, now if my legs would stop aching from my PT this morning, I might be able to get to sleep.
Friday 23 February 2007
stuff ... original, I know.
So here's my next entry for the scrapping comp - we had to use at least 3 different sheets of Bazzill, one of which had to either be a decorative edge or bazzill bling (I used both). It had to have a hand cut title and we had to make our own embellishment out of bazzill and could use brads, stitching, staples and rub ons. We had to have journalling and at least 1 photo. Boy, it was hard. Not using PP was a real challenge.
Need to do some housework today and then I'm off to a crop night at scrapbook city tonight ... will take a page or 2 to do - hoepfully get some scrapping for me done that's not for a comp! although I'm hesitant to use any photos as I keep thinking they might be the perfect photo for the next challenge!!!
Friday 16 February 2007
Withdrawl symptoms
The SBC website has been down forthe last 2 days and I'm DYING to see some of this weeks LOs for the comp ...
3Angels Scrpping have just announced their new additions to their DT - WOW!! That is going to be one hell of a team. Clair, Cat, Dee & Nat ... wow! I'll be watching with interest. 4 very different styles, but 4 very very talented ladies! Congratulations!
Had a great visit to the Osteo on Thursday and my neck feels almost back to normal - she said the fact that I'm continuing to exercise will probably mean it will take longer to totally heal, but she understands that I don't want to have to take a week off and do nothing, so that's all good.
At Christmastime I arranged for my family to have some photos taken ... I spoke to the photographer (let's call her Lou) and explained the job to her (i.e - 14 ppl, 0nly 3 of which were children - that we wanted natural, unposed photos etc etc), she said it was all fine, so each of us paid a $25 sitting fee, she was there for only 2 hours, and in the end we got only 116 proofs to choose from, there were only 3 of the kids just by themselves, the whole group shots were useless, dappled light etc and it wasn't natural looking at all. There were some shots which were good, but her post production skills were just terrible. Initially the proofs came back with this green tinge to them, so we asked her to fix them (she said she could) as well as fix the contrast up as all the skin tones were really washed out - she said she would. Some things she said she couldn't fix, but I've been told any photographer worth their salt would know how to do it in PS ... so the new gallery of proofs came back last night and I was just astounded. The woman has less post production skills than I do - and believe me, that's saying a lot. So I said I was sick of dealing with her and handballed it to Beth - we've decided to ask her for a disc of the RAW images - disc of the images as they are was going to cost us $550 ... If anyone can resolve the situation, then Beth can - if Lou won't play nice (which she has refused to do so far), then I'm just going to actuvely discourage anyone I know to ever employ her to take their photograph... not nice, but I'm sooooo angry about the whole thing. It's ruining my day.
I have some altered notebooks I should be working on ...
I'm going to a crop at SBC next Friday night - my first ever crop. FNG is supposed to be tonight, but the site is down, so who knows what will happen - Sara said it was going to be a 'doozy' of a games!!!! Not sure I like the sound of that!!
This has been Max's first full 3 day week of kindy - he's loving it. His teachers are lovely and he has such a wonderful time there - every day I go to pick him up it's a struggle to get him to leave - he just wants to stay and paint and draw and paly!!! I'm so glad he's enjoying it. He comes home soooooo tired, because he refuses to sleep there. He hasn't had a daytime sleep since he was about 2 - but he has quiet time at home watching a DVD or reading books - kindy just wears him out so much! Yesterday he could barely keep his eyes open before dinner - unfortunately he seemed to get a 2nd wind right before bed!! Little bugger!
A's home today for a day off - he's at bunnings and when he gets back we're going to go somewhere quick for lunch before picking Max up.
I'm starting to feel as though I need a bit of a break from everything ...
3Angels Scrpping have just announced their new additions to their DT - WOW!! That is going to be one hell of a team. Clair, Cat, Dee & Nat ... wow! I'll be watching with interest. 4 very different styles, but 4 very very talented ladies! Congratulations!
Had a great visit to the Osteo on Thursday and my neck feels almost back to normal - she said the fact that I'm continuing to exercise will probably mean it will take longer to totally heal, but she understands that I don't want to have to take a week off and do nothing, so that's all good.
At Christmastime I arranged for my family to have some photos taken ... I spoke to the photographer (let's call her Lou) and explained the job to her (i.e - 14 ppl, 0nly 3 of which were children - that we wanted natural, unposed photos etc etc), she said it was all fine, so each of us paid a $25 sitting fee, she was there for only 2 hours, and in the end we got only 116 proofs to choose from, there were only 3 of the kids just by themselves, the whole group shots were useless, dappled light etc and it wasn't natural looking at all. There were some shots which were good, but her post production skills were just terrible. Initially the proofs came back with this green tinge to them, so we asked her to fix them (she said she could) as well as fix the contrast up as all the skin tones were really washed out - she said she would. Some things she said she couldn't fix, but I've been told any photographer worth their salt would know how to do it in PS ... so the new gallery of proofs came back last night and I was just astounded. The woman has less post production skills than I do - and believe me, that's saying a lot. So I said I was sick of dealing with her and handballed it to Beth - we've decided to ask her for a disc of the RAW images - disc of the images as they are was going to cost us $550 ... If anyone can resolve the situation, then Beth can - if Lou won't play nice (which she has refused to do so far), then I'm just going to actuvely discourage anyone I know to ever employ her to take their photograph... not nice, but I'm sooooo angry about the whole thing. It's ruining my day.
I have some altered notebooks I should be working on ...
I'm going to a crop at SBC next Friday night - my first ever crop. FNG is supposed to be tonight, but the site is down, so who knows what will happen - Sara said it was going to be a 'doozy' of a games!!!! Not sure I like the sound of that!!
This has been Max's first full 3 day week of kindy - he's loving it. His teachers are lovely and he has such a wonderful time there - every day I go to pick him up it's a struggle to get him to leave - he just wants to stay and paint and draw and paly!!! I'm so glad he's enjoying it. He comes home soooooo tired, because he refuses to sleep there. He hasn't had a daytime sleep since he was about 2 - but he has quiet time at home watching a DVD or reading books - kindy just wears him out so much! Yesterday he could barely keep his eyes open before dinner - unfortunately he seemed to get a 2nd wind right before bed!! Little bugger!
A's home today for a day off - he's at bunnings and when he gets back we're going to go somewhere quick for lunch before picking Max up.
I'm starting to feel as though I need a bit of a break from everything ...
Wednesday 14 February 2007
Here's my latest LO for the comp ...
Journalling reads : "...what can the matter be? Maeve, you are such a DRAMA QUEEN! You can turn on the tears with the best of them. At the tender age of 18 months you have already perfected the art of TANTRUM THROWING! You throw yourself on the floor and get so upset! It doesn't take much to set you off - on this occasion I'd taken your dummy! You love to get your own way! Look at that frown! I LOVE you!"
The challenge for the week was to use only patterned paper, no card stock. And you had to use that huge chipboard flower and journalling had to be on the chipboard.
So, as I said, not particularly creative, original or skillful, but it's me, I like it, I guess that's what matters most ...
Tuesday 13 February 2007
crap day
Do you ever have days where you just feel mad at everyone and everything?
blah.
It's rained here for 2 days - which is wonderful, we so need the rain (even though none of it is falling in the catchment areas probably - at least the garden will be green) but it means that we've been inside for the last 2 days ... I've been scrapping, which means the kids are a bit cabin feverish ... and driving each other and me a bit nuts.
I was supposed to go to the movies with a friend tonight, but cancelled that this morning because I'm out every night this week (mainly with church stuff) and thought A would probably like it if I stayed home. Now I'm regretting it.... could do with getting out of the house and away from the kids. arghhh.
Have done my 2nd page for the scrap comp at SBC ... my confidence is feeling quite shaken after seeing last weeks voting results ... I thought I'd done ok, but only received 7 points, with the highest scorer getting 13.5 .... My team of Trudi & I are currently 2nd last. Makes me wonder why I bothered entering. I've told myself over and over that I only scrap for myself and no one else ... that I'm not good enough to enter comps and be published ... I hate the whole being judged thing. I guess I just have to remember why I'm doing this, that it's for me and no one else - at least I'm doing LOs, which is more than I was doing before the comp. I mean, seriously, like I am design team material LOL!
I guess I really let that get to me today. I'd finished my LO before I saw the voting results (thank goodness otherwise I probably would have had a complete scrapping breakdown) and now am feeling really hesitant about posting the LO in the gallery. It's very 'me', very girly, flowery, pretty ... but it's not cutting edge or funky or new or stunning or amazingly creative or arty ... but I'm not any of those things either.
Anyway ... I haven't yet made A a valentines card and have no present. I'm not expecting anything from him, 'valentines day is just another day' - but knowing my luck, the one year I don't bother with anything will be the year I get shown up by him ...
Geez, I'm feeling soooo apathetic about everything today ... I think it must be that time of the month approaching. Funny, I had a bit of a lightbulb moment about that a couple of months ago - never having had regular periods before Maeve - that I get really grumpy the days before it's due and I want to eat anything and everything in sight - especially if it has sugar in it. The last day or 2 I've been really crabby and craving sweet things ... so I'm blaming women's issues. Sometimes being female in this world really sucks.
I have another Osteo appointment on Thursday ... my neck has been much better, but still sore. So I'll be glad to have the appointment, even if it means missing a gym session.
Anyway, I've just had a theraputic chat to Lisa on the phone - thanks Lisa - I'm feeling a little better. Might go to the gym tonight if I can rustle up the motivation ... I know it'll make me feel better, but it doesn't make it easier to go.
blah.
It's rained here for 2 days - which is wonderful, we so need the rain (even though none of it is falling in the catchment areas probably - at least the garden will be green) but it means that we've been inside for the last 2 days ... I've been scrapping, which means the kids are a bit cabin feverish ... and driving each other and me a bit nuts.
I was supposed to go to the movies with a friend tonight, but cancelled that this morning because I'm out every night this week (mainly with church stuff) and thought A would probably like it if I stayed home. Now I'm regretting it.... could do with getting out of the house and away from the kids. arghhh.
Have done my 2nd page for the scrap comp at SBC ... my confidence is feeling quite shaken after seeing last weeks voting results ... I thought I'd done ok, but only received 7 points, with the highest scorer getting 13.5 .... My team of Trudi & I are currently 2nd last. Makes me wonder why I bothered entering. I've told myself over and over that I only scrap for myself and no one else ... that I'm not good enough to enter comps and be published ... I hate the whole being judged thing. I guess I just have to remember why I'm doing this, that it's for me and no one else - at least I'm doing LOs, which is more than I was doing before the comp. I mean, seriously, like I am design team material LOL!
I guess I really let that get to me today. I'd finished my LO before I saw the voting results (thank goodness otherwise I probably would have had a complete scrapping breakdown) and now am feeling really hesitant about posting the LO in the gallery. It's very 'me', very girly, flowery, pretty ... but it's not cutting edge or funky or new or stunning or amazingly creative or arty ... but I'm not any of those things either.
Anyway ... I haven't yet made A a valentines card and have no present. I'm not expecting anything from him, 'valentines day is just another day' - but knowing my luck, the one year I don't bother with anything will be the year I get shown up by him ...
Geez, I'm feeling soooo apathetic about everything today ... I think it must be that time of the month approaching. Funny, I had a bit of a lightbulb moment about that a couple of months ago - never having had regular periods before Maeve - that I get really grumpy the days before it's due and I want to eat anything and everything in sight - especially if it has sugar in it. The last day or 2 I've been really crabby and craving sweet things ... so I'm blaming women's issues. Sometimes being female in this world really sucks.
I have another Osteo appointment on Thursday ... my neck has been much better, but still sore. So I'll be glad to have the appointment, even if it means missing a gym session.
Anyway, I've just had a theraputic chat to Lisa on the phone - thanks Lisa - I'm feeling a little better. Might go to the gym tonight if I can rustle up the motivation ... I know it'll make me feel better, but it doesn't make it easier to go.
Thursday 8 February 2007
peace and quiet
Max is at kindy and Maeve is asleep ... the house is very quiet!!!
Here's my latest contribution for the comp over at scrapbook city. The challenge was to do a LO on something you are passionate about.
Here's my latest contribution for the comp over at scrapbook city. The challenge was to do a LO on something you are passionate about.
My journalling around the outside reads:
"These things ...have become my passion ... Passion or obsession?? Is there a difference? Are people normally obsessive over those things they are passionate about? There are a few thinkgs in life I am passionate about, scrapbooking, my family, being a good mother, but lately I have been most passionate about my health & fitness. The best part is that once my goals have been reached, I can focus on being passionate about shopping for a whole new wardrobe!!! Now THERE is a PASSION!!!"
Journalling on and around the photos reads:
"eating good food. watching every bite"
"My iPod ... how could I live withoutthis littel device?"
"I've recently started running 3 x a week ... YES, ME, running!!! I have a goal to run the Bridge to Brisbane in August! Crazy huh?"
"Exercise ... I LOVE my gym. I tell everyone I know about how great it is. The people there are great ... very supportive"
And the rub on on the food photo reads
" Life isn't about Finding yourSELF it's about CREATING Your SELF"
Anyway, I must learn how to use our scanner and photo stitching software - that photo looks totally crap.
Gotta go have a shower before Maeve wakes up - I stink.
Tuesday 6 February 2007
Today A went to the cricket at the Gabba, so I took the kids to dinner at Maccas ... naughty mummy. They both went crazy in the playground after eating 'dinner' - they were very cute - until Max rammed Maeve from behind and she went face first into the soft fall stuff (don't know why they call it that becasue it certainly wasn't a soft fall for poor Maeve). SO that was the end of that and we came home. Had to leave anyway as I had a couple of girls from Church comming over to talk about the youth program and needed to get the kids bathed and to bed and the house looking presentable (read not the usual pigsty it normally is) ...
The Osteo rang at about 5pm and said they had a cancellation for tomorrow at 10am, so I can go and hopefully have my neck fixed (pleeeeease). I'm so tired tonight, hopefully I'll be able to sleep ok, but will still take some voltaren anyway. I can't believe it's been sore for a whole week. Unfortunately will miss my spin class tomorrow (which I really needed to go to to burn off that macdonalds I ate ... ummm mah - I feel like a fat slob tonight - it's just sitting like a big lump of grossness in my belly).
Finished the bulk of my 1st challenge LO for Reality Scrap today - no-one is more shocked than I am about that! It just came together nicely - one of those things, quite pleased with it, although it's a bit different from my usual girly, flowery layered PP style ... not sure how much it will appeal to the masses and thus the voting, but hey, whatever. Still some journalling to add tomorrow or Thursday when I get a chance.
I'm very happy because I managed to find in the TV guide that there is an encore presentation of Prison Break on tonight ... YAY!!! so I'm taping in ... I'll be bale to have my weekly dose of Wentworth again!!!!
Waaaay past my bedtime .... 2 posts in 2 days ....
The Osteo rang at about 5pm and said they had a cancellation for tomorrow at 10am, so I can go and hopefully have my neck fixed (pleeeeease). I'm so tired tonight, hopefully I'll be able to sleep ok, but will still take some voltaren anyway. I can't believe it's been sore for a whole week. Unfortunately will miss my spin class tomorrow (which I really needed to go to to burn off that macdonalds I ate ... ummm mah - I feel like a fat slob tonight - it's just sitting like a big lump of grossness in my belly).
Finished the bulk of my 1st challenge LO for Reality Scrap today - no-one is more shocked than I am about that! It just came together nicely - one of those things, quite pleased with it, although it's a bit different from my usual girly, flowery layered PP style ... not sure how much it will appeal to the masses and thus the voting, but hey, whatever. Still some journalling to add tomorrow or Thursday when I get a chance.
I'm very happy because I managed to find in the TV guide that there is an encore presentation of Prison Break on tonight ... YAY!!! so I'm taping in ... I'll be bale to have my weekly dose of Wentworth again!!!!
Waaaay past my bedtime .... 2 posts in 2 days ....
Monday 5 February 2007
I made it!!
Well, I made it into the top 20 for Reality Scrap at SBC ... wow! So the first challenge is to scrap something we're passionate about, with a few other product and embellishment requirements ... it's a tough one. I'm not sure how I'm going to get the photos I want, and I've never scrapped a page without people on it... so a big challenge for me.
I have a sore neck. I did something to it on Wednesday, I think as a result of my spin class on wed morning, and I thought it would get better on it's own. It hasn't and I've only been able to sleep with the aid of Voltaren. During the day it's not too bad, just tight feeling and a dull ache all day. Today I saw a physio and can I say how utterly hopeless and what a waste of time it all was. She did absolutely nothing. On my way home I stopped in at the Osteo at the Gym and made an appointment for Thursday (earliest I could get). So I just have to put up with it until then.
Anyway, I have to go and get dinner ready ... another meal which will no doubt be met with "yuck, I don't like that" ... grrrrr - makes me so mad. My eldest child is a terrible eater and a constant source of worry and dispair for me when it comes to his diet ... what can you do?
I have a sore neck. I did something to it on Wednesday, I think as a result of my spin class on wed morning, and I thought it would get better on it's own. It hasn't and I've only been able to sleep with the aid of Voltaren. During the day it's not too bad, just tight feeling and a dull ache all day. Today I saw a physio and can I say how utterly hopeless and what a waste of time it all was. She did absolutely nothing. On my way home I stopped in at the Osteo at the Gym and made an appointment for Thursday (earliest I could get). So I just have to put up with it until then.
Anyway, I have to go and get dinner ready ... another meal which will no doubt be met with "yuck, I don't like that" ... grrrrr - makes me so mad. My eldest child is a terrible eater and a constant source of worry and dispair for me when it comes to his diet ... what can you do?
Thursday 1 February 2007
bits & pieces
I finally finished my layout for the scrapbook city reality scrap comp - here it is:
The photo opens out and there's another picture and journalling behind ... If I can be bothered I'll post a pic of that.
I met the lovely Sara at the shop this week - she's much taller than I ever imagined !! And was very nice and so encouraging, I just had to go home and get this done! So now we wait and see if I get through to the final 20. Before I wasn't really fussed either way, but it's something I'd really like to do. AND I'm going to get my act together and actually go along to a crop at the shop!!
I'm a BAAAAAD mummy.
Max had his first day of kindy today ... and I forgot to take photos. Somehow this morning turned into one of the most disorganised mornings in the history of this household. I don't know how it happened, because I thought I was ready for this day ... anyway, I neglected to take the camera. So I figure I'll just take it next week and we can pretend it was his first day!!! He had a fabulous day regardless and was so excited to go this morning and very much looking forward to going back.
We have a busy few days - Kindy today, swimming with some friends tomorrow afternoon and then Max is going to see Walking with Dinosaurs on Saturday. I hope he doesn't get scared.
Had a nice surprise this afternoon with a friend from Melbourne turning up out of the blue. My house was embarrasingly messy, but we managed to look past that!! They're here for a week and we'll probably go down the coast on Sunday to spend some time with them.
Went indoor rock climbing with the girls from church last night. I got half way up my first wall and panicked a bit and asked to be let down. My brother was belaying at the bottom. But once I'd done the down bit and realised I wasn't going to fall, I felt much more comfortable, went up the wall again and then tried another wall which had an overhang. I got half way up the over hang and just didn't have the strength to get any further. It was a fun night and the girls had a really good time. Some of them were very good at it and it was great to see them achieve on the more difficult climbs.
Had a lovely Australia Day at the Glen's house. Max played so well with their kids. and being able to swim on such a hot day was great. Maeve loved the pool. Makes me want to put one in at our house ... I'd just have to convice A ... and I don't think that's going to happen!
I still haven't made dinner, and the house looks like a bit of a war zone, so I guess I'd better get off here and go do stuff.
Thursday 25 January 2007
rain, beautiful rain
So tonight I finished a scrapbook page for the first time since before Christmas. I'll put a picture up later, maybe tomorrow, I have some new photo stitching software which I want to try out. Still haven't done my LO for the qualifying challenge at SBC ....
Boy, it's been hot here the last few days. This afternoon at about 5:15 it absolutely bucketed down, which was just wonderful - we so need the rain. Arie had to walk from the bus and was drenched by the time he got to the front door, so he got changed and was going to go out and wash the car in the rain.
While he was changing, he left the front door open and Maeve wandered down the front steps, by the time we realised where she was she was totally saturated!!! She was having a great time, so we all went out in the rain - the kids loved it, Arie washed the car and I put buckets under all the holes in our gutters, collected the water streaming off of them and put the water on the garden!!! neighbours must have thought we were nuts!! We all felt much cooler after, that's for sure!!
Hope whoever reads this has a great Australia Day tomorrow - we're off to a BBQ and then the fireworks ...
Boy, it's been hot here the last few days. This afternoon at about 5:15 it absolutely bucketed down, which was just wonderful - we so need the rain. Arie had to walk from the bus and was drenched by the time he got to the front door, so he got changed and was going to go out and wash the car in the rain.
While he was changing, he left the front door open and Maeve wandered down the front steps, by the time we realised where she was she was totally saturated!!! She was having a great time, so we all went out in the rain - the kids loved it, Arie washed the car and I put buckets under all the holes in our gutters, collected the water streaming off of them and put the water on the garden!!! neighbours must have thought we were nuts!! We all felt much cooler after, that's for sure!!
Hope whoever reads this has a great Australia Day tomorrow - we're off to a BBQ and then the fireworks ...
Tuesday 23 January 2007
self portrait
Today I'm going to take some self portraits!!! hee heee!! I borrowed Sams Cannon Digi SLR, so I'll be able to have a play with it at the same time. I have to have the photo for the challenge at SBC - Not sure how I'm going to manage it with the kids around ... but we'll see. Then I have to go and get some photos printed and go to the blind shop and order our blinds as we finally decided which ones to get.
It's gonna be hot today. Might take the kids to the pool later. We were meant to be meeting a friend at southbank, but she pulled out (with good reasons).
Going to some friend's for Australia Day BBQ on Friday, which should be really enjoyable, plus they have a pool!!! Then we're going to go to Southbank for the fireworks.
Anyway, hea[s to do today, gotta run.
It's gonna be hot today. Might take the kids to the pool later. We were meant to be meeting a friend at southbank, but she pulled out (with good reasons).
Going to some friend's for Australia Day BBQ on Friday, which should be really enjoyable, plus they have a pool!!! Then we're going to go to Southbank for the fireworks.
Anyway, hea[s to do today, gotta run.
Monday 15 January 2007
Movie Madness
So A & I got to go out to the movies for the first time in ages on Friday night. We wanted to see The Pusuit of Happyness, but couldn't find a session that fitted in with babysitting and stuff, so saw Night and the Museum instead. Overall it was a good fun movie. Owen Wilson was in it too, so it was pretty funny.
The dissapointing part was that it was a closed caption session and we had to sit through the whole movie with gigantic subtitles on the bottom quarter of the screen. Anyway, I was pretty peed off about it but I'm over whinging about it, I have better things to do, and yes the deaf have a right to see movies too, that's not my beef. I just wish I'd known about the subtitles before hand - I would have chosen another movie.
We went shopping at the DFO again on Saturday, this time for clothes for A. You will never believe what we saw. You know how you see on ACA & TT sometimes stories about people who live in absolute filth ... like rubbish EVERYWHERE in their homes, food scraps etc etc ... well, parked next to us in the carpark was a car which was literally FILLED with rubbish and take away contaiers and food scraps. It was absolutely disgusting. I was stunned, amazed. I nfact, I was so astounded I took a photo on my phone - If I can figure out how to get it off my phone and onto the computer (!!!!) I will post it here. It was unbelieveable. There was room only for the driver and the rubbish was up to the windows and covered the ENTIRE back seat and passenger seat ... how do people live like that?
Maeve is having a sook, so I'd better go.
The dissapointing part was that it was a closed caption session and we had to sit through the whole movie with gigantic subtitles on the bottom quarter of the screen. Anyway, I was pretty peed off about it but I'm over whinging about it, I have better things to do, and yes the deaf have a right to see movies too, that's not my beef. I just wish I'd known about the subtitles before hand - I would have chosen another movie.
We went shopping at the DFO again on Saturday, this time for clothes for A. You will never believe what we saw. You know how you see on ACA & TT sometimes stories about people who live in absolute filth ... like rubbish EVERYWHERE in their homes, food scraps etc etc ... well, parked next to us in the carpark was a car which was literally FILLED with rubbish and take away contaiers and food scraps. It was absolutely disgusting. I was stunned, amazed. I nfact, I was so astounded I took a photo on my phone - If I can figure out how to get it off my phone and onto the computer (!!!!) I will post it here. It was unbelieveable. There was room only for the driver and the rubbish was up to the windows and covered the ENTIRE back seat and passenger seat ... how do people live like that?
Maeve is having a sook, so I'd better go.
Thursday 11 January 2007
new shoes
Well our trip to the DFO was a great success!!! I found a pair of all leather sandals for my boy's stinky little feet, and a pair of converse runners for Maeve and a pair of boots (like a hiking boot I suppose - I might take a picture and post it because I think they're very nice!) for Max. For all 3 cost me just under $75 ... which I thought was pretty reasonable for good quality shoes.
I also found some cheap spiderman gear for Max's birthday in March. I got him a spiderman bucket hat and a t-shirt for $6 each. He saw me get them and was asking constantly for them, but he seems to have forgotten about them now!
Today we went and bought some t-shirts from Target for Max to wear to Kindy this year so he doesn't get paint and stuff on his good clothes.
It's been hot again here today, after a cool day yesterday ... this weather is so strange.
I have to babysit tonight. We have an arrangement with a family who live in the neighbourhood who have 2 little girls, the same age as our kids. I don't mind doing it as it means we can afford to go out on accasion!! But the older of their girls insists on dancing for me right before bed time and then chucks a mental when I tell her it's time for bed. I'm hoping tonight she'll be in bed before I get there as I don't have to be there until 7:30pm. Unfortunately I don't think there's anything on TV tonight ... might have to go and get a dvd.
It's our turn to go out tomorrow night ... we're going to see 'The Pursuit of Happyness' - Will Smith's new movie. I can't believe how sad my social life is that I'm excited about seeing a movie.
Our old white car is finally going in for a RW cetificate so we can put it in the paper and hope that someone will buy it for a reasonable price. The best part about that is that the money can be used to build a new bathroom!!!! Yaaaay!!!
Speaking of building, one of these days soon I must get around to doing something about submitting plans for our decks (the hoops the council makes you jump through are ridiculous). That will make a world of difference to our living space here. Hopefully by next summer we'll have finished both decks ... ahhhh, that will be nice.
Well, Maeve has a pooey nappy - I can't wait for toilet training to be over with and nappies out of my life!!!
I also found some cheap spiderman gear for Max's birthday in March. I got him a spiderman bucket hat and a t-shirt for $6 each. He saw me get them and was asking constantly for them, but he seems to have forgotten about them now!
Today we went and bought some t-shirts from Target for Max to wear to Kindy this year so he doesn't get paint and stuff on his good clothes.
It's been hot again here today, after a cool day yesterday ... this weather is so strange.
I have to babysit tonight. We have an arrangement with a family who live in the neighbourhood who have 2 little girls, the same age as our kids. I don't mind doing it as it means we can afford to go out on accasion!! But the older of their girls insists on dancing for me right before bed time and then chucks a mental when I tell her it's time for bed. I'm hoping tonight she'll be in bed before I get there as I don't have to be there until 7:30pm. Unfortunately I don't think there's anything on TV tonight ... might have to go and get a dvd.
It's our turn to go out tomorrow night ... we're going to see 'The Pursuit of Happyness' - Will Smith's new movie. I can't believe how sad my social life is that I'm excited about seeing a movie.
Our old white car is finally going in for a RW cetificate so we can put it in the paper and hope that someone will buy it for a reasonable price. The best part about that is that the money can be used to build a new bathroom!!!! Yaaaay!!!
Speaking of building, one of these days soon I must get around to doing something about submitting plans for our decks (the hoops the council makes you jump through are ridiculous). That will make a world of difference to our living space here. Hopefully by next summer we'll have finished both decks ... ahhhh, that will be nice.
Well, Maeve has a pooey nappy - I can't wait for toilet training to be over with and nappies out of my life!!!
Tuesday 9 January 2007
just another day
Lately I seem to have stopped taking photos!! Terrible, I know. I'm not sure why, but I just don't get the camera out much anymore. Today I was thinking I probably hadn't taken any photos since before Christmas!!!!!!
So I took the kids to the park this afternoon, it was a nice overcast day, so I figured the light would be good (not that it makes much difference to my poor photo taking skills!), and we took a few pictures. Most of them are pretty crappy, but here are a few of the better ones.
Max has been soooooo whingey lately, I am seriously counting the days until he starts kindy. 22 days!!! He threw a massive tantrum when I told him it was time to come home from the park this afternoon. And we took his new bike he got for Christmas, which he refused to ride properly the whole time we were there, insisted I push him and even lift him onto it - it was driving me insane. He shouts at me all the time and loses his temper so quickly. I hate that I spend most of the day being cross with him for one reason or another... I'm hoping that both he and I will be happier when he starts kindy ...
A's mum dropped a left over Christmas Turkey to us on the weekend - I didn't have room in the freezer so I had to lete it defrost and we cooked it tonight - we had A's sister and cousin over to help us eat it. The kids were in fine form ... Max was so excited to see Renee & Brodie that he just went plain silly and Maeve was perfectly behaved, she finished off a big bowl of turkey, steamed vegies and gravy and then had a very one-sided conversation with the girls. She seriously has her own language. Anayway, they were both very cute.
Tomorrow I think I'm going to take the kids to DFO and see if there are any decent shoes on sale there - Max needs new church shoes and new sandals. Because he has such stinky feet we have to get him all leather or we pay dearly! Maeve could do with some new runner type shoes, she's outgrowing her current pair. That girl loves her shoes ...
Anyway, probably time for bed.
Monday 8 January 2007
Ramblings
I've been sick all weekend. My sinuses are playing up, again.
Felt a bit better this morning and went to my PT session at the gym.
Last night we went out to mum and dad's for dinner. Hannah & Matt are moving to Gladstone today for Matt's new job, so we went to have the 'last supper' with them! Dad, as usual, made waaaaay too much food, but it was yummy.
Max & Maeve had a swim and I spent most of the afternoon wiped out on mum and dad's couch.
Matt & Hannah's little girl, Eleanor is growing up so quickly!! She's getting so cute. She must be 6 mths now. Next time we see her she'll probably be walking. That's a bit sad.
The kids fell asleep in the car on the way home and even slept in a little this morning (6:30am is a sleep in for us!).
Today is hot - first day in ages that actually feels like summer. A nice change. I have to do grocery shopping this afternoon - absolutely dreading it.
Scrapbook City have announced their new competition - check it out through the link on the sidebar - I'm going to have a go at it. I don't normally enter many scrap competitions, I tell myself I scrap for myself blah blah blah ... but I figure this might be a good way to get a bit better and to force myself to scrap more - I mean, I may not even make it thorugh to the first round yet!
I joined the RAK group over at 3 Scrapping Angles - what a nice idea - I'd love to be involved in something like that. Looking forward to that and being part of that site. Like I need to spend more time on the computer!!! ahh well! Thanks Dee!
It's bed time for my little one. She's falling asleep in her high chair.
S
Felt a bit better this morning and went to my PT session at the gym.
Last night we went out to mum and dad's for dinner. Hannah & Matt are moving to Gladstone today for Matt's new job, so we went to have the 'last supper' with them! Dad, as usual, made waaaaay too much food, but it was yummy.
Max & Maeve had a swim and I spent most of the afternoon wiped out on mum and dad's couch.
Matt & Hannah's little girl, Eleanor is growing up so quickly!! She's getting so cute. She must be 6 mths now. Next time we see her she'll probably be walking. That's a bit sad.
The kids fell asleep in the car on the way home and even slept in a little this morning (6:30am is a sleep in for us!).
Today is hot - first day in ages that actually feels like summer. A nice change. I have to do grocery shopping this afternoon - absolutely dreading it.
Scrapbook City have announced their new competition - check it out through the link on the sidebar - I'm going to have a go at it. I don't normally enter many scrap competitions, I tell myself I scrap for myself blah blah blah ... but I figure this might be a good way to get a bit better and to force myself to scrap more - I mean, I may not even make it thorugh to the first round yet!
I joined the RAK group over at 3 Scrapping Angles - what a nice idea - I'd love to be involved in something like that. Looking forward to that and being part of that site. Like I need to spend more time on the computer!!! ahh well! Thanks Dee!
It's bed time for my little one. She's falling asleep in her high chair.
S
Sunday 7 January 2007
When I am Old I will wear Purple
When I am Old
I will wear Purple!
When I am an old woman,
I shall wear purple - -
With a red hat which doesn't go,
and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pensionon
on brandy and summer gloves and satin sandles,
And say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
and gobble up samples in shops
and press alarm bells
and run with my stick along public railings,
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit!
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at ago,
or only bread and pickles for a week,
and hoard pens and pencils
and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry,
and pay our rent
and not swear in the street,
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner
and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me
are not too shocked and surprised
when suddenly I am old,
And start to wear purple!
--Jenny Joseph
I love this poem. You know, I started a blog, only a few entries, and A was concerned ... privacy, the net blah blah blah ... but it's something I want to do. I may or may not share it with anyone, I may or may not tell my family about its existence, I may or may not write in here every day, or week, or month. But I keep thinking I'm doing myself and my family a disservice by not having a blog.
I've always been a journal keeper, but that's about me and my feelings, I tend not to record the little day to day events (I know I should!). I want to record the little things, what we did today, who we saw, where we went etc etc.
SO, here it is - for better or for worse.
I will wear Purple!
When I am an old woman,
I shall wear purple - -
With a red hat which doesn't go,
and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pensionon
on brandy and summer gloves and satin sandles,
And say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
and gobble up samples in shops
and press alarm bells
and run with my stick along public railings,
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit!
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at ago,
or only bread and pickles for a week,
and hoard pens and pencils
and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry,
and pay our rent
and not swear in the street,
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner
and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me
are not too shocked and surprised
when suddenly I am old,
And start to wear purple!
--Jenny Joseph
I love this poem. You know, I started a blog, only a few entries, and A was concerned ... privacy, the net blah blah blah ... but it's something I want to do. I may or may not share it with anyone, I may or may not tell my family about its existence, I may or may not write in here every day, or week, or month. But I keep thinking I'm doing myself and my family a disservice by not having a blog.
I've always been a journal keeper, but that's about me and my feelings, I tend not to record the little day to day events (I know I should!). I want to record the little things, what we did today, who we saw, where we went etc etc.
SO, here it is - for better or for worse.
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