Time to update

We had a nice quiet weekend this weekend. Didn't do much at all just hung around home , did the house work (YUK!!) and veged out on the puter. I am really looking forward to getting away this Friday to the Paper Crafts Festival with Gail. Be good to catch up with some of the girls I met at the lighthouse and meet some new faces as well.

I really need to get started on my christmas shopping. I have done my list up of what I want to get does that count? I just don't know when I will have time to actually go and buy.

I'm a proud mum

Today I was met at the door when I got home from work by a very happy beaming boy! Kyle decided to try out for the school chess team (with no prompting from us we didnt even realise he was trying) and he has been chosen to represent his school at the St Georges Basin country club next week. I am so proud of him. He is not very confident and I hope this will give him a bit of a boost. Tasha tends to be the boss around the house so it is good for him to know he can try things and he loves playing chess.

I have been in a bit of a black mood lately. Life is so not what I planned but I guess what can someone like me expect. I should lower my expectations and accept that I should be grateful for what I have. I do get tired sometimes of pretending that everything is fine and just smiling.

But Kyle put a smile on my face today and made me very proud.

What an afternoon

What a shocker. It is now about 8pm on Sunday evening and this afternoon has been an absolute horror! First I kicked my toe on the exercise bike and split my toe open - gee they bleed a lot! and then the boys (Kyle had his cousin Paul over) come in to say Tasha has fallen out of the boat.

She did fall out of the boat, which was fine but she fell onto the old rusty shovel and cut the top of her foot really deeply and couldn't weightbear and screamed when you touched her foot so we spent the last 3 1/2 hours in casualty getting it looked at. No broken bones which was good (that was my main concern) and they didn't end up stitching it - just cleaned it up, dressed it and eventually we could come home. With a dressing that has to be taken down in two days time and instructions not to get it wet - yeah right.

Lunch at Berry

It was Mum's brithday on Friday so yesterday we took her out for lunch in Berry. It was a lovely lunch we went to the secret kitchen and the meals were great - Tasha thought hers was great as she got 2 mini pizzas which were put at the top of her plate like eyes and then there was a big tomato sauce mouth drawn on her plate. she giggled and giggled all lunch.

The meals were reasonably priced and very large.

We gave mum a big bunch of flowers and a clock which I had altered and she seemed very happy with her gifts.

all in all it was a lovely day - and we finished of at the ice creamery for dessert!!

Amanda's birthday

Tonight we had a lovely dinner for Amanda (starlight)'s birthday. It was actually yesterday but tonight instead of scrapping we had a bbq at Gails place because Amanda loves bbq's. We got to meet Steve (her bf) and had a lovely time. It was a nice relaxed casual fun evening.

update time

Well nothing much has happened lately but it has been 2 weeks since I last updated my blog so I thought I'd better do something about it.

The scrap day at Gails was great. A nice relaxed day with scrapping, chatting and good food - what more could you ask for? I got to catch up with my good friend Tracy and loved the opportunity to sit and chat.

Nothing else seems to change much - work is still the same. The kids go back to school tomorrow. These school holidays have been particularly tough because Tony has been working ridiculous hours and there is no way we would have got through these holidays without the help of his family. I wish I could have spent more time with them but I am looking forward to having three weeks off at christmas time and spending a week in Brissy with them.

Today we went to Georgia

Today was a lovely day -we went and had lunch with mum and John at Georgia. After lunch Tony tried to fix their DVD player which a friend of theirs had fiddled with and then we installed their broadband internet for them. They are still learning how to use a computer so the internet should be a bit of a challenge for them!

Anyway whilst Tony was busy with John and Mum in the study with the computer the kids and I had fun outside playing. We found a family of skinks resting in the sun and the skin that had been shed from a snake.

Looking forward to tomorrow - a whole day scrapping at Gail's place. Should be great!

Here are some photos I took in Mum and Johns garden. It is lovely, there are so many beautiful flowers and colours.