I have come to the conclusion

that I am a procrastinator. Big word for this time of night huh?? especially after a few rums to warm the belly and the toes. Thanks for the suggestion Rach. I had one for ya. LOL

Anyway - procrastinating again lol - I have come to this conclusion cause I have just wasted two hours playing around on my computer instead of scrapping when I have had the perfect opportunity to do so. Oh and I got some really cool pics back the other day too. I think I am stuck cause I have just ordered some stuff and would really like to have that in my hot little hands before I start scrapping LOL Some yummy new Cbox is winging its way from the US as we speak LOL

I have also come to the conclusion that the process of buying and selling houses really just sucks. I seem to be constantly cleaning my house, my MIL is now teasing me that there wont be any paint left on the walls by the time someone buys the house LOL But maybe there is some truth in that I thought today as I wiped down all the doors in the house again, cleaned the windows inside and out - again!, vacuumed for the third time today and dusted and straighted and wiped etc etc etc. Open homes - you just gotta love them. We have another one tomorrow. YAY. Anyway we have spent some time in the past few weeks checking out the local papers, websites etc and viewing some of the other open homes on the weekends. I can truely say that there are some days when I just walk away thinking 'what the heck are we doing'. LOL It will all be worth it in the end when we are mortgage free and living in Nics letterbox LMAO Do you think your hubby could add an ensuite???

Jess is much better and her spots - lollipops she is now calling them thanks to Nics dd lol - are either fading fast or well scabbed over. TMI??? lol Her big sister is having a sleep over at MIL's so the house is very quiet. Well it should be - look at the time.

Funny thing that I found this morning during the BIG CLEAN. A handful of lollie wrappers stuffed under the cushion on the couch. Some one had a lovely pre breaky treat this morning while watching tv. Now since I struggled to get out of bed this morning and I had to literally kick hubby out, and there was a small wriggly girl in the middle of our bed, then there could only be one little lollie thief who was actually sitting on said cushion watching tv when I walked past to say good morning. *rasing eyebrows* But you can all guess the answer to the 'who stole the lollies from the lollie jar" question huh?? who me?? couldn't be!! (remember that little game lol) Anyway the lollies have now been moved out of sight and are back in the furtherest corner of the pantry. LOL

Hope you are all having a good weekend

We have spots!!

yep - Chicken pox!!! I was just saying the other day that I wanted to rub Jess up against someone with them. Now she has them. And boy do they come out fast!!!!!!!!! She has heaps more this morning. Thankfully she is ok with it all at the moment. A little bit itchy but only the ones in her hair.

Isobel has her first Brownie outing tonight. She has only two more weeks of Pippins and then she is a Brownie. Can't wait.

Crockpot recipe

Sorry girls, I keep forgetting to put some on here. Well here is the one for today and what we will be having tomorrow night. YUMMY

Corned beef.

Chop onions (1 large) and put in the crockpot. Add corned beef, two bay leaves, black pepper (to your taste), couple of tablespoons of golden syrup and enough water to cover the beef. Put on low and cook all day until it falls apart. LOL (about 8 hours)

Serve with mashed spuds (garlic or mustard flavoured if you like), baby peas and steamed carrots. Absolutely scrummy!!! enjoy

I am an Aunty for the second time

And am so excited. My SIL just had her first baby in London. Its a boy!!! Still not too sure on all the details but I just rang her (she had to go before we got talking LOL) and I heard him do the wee baby squwark. Too cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just wanna be there to give him lots of love and hugs (his parents too of course LOL).

Ahhh well, I am an Aunty. Thats one neice and one nephew and they both live in the UK!! *sniff*

Can't wait for pics. *doing the happy happy aunty dance* lol

WOW that was so much fun

My first ever online baby shower and what a hit!! Everything happened in perfect timing. Even the postie was late this morning but arrived perfecting just after the shower had started. FANTASTIC. Evana (check out her link) was the recipient. Love ya chicky. Can't wait to meet this new baby. I know how difficult getting to this stage has been. Won't be long now YAY!!! Thanks to Delish Designs and Tarisota for the tags. They were awesome. We all decorated one each and posted off to E to arrive today. Even NZPost seemed to be working well in that department (strange I hear you say - but true). Great to hang out with all these cool scrapping chicks. We even had a few games which were extremely funny. I am sure my mum thought I was completely nuts running around the house saying, tea towel, peg, camera, slippers, chocolate, safety pin, tea towel, peg, camera ........... LOL Great fun and thanks so much to Nic for organising it all and to Deb for the games. AWESOME Hope you get a good sleep E and enjoy those tags over the next few days as they arrive in your mailbox.

Bumma tho, just after the online shower started mum found a wee crawly jumpy thing in Jess's hair, so off to the chemist I trott and shampoo and comb both the girls hair as soon as we get home from school. Had to do it right then to use the daylight as they both have blond hair and those wee suckers are hard to see. Fingers crossed that we have got them all and I will be using the Tea Tree oil over the next couple of weeks. So I missed some of the fun of the shower and being 'there' when the flowers and choccies etc arrived.

Right off to shampoo my hair. YUCK!! Little blighters

Slap my hand

I have been a bad blogger. Opps sorry bout that Racheal LOL Yep it was great to meet you too. And I agree, I am just starting to see the light again after scrapcamp. WOW!! That was a whole heap of fun. Got some great layouts done, and some not-so-great-thrown-together-looking-like-I-am-doing-something-other-than-eating-chocolate layouts too LOL But I had a BLAST!! Great to catch up with and meet some new scrappers. Now about November?? Ask me again when my house is no longer on the market and the stress levels have decreased LOL OMG why didn't someone tell me it was so stressfull. We just did the less than 5 mins quick tidy up throw everything in drawers as another agent brought some people thru. Wasn't really expecting anyone today after the open home yesterday and it being a public holiday weekend. Well tomorrow my house will be spick and span all day long. (note to self to get out the mop AGAIN!!) lol

Anyway, scrapcamp was awesome and comming home to the HUGE hugs from my girls was even better!! Nice to know they missed me, although it has been a little bit down hill since then. What is it with the nearly 7 year old attitude. It is driving me nuts. They are busy bouncing all sorts of bad behaviour off each other at the moment and can't play nicely together for longer than 5 minutes it seems. The rebellious nature at the moment makes me wonder if we will all survive the pre teens and the teens LOL Love them both!! True!!

The forum I am on is having a crockpot challenge at the moment and I am trying out some very yummy recipes. I think my crockpot has sat on my bench every day this week. Yummy to smell it all nicely cooking away and knowing that I have very little to do in the evening. Anyway tonight is french country chicken and it smells divine.

catch you all later