Elsie is here

She arrived yesterday safe and sound. And I actually managed to find an hour to sit and have a wee glance through which was great. I love it. Love how it has been put together and although I am never likely to scrap as funky as Elsie I still love it. I also got 2 4x4 maya road albums which I am going to use for the girls. They will be 'reasons why I love you' books. To remind me as well as them LOL

Hubby and I decided that we should go looking at ovens, stoves and dishwashers on the weekend. Just looking!! ok!! mmmmmmmmmmmm we are now waiting the delivery of a new one of each. My dishwasher has not been working properbly since we moved in and the stove top needed replacing. So there you go. We are now poorer than we were on Friday LMAO. I told hubby that he isn't to expect that my cullinary skills are going to improve drastically just because he bought me a new oven/stove LOL

This past week has been busy and this week is looking to be the same. Everyday seems to be full with 'things'. This week is the first week of three days of kindy, so yesterday was my first 'me time'. And I had a lovely massage thanks Tracy. Sorry about the coughing fit in the middle tho LOL We all have some little lurgie that is taking its time to move on. Isobel has had it for three weeks now. Mind you that may have something to do with her choice of clothing. I have come down hard now and she is wearing clothes that I tell her to wear until this cold is over!!!

Sorry Rach I will not be going to scrapcamp this year. Too much on (and no money now lol) and work is busy too. I hear that it will be a great party tho. I am saving up for the next one. Have fun if you are going.

Come on postie

Bring me Elsie!! lol ok Ruth, you are on. Lets see who gets her first. Nics arrived today so *raspberry to her lol*

Back to routine this morning. Love that kindy routine now. Jess just says 'you can go mum' *shrug*. I will get over it, I promise LOL And it was kinda nice to have a chat with Isobel on the walk home this afternoon instead of them both wanting my attention or her running off ahead. Nice! truely!!

Happy birthday to the wonderfully talently, amazing mum EVANA!! I wont sing for ya honey LOL But hope you are having an awesomely fantastical day chick.

It rained and rained yesterday and then just for a change it rained again. Has been fine most of today but I can see the spits on the window now and the weather man says it is going to get nasty again. It was nice tho to have a home day yesterday, watch some dvds with the kids, play some board games (yatzee and candyland LOL) and spend some family time. Oh and thanks Nic for the slow walk yesterday in the rain and the fast long walk on Sunday. I am still aching but am walking thru the pain LOL And yes I deserved that raspberry licorice twist thing LOL

And yes Karen I think you might be right. There really is not such thing as 'guilt free' scrapping but we can kinda deceive ourselves LOL It's like 'guilt free no calorie negative fat' chocolate. Yep sure it exists LOL

come on Elsie!!!

and then I said sure

I can do more work this week! LOL Ah it has been a very busy week. Had a fantastic time last Saturday with the girls cropping. Go a couple of pages done which was awesome. I really really want one of the books that Tracy had. ummmmmm oh you know her name. All fun and funky and fresh.

Anyway this week was also Jess' start at kindy. She was so excited to go. She was, I wasn't lol But my baby is growing up and doesn't need me so much anymore. *sniff* She was so good, said hello to the teachers, found her cubbyhole, name etc and is now firmly intrenched into the kindy way of life. Loving mat time and the stories and songs that they sing. Both days I have come home and worked solidly till school/kindy pick up time. Haven't had my 2 hours of 'me' time yet but that will come soon enough and I will probably rattle around the house looking for things to clean to keep myself busy. Less mother guilt tho when I knew she was happy playing at kindy and I was working. LOL Strange huh??

anyway I have worked an extra day this week and also doubled the hours that I normally work on a Friday/Saturday. So now I am done and have free time for the next two days. Except the GST return is calling me and also I have two mini albums to make before Monday (thankfully just the inside blank bits lol).

Managed to find time this morning to plant the front garden. Will take some pics when we have colour. I just planted annuals and colour as I can't decide right now what to put there.

Had to order the curtain rails for the house today as some of them are broken and another one broke on Wednesday. OUCH!! hurts the credit card but hey, has to be done.

Right off to find my milo and some choccie and try to find inspiration for a birthday card that I am failing at. LOL I know I know its only a birthday card but I can't get it to work. Maybe now I can do some guilt free scrapping.

Have a great labour weekend all

Thank you Mr Power Line Man

Thank you so much for warning me that there would be NO power in my street from 9.00am this morning till 12.30-1.00pmish. Then again from 3.30 - 4.30ish this afternoon. Thank you so much for the notification that did not arrive in my letter box. Thanks again for being so nice on the phone and explaining that (even though you knew my name) you had sent the notification to the previous owners. Thank you Thank you Thank you I really appreciated that. Ah well. I didn't want to clean the house this morning anyway. Managed to get the truck out of the garage (OMG that was fun manually opening the door) and we went off to find a cafe with power and hot coffee. I must admit that I was a little worried that my computer may have been cooked or decided not to work again when the power came back on. Thankfully all is well.

Oh and one last big thank you to xtra for being down this morning (isn't it always broken at the moment?) so that I couldn't get my morning fix of emails and what has been happening in the outside world. NOT that I had power anyway LOL

Right guess I should go do that housework now that there is power. Gosh even with kids in the house it seemed really quiet. You just don't realise how much noise the fridge, fish tank filter, radio on low etc makes until there is complete silence.

Jess and her trike

Heres the pic I took the other day. She is so happy with it and is still riding it around every day. Must have my helmet on mummy so I don't crack my head. Now I wonder who told her that one LMAO

I know I know - smacking bad blogger fingers

Sorry bout that RUTH!! lol I know I have been AWOL but I kinda got blogged down over the holidays LOL

We all survived. There were a few days where I thought that might not happen but after some big 'chats' with Miss 7 about attitude and respecting family, we actually enjoyed the last week. Took the girls to Bad Jelly the Witch on the weekend. It was live theatre at the Civic in town. They loved it!!! I must admit to having a few good laughs as well. Just a little something different.

Also my courier finally arrived - well no it didn't! I got the parcel at the post office ticket in my mail box and I had to go and get it!! Ah well, after 4 weeks who can complain LOL Had a huge clearout yesterday of all the papers and cardstock that I have been storing (I say storing cause I haven't been using it LOL) and filled up the girls craft box. WOW that felt good. Got rid of all those of-course-I-will-use-this-tiny-bit-of-cardstock pieces and now need to work out a way of storing my colours better so that I can see them nicely LOL. Its all about storage.

We had been trying to get Jess on to the little two wheel bike with the training wheels for ages but she just has not been interested, which means of course that she can't keep up with the big kids when they are riding their bikes. So we were having coffee (and the yummiest muffins ever) at Tracys the other day and she jumped on their old trike and off she went. She is now the proud owner of her own delightful yellow trike and is riding it everyday.

Right back to routine, work, after school activities (actually the work bit didn't stop over the hols lol) and normal life. Isobel starts swimming lessons this afternoon. Please let there not be the hail (Nic reckons it was snow) storms from yesterday, cause its a half covered indoor pool!!!!!!!!!!