Just Like Heaven

Just because....

.....just because I haven't posted everyday details for a bit, I'm doing that now :)

My blog is here to record this seemingly insignificant stuff and since I'm still in my pjs at lunchtime I thought this a good opportunity to stay in them even longer!

Both kids are home today being Curriculum Day at school.  They were both sick over the weekend but I think they're on the mend.  They are bickering and fighting a bit today so I'm thinking that's a good sign that they're better! Sigh.....it's not so good for ME though ;)

So...first of all out little tadpoles goldfish are growing nicely.  I'd love to tell you their names but it changes daily depending on the kids' moods I think!

I STILL haven't finished fitting out their little tank yet, must get to that today!

And I have mentioned in a few blog posts recently that I've been treasure hunting.  My mother's partner's mother had a house that has been sold and she was an avid collector of 'stuff'.  Good stuff, bad stuff, STUFF! Anyway they have had to clean a lot of stuff out and I've been very lucky to score buttons and jewellery.  Also a dresser for Maddy that needs restoring and a few other bits and pieces.  Here's a few bits I've managed to acquire.  If you know me you know I like junky jewellery and well here's what I got.  I love that it's all a bit different!

I especially love the 70s flower pendant and the old necklaces. The one centre top is solid silver and sooo heavy.  I've got to get it to the jewellers to have it cleaned properly I just love it!

Got these at the Queen Vic market in Melbourne the other week -

The light is SO dull here at the moment.  Don't get me wrong I love Winter but I am starting to forget what sun looks like :(

Found this in my travels the other day too - the glass not the stuff in it!

Acquired even more new mugs - well I can't resist Little Britain - perfectly tacky!

I do love these so!

And......Mother's Day.  Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums.  Mine started off with crying kids with tummy aches - sigh.....

Nath made lunch for us and then I did the washing and scrapped DT stuff.  We had a very lazy potter-around-the-house weekend and they are my favourite kind!  I got some cute gifts from Alex and Maddy from the school stall.  I got orange-scented candles in a tin, a toilet bag thing with bath sponges, hankies, a notebook, one of those smelly things with the bamboo sticks and this gorgeous card from Miss-Moo.

I'm so proud of her as it's the first year she's really been able to write all of this in my card!  It's gorgeous.

We had afternoon tea with my Mum and then I scrapped some more.  I stitched and stitched and stitched - woohoo!

Oh here's the gorgeous flowers we got when I taught my Mum class at Simply Said last week -

Now it's after lunchtime, I'd better do something productive.  I have a class sample to do so I'm off!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Photos and Funny Stuff!

Wednesday I met my sister at the park where Nathan and I got married to take photos of her and her delectable babies! 

They were SO cute.  Wild and crazy but oh SO fantastic.  I got some GREAT photos of them that my sister is giving as gifts for Mother's Day.

I got lots of cute photos  and we looked in the ponds and there were HUNDREDS, maybe thousands of little tadpoles in the ponds.  I actually took my kids back later to catch some so we could watch them turn into little frogs and then let them go.  I didn't know at the time that is actually illegal to catch tadpoles.  Anyway. 

So, it's pouring rain and muddy and all I took was a bucket, so it was ME on my tummy, in the gardens on the side of the yucky pond dipping in the bucket catching tadpoles and all I got was THREE!!!  Anyway three was enough!

So we carefully took them home and placed them in a little fish tank ready to witness the miracle of nature....

Thursday morning, I gave them some food and later that day noticed they had grown a bit.

into.....................

FISH

Oops seems our tadpoles were actually teeny weeny goldfish!!!!!

Roflmao......it's all good, they've grown again already and we're still witnessing the miracle of nature - only a different one!  Once I get the water to settle I will take some photos so we can document their growth.  How funny though!

I did my second Mother's Day class at Simply Said on Wednesday night and I got THE best treat from Marie!  We received chrysanthemums, chocolate at the class AND champagne!  Woohoo thanks Marie and Happy Mother's Day to us!!

Today I lunched at the pub with a new friend and it was lovely to see her and get to know her more.:) 

And this afternoon I had a wonderful time teasing my kids as I picked them up from school knowing they had Mother's Day presents from the stall hidden in their bags.  Maddy badly wanted to give hers to me - it was gorgeous!

I'm still busy busy busy as always but it's all good.

Alexander's basketball team won tonight 28-8.  I was so disappointed because I didn't go.  Maddy was a bit off-colour so we stayed home.  I love watching his games!

Happy Mother's Day and hope you have a great weekend! I'll be scrapping my heart out!

Yay!!!

Wow the week is halfway gone already!!!  It just flies!

I have been treasure hunting this week, I really must take some pics....but instead I will show you my class this week for the Book of Me theme of Motherhood - yes early this week, I'm teaching tonight but I'm hoping to have a pretty much computer free day tomorrow so here it is -

Yummy stuff on this layout - OLD photo - lol.

My classes are getting bigger and bigger every week which is exciting!

Other huge excitement is this -

If you love the same treasures as I do you MUST check out the site it is DIVINE!!!!  I just love drooling over the gorgeous pics, I want EVERYTHING!!!  and I can't wait to be a designer for there and play with those treasures!!!

Hope you are keeping warm, I have a gazillion domestic chores to do before picking kids up and heading off to work tonight!

Thanks for visiting!!!!

I'm thinking that.....

.....pyjama days should just be renamed to "do-twice-as-much-tomorrow" day.

Grr, a little bit of slacking yesterday and I had to spend today catching up!  What a pain!

Of COURSE I ran all day, and of COURSE we were out of all the essential stuff and of COURSE the boys got to go to the movies while I had to do the @#$%^&* grocery shopping - BLAH, then home again to piles of washing, a bigger pile of ironing and a big huge mess!  Double, triple, quadruple BLAH!

Of course if I'd left it all, our whole week will be disorganised and I have to admit I've spent much of today grumbling about how women of this century are no less oppressed than the women of last century and what can I do to ensure my daughter has a better way of living than I do.

That was sparked by a dinner conversation I had last night.  We had dinner and drinks at the home of friends of ours and usually we end up partying the night away but honestly none of us could be bothered last night.  We went thinking that we'd have to leave the kids and Nathan and I would stumble home having had too much to drink as per usual, but we didn't.  I only had a couple of drinks over a few hours.  Kids came home and I even drove.  Unusual for us.  We still had a lovely night but we were ALL saying how much we needed to sleep.  Are we getting old?  Is it the cold weather?  Is it our lifestyles?  Will it EVER slow down?  Will we EVER cram all the stuff in that we try to?  I wonder if things ever slow down because I'm certainly not the only busy person in the world.  Everyone is busy pretty much and while I'd rather be busy than bored, I thought that I'd get some breathing space.  But not for now.  There's always something I NEED to do. Mind you I had so much stuff I NEEDED to do today I was grateful to be doing it without a hangover! 

Maybe it's the way I prioritise.  Maybe I don't manage my time well.  Maybe in this day and age women are not only expected to manage the house and family but also expected to maintain a fabulous relationship, a job and career, AND a social life while keeping fit and active and  and and and and......I wonder if anyone has worked out the secret of juggling it all yet.

If they have I wish they'd show me how it's done because right now I feel like I'm not keeping on top of all the stuff I'm meant to at all!  Bills need to be paid, things need to be sorted, deadlines need to be met, gardens need weeding, car needs cleaning blah blah de blah blah! Not to mention all the people in my life I haven't gotten around to visiting/catching up with and it's not because I don't want to......sigh....

Overall though I've got it all pretty good, but I wonder if we have things better or worse than those who've come before us.  I'm feeling a bit philosophical about it all really, wondering how things will be for my kids as adults, in particular Madeleine given that she'll be a woman.  I guess only time will tell and we can only do what we think is best at the time...

Off the topic now, I'm off to Bridge Club tomorrow and I CAN'T WAIT!  That's the other reason I've been running like a mad woman.  I'll be out all day tomorrow, then work this week and other stuff so I need to be super organised.  I'm there now I think - everything is ironed, shopped for, sorted.

Fingers crossed I'm prepared for another crazy fast week! Hope you are too. :)

Pyjama Day

Posting to procrastinate I think!

It's well after noon and we are all still in our pyjamas doing a whole lot of nothing!

It's wet, cold and miserable.

I'd better get motivated though as I have projects to do and we're out for dinner tonight.

I've heard a rumour that a friend is also bringing his new partner up to meet us.

What a shock she'll get if they arrive soon - lol

Love pyjama days................:)