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Monday, 15 December 2008
Sunday, 14 December 2008
Typos.
Ok, so I'm very tired. So you'll please excuse the heap of typos in the posts below.
It's my typing, not my spelling :)
It's my typing, not my spelling :)
Ok so I missed a day.
It's quite hard to do this daily blogging. The drought of free time and energy persists.
So I'll miss a day.
December 12.....Another busy day. As all are in December right? Also Mum's and little Ashleigh's birthdays. Also Christmas celebrations day at Esta's daycare. Also Auntie Bec came to visit for a sleepover.
December 13.
Today I went to an scrapbook expo - Create '08. A day of classes with Heidi Swapp, one of the big names in the scrapbooking industry. It was great. Alot of her products have always been very appealing but I've not been sure what to do with them. So it was great to spend a day being shown ways to use them, make some gorgeous things, catch up with people, and come home with a huge goodie back of products. I was hugely impressed with her masks...and it seems she has fixed the ...err...rubon problems. And despite their constant warnings about how 'full on' the day would be, I managed to stay ontop of things. So Thumbs Up to Chanel, Heidi and Team for putting on a great day and also giving us gorgeous silver bags, and Thumbs Down to Kedron Wavel RSL for being apparently quite difficutl to deal with.
December 14.
Day two for a crazy busy weekend. First up was a photo session with Rachel Richter. Something I've been wanting to do for ages. We haven't had professional photos done since Esta was a few weeks old. So I'm keen to see the photos of the girls. We had them taken at City Botanic Gardens, and in the streets around there. Thankfully there was some wind today, despite the messy hair factor, as it was stinking hot in Brisbane today. Little Esta played up a bit and decided to be miserable and limpet-like in my arms, but other than that I think it all went well.
After that we had a christmas gathering with some friends. That was a lovely time. Nothing like a good bbq with a heap of great people, a swarm of kids, a pool, a pav, some prawns and a little bit of alcohol on a summer's Sunday. We had a great time. Thanks Megan and Steve for letting us trash your house :)
And now we are home. Listening to the sounds of fun and laughter from our next door neighbours annual christmas street party. We are unfortunatley too knackered to make it this year, so we sit hear and listen instead. Sadly I've missed most of their annual christmas parties due to illness. This year, it's just too much with a little toddler in tow. But looking forward to future years when Esta is old enough to deal with the late night ontop of everything else at this time of year.
So I'll miss a day.
December 12.....Another busy day. As all are in December right? Also Mum's and little Ashleigh's birthdays. Also Christmas celebrations day at Esta's daycare. Also Auntie Bec came to visit for a sleepover.
December 13.
Today I went to an scrapbook expo - Create '08. A day of classes with Heidi Swapp, one of the big names in the scrapbooking industry. It was great. Alot of her products have always been very appealing but I've not been sure what to do with them. So it was great to spend a day being shown ways to use them, make some gorgeous things, catch up with people, and come home with a huge goodie back of products. I was hugely impressed with her masks...and it seems she has fixed the ...err...rubon problems. And despite their constant warnings about how 'full on' the day would be, I managed to stay ontop of things. So Thumbs Up to Chanel, Heidi and Team for putting on a great day and also giving us gorgeous silver bags, and Thumbs Down to Kedron Wavel RSL for being apparently quite difficutl to deal with.
December 14.
Day two for a crazy busy weekend. First up was a photo session with Rachel Richter. Something I've been wanting to do for ages. We haven't had professional photos done since Esta was a few weeks old. So I'm keen to see the photos of the girls. We had them taken at City Botanic Gardens, and in the streets around there. Thankfully there was some wind today, despite the messy hair factor, as it was stinking hot in Brisbane today. Little Esta played up a bit and decided to be miserable and limpet-like in my arms, but other than that I think it all went well.
After that we had a christmas gathering with some friends. That was a lovely time. Nothing like a good bbq with a heap of great people, a swarm of kids, a pool, a pav, some prawns and a little bit of alcohol on a summer's Sunday. We had a great time. Thanks Megan and Steve for letting us trash your house :)
And now we are home. Listening to the sounds of fun and laughter from our next door neighbours annual christmas street party. We are unfortunatley too knackered to make it this year, so we sit hear and listen instead. Sadly I've missed most of their annual christmas parties due to illness. This year, it's just too much with a little toddler in tow. But looking forward to future years when Esta is old enough to deal with the late night ontop of everything else at this time of year.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
December continues.
December 10.
My friend Kath's birthday today. Hope it was a lovely one Kath.
The girls and I ventured out to the cringeful shops to finalise some christmas shopping. We ended up staying there longer than we planned (when does that NOT happen?) as Esta fell asleep. But we struggled home by lunchtime and spent the afternoon mucking about. The girls had another afternoon dip in the clam shell with the freezing tank water.
December 11.
We have most energy in the morning so we went to get some groceries. It was surprisingly painless, well as painless as a grocery shop can be soothed nicely with a tall hot chai latte. Home again by lunch which is always nice as Esta will sleep when we get home. So we can all have some down time then. India might watch a movie, while I get some work done.
We washed Jasi today, the dog. She's not a fan of her baths. She loves the way she feels afterward but she really doesn't like the process. So we have to be very careful when planning her bath. We have to wander around nonchalantly, looking very innocent 'da da dum'-ing and commenting on the weather until I can pounce on her and grab her in a cuddle. Otherwise, these days, she runs. And she is fast and sneaky. No one has ever been able to catch Jasi when she doesn't want to be caught. We must never mention the word 'bath'. If we do, her tail goes down, her muscles poise for the split-second bolt and her big brown eyes look at me with that puppy sadness. India did well not to spill the beans today, but Esta starting calling out 'dog...bass....dog...bass'. Lucky Jasi doesn't speak Esta language yet, and lucky Esta hasn't quite worked out the 'th' pronunciation, despite all her efforts to get it right. Anyway, the end result is we have a clean puppy again.....except for all the cobbler's pegs she went and picked up from the garden about 5 minutes out of the tub.
I hung the clothes out on the line this afternoon.
It's raining again tonight.
Strange.
That's only supposed to happen when I hang the towels out.
Murphy's gone and changed his laws again.
My friend Kath's birthday today. Hope it was a lovely one Kath.
The girls and I ventured out to the cringeful shops to finalise some christmas shopping. We ended up staying there longer than we planned (when does that NOT happen?) as Esta fell asleep. But we struggled home by lunchtime and spent the afternoon mucking about. The girls had another afternoon dip in the clam shell with the freezing tank water.
December 11.
We have most energy in the morning so we went to get some groceries. It was surprisingly painless, well as painless as a grocery shop can be soothed nicely with a tall hot chai latte. Home again by lunch which is always nice as Esta will sleep when we get home. So we can all have some down time then. India might watch a movie, while I get some work done.
We washed Jasi today, the dog. She's not a fan of her baths. She loves the way she feels afterward but she really doesn't like the process. So we have to be very careful when planning her bath. We have to wander around nonchalantly, looking very innocent 'da da dum'-ing and commenting on the weather until I can pounce on her and grab her in a cuddle. Otherwise, these days, she runs. And she is fast and sneaky. No one has ever been able to catch Jasi when she doesn't want to be caught. We must never mention the word 'bath'. If we do, her tail goes down, her muscles poise for the split-second bolt and her big brown eyes look at me with that puppy sadness. India did well not to spill the beans today, but Esta starting calling out 'dog...bass....dog...bass'. Lucky Jasi doesn't speak Esta language yet, and lucky Esta hasn't quite worked out the 'th' pronunciation, despite all her efforts to get it right. Anyway, the end result is we have a clean puppy again.....except for all the cobbler's pegs she went and picked up from the garden about 5 minutes out of the tub.
I hung the clothes out on the line this afternoon.
It's raining again tonight.
Strange.
That's only supposed to happen when I hang the towels out.
Murphy's gone and changed his laws again.
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Time confused me today. It took me ages to get the girls to their respective care centres this morning despite leaving slightly earlier than usual. I didn't get home until almost 10am. About 40 minutes more than it usually takes me. Not sure where I lost that time. Perhaps I snoozed at a red light a little longer than I should have? Though with two kids in the car and Pink blaring on the stereo I'm not sure how that would have happened.
Maybe I was moving in slow motion. That's how I felt this morning.
Perhaps that's really what I was doing. But I didn't notice any strange concerned stares from anyone and I'm sure India would have cacked herself laughing if it was so. No, maybe for once I was just going at a normal casual pace, but it just felt like slow motion as I'm usually rushing rushing rushing to fit everything into the day.
So the day passed, and I seem to be able to move up a notch from slo-mo as I managed to achieve a few things today. Like cooking the family a decent meal. Well, rather than a decent meal, lets call it a nutritious meal. And to add to the strangeness of the day, we are currently in witching hour and the girls are playing happily together....what the? They've been at it for about 15 minutes now! It's gorgeous to watch. Not sure what brought that on at this time of day, we are all usually too tired and tetchy to play. Last night was less troublesome sleepwise, although they were still disturbed, they were settled between 1-5am so perhaps that little extra sleep has helped? Anyway it is still witching hour, so I better sign off and start getting sorted on the witching hour chores.
Maybe I was moving in slow motion. That's how I felt this morning.
Perhaps that's really what I was doing. But I didn't notice any strange concerned stares from anyone and I'm sure India would have cacked herself laughing if it was so. No, maybe for once I was just going at a normal casual pace, but it just felt like slow motion as I'm usually rushing rushing rushing to fit everything into the day.
So the day passed, and I seem to be able to move up a notch from slo-mo as I managed to achieve a few things today. Like cooking the family a decent meal. Well, rather than a decent meal, lets call it a nutritious meal. And to add to the strangeness of the day, we are currently in witching hour and the girls are playing happily together....what the? They've been at it for about 15 minutes now! It's gorgeous to watch. Not sure what brought that on at this time of day, we are all usually too tired and tetchy to play. Last night was less troublesome sleepwise, although they were still disturbed, they were settled between 1-5am so perhaps that little extra sleep has helped? Anyway it is still witching hour, so I better sign off and start getting sorted on the witching hour chores.
December 8th
Today was a busy day. Esta went to daycare, where she loves to play in the sandpit. India, rather nervously, went to Vacation care at school. MM went to work, and so did I. I was running around all day for the new business. Before I knew it we'd reached 'witching hour'...4-6pm dinner, bath and bedtime for tired children. A crazy time of the day that often stretches past 6pm lately. The dog barks, the children yell, the mother yells, the dog barks, somewhere in there a bit of food is thrown around, either much laughing and splashing in bath or else it's screaming, the dog barks, someone always phones, mess created, mother yells, children holler. Let me just say it's not a good time to visit, or knock on the door for any reason, particularly if you are selling something.
Though, it's nice to go through all that with the christmas lights on.
Though, it's nice to go through all that with the christmas lights on.
Sunday, 7 December 2008
December 7th
Too few days left until christmas.
This morning we put up the christmas decorations. India ran around like crazy cleaning up and clearing room for it. Esta was a little wary, especially once we pulled out our singing Christmas bear. But after a few rounds of 'It's beginning to look a lot like christmas..' it was all hugs and giggles between bear and baby. I suspect by tomorrow she will have lost all awe for the tree and be rummaging in amongst it's branches wrestling precious ornaments off.
Here is a before and after photo:
By later afternoon it was stifling hot and muggy. The lawn in the backyard was actually green with more grass than weeds for a change, so we wandered outside for some good aussie summer fun. We dragged out the good 'ol clam shell, hosed off all the redbacks and filled it with tank water. The girls leaped about screaming with joy for ages. Then MM was coerced into taking the girls for a ride on a mini blow up boogy board..deflated. Esta gleefully demonstrated her daredevil side by deliberately throwing herself off for a slide roll on the grass at top speed, while India just laughed herself silly at the running style of MM while dragging this thing behind him.
The girls are now safely tucked up in bed The christmas lights are on which add to the peace and tranquility. We sang a few christmas carols with India by the light of christmas before she went off to bed. It's not even 8.30 but MM and I are ready for bed. We might just go this early while we can. MM will fall straight to sleep no doubt, while I will have my nose in a book joining forces with a vampire until the wee hours of the morning. So I'm off to do that.
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