Happy 9th Birthday dear girl...

I couldn't find any scanned baby photos...but this one of you at Mollymook beach is so sweet...

Who's the scrawny saxophone player?

D at the Year 12 final assembly 2009.

I just read a cute saying...

Wag more, bark less...

Some things that make me smile...

one day I'd love to make a quilt for our bed...just seeing them always makes me smile. I am keeping old clothes to use for some of the material...

Feeling like a bear with a...

migraine...

been in bed all day with a sore head...had to keep the kiddies home because I just couldn't get them to school...

they took care of me...

tonight I have been all over the internet because there has been some relief for the pain...

I've seen great things on you Tube, read great blogs about those who battle chronic conditions & found some great stuff written about Lupus...

I flip between being super positive, trying to ignore the Lupus hoping that it will all have been a bad dream, to wanting to just crawl into a ball & acknowledge that it is indeed a part of my life...

headaches totally suck...

but D was just sent an email that some wonderful friends have just had a little girl 'Isabel'...how wonderful & how precious. What a wonderful reminder that life continues - the never ending ebb & flow of life...

...headaches still suck...

extra day

Don't you love a long weekend. Here I sit, surrounded by laundry baskets that seem to be breeding...or rather, it's the fact that I changed everyones' bed linen...surrounded by mess. The pumpkin I was going to chop up for lunch sits forlorn in the fridge...

We've had a lazy day. But I've sorted through Bon's wardrobe. That's an achievement. Are the school uniforms ironed for tomorrow? No. Is that library book finished yet? No. Have I had a shower yet althought it's well into the afternoon? No. Have I had a good day? YES! I played soccer with the kids as I hung out the laundry. I got some cuddles as we watched Power Rangers. I've had some yummy cups of coffee. D cooked us all bacon & eggs for breakfast! I slept in until 8:30am when I stomped up grumpy that the kids were kicking on the walls of Eric's room as they tickled each other in bed, making up jokes together & then donning sunglasses pointing kazoos at us as they pretended to be musical spies...what an amazing life we have. So much love going around here. We are surviving all this illness & all these hard days of winter & cold joints & weird test results etc. We have a house to live in, we have our family, we have work, we have warm clothes, we have people who we call friends & who love us...we are blessed beyond our comprehension...

I love this "extra day" of the weekend to reflect on life. God has been so very good to us all things considered...& I don't say that lightly...

 

Some friends in the USA have this AMAZING reading nook, & this is where I want to crawl up into now with all my library books, with a cuppa & some more banana cake - ahem - & read read read...

new sweet niece...

teensy photo teensy baby...little Sophia :-)

busy busy

It's lunch time, & there's 100 things to do.
There is that cheeky bird back at my window again...shoo...
I just took a crust out & left it on the table. Poor thing was hungry...

A photo one of Eric's teachers took of him & a friend today...