Ready to go

It's hard to believe, and in a few days I won't be feeling this, but I'm almost sick of the holidays!!! Not so much the holidays, but certainly having the kids around, arguing and annoying each other all day. Yes I know, two short posts ago, I was gloating about how well they were getting on....

Tomorrow we head off to Toowoomba for a day of shopping, followed by Kay's party in Oakey on Saturday. We'll stay there on Saturday night before travelling home on Sunday. Went to check out my renumerator card and thankfully we actually have some money on it so we can pay for our weekend. Things are very tight financially. Sometimes when I stop and think about it, I feel momentarily worried, but then I remember that God is looking after us (but testing our faith on a daily basis!). He continues to provide everything we need... I guess the trouble is that sometimes we want things that we really don't need and they aren't provided for. It is a constant temptation for me to give up chaplaincy and go back to teaching, but I know that God has blessed us because I am doing what he wants me to do and it is bery important to keep doing that.

As I type the kids are packing up and getting their gear ready to go. We want to leave early to get to hair appointments by 10 am. We are leaving the dog here, wonder what we'll come back to!!!

Our rose is flowering on the back archway....gorgeous blooms and amazing scent. The photos don't do it justice, it is a delight!

All done...

I have just submitted my second last assignment for the diploma of youth work. The assignment is not technically due until Monday so I may have just broken my own "leave it to the last minute" record! Usually I'm frantically typing away until the last hour or even minute it's due so I feel a bit strange being 5 days early. Good though. It means I have five days left of the holidays where I can actually enjoy not feeling like I have something enormous about to drop on my head!

Yesterday I spent the day out at a friend's scrapbooking and drinking coffee, also eating of course. Oh, had some delicious baby time- she is looking after her nephew while his mum recuperates from an accident. He's about ten months old, gorgeous blue eyes and bubbly baby laugh. Thomas has enjoyed making him chuckle! We are going out again this morning, aiming to finish scrapping 2008... a little behin perhaps???

Have booked hair appointments for Friday. Ellen stood beside me as I sat at the scrapping table yesterday and reminded me about how much I need to have those "tinsly bits" covered. She mentioned I might like to have the mo taken care of at the same time!!!!! RUDE!!!! On the subject of hair, Hannah and Josie spent Monday night together at Mum and Dad's and somehow convinced Mum to let them straighten her hair! They sent a text through with a pic.... so funny!!! Mum was a very good sport... VERY GOOD.... the girls had a great time together and really reconnected. Ellen and Maddy are there at the moment. Cousin time is so precious... I remember sleepovers at Nana and Puppa's and Nana and Grandad's so well. Lovely times.
Off to print some pics, have a shower and kick up my heels... my assignment's DONE!!!

Another Six Months... gone!

I actually had to do a google search to find my blog because I couldn't remember what I had called it! That's how long it's been since my last visit. Reading through my Easter post made me realise how important it is to do this! It was so good to be able to read over how we had spent the Easter weekend and to bring back those memories. And no, I haven't worked out how to delete those dreadful photos yet!


We are half way through another holiday and the kids are finally settled into each other. I'm no longer waking up to fighting at 6:30 a.m. and they are able to sit beside each other on the couch without kicking, poking or generally annoying. I love this stage and it usually happens just before we head back to school!





Holidays have so far consisted of an assignment (once again almost due, second last one), lots of scrapbooking, dinner and coffee with friends, lunch and a game of pool with friends after church, sleepovers, cousin time for the kids, a quick trip to Toowoomba and catching up on other people's blogs (which has inspired me to dig up my own). All in all, quite successful! Oh, and gardening. Our garden is comng along nicely and I love standing at the kitchen window looking out to flowers. We have a rose growing over the archway down the back that is flowering- the blooms are an antique pink colour and smell divine. I love having cut flowers in the house.

We are going to be spending next weekend with these guys... the Anderson family...celebrating Kay's birthday. She's 50 and I can thank her for reawakening my scrapbbooking habit this holiday. I made an album for her as a present and enjoyed every minute of the process so thanks lovely Kay! I hope your birthday is amazing... and not too much of a shock!

Okay, time to drop one off at a friends, one at Mum's and regain some peace around here...