Project 365 Day 9

Just a quick post to link you up with my photo. It is a hydrangea flower found outside the family bathroom at our house. It eliminates the need for curtains and still allows light and a view, of sorts. It is blooming magnificently at the moment as you can see. I find it to be a wonderful plant. Just change the pH of the soil and you can change the colour of the flowers from the lilacs to pink and white. Personally I am the no care type of gardeners so I just take it as it comes.



As you can see this plant is not suffering from my lack of attention.

Eighth Birthday

As I posted earlier my DD turned eight not so long ago. As I look back at her birthday and prepare DS2 party I think how much she is changing into someone who is more independent and forming her own idea about fashion, friends, and what independence means.

Here is a LO I created with a wonderful kit Coffee Time, just made for the moment, by Debbie McKenzie at Nuts4Digi.



Birthday Parties are an eagerly anticipated time in our house. They mean a party and seeing cousins, a cake made and decorated by me, they mean in general super fun. So I am off to make a jungle cake for DS2 5 party tomorrow. I should have plenty to photograph and scrap. I hope the cake turns out as the picture shows.

Project 365 Day 8

Blogger has been playing up today but here is todays photo. No time to write more except to say this little piece of lego kit has had DS2 really engrossed in building for the last week. It has all the parts for a helicopter and raft.

Project 365 Photo 7

Boxes...what are they? The online diction says....A container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover....I think that it is something used for storage and often made of cardboard.

In my house the cardboard variety is none of those things. It is for hiding in, a house, cave, car, plane, hats and of course my children use them for storage. Giggles and squeals of delight are always to be heard when playing with never ending supply of big boxes in our house. Happy faces and grins on all faces until the children either have to pack up at the end of the day or tensions rise and the game is abandoned.

Why is it that adults limit their idea of what a box can be used for. I wonder what happens to children when they mature into adulthood and where that wonderful imagination goes to.

Anyway enough of my musings here is my photo.

Project 365 Photo 4, 5 and 6

My second post for today includes the last of my photos to catch up.

photo 4 is a shot of a small selection of DS1 medical equipment that we use on a daily basis. This is a shot that means most to us and is only a small part of the stuff we need to keep his life healthy. I know that this all requires more explanation but this will come about another day.



photo 5 is a moment of everyday life. I actually gave my camera to DD 8 years and said take some photos not realising that in 45 minutes 138 photos could be taken. Anyway today's photo is taken by DD. It DS's and me mowing to lawns.



photo 6 was taken today. We have been renovating our house over the last twelve months. I am the plaster, self taught and DH is the painter. We have accumulated all the tools to strip the wall paper, plaster and paint the walls of our 166 square meter home. We have only one room left to do and that is the bathroom. As you can see from the photo the bath is filled with the tools and is no longer usable. We now need to find the dollars to window dress this room and we are finished. That will be a photo for another day.



Phew I promise never to let the posting get behind.

Project 365 Photo 2 and 3

Okay my second photo was a rare moment. We had cash in our house. DH's job involves going abroad. When he gets to his destination allowances are given in the currency of the country. This was what he arrived home with after spending Christmas in Beijing. A very timely little pack at this time.



The third one I have taken at Orewa Beach. Had a fabulous time at the beach. The children love swimming surfing, building sand castles and tunnels. We took a picnic to have under our shade. It was fun.

This photo to me was very iconic of a kiwi summer. The bucket, spade, sandcastle, board, the little girl in the background....DD....a perfectly blue and hot summers day



I will post the rest soon.

Project 365 Photo 1

It is summer here and finally the weather is starting to settle. My photo is of DS1 showing off his muscles to us. New Years day.



I have been keeping a little note in my diary to help me add a little journalling to the LO am intending on doing at the end of each week.

Project 365

Welcome to 2009 everyone and to my endeavour to participate in the Project 365. I aim to take photos of everyday things, events and activities reflecting life in from my view point.

Hmmmm I hope that I have not been too bold in this undertaking but I have justified this with myself by saying it will keep reminding me to take photos of our life.

I am an impatient type of person so I am keen to see the end result of this endeavour and just maybe I might end up with a complete project that can be printed.

Watch this space is all I can say.

I guess then I might be able to justify to myself and DH the purchase of an SLR camera.

I created this yesterday saying just that.



Credits all go to Jolly Holiday from WW and the font is Santas Sleigh Full. The journalling says...Dear Santa

I know that you have just made a visit but I have compiled my list for 2009. Actually, hint hint, the photo tells it all. I really really want to up grade my camera.

I promise to learn how to use it to its maximum and never leave it idle and gathering dust. I promise to get the pages I create with the photos published into a book or three, and mostly I promise to take a few more photos of myself with my family.

Tamara

Thinking Back

I was sitting there the other day looking at photos from time gone by when I came across this fantastic one of my DD at Kindy when we were living in Brunei.



Credits go to Lindsay Jane for the fabulous kit Art 101 and the font SA Kiss

It got me thinking about how adventurous we allow our children to become. What experiences we let them to encounter.

I know that I am keen to see my children play in the mud, I don't mind them getting we in the rain, climb trees, paint, bake etc. My theory is as long as they are safe then anything goes.

Yes it often makes plenty of washing, cleaning and requires many a sticking plaster or two on hand but to see the joy and pleasure when they encounter these experiences it all seems very worth it.

School

My DD finished school last week. The year has had its ups and downs what with having to create a brand new circle of friends and facing new challenges requiring choices to be made.

With all of that under her belt I have to say that she has been very inspired by her teacher this year and the effort DD has put in reflected this. So I should not have been surprised when she walked away from the end of year prize giving with a certificate acknowledging this effort for the year. Yet another moment and another child to be proud of.



Credits Everything for this LO was from Donna Duncombes Winter Delights, fonts are Depressionist Three and typewriter royale 2000

It did make me sit and wonder what it is that makes me as a parent proud. Is it just the academic successes or something more. I have made a conscious effort this year to discuss the need to make good choices with DD. This has required her to think long and hard about what makes good friends, what constitutes appropriate behaviour, consequences for poor choices and so on. I have sat through the tears, hers not mine this time, the smiles, the sound of pleasure when she achieves and the growing confidence as the year progressed. She has faced all of this and learnt many of life's little lessons. This too makes me proud. I know that she takes a great deal of care with her brothers especially DS1. For this I am proud too.