Project 365 week 11 and 12

Just a quick post to let you see me Project 365 pages for week 11 and 12. I have come to the point where I need to decide whether I am going to get these printed made into a book now and consequently having 4 books to make up a whole. Or whether I should wait and make just one magnificent book. Hmmm Since I have never had any of my LO's printed this would be a first for me and the seer thought of what they might look like outside of my computer does make me nervous.

Oh well

Week 11



week 12



Enjoy

Little Tearaways.

I have moments when I wish I had more help around my house. DD does speech making sessions. When DH is away I am in the position to take DS's 1 and 2 with me. Now at 4 pm at the end of a term at school both little Mr's are full of energy and not great when it comes to using their ears.

Luckily the venue we are at has a small community hall the boys are able to make use of. Well this particular Tuesday, just last week, they spent the 30 minutes charging up and down the hall using their best voices, opening and shutting the doors and in general making a lot of noise and thoroughly enjoying themselves.

By now DS1 concerta has well worn off and he is hyperactive to the maximum. DS2, 5years, tells me that they were really good, did as they were asked and had fun. Meanwhile I am there thinking how I wish they would keep the noise down so as to not disturb the lesson, stop going in and out of the doors and generally listen just a little more.

Hmmmm

This is the one photo I took and made into a LO showing all of this.



Credits; paper from Spreading the Cheer kit by WW, scatter dots and frame from Kicking up the Leaves kit by WW
staple from Being Me by WW, heart holes from Ho Owls You by Cinnamon Design
alpha (recoloured) from Rock a Motion kit by Cinnamon Designs, WA Thoughtful a blog freebie, sorry it unpacked loose and I dont know by who. Fonts are Vaguely Repulsive and Underwood 1913

We are ready.

It is autumn here. We are still getting lovely warm sunny days but cooler night. This last weekend we finally did the last push on collecting our fire wood. It has taken for ages, well since the middle of January to complete this process.

Firsty we are really lucky that my parents have a 16 acre block of land with a large grove of a renewable resource, pine trees.



So in January the right number of trees for two families had to be fell. At that time they need to be trimmed of their branches, cut into rounds and then left to dry out in the summer days.



Next a splitter needs to be hired and about 3 days of splitting to logs takes place. The final step is to collect and stack the wood.

Well this weekend just gone we completed the last stage, collecting and stacking the wood. My bones ache, I'm tired but I know that we will be dry and warm all winter long.








I have to admit at this stage that, in our house, we are softies. Winter will involve only getting a couple of frost all winter long and it never ever gets close to snowing. This being so, I still can't stand the cold, even the temperatures we get. It must the those years of living on the equator in Brunei that has turned me into a softy, or so my DH says. I prefer to walk around with a t'shirt and shorts on with the fire going strong than to wear all my warm clothes inside with nothing warmer to put on when I go out.

It also saves us heaps of money by not using the drier. I can dry my clothes in front of the fire overnight while saves electricity use. Yah.

Don't think we are cold enough yet to light the fire. That is about 6 - 8 weeks away depending how wet things get and how much asthma DS2 is faced with this winter.

Basic Facts

I am trying to inspire DD to feel motivated to learn all her basic facts without making her bored or turning her off. I know, I am a teacher and get stuck, at times, thinking like a teacher. So my readers out there, what can you recommend some great ways to inspire an 8 year old to rote learn these necessary facts.

Autumn

Don't you love it...Autumn that is. Here in New Zealand autumn is officially here. I love the crisp clear days and the new life that I can see in the garden, that is excluding all those weeds that now have appeared. I love the changing colours of the large trees in my front yard. So I thought this Autumn I would take one photo a week of the Liquid Amber tree in my yard. I cant wait to see the trees leaves change from green through all the warm reds, oranges and yellows through to all the leaves falling off. I will try and post a photo a week starting tomorrow.

Big Boys Toys

You guessed it. I spent the day visiting a big boys toys display.....a military airshow. 50,000 people, about 20,000 cars, three children and DH don't make for a happy me.

It was a fantastically warm and sunny autumn day which was a bonus as it could have been much worse being autumn. The planes made all the right noises and demonstrated the appropriate amount of speed for DH and DS2 to be suitably impressed. DS1 whinged a great portion of the afternoon because he wanted a ride on something, looking was not good enough and DD and I followed along.

The hardest part of the the day probably was being stuck in the traffic jams for about 3 hours in total. I think coming home we traveling about 10m in the first hour. Yes with military precision traffic was smoothly funneled out of the two exits. Of course I say this with sarcasm as I am now really tired and cant wait to put my feet up.

Here is a photo of the slow planes, not sure what they are, but they were slow enough for me to use my point and snap camera.



and the family looking skyward

Cars

I wonder how we got to the stage where cars are just so essential to the everyday working of our life. This clearly came into focus this week when one of ours had to go to the garage for a major repair and the other got a flat tyre. These things always need $$$$ to be fixed. I guess that I am just going need to find some more days of work.

No car, children and work do not fit nicely together in our house.

I wonder what next week will throw at me.

P365 Weeks 9 and 10

Here are my next two LO's for P365

Week 9



Credits background from Delightful kit from WW, pins, staples and note paper from Life 365 kit from WW. Font is University Roman LET

Week 10



Credits. staples, paint splats, alpha from PM kit by Flerg, background from Delightful kit from WW, frame from Life 365 Hodge Podge 1 from WW, tape from Signature Tape pack from WW, sun from Weather kit from WW, Fonts are Depressionist Three and Tamara's printing (my own hand)

Just venting......

DS1 needed to have blood accessed, from the port a cath he has, today. Unfortunately his new community nurse had three tries and couldn't access any blood.

Grrrrr....now I have to take him into Starship hospital so the fabulous ladies at Day Stay can do it. Hopefully they will not need to poke his site 3 times with a 3 cm needle. Thankfully his site is quarterised as this is a monthly occurrance. (Note to self....maybe photo of the day is in here somewhere)

Phew...I feel better now that has been said.

I hope you all have a great day.

Medicine Time

I have been prompted to record some more things about everyday life. I know that I have just blogged about Hayden but I guess the last part of the story is the medication.

Hayden is now on a number of medications as I mentioned in my previous post. It is a very intensive regime, is time consuming and tiring for me.

His daily routine goes like this. Up at 6.15am to start the very slow hydration and food process. It takes about 50 minutes to eat 1/2 a weet-bix and have about 100ml milk and 100ml water. I hear you all saying why does it take so long? Well in short if he eats at a 'normal' pace he will vomit everything back up so steady and slow seems to overcome this. Not only this if he does not have food in his stomach then he will not be able to tolerate the medication that is to come next and the result with be the same. It is a vicious cycle because without the medication to come, over time, Hayden's health will go into decline and his behaviour will be unmanageable. Just try being in my shoes and working this out....2 years it took to come up with this formula. So breakfast involves up at 6.15am and finished at 8.10am. Not running around, brushing teeth etch because that also causes nausea.

Anyway the rest of the day involves continual and controlled hydration. The medication takes only moments but does mean I get up in the middle of the night. Thankfully Hayden has a Mckey button which is like a ear piercing to his stomach. The medication goes straight in here so in the middle of the night he does not need to be woken up.

Here is Hayden doing his morning medication. He looks happy enough here but that is not always the case.



Credits. Forest Whispers by Lindsay Jane. Fonts are Underwood 1913 and Park Avenue BT

Part of the medication routine is also hydration. Hayden's kidneys just leek fluid like there was tomorrow. So each day he needs to have a minimum of 2 litres of liquid. It is never ending as his eyes also require medication. Roughly 5 or 6 times a day eye drops need to be administered to avoid photo sensitivity and damage to the cornea.