The List

Why is it that the list in my diary just gets longer even though I achieve many of things written down? Very evening I sit down and diligently assess my day, cross off the achieved, highlight the vital to achieve and add anything new to the list.

I guess it must be so that my life is kept busy and not to waste time on my days off from working.

Hmmmm as if I would do that.



Now my diary is a complex filing dating system. It has the use of highlighters, dog tag corners, important papers that need signing when DS goes for hosipital appointments etc etc. I keep track of days I work, days I get paid for, DS1 information that I need to retrieve etc etc. Why it is not electronic....who knows.

Lego

Lego is such great stuff. I really admire the wonder brain that invented the stuff. I my house we have duplo or baby lego, then we have the next size and finally the traditionally sized pieces.

I love how my children have been playing and using their imagination with this toy since they could first sit as a baby. Long may it last.

Why is it that toys of today seem to leave little for a child's imagination and cost heaps of money?

Anyway here is DS2 and Lego. He just love the stuff. Everyday after school he rushes in the door, does his reading and spelling then out comes the lego. So here is Focus a page I made.



the credits can be found here at Nuts4Digi

My Washing Machine

So finally my brain is back in action, I have had a snooze on the sofa, still recovering from influenza, and am feeling ever so sprightly in readiness for the children to get home from school.


I have had time to ponder on life a little, well that is when I have not been feeling sorry for myself.

Recently my washing machine broke down. Now this machine is just 2.5 years old and is all that an 8.5 kg, modern lifestyle technology has to offer in a machine. So I couldn't believe that it broke down. The electricity kept cutting out and the same part of the cycle kept repeating itself. Naturally the machine was just out of its warranted period and was going to be left to me to fund the repair. Grrrrr. Typical really. Anyway the very friendly repair man did not know what was causing the problem and essentially told me that the whole mother board, or whatever washing machines call that electronic board, would need to be replaced but he did not have a new one on him. Yeah right $200 plus to fix.

He then twiddles with the connections and left me to it. I'll be back when the I have the replacement bit.

So I am left with the machine to try and use it until he rings back.

Now in my house the washing is huge. Hayden alone causes a complete bed change each day and then we have the ordinary everyday family stuff. Really we are lost without a proper working machine, but who isn't. I cant even wait one day without washing because Hayden sometimes uses two lots of bedding in one night.

I must say I was not happy because the weather has been bad and not suitable for hanging stuff outside. Half spun washing does nothing but drip water for hours before I can hang it in front of the fire.

Luckily the little tweaking done to my machine fixed it. Who really knows what was wrong with it. Fingers crossed it does not break down again in a hurry.

Here is the offending machine.


Now here is how I dry my clothes in the winter, in front of the fire.




And finally this is what happens to my ironing when I am sick for 5 days.




Life is great isn't it.

P365 week 21, 22 and 23

I have got behind with these pages as I have been sick with influenza. I just the ordinary garden variety so It has wiped me off the life's page for a while. Anyway finally I have caught up so here are my pages.

week 21


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week 22



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week 23



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Yes I am reaquainted

I am doing well. Don't look too hard but here we are, DS2 and I, ready to exercise and its only 5 degrees C outside but lovely and sunny.




Watch for tomorrow. I am going to be accountable. I have no work booked for tomorrow so i will be out jogging, well doing my best as I am getting a pesky cold, and will do some scales and measuring...maybe.

Anyway onto Autumn. It is such a beautiful time in our front yard. We have the most beautiful leaves falling to the ground. Their changing colours are magnificent.

Here are two pages I have created to try and show what a colour rich time of the year this is in our yard.

Early Morning.



Credits can be found at Nuts4Digi here.

Liquid Amber



Credits can be found at Nuts4Digi here

My best friends and I

Yay my best friends (see here for further info about my friends) and I are getting on really well. I have been out for a run 4 times since I posted and it hasn't even rained once. I must take an action shot to post some time. I must say that the pod cast I run too is just so helpful. I did the Couch to 5km plan last year and really surprised myself. So this time I have picked up the plan some way through. The free pod cast is just the best thing for me. I just keeps me motivated. Long may that last.

Now to actually jump on the scales. I am not obsessed by scales but I think that in balance then I can see the positive difference . That is until I fit back into my winter pants feeling less like the button is going to pop off. Hmmm I wonder why I do these things to myself. Up and down the weight yoyo.

Meet my New Best Friends

Here are my new best friends. I promise I will make good use of them by exercising, maybe even running, 3- 4 times a week rain, hail or shine.



Okay I am not new to exercise and its benefits but I have got a little lost this year.

Here is a page I have made just to set my goal in rock, so to speak.



the credits can be found here.

There I have got that off my chest now I can get out and do it.

PS to myself. I should get on the scales too because I know this really gets my A... into gear.

P365 week 19 and 20

I am still up to date. So here are my last two weeks of Project 365.

week 19



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week 20



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First Hockey Experience

DS2 started playing hockey this year. he has been hanging out to play especially as his big sister playing and he has had her old stick of some time.

First practice came with eager anticipation. Hockey stick, shin pads, mouth guard and lots of energy. DS could not wait to get there.

Here he is showing off the mouth guard.



He stepped out the house really looking the part.



Endeavouring to achieve skills he has not yet even seen let alone tried was a treat. Keep the ball on your stick was asked for. I think DS2 spent his time following his ball around the hall instead of the other way around. Puffed after that he was off to try another new skill, pushing the ball to a partner. This really should have been renamed as Partner ball finding task. Finally a game. I sit here and smile. The game is in practice of the real thing that will happen on a Thursday night. At practice it looks like a group of 10 five and six years chasing a ball looking like a a swarm of bumble bees.

A very grainy photo. The action shot at the first game.



The game later in the week was just a perfect beginners game. more of chasing the ball, behaving like bumble bees and having fun. Now DS2 just has to remember which end he needs to run towards to help his team score a goal.

DS2 thinks it is so much fun. I love that he thinks like this. Long may his enthusiasm last.

Just some days....

Just some days seem to run like clock work and I can sit there and wonder what I have done all day and how lucky I am in life. So why is it that some days just fall apart from the moment you get out of bed in the morning to the moment the last child goes to bed and is asleep?

Yesterday was just one of those days. From the moment I got everyone out of bed I was greeted by the moans and groans of resistance to rising in the cold and I am tired. I understand. It is cold and I of all people detest the cold and as to the moans about tired I suggest going to sleep earlier would help. DS2 took 30 minutes to arrive at the breakfast table and then was upset because his breakfast was not ready. Hmmmm who does he think I am, a mind reader or something.

Anyway breakfast is over and DD and DS2 decide to have a verbal moment at the top of their lungs, yep all the neighbours heard.

Next we are in the car for school and DS2 had no cleaned his teeth despite reminding him so home we went and everyone was late to school. I was not happy at all by now.

So the day goes as days do when one is at home doing the SAHM thing. Chores chores and more chores. Time to take a breath and prepare for after school.

After school started as the morning did. One disaster after another. Tetchy children and by now tetchy me. Why is it that this always happens on the night that DS2 plays his hockey game and we are really pushed for time.

Get to hockey for 5pm, not a great time and DS1 has no calm him down drugs in his system and packs a massive tantrum, including every piece of bad behaviour and language he could think of. I was so embarrassed. Next time we have to all go to hockey I think we will sit in the car.

More moments when we get home from all children and by then I am tired and running short of patience.

The last straw was DD who was still awake at 8.45pm asking me how she can get to sleep.

I promised myself when the new day woke I would be extra ordinarily positive, take ownership of the things I could prevent from happening again and move on.

Thankfully today was so much better it is hard to believe that yesterday happened as it did.