Hmmmm

I just read a quote that sums my life up to a tee at the moment …

“Inspiration is Everywhere... Finding time? Now that is a problem!”

 

OH well, back to it I guess ….

History

I have just had the most fun this afternoon!

I haven't been able to do what I have wanted to do - go to the gym in case you were wondering - so I thought I wouldn't do any of the things I should be doing - cleaning, sorting, gardening - and I read back through the old posts on my blog - right back to the start.

Man it was funny reading about the things - or lack of things - that were going on back then ... chicken pocks, bad blogging, more bad blogging and lots more bad blogging, birthday cakes, old cards, early (to NZ) Stampin Up stuff. I think I must have blogged more these holidays than I did in the first two years of the blog though - I wonder if I'll be able to keep it up? Based on past history probably not, but a great start none the less.

I dare you to go back and do the same. Now I don't mean read through my old stuff, cos my old stuff is just old stuff but your old stuff is your HISTORY - the stuff that your ancestors - well your kids at least, will love to have a giggle over in years from now ... which leads me to an important question - how do we store our blog so our ancestors can read it? Hhhhmmmmm

Weight Loss

I read this tonight on Marelle Taylor’s Blog and thought it so good I had to share it. I think I’ll have to ponder this some more.

 

“I used to think Weight-loss was a place, and that if I could only get there, then I would be happy. Well, I've walked the long road, and found that there is no place, just a long, long road that never ends....in fact it's not even a road, it's an escalator going down, when you want to go up. You put on weight by simply standing still. To stay in the same spot, you have to keep moving, and if you want to actually want to get anywhere, then you have to go twice as fast. No wonder so many people give up, or get where they want to be, and then slide straight back down again. There's no easy way to move yourself up that escalator, you have to eat well and move a lot! I think the trick is finding ways to make moving up the escalator more fun. Sometimes I have to let myself slide down a step or two, to give myself the energy to keep on moving up again....”

Doctor 6

I know how the snot in your nose gets out….

“There is a machine near your nose that blows out with the air you recycle, pushing the snot out of your nose.”

Out of the mouths of babes …

Yesterday it was our Wedding Anniversary – 12 years – where has the time gone?

Anyway, Miss 6 had been thinking all day about Anniversaries and getting married and how many weddings she’d been to ….. and then she got to making. She loves making gifts and cards for people (who often don’t ever receive them – it’s the process not always the product for her). She worked away for a while and kept saying “Don’t look, this is a surprise for you”

We all went out to dinner and at dinner she presented me with this

badge she had found and written my name on. Turns out she had made one for her Dad too but he’d received his earlier.

I guess it says a lot – on lots of different levels – her generosity, creativeness and loving heart, but on  a much deeper level it speaks to me about the commitment (perfect attendance) needed to achieve 12 years of marriage and that you have to attend, to “be there” everyday – you can’t get this far by just turning up a couple of times a week.

Here’s to another 12 years (and more) of married life and to lots more “Perfect Attendance”

Hmmm

Did you know that I am one lucky girl ....

I share my house with a 6 year old, a seven year old and a 9 year old. I only have two children but my darling husband is a Leap Day baby and has only had 9 birthdays.

Mister 7 turns 8 in a couple of weeks so this phenomenon will be short lived - I'm getting mileage out of it :-)

Does the ToothFairy come to Mummys?

I just pulled out my broken tooth that has been bothering me for over a year ... if my Dentist is reading this - it was the one with the root canal that you drilled so much into that you made incredibly thin and weak and that cracked and disintegrated all by itself and has been really annoying for ages!

Anyway it has gone now but does anyone know if the tooth fairy come to Mummy's? There might be a Mummy's Tooth Fairy cos the one that comes here is pretty slack - almost never coming on the first night the tooth is lost and usually needing a text or phone reminder to "bring cash!"

Finger's crossed

Cake

Well here is the Castle Cake and the birthday girl who says she has had a great day!

It started with pancakes for breakfast and then a mystery trip. We went into Wellington by bus and train - we told the kids that now she was 6 it was time for her to earn her keep and she was starting work :-)

She didn't fall for that but still didn't really know what was up ... we walked to Te Papa and wandered around there including seeing the Colossal Squid which was quite interesting and lots of the other fun stuff at "Our Place."

We came home and she had a better look at her gifts (lots of craft supplies - like mother, like daughter :-) and opened her mail and then we went out to tea to her choice of restaurant - Valentines - and then I have just packed her off to read for a while - she got 3 new books all with a Ballet theme so she's got plenty to keep her going for a week or so.

Don't look too closely at the cake - the weather was so hot yesterday that it was very hard to get the icing to stick where I wanted it to. Turns out the birthday girl doesn't like butter icing anyway - could have saved myself some bother. Next year I might try an ice cream cake (or can you still buy them from the supermarket?) Hmmmmm.

ATCs

Here are some ATCs I created for a swap I am in. They are for the themes ...
the letter "K", Junk food and Anything (so I grabbed the closest bits of paper and created).

I hope the recipient will like them. If you get them in your letterbox let me know :-)




I thought I was being so clever when I scanned and created all these posts the other night ready to send them at my leisure ... but they all have the same date - that wasn't part of the plan Hmmm!

Vicarious Living .....

Isn't the blog universe an interesting place?

We visit other people's blogs and get caught up in their lives - whether we want to or not and somehow develop 'friendships' with these people - even though they don't even know we exist (except as some number in their "hits").

Sometimes we do get to know them - in real life - and chat and share ideas but mostly it is all anonymous.

And sometimes our 'real' friends have blogs too and we know more about their week through their posts on their blog than through our own conversations with them (Hi Kelly and Keryn)

And then we find out that some terrible things are going on in their lives but there is nothing we can do - remember we are just hits on their blog - but still we feel it and feel their pain and feel helpless.

I challenge you to be less of a stalker and more of a friend this year - leave comments on blogs and chat with people - or seriously limit the number of blogs you visit!!!!!