my story teller

my little exaggerator. What comes out of your mouth sometimes makes me want to have a paper and pen handy constantly.
Today we were on top of the hill in our street on your bike and I said if you used the brake you could slowly go down the (smaller) hill. You suddenly jumped off and said
"No way, if I fall I will hit my head and blood will go on the ground.....then I will hurt my arms too and they will fall off and then I will cry and I wont be able to eat my dinner".

Speaking of dinner you eat most things and are rarely fussy but when it comes to dinner unless it is meat you don't eat it. I served lasagna tonight and when you saw it it screamed loudly and ran the other way.


love you Max you are one in a million.xxxxxx

July 13 - 19

Adding 2 more things to my LIST - photography homework and school work...wow with 4 days left i might never get through the first few going on the lazy day I have had today!!!!!

The holidays are HERE...YIPPPEEEEE

m- food shopping and a good house tidy. Max got his dream toy today for doing big arms at swimming and fantastic backstroke, so he spent the day with his beloved "Roary apart".

t-A PJ day and I cleaned the laundry from top to bottom. the dryer had left marks on the wall and DUST was THICK in places so a good scrub down left it NICE!!!! Karen and Mark came over with the kids after dinner and the kids played while we had dessert. Max was funny as he ran into the kitchen screaming "Guys guys...there is something wrong with Alananh" we all were ready to RUN to her aid when he finished with "she has stopped playing with me".

w- Shopping, medicare, clothes shopping, chores and lots of relaxing in front of the TV on a cold winters day.

t- a nice lunch with Alison, Narelle and the kids.

f- Karen's wedding, a great play and photography session in the park and a great night out at the wedding partying with the bonnyrigg crew. I was exhausted by the time I crawled into bed at 12.30.

s- a sleep in, picked up Max and I had a bad headache so we had a nap that lasted from 2-6pm!!!!! We Both stayed up to 1am!!!!

s- Watched Tayla play soccer, visited Gill, Bren and baby Cooper and enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Mark and Karen's.

a page and a list

this is the ONE 12x12 I managed at the retreat...I will photograph the 8.5x11s soon.
Since I have been sleeping in and not getting much done these holidays I NEED to get a wriggle on as time is sadly slipping away.
Ten things I need to achieve after getting a few things done today, including booking our Gold Coast holiday and applying for long service leave.

organise DVD preschool fundraiser
pay all bills and start tax organisation
clean out the drawers downstairs
get as much as possible done on Max's quilt
sort and print photos
shop and find some new shoes for me
start cleaning out Max's old room
have some time out at the park and seeing friends
clean and iron the usual daily grind I have to keep on top off
buy and install a new oven

july 6 to 12

A 5 day working week...........tough !!!! but I needed to be there for planning days and it saved me a sick day.
I had no internet and then Telstra failed to keep their booking and then stuffed me around on the phone.
Brendon and Gill had a baby boy - Cooper.
We said goodbye to Robyn at BPS...a sad assembly!!!!! the hunt was on for new staff and the process consumed a lot of my time.
Max had a ball at A's 5th birthday.
We got Foxtel hooked up and SO begins my addiction to reality TV.
We went to visit baby Hayley and Max and Nathan played really well. Then a nice dinner at Charlotte's house ended a good weekend

A much needed catch up

it is DUE but I have tooo much to do.

I have just taken a break from a major toy cleaning and sorting rampage and as I WORK I am getting frustrated with myself as I think of more things I need to do. I have 14 days OFF, lots of housework, lots of school work and a need for some R and R too.

Some random things I want to say right now

I am LOVING my camera at the moment thanks to fabulous Janine Kaye, and the BEST news is I will be upgrading as a combined birthday, Christmas, 10th wedding anniversary pressie this oct/Nov, soooooo can't wait. I will post more on my fab weekend with Janine soon.

I had a great time away with 29 scrappers last weekend. I organised a weekend away and we had a ball by the open fire and Alison would truely do well on Survivor if she could take her ipod and running shoes. I am now addicted to glimmermist, an addiction I DON'T NEED. thanks girls for a fab weekend. More about that too. lol

I took some great shots today at a 5th birthday party, can't really share without parents permission, but I got some of the best indoor McDonalds party room shots with NO flash.

i am 16 weeks pregnant and need to start thinking of names other than Frederick, which I adore but no one else does. lol

my son OWNS toooooo many toys. And if he does not learn to start putting them away using my organisation system they will start to find the otto quick smart.

I get foxtel tomorrow thanks to EOFYS.

ok back to cleaning, then I am going to make a list and get stuck into the millions of things I need to DO.

june 29 to July 5

Max loves to wear socks on his hands to keep his fingers warm.
I had a terrible back ache and woke up feeling horrible on Monday so I rang in sick. I went off for a massage and while I waited got some photos printed for the upcoming scrap weekend away.
Happy EOFYS!!!!
At 12.01am on Thursday I took myself off to the BIG W toysale and had a very relaxed shop compared to years gone by. I got all things "hidden" and was in bed by 2am. Which meant i slept in on my day off to 9.30am!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then on Friday I packed up the car and we headed off to a scrapping weekend away at Long Point. It was a fantastic group of ladies new and old friends had a great time together. I stayed up way to late and did barely nothing.....4 months of Max's 07 album and i LO!!!!! i adore my scrapping buddies and I am a bit sad I only took one photo. A massive thanks to the girls who came along and I cant wait to do it next year.
I got home to NO INTERNET as Milly chewed the box and cables off the wall!!!

june 22 - 28

Ironically I do a photography course and have no time to practice. Max took 6 photos this week...lots of me looking shocking in my PJs. We had a Russell photo shoot and that is it. It was a week consumed by reports. I went to my OB and all was OK. I have been getting headaches and my back/neck are killing me. All that report marking. On Friday night I went to bed at 8.50pm and woke at 8.50am...report avoidance I call it....all that rest did not help my aching body..I was still very sore.

June 09

• You growled at the preschool photographer and made the teachers giggle!
• You love to count in all crazy ways 1-3-7-8-9 “I do it fast mum”.
• When we were in the line at Woolworths you wanted a chocolate milkshake. I had to wait in line and you kept asking. I told you that you could go and buy it yourself (I could see Donut King from where I was standing)….I thought you would not do it but you took the money and shocked me. The lady behind me was shocked too and watched our trolley while I followed you. I watched as you just pushed in front of the crowd and called out “excuse me I want a chocolate milkshake” trying to throw the money at the man behind the counter. You were sooooo cute.
• You are so loving and I adore how you say sweet things to me – “mum I was so worried about you”, “Mum can you be my best friend” and “I love you and I want to eat you up”.
• When asked if you want a brother or sister you say “I want a scooter”.
• You love licorice and ask for it all the time.
• You take an interest in monsters and ask if there are any around. You whisper alot when you talk about them and say "mum, look a monster is downstairs, go get it"
• You have developed a love for toy guns... I have no idea where but rough play is a new interest of yours. You are always asking for gun.
• For 3 months you have only worn your black VANS, you love your "black shoes" and freak out if I suggest you wear any other shoes.
  

june 15 -21

one of those weeks when you just say "I must have killed a **%*###*" over and over again.

My wonderful day care lady was ripped away...it left me with stress, questions and anger at the law that someone not related to you CAN'T look after your child. All in all it will be worked out and things will at SOME point get back to routine. We love Linda and I have just over 20 weeks left at work, it is flu season, all the good long day cares are full so the knowledge that ONE DAY things will get back to normal is worth it as I am not putting my child in a crappy long day care for 20 weeks.

My oven then blew up - ever tried grilling nuggets - man I never thought I could miss an oven sooooo much.

I pulled all my stomach muscles and was in a lot of pain for 3 days too, still dragged myself to school when I really should have rested.

I spent hours on the phone to DOCS and my solicitor trying to argue points. waste of time. My solicitor told them to go and fight real crime and help the kids in REAL need.....sooooo true.

Some good things did happen this week. Max finally washed his own hair and did not scream the house down when we rinsed it. When we went to Aldi he INSISTED on a chocolate cake for afternoon tea. He then wanted a candle for his "birthday cake" and he proceeded to sing happy birthday to himself. TOOO cute.

THEN my weekend was mine, off to Janine's for a 2 day photography workshop. LOVED LOVED LOVED it. When I got home I was sad I had no time to practise and needed to make lunches and iron. thanks Janine, what a great way to end a crappy start to the week.

June 8-14

• A public holiday (gotta love them). Rest and ironing!!!
• PINK in concert......a great night...... shame it was a school night!
• The coldest day of the year so far...a chilly 13degrees all day.
• A 2 day Aboriginal conference for school which was great fun.
• Friday off school because I went in on my day off. I should have rested for a big weekend ahead but NO I decided to go into the stitches and craft show to get some fabric for a quilt I WANT to make.
• Karen's fantastic jewellery party.
• Karen G's kitchen tea.
• Max had a 4th birthday party
  
  

PINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was told how FANTASTIC she was live but WOW WOW WOW. I think my feelings could be summed up the following day when a male friend said to me "I would marry her, leave my wife for her" and I said "I would marry her she was that HOT"..........in everyway this lady has it. I had a great night with the girls, it took me hours to unwind and stop singing her songs in my head before I slept that night. Look at the photo she sings while falling, swinging and spinning . A total pocket-rocket who put on a fantastic 2 hour show.

June 1-7

• Max still very sick on Monday and Tuesday ......lucky I could get my mum to come and stay ((very upset with people that take their children to family day car sick for at least 2 weeks running)).
• Preschool committee meeting - I am organising a pie drive....yum!!!!
• Planning week at school......tooo much to do but I was allowed to swap my days to suit the planning timetable so I got Friday off.....a four day long weekend.
• Max and I walked many blocks as he wanted to find the home ice cream man.....when he found him he even insisted on carrying the boxes up the steep hill home.
• Darren went out with 10 mates from high school, crawled home at 4am. I did not sleep well and had some horrible dreams that I had food poisoning.
• Max and I went to Sophie's princess/pirate party.....yummy food and a gorgeous cake!!!!
• Darren cooked us another nice roast for the 3rd week in a row....love ya honey.SOOO much planned to do on my 4 day long weekend but not much at all done except washing and ironing.
  Max is getting so hard to capture on film, he moves too quick!!!! We missed another month of Russell shots due to illness and a massive mosquito attack on his face and arms.....grrrrrr!!!!!

can you believe it is June already ????

where did all the time go??

On Sunday Max saw this trailer on Sunrise and he was sad I could not "make it happen again" so here you go little buddy. WOW in a year I am going to be very excited about this movie, i have become a toy story nut like my son..........but lets not wish the next 12 months away shall we!!!! lol Oh and he did not notice his FAV Weezy was not there, his voice died in a car crash.....I hope they bring Weezy back or how will I EVER get Max a Weezy toy as it is the only one he does not own in triplicate.



I will be catching up on all my posts when this 4 day working week is over as I have Friday off for 2 weeks YAY, WHAT a cool long weekend this week!!!!!!

May 25 to 31

Education day. BBQs. Teaching. Rain. Max had his preschool photos. We went to Dr Fulcher for my first check-up.

It was tooooo cold and rainy, brrrrrrr. A sleep deprived night on Thursday as Max had fevers. I was going to call in sick but I had to go in as I needed to open up as bossman was away sick.....after a long drive to get school keys, I arrived at school flustered and ready for a nap, nothing I had planned got done and I drove some children home that missed the bus ...happy to get away as the day had not been easy.


Max was at home with my mum all day and was feeling very sick. After a trip to the doctor we found out he had an infection in each ear and a throat infection. We spent all day Saturday and Sunday inside. We had a nice roast pork dinner with Karen, Mark and the kids and then it was off to mark my schools Maths programs, I went to bed way tooo late for a Sunday night.

SCRAPLOOT CYBERCROP

Tomorrow night I REALLY should be marking programs and starting my report checking...i really, really, really SHOULD but will I???

When all I want to do is cybercrop and chat at scraploot. DON'T tell on me please!!!!!

Check out the Scraploot blog for the details.

May 18 to 24

• Up early for school photos, nothing NICE to wear, grrrr.
• Darren attacked at work.
• SICK day just needed for rest, I was feeling off.
• Shopped lots and got a new pandora bead and it cleaned....yummy!!!!!
• 9 weeks pregnant and to bed at 9pm on a friday night.
• Lucas' 3rd birthday at the play centre, WHAT a cool cake. Poor Max spent the day chasing Lucas around as he had tooo much to do, left the place crying as he wanted to see his friend more and see his pressies.
• A nice afternoon bike riding around Poppy's street. A proud moment as Max rode up and down a footpath for the first time.

things you say

Yes you talk a lot and make me laugh LOTS

Last week you were devastated when the pedal fell off your bike and you asked me to fix it, I said I couldn't and you would have to wait for daddy. You persisted and did it. I was proud of you and told you that you were clever. You nodded and screamed
"Yes I did it, I am a tool like daddy!!!! YAY"

Yesterday you told me "I am going to crack you like an egg and eat you up"

You always ask about Christmas and last week said
"Mum get all the Christmas stuff down and make it Christmas again. I like Christmas, no I LOVE it and I want it NOW".

a catch up

thanks to all my wonderful blog friends for your congrats and kind words....


A layout....done a few weeks ago YES, but I plan on getting back into scrapbooking as soon as I have to stop going to bed at 9.30 pm.

My buddy Kylie and I have been busy organising a retreat at the beautiful Long Point, I have been meaning to post here about it forever....our small retreat of 15 mates grew and grew and we had to find a bigger venue......there are about 2-3 spaces left. Roll on July 3-5 when 30 ladies take over the hall and party (and scrap too) with the roar of the open fire and over 500 songs on the ipod....so if you want to join us be quick......I will email you more details. (belindamax@hotmail.com).

off to catch some more z's

due december 25th!!!!!!!!!

well yes after lots of stress, blood tests, doctors, vitamins, acupuncture, tears and 22 months of TRYING we GOT one!!!!

baby number 2 is due dec 25 !!!!! Santa please bring him or her early I would not cope if they were born and Westfields was shut so I could not get a Santa photo.....funnily enough earlier this year I dreamt that I walked my baby down from South West Private to get a Santa photo......will more dreams be coming true????

It is still early days about 8.5 weeks but I am feeling sick, tired and gained about 5 kilos!!!!

May 11-17

NAPLAN testing kept us busy at school and it was a HARD test...even I had to sit down and THINK about some year 5 maths questions as they were designed to sort the super bright from the bright!!!!


Then the wonderful Thursday rolled around and I had my ultrasound, a quick shop and then met up with a friend from swimming at TIC TOCKS. Ashleigh and Max had the place to themselves and had a ball (sadly I forgot my camera). It was wonderful to see them play for hours as they only know each from swimming lessons, its great when kids just click.


On SATURDAY 5 staff members from my school headed down to Wollongong Uni to a Mathematics conference...May 16 was a very popular day, we had sooooo many invites and things to do on that day, sadly we had to miss the preschool working bee and 2 other parties. BUT after a LONG day learning lots about Maths MORE BPS crew headed into the city for Karen's hens night, fun was had by all of course and I loved my mocktails YUM......I think I drove over 300 kms in one day and by 12.30am I was sooo ready for 20 hours sleep.



Once again Sunday was no day of rest, shopping, cleaning and washing.......boy i was tired.

May 4-10

Dragged my tired bottom out of bed to work a 4 day week!

Max made himself sick at preschool by refusing to wee on the toilet. He had himself so worked up by the time I got there!!! So much for a nice afternoon pick up and a shop.....!!!!

Darren finally went to the DR about his ankle and after an hour and a half wait he did not take the x-ray back in - vowing to read it himself, no real prognosis as yet. He still has a slight limp so I am thinking Dr Darren still has problems. Max is concerned it might fall off (me too Max).

A nice mothers day assembly at school again.....well done Narelle. In true BPS style we ran around like chooks with our heads cut off to get everything to work....but I guess we are supper mums after all, we can do anything!!!!!!

I worked extremely hard on Saturday to finally iron 4 baskets of ironing. Then I went and had a much deserved scrap shop.

I had a good mothers day, I was spoilt with pressies, I loved my first ever "stall" pressie from Max.

happy Mothers' day to all

an oldie but a goodie!!!!

"You'll appreciate my wisdom someday when your older and your grown, can't wait 'till you have a couple little children of your own...... you will thank me for my counsel, i gave you so willingly but right now I'll thank you not to roll your eyes at me"!!!!!

April 27 to May 3

back to work. 2 days of staff development and most importantly 2 days of yummy lunches and lots of laughs.

Max loved going back to preschool but I was really sad as for 4 weeks my mornings allowed me to drop him off. I miss walking into his pre-school.....it is just the most fantastic place, I might hold him back from school to keep him there for an extra year!!!!lol

darren STILL has not been to the DR about his ankle. Over worked and exhausted....the joys of a business in these global times.

My day off flew by....coffee and a shop with Karen, some procrastinating in front of the computer, a little bit of cleaning, swimming lessons and BANG it was over. Never got to tackle the 3 baskets of ironing I STILL HAVE!!!!!!

A nice catch up with Veronika and the kids on Saturday ....naughty me forgot my camera. shame as we went to Lake Parramatta. A quick catch up with Joan at the scraproom too....gee I miss the fun we had in the scraproom on those Friday nights!!!!!

cleaning and boring stuff ended the week.

Max on his first day back at Pre School for term 2.

April 20-26

A really busy week after 2 weeks of doing nothing we started doing something.

Monday - When I woke up I decided I would take Max to the Easter show. We had a great day. We spent lots of $$$$ and ate lots of yummy food and saw lots of good things. It was a great decision. All he was fascinated in was a toffee apple SO despite the fact I was worried his bad tooth might FALL OUT I gave him one...it would not be the show without SUGAR!!!!! He started eating it at around 2, I was happy I kept the wrapper as he had a few rests from it. He finished at about 8pm. It was a shame he wanted to go home before the fire works...next year we will stay. I had not been to the show in 11 years, I went the first year it was at Homebush and that is it. When I was little I went every year......I remember dad carrying home about 10 show bags and I bought all the wigs and blow up toys on offer......oh I wish I had some photos of the show at Moore Park.

Tuesday - recovery day...washing, cleaning and Madagascar x 4

Wednesday - a happy day and then a MAD rush OFF to the Wiggles. Poor Max was hungry as it was right on lunch and he ate all the snacks I took and then wanted to leave mid show to eat. We stayed and he had a good time. Gee those boys are FIT.........Anthony is such the show off. We ended the day with a nice late Lunch with Elleni, Tash and the boys club.

Thursday - lots of plans to get stuff done but it was cold and we did not do much at all.

Friday - A big shop and then I finally went to see Joan at the Scraproom and gave her her 60th birthday present. A shop at scraploot to get myself some new yummy basic grey and then home to REST. Madagascar one more time please.

Saturday (ANZAC day) - a nice lunch and afternoon at Fagan Park. Max threw a big tantrum but ended up having a great day on the tyre ride and I was happy that he braved the flying fox...he is becoming such a daring and brave little boy.

Sunday - the usual Sunday - chores and Max decided to play in the clean clothes again and this time he put undies on his head, some on his arms and he danced and sang around. he told me to do it too so at one point I had undies on my head and was following his lead.
and the holidays came to an END.......11 weeks to go!!!! lol

They shall grow not old,

as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them,

nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

Watching the news tonight made me teary, the ode and the last post just makes me cry every year. Today I think of my dad and I am so proud of him and his father and grandfather. I think of my uncle Norm and his slouch hat on his coffin on the day he was buried. All proud men, all happy and honoured to be Australian.

I also shed a tear as dad did not march again as his partner is ill, I hope next year he will for his grand son.

Tonight I will start an Anzac day tradition and read Max the great book, pictured above.

I love you dad, my cobber!!!!

Scraploot is FOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its hard to believe that Scraploot is 4 years old. I remember when i first met Sue and RUSHED off for a drive to her garage in her house..........NOW well now it is the most wonderful scrapbook store in Australia!!!

To celebrate, from 5pm on the 23rd April until 4pm on Sunday 26th April, we will be increasing our discount on purchases over $50 (before postage) to 15%. Sale is storewide, including new product, double up and product already on sale.

Discount applies to individual orders, not combined orders. During our sales, only Credit Card and Paypal payments are accepted.

To celebrate more we are giving away a $25 voucher to the winner of our Birthday Competition.All you need to do is create a layout with4 photos, and using stitching, stickers and scallops.Upload your work into the Scraploot Gallery (in the correct gallery please) between Friday April 24th and Sunday May 10th midnight EST.
Check out the Scraploot blog for a Design Team sample and for other Scraploot news. So go and check out all the new stuff thats come in and grab a bargain... Happy birthday Scraploot....

Scraploot Blog Update

Check out all the NEW YUMMY stuff at Scraploot this week......I am sooooo popping in the store again!!!!
This month I had some great fun updating the Scraploot blog with layouts using stickers.

April 13-19

Restful and POSITIVE
We ended Easter by going for a walk at the park and hamburgers by the lake. On Easter Monday with no day sleep Max went to bed at 6.15 pm........WOW!!!!

I spent the first week of my holidays resting and thinking. I did a little scrapbooking and Narelle came over.......gotta love good company when needed.

A very restful week. After the MASSIVE and HAPPY news that after 22 months I was finally pregnant I expected big parties and champagne but I was tooo tired. An ultra-sound next week to confirm all was ok, but I was happy!!!!!

Darren went diving with Simon and we had a wonderful dinner with them to end the week.


ALL is great

April 6-12

a restful week - no school, lots of hoping.


Max became ill at preschool on Wednesday. He insisted on staying for his Easter concert where he made me proud as he sang along with the group and danced to the actions. He loved the egg hunt too and then ended up at the doctor. He had a throat infection and chest infection. We rested all day Thursday.

Darren turned 33 and we had a nice take away dinner with Karen, Mark and the girls

the week ended with Easter - a restful good Friday and a late evening at Karen and Mark's again watching their sensational DVD of the making of their house.


Max refused to attend his friends 5th birthday and put himself to bed- real signs he was still sick.

Darren's mate Allan who we had not seen in many years visited us on Saturday night.

I started cleaning my scraproom - the higher shelves had not been dusted since its installation in JAN 08, so I went through some rags!!!!

On Easter Sunday Max threw a 30 minute tantrum and stomped himself to sleep, 3 hours later he emerged happy and ready to play. We had a nice Chinese lunch and some chocolate, feeling a BIT off now!!!!!

Happy Easter

2 pages to share

Do you know how much I love OCTOBER AFTERNOON papers???? I DO

this is the title page for my 2008 album.

have a great tuesday!!!!!

30th March to April 5th

tired of hearing about CC and Maxi from Roary the racing car ......you ask to go to the shop everyday to buy them.
I love it when Max reads and starts every page with one day...
Dr Lok provided us with some good news......all fingers crossed.
A nice dip for Max on Friday afternoon in a COOL pool
A nice dinner at Rashaeys with my wonderful husband and son.
A Wednesday night with good friends and lots of laughs and what ifs...
Preschool committe meeting.
Swimming ended for term 1.
Saturday was PJ day until 4pm.
eggs eggs eggs "everywhere" hurry up and let the season be over!!!!! lol
everyone ended up in our front yard this afternoon for a drink and a play. Darren had far too many!!! The kids played and Max got the dirtiest I had ever seen him after runny over the lawn, kicking the ball, tackling and being a bossy boy!!!!
Daylight savings ended sad as I love the 6 months of extra afternoon sunshine, I will miss Summer.

never a dull moment

Darren walks in the door at about 7.28pm after a hard day.

I am laying on the lounge watching biggest looser.

He says "Hi" loudly as he does not know where I am

I say "Hi babe".

Max chimes in with "Hi babe" from the toy room.

Darren and I laugh.

On Saturday night Max took all his PJs off and ran around saying rudey rudey....(hates being pant-less so this was strange for him.) He was in the most devilish mood, basically bouncing off the walls.

He then got a pair of Darren's undies out of the clean basket that needed to be folded and put them on.....................here was the result

23-29 March

• the plovers at school are still causing dramas!!!
• I ran a staff meeting on Numeracy


• Up before the sun lots this week, cursing the traffic on the way into Liverpool.


• Got my hair coloured.


• 5 loads of washing on Thursday.


• Max forgot (shock/horror) about the toy story gang this week and devoted lots of time to Roary the racing car............gee I miss Woody and Buzz!!!!!


• the traditional 26th day Russell phtoto shoot. Max was not in the mood but I was in the mood to get it done , lots of hard work to get him to smile.


• Max's swimming teacher was away and he was lucky enough to have Suzanne....she really proved what he can do......dog paddled 10m and kicked on his back for around 9m.


• A massive mess of toys in the lounge room led to new rules about packing away before something new is played with.


• Friday at school was FULL on from 10am...........I had 20 things to get done but a custody issue saw one job get done.


• I worked at Scraploot on Saturday and Darren cleaned up out the back with Max.....who insisted getting in the otto to push down the freshly mown grass.


• A relaxing Sunday even though I felt OFF. never touched the 4 baskets of ironing or got much school work done......my body is still tired and lazy.


• It ended with a MASSIVE pillow fight with Max and Darren in the backroom, both not giving in..surprised no one was hurt as they BOTH played rough.


• and for the first time in MANY years the end of March did not see the end of DST.....one more week of getting up in the dark.


• 2 weeks to holidays ..........do you know how happy that makes me ......PJ day here we come.

scrapbooking

Last weekend I had a gorgeous weekend away scrapping with the girls. I really wanted to come home and continue to scrap the week away as I was and still AM sooooo tired and still off!!!

I had a great time with the girls. We had lots of space, great company and it was great to catch up with all my fantastic friends I have met while scrapping and we met 3 new friends too that decided to join us too!!!!

With a late start on Friday night and a nap on Saturday as I was not feeling the best here is what I got done....I also managed to finish Max's Russell album for 2006 8 pages in total in a 6x8 album ( I started it in Aug 07).

I love this COSMO spinner I got from Scraploot. I left it to spin and cut out the page protector for hours more fun!!!!!

most of them are true at some point in a day!!!! lol

16-22 March

A hard week.......that ended wonderfully.
A day off on Monday...I needed REST and Max and I did just that.
up early 3 mornings for tests, I dragged my bottom WAY out of bed before sunrise
lessons, lessons, lessons all day Tuesday and Wednesday.
I am happy that doctors visits mean I get to take Max to preschool. I love watching him walk in the gate, this truly is one of the BEST preschools around, they are soooo professional and the environment is soooooo engaging.


Thursday was the BIG presentation day for my principal and I. We had to present for 2 hours on our schools Mathematics programs. We pulled off a good presentation at the last minute, I literary had to call the school and organise some kids in the computer lab with 20 minutes to spare. We went to 4 schools and after 4 x 2 hour presentations my head was throbbing.
The day made me realise how happy I am to teach at BPS, I do love this school, settling in took a while but I don't think i want to ever leave, we have some excellent children and staff and things in the community can only get better. (touch wood it stays the great school it is)
The week was over work wise as I did not have to work Friday as I worked Thursday. BUT my body was in PAIN. I took myself off for a massage,pedicure and a coffee with a great friend...just what I needed after a morning of more early tests. I came home and just was tooooooo exhausted to pack for my scrap weekend away. I just wanted to relax and not have to pack and lug everything to the car.
After an afternoon nap and some rest I finally arrived late but happy I went. We had a great 2 days and nights, I wish I could do one of these retreats a month!!!!

Sadly the weekend came to an end (car all packed for the trip home).

9-15 March

testing, crying and shots.........what a job I have!!!!

We had a great Thursday at home, swimming and eating lunch on the trampoline.

I joined the fund raising committee at Max's preschool.

Darren fell of the back of the ute and BADLY hurt his foot.

we sat out on the rocking chairs and watched the rain from the front porch.

Tyler's 2nd birthday - a great day out. Max was playing with all the big kids and had a ball. We drove through Liverpool on the fire truck.

Some scrapbooking

Here are some of my efforts from the weekend.......it was my turn to upload at SCRAPLOOT and the topic was journaling.....something I LOVE to do!!!!!

Have a fantastic week!!!!!

2nd March to 8th March

I taught at scraploot and had a ball.

No tears for Max at preschool.

Mark's 40th DVD took HOURS, we had a ball making it but we were up to 3am and I still had to keep going on Saturday.

Mark's 40th party - the DVD was a hit. lots of dancing and fun!

Sunday we recovered.

Feb 23 to March 1

School swimming carnival, max and I swam until 7.30 that night too. He helped himself to dinner on the bench eating a dry bread roll - NAKED!!!!
PSP conference all day Wednesday. Poppy dropped Max off at Preschool and Tina picked him up, a few tears.
PJ day all day at home on Thursday and then off to swimming at 5 (out of PJs).
TOOO much washing

BIG TV in back room finally working. great fun with Singstar.

Russell photo shoot. The toy story gang HAD to be in the shots.

Yummy BBQ dinners from Daz on Saturday and Sunday.

School work.

loving the biggest looser and finished all of the 7 seasons of the Gilmore Girls.

Another sad farewell - to the Gilmore Girls

To Rory and Lorelai!!!!
I finally finished the final season, with tears rolling down my face! I still need to see some of season 6. I must keep my eye out for the box set!
I just love their wit and fast paced dialogue, i often wish i was a Gilmore girl!!!