Busy, busy, busy

I guess you can tell from the lack of blog posts that things have been busy around here. Mid October hubby came home after six months away. I cannot even begin to tell you how wonderful it was to see him again. We were lucky while he was away (working) that he had access to skype, email and the telephone, so contact was regular, and the girls coped really well. We're into November now and the girls still stick to him like superglue, wanting to be near him, and play with him every spare moment.











Brooke turned seven on the 19th of October, and had a party with friends and family on the 30th.









A trip to the snow was something DH wanted to do for the girls, so we headed away for the weekend and had the most fabulous time. We weren't sure this late in the season if there would BE any snow, but there was plenty higher up the mountain, and we made good use of it with our new toboggan.




I seem to go through cycles of being totally organised, fading to mostly organised, then being disorganised. After a while of running ragged I sort myself out and get all organised again. This time I made a laminated clipboard to keep me focussed:



Like everyone else, we're really busy now with end of year activities, birthday parties, school trips, etc. Our calendar is quite full. It'll be nice when school finishes and we can slow down to enjoy the season. Elisa's birthday is tomorrow, which surprisingly has me a little stressed. Mainly I think because today we'll be at my Dad's retirement luncheon for most of the day, and not at home getting party stuff ready. I THINK I'm fairly organised, but we'll see.....

Best I get this post published so I can do a new post for Elisa's birthday. I'll leave you with my latest projects:

Term 4 already?

Gosh the year goes by quickly doesn't it? School holidays are over already and Brooke is back at school today. Elisa called out to me at 4.30am this morning. The rain on her windows was quite noisy, and she was scared, so I let her hop in bed with me for the rest of the night. She quite happily nodded off to sleep straight away, while I lay there listening to her sucking her thumb (reeeaaallly loudly) until 6.30am. I think next time I'll just stay by her bed till she goes back to sleep.

I finally caved and paid someone to mow the lawns last week. I was debating whether to do it or not (our lawn mower is dying a slow rusty death), when a flyer landed in my mailbox advertising lawn mowing services from $20. Done! I called them then and there, and they popped around the next day to do it. Awesome. We'll probably get a new mower in the near future, but I had had enough of battling to get it started and having to empty the catcher etc. I'm thinking a mulcher mower is on the cards next time...

Not a lot else happening here (well nothing I can post online about anyway, ha!) so I'll post the latest layouts: