Garage Sale

Saturday was the annual Bridgeman Downs Baptist Church garage sale. Narrelle, Kim, Natalie and myself were there at 6am with the hundreds of other people ready to find a bargain. Reminiscent of a Myer Stocktake Sale the barricades were lowered and the rush began.

Among my finds were a pair of outdoor chairs;

some Enid Gilchrist books and some sewing patterns;

and 2 sets of scales which are now sitting on my kitchen bench with bright red apples sitting on top;

Fine now but earlier ....

This photo pretty much sums up the first day of school in our household (although I don't know why Zac has his eyes closed). Zac went up to his classroom without a worry. Georgie was very excited about starting prep but that soon turned to tears when we were in the classroom. Joshuas face says it all. He doesn't like school and he doesn't understand why he can't just stay home and play with his cars! The teacher had to pull him off me while I made a quick getaway. Despite the tears in the morning when I picked him up he was very excited about the prospect of learning to read and was looking forward to going back to school. This morning all that was forgotten and it was back to not wanting to go to school. At least now I only have one drop off point.

Now if only I could get my husband to go back to work ..................

SALE - 20% OFF

Summer clothing is now on sale. Visit www.madeit.com.au/blossomchild or www.blossomchild.etsy.com

"Too Cool for Pre-School"

My boys shorts featured in the Made It Too Cool for Pre-School!‏ email newsletter. It's a nice surprise to see something that you have made featured online.

Our new arrival....

4 weeks old

Today we bought home our new puppy - Napoleon. He is an Old English Sheepdog (think Dulux paint). Our last Old English, Benson, died about 3 years ago and we wanted to wait until
Georgie was a little bit older before we got another dog. We have been waiting since March for a puppy. There are only a few breeders in Queensland and we haven't had much luck -there were either limited numbers of puppies born or the markings were not what we wanted. Napoleon has very similar markings to Benson. He has a white head and one bright blue eye and one dark blue. The kids have been asking for a while for a puppy. We had managed to keep it a secret from them and they were so excited when we bought him home today. He is going to be a much loved addition to our family.

7 weeks

And breathe ......

What a day! We spent the morning at the lagoon at Redcliffe making the most of the nice weather along with everybody else. After lunch we came home for a bit of 'quiet time'. Derick decided it was time to take ducky for a swim in the local creek. Joshua has been against the idea but today we managed to talk him into it. So off we went with Ducky contained in a cat cage. She loved every minute of it. She didn't want to go too far away from us.

The boys and ducky - she is just to the middle right in the above picture


Josh having a swim with ducky

Georgie and Josh fell in so Zac 'accidentally' fell in to make them feel better. It all went down hill very, very quickly. Zac fell over and cut his finger on some glass. It was bleeding quite badly so Derick stripped off Georgie's pants and ripped them up for a bandage to try and stop the bleeding. Ducky got 'lost' in amongst the chaos and Joshua started crying because everybody else was. There was an emergency evacuation - ducky was actually close by under a bush and came when she was called. We all jumped in the car - wet and stinky! After a quick shower and a clean up Zac's finger stopped bleeding and only required a bandaid. Georgie is still devastated that her favourite shorts were sacrificed and has asked me to make her a new pair tonight. Joshua is just happy that ducky is home safe and sound and I feel exhausted!

Happy New Year!!

It has been decided that this years resolution is to have a "funner" year!! An evening spent with good friends, good food & wine and glow sticks was a good start.
Wishing everybody a happy and "funner" 2010.