a layout....

seeing as I haven't really posted much in the way of scrapping lately - did this one this morning for the Scrapbook Outlet Challenge - have done the purple one too, and plan to do the other ones as well.....challenges are brilliant for motivation, and I love how sometimes, layouts just happen!

oooh a tag!

1. Things that scare me: mice that aren't in containers (or dead, lol) Spiders!
2. People who make me laugh: Molly!
3.Things I hate the most: Being sick 0r my kids being sick
4. Things I don't understand: How it's a universal thing that men are hopeless!
5.Things I'm doing right now: Answering these questions, telepathically telling DH to move his ass and get Molly to bed! Wishing the dog would just lie down already!!
6.Things I want to do before I die: Travel, own a house, be published!
7.Things I can do: Drive, scrap, play & read music.
8. Ways to describe my personality: Reserved, funny (perhaps), kind & caring
9. Things I can't do: car mechanical stuff, can't prefrom brain surgery
10.Things I think you should listen to: children - and it's even MORE important to listen when they are quiet!!
11. Things you should never listen to: whining.
12.Things I'd like to learn: Would love to learn the piano
13.Favourite Foods: Chicken, salad, chocolate, jellybeans
14.Beverages I drink regularly: Diet coke, coffee
14a. Beverages I'm trying not to drink regularly: none
15. Shows I watched as a kid: The Henderson kids, grange hill, count homogenised, Rainbow brite
16. Persons I am tagging: Zeetra, Angela, Lara (just to see who does read my drivel! LOL)


We're still cruising along, I've got the pack for Molly's blood tests, but will wait to make the appointment until I get a copy of her hospital records - I'm dying to know what the nursing staff wrote at Molly's nine month incident!
Nothing much has changed, we went along on Friday to see Dorothy's Dance Party - and if DH hadn't been there I might just have chucked my camera over the balcony. Didn't matter what setting I had that stupid little thing on, all the photos were dark and barely visible - I so need a new camera. What really gets me though, is this camera is only a year old, and was expensive - nasty little thing! LOL
I drove to Invercargill on Sunday, to take one of Mum's dogs down to hopefully become pregnant! I miss baby puppies - it's been a few years since we had a litter, and if she does manage to get preggo this time, it'll be perfect - puppies over Christmas.

....and the "official" diagnosis is......

Autistic Spectrum Disorder - and then he asked me what I thought, and I said, the honest version, he said yup, and I said that his diagnosis was bollocks (hehe). I can't believe he's turned around and AGREED with Michelle - she's so set in getting Molly a label, Grrr - makes my blood boil!!! I noticed too, that the only person that didn't belive Molly was autistic or even on the spectrum, wasn't at the meeting! Makes me wonder if she was even included, or because she had a different view, she was outted!!

Okay, while I don't doubt there is something wrong with Molly, I don't entirely agree with their diagnosis - but time will tell, and the sooner we can get these blood tests going the better - and that's a whole 'nother post! Trying to get in contact with them is a joke!! Will try again tomorrow.

I cut Molly's hair the other night...whacked off a fair amount too!

Here are the before & after pics! I love it being shorter, less hassle and she looks cute too! Good friend of mine is a hairdresser and she's going to tidy up the

ends for me (when she's got a spare minute or three, she just gave birth to the most adorable baby girl on the 12th October, Charlotte Maree, weighing 5lb 12oz). I'd been toying with the idea of cutting her hair for a while, but chickened out everytime - I just couldn't do it - but it'll grow again - but I do love it like this!
Had a crop today with a group of friends, managed to finish a single layout, and have got part way through a double - still considering whether I'll submit for a couple of DT spots, but I'm still struggling with the whole OTP thing - not my strong point I guess, and so many of these talented ladies have such an amazing imagination and the whole ability to think outside the square! I haven't done a double layout in forever too, and it seems like a whole new adventure...hehe!

So, maybe I'm kidding myself with this whole scrapbooking thing - just showed Craig a layout, that I kinda liked - and he says, "is it finished? How many other photos are you putting on there? - there's too much white for me" ....and now I'm really doubting myself (sheesh!)

Oh, and hello all - would really love to know who does drop by, the numbers keep rising, so someone must flick by once in a while, would be cool to know who!!

snow

Yup, well into spring, and Dunedin puts on the snow - hehe, suppose we can't whinge now that we had no snow this year!
School is most definetly back, and Kindy for that matter, and I'm enjoying the peace that is my house after 9am! I haven't scrapped anything though, have cut cardstock, and that's about it - though last week I did finish off two CJ's and really enjoyed them - one recipe one, and one about a little boy's firsts - very cute, and I did enjoy working with boy themes!


















The basic grey one, is Pams CJ - a book of firsts for her newest wee man, Liam, and the other one is for Carols CJ, her albums is about her boys. It's amazing how refreshing using blue can be! I am really enjoying the two journal groups I'm in, and as we get further and further in, it gets better! I love seeing the other peoples work coming through, and there are times when you first open that parcel and you take that gasp of air - and then think 'wholly heck, I'm never going to be able to keep up the standards'!! Great fun though!

I'm still waiting for our registration pack to get Molly's blood tests going - for anyone interested this is a link to a site that compares autism and mercury poisoning - interesting reading! I'm actually amazed at how many people have been interested in the link or a copy of the list lately. And the best was when one of the registrars at the hospital asked for a copy and then came back to me telling me how interesting it was and that she was looking into it further - it'll be nice, that perhaps one day further on, some family will meet this Dr and she'll tell them about looking into alternative avenues...whats a couple of blood tests going to hurt? Too many 'professionals' are stuck in the view that this is your lot and there is nothing that can be done to change/improve. Will update here (even if it is for my own benefit, lol) when things begin to happen again!

hehe - proof my dog IS truely blonde

Yesterday, the dog decided to spice the afternoon up a little. First off, Bentley is blonde - very blonde, and he lives with a cat, but no other cat is allowed to set foot on the property (well actually, they aren't even allowed on the neighbouring properties!) and yesterday, this little grey cat came over while I was hanging out some washing...never thought anything about it as I walked back up to the house (chatting to Carol on the phone!) and closed the sliding door (was open about 5cm - always like that, just to let some fresh air into the conservatory) and continued talking....few minutes later T'K comes screaming in, "where's Bentley, where's the dog??" Told her he'd be outside somewhere and to look for him - then it dawned on me that the gate was down (it's not attached yet, something I'm still waiting on *rolleyes*) and told her he'd be mooching around down the bottom...no sight of him, so I abruptly finish talking with Carol and T'K says he's gone over the bank (which is infact a cliff, which is covered in gorse and what-not) and goes down onto a fairly busy road, so I grab my keys and drive round the bottom, trying to catch him before he either takes off, or gets hit by a car (like I said, he's not that smart!). Get down the bottom and can see T'K at the top - we yell at each other and call the dog, she then catches sight of him - slightly above the middle - and he's going no where. So I stand calling him for a while (why I don't know, when I know he can't/won't hear!!). Eventually realise that there is nothing we can do, so tell T'K to go call the fire dept. She returns informing me that she'd locked the door - fabulous...says she'll go next door and phone, but I knew they weren't home, so I jumped back in the car and drove home - heard the dog go nuts hearing the car leave and he no longer had T'K in his sight!!
Tell her to go back out and just talk to the pooch, he was heaps calmer just seeing her! So I quickly phoned Craig and told him, and said, do I just call the fire dept...he said no, I'll come home - then I just started to panic - told him no, I needed help now! So I hung up and called - never, ever thought my first 111 call would be for a dog! LMAO! They arrived within about two minutes, and saw where he was and two of them began to climb up..they were so good, when the reached him, they talked to him first before grabbing him, then when he saw me down below, he looked a lot less stressed. Then, the fire chief states he needs a photo (wonder if he's a scrapper, hehe) and grabs their camera out of the truck and snaps a few shots (and yes, I am going to get copies!). So, that was our Friday arvo - poor dog didn't leave my side for hours!!
Oh, and then today - the morning paper, page three - in the IN BRIEF column - Dog Rescued (oh shame!)
it says
A firefighter scrambled about 9m to 12m up a cliff to rescue a stranded dog in Dunedin yesterday. The king charles spaniel was caught on a scrub-covered cliff in D******* Street, when the fire fighters arrived about 12.10pm, a Fire Service spokesman said. The firefighter coaxed the dog into his arms and carried it down to its owner.
Hehe - like I said, stupid dog...the team was fantastic though, and we were really appreciative of their service and manner that they carried it out. Only thing is, he's a Cavalier King Charles, but oh well - LOL

We're home

and we're gaining some sense of normality! Molly has bounced back so well, and infact - she's cheekier than before, guess she's got three weeks to make up for!! Had a fab session at kindy yesterday and was straight into it again today! Yipee!
I managed to get to our little crop on Sunday - mind you, I spent 60% of the time doing nothing! But I did manage to do the sketch challenge from Scrapbookoutlet!

Was a great sketch, and it fell together pretty easily - just wish all scrapping was like that!

I missed out on entering Up2Scraps DT, but was probably kidding myself anyways! Will do some stuff for a couple of more DT's and also the competition on Scrapbook essentials - how awesome would a cricut be?? No more hand cut titles (although I really like doing them!!)

Right I should go, do some housework while the girls not here - she's such a demanding little monster!

Back in hospital

Either Molly really likes the nursing staff, or the TV in bed thing, but we're back in hospital. We got discharged on Thursday night, and she was well right up to Saturday afternoon. She started getting really grumpy in the afternoon, and was off to bed at 6.30 (unheard of for Molly!!) We had a rough night, lots of coughing and puking up of phelgm....and that went on for most of Sunday too. The staff rang to check how we were doing on Saturday, but I phoned them on Sunday to query her state of unwellness. She gone back to the legthargy, listness, moaning, fast respirations and a temperature. Nurse said she'd get the registrar to ring, and within 30 seconds of me hanging up, she phoned back telling us to go straight to ED. So we got in there, triage nurse saw us and took Molly's stats - either it was a dodgy machine, or she was really sick, but her temp was 38.9 and her O2 stats were 82!! So she was called over the intercom, status 2 to resus 2, status 2 to resus 2 - poor Craig was looking rather grey and said to me what the heck did that mean, I quietly whispered it meant she was really sick, babe. They hooked her up to monitors and her stats went up to 92, still not good, but way better than before! We went to X-Ray then up to PAU, where they finally admitted us back up - not before sticking umpteen-thousand needles in - poor wee tarts veins kept collapsing. So she's on another antibiotic through the IV, but if they loose the line the anti-b can be given in the butt. So we're in for a few more days yet...thanks to all those that are texting, phoning and sending wishes, it's keeping our spirits up! It's much appreciated by us all. Photo was taken last Tuesday - poor wee turkey!

Though today brought sad news too...a dear friend that I went high school with lost her husband, Warren in on Sunday...Rest in Peace, Warren, my thoughts are with Melissa, Callum, Harri & Kaitlin - and their extended family. The loss is huge, for everyone and am still in utter disbelief!

Life is hetic

I haven't blogged in forever, but I did scrap over the weekend, at scrapcamp at the LSS - so cool, and it was fab to be out of the house after being sick all week, and with Molly being sick too. But today our princess was still no better, we'd been to the ER on Sunday night, and got the advice to give panadol and ride it out, well this arvo we took her back to the GP and he sent us to hospital. Because Molly won't take oral medications, she needed to be hospitalised to get this....though after being checked out down at hospital, we find that she has huge tonsils, a sore ear, and pneumonia! Poor baby. Daddy is staying over tonight, and I'll go in tomorrow. I'm off to bed though to catch some zzzzz's!

What a wait that was - blogger is slow tonight (or it's my computer!)

Anyways, last night I watched the documentary "mercury falling". So interesting and heartbreaking all at the same time, I so felt for that woman, I know just how she feels. These are the tests we're gearing up to take Molly for. Just to see what her levels are...it may not be "her" thing, but I can't NOT do something.

Have done a few layouts, this one was from our kindy train trip, and I like it - I admit I love clean, simple layouts, and I really have to be honest with myself in my scrapping - after all it is for me & my children.

The second one I did tonight - Molly's sandwich making efforts! hehe, she's such a determined little sausage.
Nice flash burn there too - might reload it tomorrow when I can take a decent shot. (removed this one!)

I am so looking forward to Sunday, I'm going scrapbooking, out of my house, all by myself (well apart from the wonderful company of fellow scrappers) and I'll have no children with me! yeee-hah! I haven't had a decent break, apart from the morning off the other day, and going scrapping is just the icing on the cake!

Molly is still coughing on and off - really nasty little chesty number, hopefully she'll kick it soon...Though Craig was the sick one over the past few days - came home on Sunday night looking terrible and puked (cue my phobia!) and wasn't too flash at all. We slept separately (part of my phobia - I can't stand to be near the sick person) and I scored the lounge! Felt like a sneaky kid, lying on the floor watching sky, hehe - fire was toasty too! Though he's much better and I'm thinking that he's beginning to understand my phobia a little more - I suspect he thought I just didn't like it, and now he's realising that its actually quite real!
Righto - I'm off, I'm dying for a drink (I had asked Craig, but I suspect he's forgotten - it was over 20 minutes ago -LOL)
OH, big congrats to both Trina & Evana on their beautiful little boys - both big, strapping lads - look forward to seeing some sensational pages from them both!

Winter is back...

and we're expecting snow this morning, I was kinda hoping it'd come during the night, and we'd get a 10am start...no such luck though. Thankfully, our fire is roaring and I'm enjoying sitting here listening to it crack every so often, and nothing else - oh lies - the dog is at my feet, snoring - and I can hear the washing machine spinning. But that is it, no TV, no kids, no nothing - BLISS. I actually had some time on Saturday to myself too...Molly woke at around 5am and came into bed with us, and me remembering what it was like last time this happened (think little feet on your back, pushing you out of bed!), got up and came out to the lounge and dozed on the couch (in between watching some animal programme). So when everyone else eventually got up at 8.30am, I felt like crap - so Craig dressed the girl and took her to work....so I did what any chick would do, I cranked up the fire, snuggled under a duvet and watched a movie!! It was so cool, to be able to sit under a duvet without Molly trying to clamber in the foot end was bliss, and to be able to watch a movie during the DAY was unthinkable. I felt great by the time I went to get her at 2pmish (but I went to spotlight before I got her!).
I'm in a funk - I don't feel like scrapping, well I do, but just can't do anything, I can't be bothered blogging, nor surfing the net - big bad funk! Need to snap out of it I think!!

High School Uniforms

are really, really expensive! We went to the Queen's open night last night, the school T'K has decided on going to - seems like a really good school too....got the uniform list and as of next year, blazers are compulsory - yeah they look nice and make the whole package look really smart, but dude, they are $250!! Her whole uniform (well NOT whole, it excludes shoes, P.E gear and sneakers) comes to $648.90 (*gulp*) Wonder if a 13 year old would appreciate a uniform for Christmas and birthday presents! LOL.

I received Ginas circle journal today (her theme is Something Beautiful) and it just all fell into place, so I've completed my page - just have to finish off the sign in tag and we're good to go! (in two weeks!)....started looking for some recipes for Beverly's healthy, but yum book (which, is the most gorgeous little handmade book, which she kindly sent me instructions for!).

We're off on a Kindy trip next week - a train trip, meal at McDees and a bus ride - should be a great day!!

I'll leave with a few sneak peeks of Gina's pages...

It'll be dumb luck

if this will post at all - I've just spent almost an hour waiting for this to load - HUGE test of my patience (which is now diminishing because T'K has just got home from OGHS open night, and is babbling her brain out and Charlie, the demented bird has started his nightly chirp!)
Well, Lucy came home on Sunday afternoon, I'd gone to see her on Saturday, and she was looking a lot happier, tried coming out of the cage to see me, and began her trademark purr! Took her to the vet this arvo for a check-up and in true Lucy form, she dug her claws in and bit me twice (mind you, I'd probably do the same with a thermometer up my butt! LOL), so the vet decided that temperature taking wasn't really necessary and we agreed that Lucy is back to her normal old self!! Still have no idea what her little episode was all about though!
But I've finally finished my journal (yup, a second circle journal) and have a few sneaky peeks (IF I can get blogger to co-operate and let me load them!!(OMG I'm on my 3rd (no, make that 4th) attempt and the patience is beginning to run out!)

















Now they are all funny - but up!! Not going to argue with Blogger!!
Tomorrow I have no appointments - bliss!! Going to go have coffee with a friend and her poxy boy while Molly is at Kindy. OMG - now I've just lost my connection ARGH! Think I'll just finish this post for the night and close the computer down, don't know if I can handle any more technology tonight!!

She chooses the coldest night/day in weeks

to do her disappearing act! Lucy refused to come inside last night, which is really unusual for her, she's always inside, close to the fire, or sleeping on Molly's bed - today, she's at the vet - I came home this morning after dropping the girls off, and she heard the car...I come round the path and hear this unbelieveably loud meowing, and look to find poor old Lucy huddled up near the sliding door! Wet down one side and staggering over to meet me...so I do what any calm, collected person would - I phoned Craig -come home NOW I think the cat's been hit.
Vet is unsure whether she's been hit, her temperature is low and she's really pale...so she's down at the vet getting fluids, having blood taken (in case she's got an infection) and an xray. Poor puss - sad thing is she didn't purr once, and Lucy is the Queen of Purr!!

I've still to complete my circle journal, I've ripped the cover of twice for different reasons, and have got some more (was planning on doing that this morning, but plans change because of Puss!) so will cover it this arvo and hopefully settle on a theme - I really wish something would just jump out and grab me!!

I joined in on a ribbon swap through The Scrapbook Outlet, and got sent some gorgeous rich, reds - so I dug out one of the old black and whites of T'Keyah and did this, looking back, I really don't know if the primas across the page do it for me! LOL.
Anyways, must go pay bills before I have to get Molly from Kindy - really wish I didn't have to go back out, it's far too cold for my liking - lots of snow around on the hills too, and we're getting some yucky hail! Yay for the fire.

A change is as good as a holiday...right?

Week 1 of the school holidays down - woohoo - It's amazing how long days can drag out when you don't get out doing things - later in the week we had things to do, so it wasn't as painful as earlier in the week! lol
On Friday, T'Keyah's marching team accompanied the Brass Bands down the main street, to the lower octagon. I managed to get two pictures, they were moving quite fast!

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Molly was unbelievably good, we were there at 11.45 and didn't finish it all until 2.30! Not one complaint from her - so awesome (it could've been a disaster of a day!)

Oooh, lucky me won a goodie parcel of Basic grey from Kelly Goree, an incredibly talented woman and totally generous! Thanks Kelly! I had followed a link through Nic Howard's blog - another extremely talented woman! I love getting scrapping mail! Speaking of scrapping mail, I'm doing a recipe circle journal with a group of ladies from The Scrapbook Outlet and the first round is here, so gorgeous - I have Donna's journal with me - she has a sneak peek on her blog, it's just beautiful - one of those ones you don't really want to touch incase you spoil it! I'm doing another one with another group of scrappers, but I haven't got a clue what to do this time! Any suggestions gratefully accepted (leave me a comment with some ideas!)

Oooh and Evana, the lucky thing, sent in her photos to Heidi Swapps water competition, and she's one of the three finalists!! If you go here you can see the pages Heidi has done, and the gorgeous one of Evana's and even vote for it! (I've already voted for Evana's page!). All the pages are just adorable!

Right, better get moving, we have speech therapy for Molly this afternoon - and I've still got to take her for blood tests (I'm so not looking forward to that) the paediatrician has ordered some genetic testing to find out if there is a reason behind Molly's delays - I'm also looking at some biomedical testing too, which involves more blood taking! But all worth it in the end, especially if we can get some speech from this girl!

Winter...

has arrived I guess, it's soooo cold here, so cold that even the old fire wasn't cutting it the other night...though I was coming down with a cold, so that could've just been me!
Late start for school and kindy this morning, 10am start, which is far more civilised LOL!! Molly had a blast at kindy, actually walked in and caught her standing on the table (probably dancing lol!), and the head teacher just gently aided her in getting down...she's dancing to Madagascar's MOVE IT - so cute! We've been to music, and she had a great time, though didn't participate as well as she did the prior week. A.T.T.I.T.U.D.E! So hanging out for Saturday for some me time! A Sensational Saturday Crop - can't wait!
I could really do without this cold, and to make matters worse, Craig has one too - and typical of a man, his is way worse, and he's dying....well dude, die quietly.
I think I'll be a kind mother, and go pick T'Keyah up from school, so she doesn't freeze her hieney off! So I suppose I should organise some wood into the fire, and go get her! Day is almost over.

Why is it that you hang out for long weekends, and then they're over before you know it!!? We had double shows this weekend, and Mr Poochie did us proud and managed to obtain Best in Show! The judge was Evelyn Hurley, from Ireland, a lovely lady - she wanted to take Bentley (and one of Bentley's daughters) back home to Ireland, pity she's left, cos I'm sick of him barking at his reflection in the window! He's truely a blonde dog. Sunday was the same thing, only a different judge, Jacqui Weekes, from Australia, but Bentley only managed to get reserve dog, which for him, is a small miracle - he normally misbehaves something wicked on Day 2!! He must be maturing (at last, considering he'll be four this year!!)
I went out yesterday afternoon, after a morning meeting, and brought the girls a thermal top each, and Molly a pair of slippers. Then popped over to get my album for my circle journal that I'm doing with The Scrapbook Outlet. Except, Madame Molly caught sight of it and thought it looked like a handy dandy notebook (from Blue's Clue's) and decided to draw a clue, thankfully in pencil!! So I found another small ringbound book and she's as happy as a clam with her handydandy notebook and some really lame drawings of the characters from Blue's Clues. I've got the cover layed out, not stuck down yet - will probably play around for a bit yet before sticking it all together.
We had Ella come over today, she is from the Robbie White Trust, and is teaching Molly, and us, sign language, which will be fabulous for Molly to be able to have a form of communication other than screaming!! She's having a blast at morning kindy, she was so ready to move up! Tomorrow afternoon we have an assessment with the occupational therapist - more of a follow up I think, to see where she's heading and whether there are improvements. Later in the month, we have a huge meeting with the entire team, to find out where we are really at, and whether there can be a diagnosis for us - not just a whole swag of tentative ones!
OOh, Dunedin had it's first snow of the season yesterday, none for us, but where the meeting was, it was fairly white! Today is lovely - 15 degrees at 2.30pm - hate to think what's coming for that though!! Great scrapping weather!!

Thursday.....already

I called T'Keyah's school this morning, trying to contact her teacher - last week, she had a pair of canterbury pants nicked out of her bag, and then yesterday, her MP3 player, and yeah, she probably shouldn't have had it at school, but she enjoys listening to music while she walks to and from school (and besides, the number of kids I've seen walk out of school with cellphones and MP3s....!!). But I couldn't get hold of her, so I guess I'll have to go in after school and see if I can catch her - I'm livid - some little creatin has rummaged through T'K's bag, makes me sick, do parents not get ideas when their kid comes home with things like that??

On a brighter note, I went to an 11 hour crop on Saturday, which was fabulous...certainly made up for the abismal mothers day (but I won't tell Craig just yet, I'll milk it for a bit longer! lol). I certainly didn't get loads done, but 4 completed pages is good in my books! I prefer to have them complete, rather than having to do journalling or titles at home (computer journalling and fonts for the titles!). Even managed to complete (and win!) the challenge! The Lashes layout was the challenge page, we were given one of those mosaic 12x12 pages and had to create. It was actually harder than I imagined and the anal side of me really has issues with the squares that still remain!

The unpacking hasn't really got much further either - I'm waiting (patiently) for him to put up some extra shelves and some sort of cabinet or shelving in the bath room, and as he's working 7 days lately, it hasn't happened! Though I think later today, I'll tackle the toy boxes and do a bit of a clean out - I'm damn sure those things breed, especially all those McDonalds toys!!
What I do love though, is how easy this house is to heat - its fabulous, suppose it's the upside of having a small house!
This is another layout I did on Saturday, the black lines are stitching (with a very dodgy sewing machine that didn't really want to sew), simple but I really like it. It's about my wish to find the key to unlock Molly's speech - someone thought I should do an album about the struggles we have, but I really am struggling with adding another album! I just think I might add it more into her books. I really, really want to do an album for the family, but don't know really where to start! The girls each have an album(s) on their lives, since birth (T'Keyah's is just that little bit harder with the lack of decent photos), but once they both leave home and take their books, I've nothing left. But I don't know where to start, and frankly - I don't know what to put in it!! I'd really, really appreciate some ideas!!

How long can one family live out of boxes? I have zero motivation at unpacking anything!! The kitchen is kinda done, I'm waiting for extra shelves to be put into the pantry - think that'll be about Sunday! And I need some sort of cupboard or shelving for the bathroom to house all the towels - I can't get over the fact that some houses have no storage areas at all! We've got a huge wardrobe in our room, but the other two rooms don't have anything - and no linen cupboard! (Must be designed by men!!) I'm absolutely gutted that this place doesn't have a dishwasher! Though, I've been so good, and dishes are washed, dried & put away every night!! (though, that old rule that the cook doesn't do dishes hasn't exactly been a happening thing, past 2 nights I've had to don the ole' rubber gloves!!) And sadly, my scrap stuff is packed away, and I'm itching to do something!! But it'll have to wait until we line the room down stairs and move the girls around...can't.wait!
On the positive sides, it has a fab view, is so close to school AND kindy...my petrol consumption has dropped so much!!
Had Molly's IP meeting at kindy today - we're gearing up for the transition to morning kindy (think it's the 29th she starts!) Six months ago when we had the last IP, I never in my wildest dreams thought Molly would be ready for mornings, but she so is, and even the Head kindy teacher said the same (LOL). We planned goals for the girl, and kindy is keen on taking on the signing too, which is awesome, Mops has taken to signing like a duck to water! (and it's really cute!) Adrienne then started to suggest the next IP meeting (which is in November) and then realised that Molly would be 5 in the February (geepers!) so it'd be a school orientated meeting - she asked me how I felt about the school issue, and I said about the morning kindy feelings, and that I knew in another six months we'd probably be in a different space, and Molly would be gearing up for school (hard to believe though)...sounds like she'd have a teachers aide at school too.
Though the other night I had this huge anxiety attack - I was sitting thinking about her being at school and the fact that she was still in nappies - then the anxiety hit - my daughter could be at school, wearing nappies and being ridiculed by other kids - that really ripped at my heart! I hope to God that it doesn't happen to her - I seriously hope she just 'gets' it one day and wants to go on the toilet!! I never in my wildest dreams, imagined how hard it is to raise a child with different needs - and I know that we are incredibly lucky, and there are children out there with far more serious issues!
I'm staring at my scrapping trolley and I'm dying! I need to scrap!

Me & Mine

Me & Mine

So who comes a-visiting?? Web-counter ticks over, but no comments...ghosts perhaps? lol.