Megan's 7th Birthday

Megan had her birthday party at our house, originally she was having her party at her mums. Reni had organised a stamping up party but Megan also wanted a pool party so we had it here.

She invited some friends from school plus her brothers and sisters here.

She also had a chocolate fountain...

Her mum made a peppermint crisp slice which is her favourite

We gave her a karoke CD player as hers had broke....

She had a wonderful time and went home to her mums a tired but happy girl...here are some more photos

where does the time go....hmmmm

My mum dropped yesterday afternoon to drop over some wool. Winter is coming and I was thinking about carrying  on with my crochet items. I am wanting to make a blanket for each of the kids beds...well that is the plan...

I was asking mum about the different patterns of blankets, She made one for Matthew and I want to do one similar. I got out a unfinished blanket I started for Matthew and continued on it last night while watching Criminal minds. Darian asked me when did I start it as he hadn't seen it before....then I realised 4 years...I haven't done anything in 4 years.....

Now that got me thinking.....where does my time go....I think back to when I was living in Kununurra , I had time to scrapbook (something else I haven't done in over 2 years) and I spent most of my afternoons in the garden with the girls.

When I was living in Victoria was when I started to crochet and knit, it was cold enough and it kept me warm in winter, plus I still had time to scrapbook and garden...

So what is so different now....

Then it came to me ... I have a husband, well I could blame it on him but reality is that he is at work all day and he doesn't stop me from doing these things....what does...what takes up most of my time....

The Internet....but mostly facebook....that thing is a time warp....so I am going to have to make some changes in my life.

I love routines, I thrive on them.

I have a routine in place for my house cleaning, I have taken bits from flylady and others from other web sites and even though I have these routines in place I find myself not doing them any more and I have gotten behind, like today I have done 5 loads of washing and there are still 4 load to fold and put away. I normally wash, hang and then fold as I take of the line and then put the clothing away (well the girls get theirs put on their beds and its for them to put away). I have piles of clothes on my bedroom floor from the weekend wash that have still to be put away...

Its time for some tough love and get back to my routines and maybe I will be able to limit my time on Facebook and I will have time for the more important things in my life.....

Talia's Birthday Bash

 

Talia invited 7 of her school friends over for a pizza and pool party, added with Eloise, Megan and Matthew it added up to quiet a bash.

Everyone started arriving at 4 and then she opened pressies, Gran and George made a surprise appearance as well. Talia got some really nice pressies which included  2 really cute beanie bears and a huge green gorilla.

She also got a CD player and the new Lady Ga Ga CD from the  family.

Once all the presents were opened they girls jumped in the pool for a swim, it was supposed to be 27 but we had quite a sea breeze in.

The girls then did some dancing and then it was time for pizza, I ordered 10 pizzas....they went down a treat...

It was then time for cake.....

8 pm came around really quick and it was time fore everyone to go home, it was a really nice party with a nice bunch of girls...

here are some family photos

Happy 11th Birthday Talia

Happy Birthday big girl...cant believe you are 11...where has the time gone, you are no longer my little girl

OUCH!!!!!!!

I was on my way to pick Matthew up from Kindy today when the phone rang...It was the girls school letting me know that Eloise had fell over and hurt her right arm, they have an ice pack on it and she is crying. Could I come and pick her up as they didn't want her to walk home. I said no worries, but after I had got Matthew from Kindy.

We arrived at the school at 3pm, Talia was sitting next to Eloise who was really crying...I mean really crying. I asked if she had only started this since she saw me but was told that no she has been crying like this the whole time...

So I gave her a big cuddle and said "All right honey lets take you home" the reply was "aren't you going to take her to the doctor"....ummm no....shell be right. There was a little lump and a bit of bruising...nothing some TLC and Panadol wont fix.

As we got in the car, Talia was insistent that I take Eloise to the doctor as Eloise doesn't normally cry this much when she is hurt..which is true....she's seems to have a high pain tolerance.

So I rang Darian and let him know we were off to Emergency and a long wait.

We got there and lucky for us she was given pain stop and was fast tracked, I really thought she had badly bruised it. We had her weighed and she is now 22kg.

We were called in and the doctor had a look and sent her off for an X-ray...she was very brave as she had to go alone as I had the other 3 kids with me.. while she was in X-ray they moved us to another room, which happened to be the room where they put the plaster casts on....I was explaining to Talia what they do and she asked if Eloise would need one, I said I hope not just as the doctor walked back in and he then said she probably would as it looked suspicious and was waiting for the X-ray...

Eloise walked back in and I could tell she had been crying again...they would have had to move the arm about to get different views of the arm...

The X-ray came back and it was confirmed that yes she had fractured the Ulna, a nice neat fracture. So she was given a small cast and then bandaged...she was so brave

Didn't I feel awful...I was going to take her straight home...

She is to go to the fracture clinic next wed and I think the cast says on for 6 weeks, she is going to miss out on Talia's Pool party and school swimming lessons...

She is right handed and is finding it very difficult, though secretly I know she loves being the centre of attention.

Here are some photos...