Procrastination

Well, no matter what the job is, I've worked out ways to procrastinate! I have 2 days to get ready to go away for just over a week. In that time I have to cook for a Christmas dinner with friends, go to Narromine to view my family's new farm, have a mothers group Christmas party and go to a farewell party for a lady from church.

Somewhere in that time I have to finish wrapping presents, finish making presents, do the washing and cleaning and pack...yet here I am, sitting on the computer. Why is it that even though I have so much to do, I can't make myself do it!

The presents are finished...Yay Hoorah!

Well, we finished the last of our Christmas Shopping this morning. We managed to get to the shops at a time this morning when there were still car parks!

I dropped into "The Mall" yesterday to pick up a first birthday present, not even thinking about the Christmas Shopping Chaos that lay ahead...when I arrived at the car park, I was shocked to see a parking attendant directing traffic. It was also the first time that I had ever seen all the registers at Big W open.

The fact that I am finished really excites me, because I wasn't looking forward to going to the shops at all this week. Now I just have the joy of wrapping all the presents...oh yeah, & I just realised that I am still "creating" a couple of presents. For the first time in my life I'm Scrapbooking, something I said I would never do...oh well!

I wish all those people who are yet to finish their Christmas shopping well! You poor suckers!

Caleb the Cheeky

So, here's the thing...I'm a little worried. I am pretty good so far at the whole discipline thing with Caleb, but it appears as though he has beginning to master the art of "If i put my head on the side, give a smile and a little giggle and put my hands under my chin, I may just get away with it" and people just go..."oh, isn't he so cute". I'm concerned that he is going to get away with so much with our family and extended family and any other friends etc!

Yet again, he proves that genetically he cannot be anyone elses son other than Chris'!!!

Storms

I love the fact that God has blessed us with so much rain...it's awesome to see the environment around us, which we are so used to seeing in various shades of brown, so lush & verdant!

The rain has come with many many storms. This also has brought much humidity which we aren't so used to out here. The combination of humidity and rain and heat and sun and all those other things that help with photosynthesis, has created much work for Chris and his trusty (well, Dad's trusty) lawnmower. He mowed the lawn last Tuesday and had to mow it again on Saturday as it had grown about 3 or more centimetres in that time. It now looks as though it needs mowing yet again!

Thankfully, the rain has also helped our poor trees which were lacking greatly. My poor melalucha was turning brown, our macadamia tree has died and even my sucullents were beginning to look sad. But now everything is looking healthy, my frangapani has many more leaves this year than it did last year, hopefully I'll have flowers again this year as Fran didn't seem to feel too motherly and didn't sprout any last summer!

So, nature is loving the storms, I'm loving watching the storms...

Amen!

Terrigal

Well, I'm home. I've had a lovely weekend with some lovely women at the beach! We arrived at my sisters house on Thursday night. It was great to catch up with her and her family...our last stay in their rented house as they are moving, as I write this, into their new house.
Friday was off to catch up with the crew and send the boys on their way to Macmasters Beach for a weekend of farting & burping (I was told) amongst Playstation and a whole lot of food.
We had fun dancing, playing Zug um Zug, watching a dvd till the power went out then laughing at each other as each of us tried to do various things that required power!
There was heaps of rain which made for a nice lazy & relaxing weekend...we did get an hour or two of sunlight and heat, though, which we took advantage of and went for a swim...my first for the season.
Caleb was not so much a fan of the beach. The waves seemed to scare him, the sand seemed to annoy him and didn't taste so good. But he was finally content with playing with his new bucket and spade whilst sitting on his beach towel (he wouldn't let his feet touch the sand).
Chris & I headed home, tired but encouraged by the fun had with friends ready to face a new week.

Card Making & other Crafty Stuff

Well, I've been a bit of a card maker for a while now but tend to do some only as required and never in advance. I have started to make some Christmas cards in preparation..I really enjoy it but still haven't had time to do many. It's kinda scarey to think that Christmas is only 4 weeks away and that my time seems to be fairly heavily booked up between now & then...this also means that there isn't a great deal of time for relaxation either!

I've also made a few cards recently for some friends of ours...the receiver was the same for 3 cards but had 3 different senders so I had to try and make them completely different...quite hard!

So I've really been sucked into the country, stay at home cliche...

Baby Got Book

I saw this a couple of years ago...it's very funny!

Caleb - the Champion

Well, it's always so exciting to see Caleb work out a new trick, I mean, skill. Yesterday, after getting some very cutesy photos taken, I stood him up to get ready to pick him up and he just stood up by himself for the first time! Of course, there were no witnesses that knew he hadn't been able to do it before and Chris wasn't there, so that was a bummer!

Now Chris is trying to get him to do it when he's around, because he's sure that he'll stand up again while he's at work.

Up until the last 24hrs we didn't think he'd be walking for ages. But since the standing up incident, he has decided that it is way more cool to cruise around on his feet around the furniture than it is to crawl to places!

So much fun!

Facebook Addiction

Ok, so people need to stop work so that they can continue to feed my facebook addiction. I get on during the day and get really dissappointed when there isn't new mail, wall posts, moves had on Scrabulous, gifts sent and the like! It's like my only contact with the outside world!

I know I sound desperate, and I know I need to learn to get off my butt and doing something constructive like darn socks or something...but facebooking, when other people are facebooking, is so much more fun!

I often hibernate the laptop in the vain attempt to trick myself into thinking that I don't want to do anything more on it...I'm usually back within the hour to see if there are any new developments though.

I'm a bit the same with email too though. But it seems to be even less popular than my facebook page!

It's a sad, sad world that I live in!

Christmas Shopping

I love Christmas...I love the deco's, the music, the trees, the joy because of why we have Christmas...and I wouldn't be a true Australian if I didn't admit to my like of Presents. I love to give presents as well as to receive.

Today I decided I should sit down and work out exactly what I would spend on each family member and realised that even if I was cheap, I am still not going to come off lightly! I've decided that my family is way too big! This is a time when both the husband & the wife coming from a family of 4 children is not helpful!

So I'm up for suggestions...anyone got any cool but cheap Christmas Present ideas?

Wordsmith

I so wish that I had have read the dictionary more, or even just read more books...I'm playing scrabble on one of those very popular internet community websites and I realy struggle with trying to get words! Most frustrating. Sometimes I come up with some pearlers but sometimes, my brain lives up to the title of this blog...it's a void!

Christmas Showcase

Well, every year our church does an outreach event called Christmas Showcase. Basically, a bunch of women go crazy for about a month arranging decorations, craft packs and the like in preparation to have close to 400 women over 2
time slots come to eat, drink coffee, do craft and
hear someone talk about the relevance of Jesus in our world and Christmas.

This year our theme was Christmas Table Talk. Our decorating was based around that so we did examples of how you can dress your christmas tables in different themes. I decorated 2 tables (Nativity -Chocolate Brown and Rustic Country). I was really psyched to do it, but then realised as I started to set it out that I have no idea how to decorate a Christmas Table because ours always has too much food on it to have decorations too!

But create I did and fun I had! I'm a bit inspired now to put some extra effort into my decorating this year.

The speaker, Suellen Millam from Orange, did a fantastic job of showing us how we can not dress up and play God, that we need him to be our God and that Jesus is the ultimate thing to think about and speak about at our Christmas Tables...because, let's face it, he is the reason we celebrate Christmas. This has given me the desire to talk more about Jesus at our Christmas Table and make that a priority.

Hmmm...

I thought that I would give this blogging a go. Hopefully people will find me interesting enough to read my bits & pieces...