Just for a Moment…

Posted on January 6, 2009
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Just for a moment everyone was drawing together. Everyone was sticking stickers. Everyone was sharing. Everyone was happy.

Even the small child was drawing, sticking and being shared with…. Just for a moment.

Then things went back to normal.

Muski tipped out the basket of crayons. Izzy took one of Zoe’s stickers. Zoe poked her tongue out at Izzy. Izzy shoved Zoe. Zoe cried and tried to make Muski cuddle her when he really didn’t want to. Muski fell off his chair and the Twindoes denied they had anything to do with it.

Bu,t just for a moment, everything was peaceful and happy and all ‘Soule Mamma-ish’. Luckily I had my camera handy and managed to catch that moment, otherwise I am not sure I’d believe it happened.

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Bits and Pieces of Summer

Posted on January 5, 2009
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The Baldy Boy went back to work today, well tonight if I am being totally accurate, and while the Twinadoes don’t go back to kinder till the end of January I am trying to get back to ‘work’ - that is blogging and design stuff - too. Maybe…

I’m working on a new blog design, for myself! I also need to upgrade to the latest version of wordpress… I am still running 2.3.3! The redsign is coming along in fits and spurts and while I’d like it to be all done by the end of the week I am not all that hopeful. Once the new design is done (and tested on my test blog) then I will do the scary upgrade. I’ve upgraded my test blog and lazycow’s blog with no problems but then they were not running an ancient version of wordpress and they didn’t have hundreds of posts that I would be devestated to loose…. so fingers crossed it all works. And why do you, my dear readers, care about this? Well because things might be a little odd around here during the next week or so and you might get a maintence message when the blog is down while I tinker. Please be patient, if all goes well I’ll be back to usual soon, but with a nifty new look!

Project 300 and something? So far so good. I’m posting my photo-a-days in a new flickr set, though flickr is telling me today that I am almost at my 200 free photo limits so I might have to either pay *shock horror* for an account or maybe open a new one for the photo-a-day thing? I’ve got yesterday’s still to post and today’s but I won’t get them up until tomorrow… but I did take them on the right day, promise!

And in the non-computer part of life….

The weather has finally decided to be summer and we’ve been outside enjoying it the last couple of days and have plans to keep that up for as long as we can. I’ve been getting busy in the vegie garden and the Baldy Boy finally has all his holes dug for the footings of his new shed! Yay!

We spent last night at a belated Christmas gathering with family (since we ran off for Christmas it seems to have morphed into a 6 week long event!). A good time was had by all, especially since I convinced my brother-in-law to bring his new wii so I could have a go. I have a wii fit age of 47 and some ungodly huge BMI and my balance is shot - but then I was holding a cranky 18 month old at the time the measurements were taken! We all had fun playing each other at skiing and tennis and then fishing… seems I am a wizz at wii fishing! I still stand by my blanket ban of all games consoles in our house, we just have better things to be spending our time on…. but ooooooooh it was so much fun and I want one bad!!!

We’ve run off to Nanny and Bobo’s today for a bit of roast dinner and some new sparkly shoes - for the girls not for me. Wednesday we are celebrating a wonderful big 30 (not mine) by taking the Big White Bus loaded with children to Healsville Sanctury (the Aussie animal part of Melbounre Zoo) and on Saturday we are continuing to celebrate the same birthday, but this time the Big White Bus will be filled with adults (give or take the odd small baby) and the party will be at a real resteraunt…

Ah I am just loving summer….

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Would I? Should I? Could I?

Posted on January 2, 2009
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Photo a Day, Project 375, call it what you want I know quite a few people who are gearing up to do it this year.

Take a photo each day for a whole year? It sounds good in theory. I mean I want to take more photos this year, I really do, but at least one decent photo every day, that seems a little impossible for me. I could take a photo of my feet or my messy desk every day for a year, but who wants to look at that stuff? Not even me. I’d like to take lovely, interesting, quirky, photos… though yesterday when I still thought this was a good idea all I could find to photograph was this…

It’s our Christmas Sticks right before I packed it all away yesterday… not exactly award winning stuff.

Then again… maybe it is just the kick up the bum I need to stop walking past the camera on the shelf and actually pick it up. I might even learn how to shoot in something other than auto mode!

But you know, if I say I am going to do this, here, now, publicly, on my blog… and then come middle of next week when I have already failed…. well you know… I’d be compelled to cheat to not look like such a total loser and that wouldn’t be very good now would it?

Maybe I can start a Flickr group called ‘Project 247′ for those of us who know ahead of time that we are not going to make all 365? Any takers?

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2009 Here We Come!

Posted on January 1, 2009
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After a pleasant evening with friends we were home early and in bed well before midnight with plenty of time to contemplate what the new year might bring us.

Resolutions and promises are old hat don’t you know… I am going with the ‘Law of Attraction’ theory this year and listing things that WILL happen this year. Nothing like thinking positive hey….

This year….

The girls will love kinder, and make a couple of really nice new friends.

The girls will continue to adore ballet.

The small boy will talk.

The renovations will be all but done by the end of 2009. We will get everything we want and spend a reasonable amount of money in the process.

The Baldy Boy’s new venture into shares will be enjoyable and profitable.

The food garden will grow more food than we can eat so we can share it with friends and family.

I will find balance in doing all the things I want to do.

I will become braver and more confident and JUST DO IT.

I will fit exercise and me time into my life.

We will spend time doing fun things together as a family.

We will spend time with friends, old and new.