Mindfully Monday

Source: Shrimp Salad Circus

Source: The Notebook Doodles
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March Movie Month- Steping out

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Presently~ 9/3/14

Presently....

~ looking at cool stuff on the internet... I'm way overdue to do one of those posts.

~ listening to the boys fight- all 3 of them.

~ relieved to have found a possible way out of a situation that really brings me down.

~ hoping we can do it!

~ seeing St Patricks day pretties on Pinterest.

~ wondering what silly stuff I can do in green for the kids.

~ dreaming of a time when the big kids leave home. 
~ loving that a Perth based online store has opened a 'warehouse' with limited opening hours... I like to see and touch before I buy.
~ thankful to Les for making a little retaining wall yesterday- halfway through the next step in sorting out the big backyard.
~ inspired by this post for making smaller inserts in digital photo books- why did I never think of this before?
~ reading All the Money In The World by Laura Vanderkam

~ going nowhere- I love my home.
~enjoying some sense of accomplishment.
~ feeling a little tired.
~ counting my pennies. :-)
~ ever grateful for silly girly conversation with Bel.

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March Movie Month- Star for the day interview

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Single Photo Saturday

 

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March Movie Month- Blow wave

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Flora on Friday

 

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March Movie Month- Six- Love it!

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Tiny Tales from Week 6

Not an auspicious start to the week- the day started with a 5 hour power cut and ended at the Children's Hospital after Will split his head open on the platform of the flying fox at school.

 We got to see the clown doctors- Will thought they were very cool- he was right!

Ouch! 

The doctor took a look and then went off to get the plastics guy to make the final call on glue or stitches and left Will lying on the hospital bed with the light shining in his eyes. He said:

"Wow Mum! This is like being dead, without being dead at all."

Tama was highly concerned that Foxes can't 'bite' you after the incident... a little confused and worried. :-)

Will stayed home the next day just to take it easy....

After Morning tea in the 'bat cave' he and Tama were like Mountain Goats on the pile of concrete and tiles chucking rocks into the skip..... yep taking it easy.

Merenia said "a spider just ran across the floor" and she looked at my feet.

 And then I caught this very angry and aggressive Wolf spider under the couch.

More progress on the backyard.... this really dragged on work started on the 23rd of January!

Plaster off. (He got glued not stitched).

Digger action with Daddy!

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery right??

After 6 weeks without a sandpit- he's relief was palpable and his joy was unbridled.

Another step in the process and another piece of heavy machinery!

Super Hero Fan

 Ahhhhhh sand AND water!

The great thing about the big kids getting themselves to and from school is that we can stay and play after school.

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365 Week 6

 

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March Movie Month- Harmonica Blues

 

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Tama World View

This is how Tama sees the world through his lens.....

Selfies!

 

Waiting for me to sort the camera.... yep sorted....

 

With finger or without>

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Mid week Wonderful~ 5/3/2014

I'm grateful for... the hours between 8pm and midnight.

I'm thankful to be inspired by... a sale on snapfish- I'm getting some photobooks made.

I'm savouring....fresh bread- white bread cut thick and spread with butter.

I'm loving... a couple of cooler days... 30 and 32 degrees seem so much better than 37 and 38.

I'm looking forward to.... making some major changes.

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Round-up~ February 2014

Enjoying....


L- Crossroads

G- The Girl from Snowy River, The Road to Gundagai, Thank you Power,

K- Game of Thrones, Olympics.

M- Minecraft

W- Minecraft, DC Marvel Super Heroes, Star Wars The Clone Wars. Captain Underpants.

T- Dinosaur, Maisy, Hairy Maclary, and digger stories
TV: Biggest Loser, Survivor, Love Child, Peppa Pig.

For you...For me?

I sent PIF gift's to Lisa and Niamh. Valentines for Les, kids and teachers.

Germs and bugs and botherations....

Will hit his head on the flying fox at school. This meant a hospital trip and getting glued back together. Tama got a bit of a cold toward the end of the month.

Places we went, things we did...

Will and I did a walk around the Falls and spent some time messing about at the pond with fish nibbling our feet. We had a cool time at Lesmurdie falls on sunset one week day. The sunset was awesome due to a bushfire. We saw a Kangaroo. Both Brittany and Jayme came for a sleep over. We've had a whole heap of trucks and other heavy machinery come to visit over the past few weeks and it's been very fun and entertaining for the kids. Les took Tama to the pool. Merenia and Jayme went to the pool on their own. Lots of action at home this month with skip bins, diggers, trucks, and paving. We got to meet with a very sweet dog called Tora who belongs to the guy who maintains the septic tank. Book Swap Shop started again and we started going to Story Time at the library. Les and Merenia had a day at the flying field. Tama and I went to Ellenbrook to visit Smudge and Sparkle before it closed down. And then we went on to the Splash Pad- which Tama called the iPad. :-) Welcome BBQ at for year 8 families at Lesmurdie High School. Kieran got his learner's licence.

Yum, yum, yum....

We had lunch at Heritage Rose Cafe.

'It was on sale'....

We got a whole set of tyres for my car. Merenia brought herself an iPad.Grass and a wheelbarrow. Kieran brought tickets to the Kanye West Concert. We paid the final instalment on Kieran's trip to NZ with school... it wasn't on sale. Raskog trolley for my scrapbooking room.

Bugger!

We had a really crappy trip to Ikea due to an overfull nappy and a stupid limited time special. We struggled to find decent gummy fish in Perth for a fun Valentines treat for the teachers. All the full-on hard work involved in laying down the lawn. Kieran's Hockey club doesn't have enough kids for a year 11/12 team.

Hooray!

Everyone went back to school with no hassles. I got to guest post on the Polly Scrap Kits Blog. We finally made and filled the Sandpit. I got my January OLW course work done- finally! The paving was finally finished as was the fence around the septic tank- and therefore handymen finally out of my space. We got two lots of cheap grass and one of free and ended up getting to do the whole of the small backyard in delicious soft buffalo. I got to guest post on the Polly Scrap Kits Blog. Tama and therefore I finished breastfeeding forever. I made a cool altered notebook for Vienna.

Etc...

We had a power cut for 5 hours. It was quite funny when one of the 'Handymen' got his van stuck on a stump in our front yard. I met 8 out of 9 of the next door neighbours. Kieran called me from school and told me everyone was being mean to him- totally freaked me out. But they were just teasing him that he was going to miss out on Kanye tickets. We had our first rental inspection- which I assumed we passed. Will got his first wobbly tooth. Parent teacher interviews for Will.

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March Movie Month- Happy Birthday Grandad

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March Movie Month- Good Dancing!

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Mindfully Monday

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Source:  Unknown

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Presently ~ 2/3/14

Presently....

~ listening to fireworks in the distance.

~ relieved that we've reached the cool of the evening- it's down to 28.9 inside from 33.9 earlier today.

~ seeing an almost empty inbox. Hooray!

~ loving the new book I made for Tama- simple and effective.
~ thankful to have made the time to scrapbook.
~ inspired by the latest paper clipping roundtable episode (196).
~ savouring my waxed legs- SO overdue.
~ reading Captain Underpants with Will.

~ going to pick up Kieran from a party at 11pm.
~enjoying the new flexible night routines now that breast feeding is done.
~ feeling elated and relieved to have written an email that was 15 months over due.
~ counting my blessings- long weekend, amazing sunset, amazing weather, amazing family.

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March Movie Month- No Tiger Woods.

 

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Single Photo Saturday

 

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March Movie Month- Maraca Baby

I haven't shared a video on the blog since July 2012!! So as I sort through the 300 we have taken deciding what to keep and delete I figured I'd share some here as well.

So to kick off here's Maraca Baby from March 2012 :-)

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