Here i sit...

all dressed in our Hockey club team colours...i never thought i would....LOL.

My two kids have played for about 4 or 5 years and i have thought about it but i am a real sook and i think of what might happen rather than what wont. Yep im negative,,, anyway today the B Women team was short and they asked some of the younger players to fill in and Zoe has done it before so i decided i would too.

I was put on the wing...that means i run along the outside line in front of the ball or i run back and pay in the goal circle...i think...LOL...anyway i cannot believe i had a BALL and i even wanted the game to go on longer......

SO here i sit waiting for Leigh to get out of the shower so i can warm my bones....

I really need to get stuck into my housework but as im planning to put my warm pjs and mokkies on im thinking not much house work will get done.

Tommorrow i think the plan was to pick our tangelos...im not sure what daz has planned cause he is busy with work and the water situation...here in Sth Aust we have been allocated only 4% of our 100% water alocation so there are going to be lots of changes. He is doing something at work but in the short term for us it means we have to prune our apricots really quite small so they dont use too much water. Also with our new patch of trial apricots we planted last year we are going to have to put them on drip irrigation which means alot of time effort and money (as we then have to have a pump to run them) however although we only have 10 acres of mixed fruit and we both also work full time we are not as hard hit as alot of other people so that is something to be grateful for i guess. :)

This last week has shot by so quickly, i did 10 1/2 hours at work friday then went to watch Zoe play in the U15 girls team. It began to rain halfway thru the A mens Match and by the time we were ready to go home it was absolutely POURING down, i had my wipers on flat strap and was doing 80km on the main highway home...i just couldnt see....Zoe was panicking abit cause then we got a truck up our bum.....he ended up turning off where we turned off twice and made me nervous until he overtook me. And you know the suckiest thing.....the rain stopped like about 3km from our house...get home dry as a bone couldnt believe it.

Ive been very tired lately...i havent even made it to the gym since tues....i was in bed at 1/4 past 8 on tues wed and thurs nites...im thinking vitamins might be the go....i have absolutely NO ENERGY and most things seem too hard.
I went shopping last sunday and i made the kids clean the house as i couldnt bare to do it all by myself :)
Lets hope the magic pills help.......they are only womens vitamins:)

Umm what else can i rave on about to keep you reading....oh i took the day off on Monday so i could spend the day with Zoe. She had a pupil free so we did girly things all day...Leigh wasnt happy cause he had a pupil free on friday and i did nothing with him....didnt help that i only found out about his on the wed before....grrr kids gotta love em.

Now last time i posted i was going to add a frost pic...i shall see now if i can post it...stay tuned...okay they are there these are like only trees apart as we have tangelos in with the apricots so the bare tree is the apricot and the other obviously tangelos.

Okay Leigh is out the shower and im off to get warm......probably need to wash away any aches that might pop up LOL

cya stay happy and take care thanks for popping in too......

Dilemma, Help wanted Please

Hiya girls a quick question...

I have offered to make an album for someone grandson, he was premmie and she wants to have pics from birth until now, he is four...

Now my question is should i chose a certain number of printed papers in different patterns ect but make sure they all blend or should i go with the flow and chose papers to match the pics....

my figuring of the same blend (different colours) so that i can repeat the themes thru the whole album with the least amount of fuss and bother...if i use chipboard shapes, ribbons, alphas and rubons i should get a decent album...

What are the thoughts from you girls...i am open to any suggestions as i want it to be fantastic....

Please leave comments or email me with your suggestions...thanks so much in advance:)

While im here i may as well make a quick post...

I am so proud of my daughter...she doesnt like her hockey coach as he doesnt speak nicely to the kids and she basically told him she wasnt playing hockey for him because she didnt like the way he spoke to her and the other kids...

now i dont condone this usually, i believe that the kids should respect the person trying to teach them something however i let her go because at training on Wed night for one he wouldnt give her ball back to her,,,,she had to chase him and then her and her brother wrestled him to get the bag of balls away from him, after which as she went to run off he stuck his foot out and just about make her fall on he face...he must be nearly 17 and she is 11. Not very fitting behaviour for a coach i didnt think! He then went on to tell some of the other kids at hockey on saturday that he is doing his best and that all they do is muck around and dont listen to him...he makes them run laps and yells at them for this....i feel it is the age and that he needs the maturity to understand that kids especially girls are like this....i also feel he may be better off teaching a higher grade of hockey if he feels they dont listen to him...

Am i naughty to encourage my daughter do you think? LOL i dont cause i was never confident to stand up for myself and am only now learning to so i say GO GERT!!!

We had a meeting with her teacher the other day and basically Zoe has come along way, she is more confident and has the ability to focus on her work now whereas last year she was a total blonde LOL...we are so proud of her. Partly i feel it is because she has to organise herself alot more this year as my hours have changed and i am not home to get the kids ready every single day....i also feel her confidence and ability has come from the fact that her brother is no longer at the same school...maybe???

Okay im trying to post a photo of some icicles but the comp is being a pain so i shall come back to that....

I want to thank all of you girls who visit my blog and leave comments, it is lovely to read them...there are some girls for whom i cannot leave comments but know that i do pop in and read your blogs...thanks for sharing your news:)

Take care stay warm on this darn cold sunday :)

A coupla things....

Well hi there long time no chat...things have been very busy here lately and ive not had time to scratch myself....LOL.

You know how it is when you have a million things to do and you keep putting them off trying to fit them into suit you and things just keep piling up??? You do?? Great cause thats where ive been...dont worry its nothing major or even very exciting but as of last night i finally got it all together and covered about ohhh 10 things on my list.

Ive needed to make a drs appoint for over 12 months..naughty yes i know well i finally did it.
Ive needed to make a dentist appointment and ive finally done it.....
ive needed to ring my step mum for her 60th (for Sat) and i finally did it....I
chatted to Dad about his bday ....
I rang my cousin about something that i ddidnt want to hold her up from....
I ranf my uncle to see how they survived the weather in Newcastle....they live at Heddon Greta...theyre fine...
I rang my auntie in Qld to see how the house moving went....great
I rang my brother in Mildura just because...

So i am finally happy and settled...now the most pressing things are...register the car....sort the hospital fund stuff out so we can claim back some money for Leighs braces and that shall do it for the time being.

Bec i havent checked in with you yet....im hoping all is welll with you after all the rain.....for everyone else affected i hope all is okay as it can be and that you are all safe...

On to other matters now...in no particular order....LOL

Zoe was part of a music beginners day the other week...see attatched pic...she made the paper....

Leigh now has his braces on...it took no time at all and he is getting used to them....they look nice actually not how i expected them to look....

We went to Adelaide on thurs nite and stayed with a friend, we went via Sedan cause she lives in the Hills and on the way we stopped and saw a wombat...what a hoot that was imagine these two crazy people running thru the scrub with a camera in the air trying to get a photo...needless to say we only got the scrub..i think LOL...about 20 mtrs down the road Daz slammed on the brakes and i thought he was being funny doing skiddies but no there was a gorgoeus grey kangaroo hopping alongside the car (thank god for Toyota Utes LOL) then we saw a bunny.....it certainly slowed that trip down but we got there safe in the end.

On Fri we took my friends daughter into town with us and we went to IKEA....

i could have quite easily smacked this lady with an ikea bag or something.......(and im not violent but she made me very angry)

she had a bag of (glasses) im assuming on her arm, the kids were playing with some of the kitchen items near where she was...and she says to her friend....*oh wouldnt it be funny if *someone* bumped into my bag and broke my glasses?? Her friend replied....oh yes wouldnt it...then the snotty nosed bitch turned around and said to her friend *you would think these children would be in school wouldnt you??* ( now the kids werent THAT close to her)

WELL!!!!!!! as she walked past me i gave her the glare of death and said....these are my children and i can decide whether or not they should be in school.....i dont think it is anyone elses business.....

AND im hoping none of you reading this was that lady LOL.......as she walked off leigh goes mum can i get her with these...brandishing a fancy set of knives LOL...luckily i did say no........

On sat we decided to head home but we needed to go to IKEA first as we had decided to buy some new wardrobes...we got it all sorted paid for it all and had been trying to get a transport company to deliver home but no one was answering their phones so there was nothing else for it but to pack it in the ute ( thank god again for Toyota Utes) and take it home ourselves......

I thought we had absolutely no blooming hope but after shoving doonas under the kids bums, sleeping bags at their feet and pillows between them we did managed to get it all in....two little suitcases, two huge long packages and 8 huge wire drawers later...i wish i had taken a photo now...

Sunday we decided to put the wardrobes together only 6 hrs for the first one and about 1.5 for the second...probably had something to do with all the coffee breaks and chokkie frogs we were eating.....friends daughter is going to Melb and was fundraising so we brought $40 worth of froggies....all i can say is thank god we are sharing them and going to the gym LOL.

Anyway by Monday nite we had all the wardrobes installed and filled oh bliss...i shall post pics later on.

What other news...oh after hockey the other weekend we popped into see my cousin and her family...Narelle and Carl had a premmie baby born in Jan and the kids hadnt seem her yet so we popped in to see them for a couple of hours,,,it was a lovely visit and Lexi christened me with a upchuck LOL....

Work is going good and im enjoying it......ive not done alot of scrapping lately....i brought the latest mags but i was actually quite disappointed in them......

Well if you have mananged to read to the end of this i thankyou and hope that youenjoyed my dribble LOL,,,,,im off to make a coffee and then im going to check out a few blogs and tidy up before i have to go to drop leigh hockey bag off for training this arvo then go to work,,,then go pick him and his ssister up at prob 6pm....gotta love it dontcha..

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