Monday, 2 May 2011

30 day song challenge

Catching up on a few missed day!

Day 2 -  your least favorite song

Do I need to explain why??!!

Day 3 - a song that makes you happy


Love, love, love this band and song!!

Day 4 - a song that makes you sad

Again, no words needed.

Thursday, 28 April 2011

Thankful Thursday

I'm thankful for a lot of things, but I don't always let people know I am.  It's not that I don't 'feel' it, I just can't express it.  Feelings were not something that were expressed a lot when I grew up.  I smother my son and tell him constantly how I feel about him, but I'm not able to do that with anyone else.

So:

I am soooo very thankful for my husband.  He's supportive, understanding, positive, he works hard, he provides, he's an excellent father who attends our sons every school function, sports event and after school activities.  He also lets me know when to pull my head in (which at times really needs to be done!).

I'm thankful that in 9 years of trying to have a family (recurrent miscarriage, IVF, surgeries, health problems, more surgeries), I have managed to have an amazing, empathetic, independent, bright, happy and easy going little boy!  Many I know are not so fortunte.

I'm thankful that after a run of bad (and sometimes serious) health problems, my health is reasonably good at the moment.

I'm thankful for a roof over our heads, it's not ours, but it's ours for as long as we need it.

I'm thankful for a handful of amazing, caring and supportive friends, who look past my moments of darkness and insanity and know that I truly have good intentions, I just sometimes let my emotions rule how I approach situations.

I'm thankful for my job!  I work at a lovely facility, my residents are gorgeous, my co-workers are fun and my Nan was able to get a place there.

Today, I am thankful for some sun!

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

30 day song challenge

I was directed to the 30 day song challenge on Facebook, great fun idea!!  So day 1 is your favorite song.  I don't even know how to narrow this one down, seriously!!!  I have so many 'favorite' songs, I wouldn't even know where to start!

But one I never seem to tire of, and always go back and put on my iPod or play list for the car is this:


Enjoy!

Sunday, 24 April 2011

Happy Easter!


Easter has not started off how I intended!  I had plans to do the right thing and take the little guy to Easter Mass, I think it's important he learns why we have Easter (and Christmas) and that it's not all about the chocolate and presents. - FAILED!

I had intended to get up early and prepare hot cross buns for breakfast - FAIlED!

I had intended to get up early and get the easter egg hunt ready for him - FAIlED! (Hubby did it thankfully!).

The school holiday/easter break has meant short staff at work and given I can never say no, I picked up extra shifts, so after doing 4 shifts already this week (with one more to go today!) and having the little guy sick and not sleeping, I'm exhausted and had no energy for anything this morning.  Again, forever thankful I have a wonderful husband who picks up the slack without asking!

So I will make the most of the 3 hours I now have with them before I go to work!  After watching the excited egg hunt, through lots of coughing and nose wipes, and hearing him repeat how lucky he was the easter bunny brought him so many little eggs to cheer him up, and while I only get a short time at home with him today, I will make up for it in abundance the next 2 days before he goes back to school!

Happy Easter!

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Date Night!

Last night was date night, not something that happens often!  Not because it's too hard to organise, but simply because we prefer to do things the little guy can do with us. And because I work alternate weekends. He was very keen to go and stay at his grandparents farm, so instead of having a quiet night, we decided to make the most of it!

We decided to treat ourselves out for dinner at Bonavita , a lovely, local cafe/restaurant for dinner first.  The prices are fair and the meals are huge!!

We booked in for a 6.45 movie session.  We never see movies together, mostly because we can never agree on what one to see, but we had both been giggling at the trailor for the new Adam Sandler/Jennifer Anniston movie - Just Go With It



It was typical Adam Sandler - 50% funny / 50% tacky!  Anniston was great, however!  Not really my first choice of movie, but still, it was a very rare date night and it did have us laughing on a handful of occasions!

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Green caterpillars

They are wrecking my vegies :-(  I've tried organic sprays and repellents but they keep coming back. 


I don't want to resort to pesticides if I can help it, but I don't want them to keep destroying our first attempt at growing a full winter range of vegies.  There are hundreds of them, literally! And every day I go out and find a hundred more. My patience is wearing thin!  I did find this helpful website though http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/problems/worms-in-broccoli-caterpillars-in-the-broccoli-head.htm

Strangely enough, they are leaving my lettuce alone and it's growing in abundance!  I'm not really a green thumb, so I'm assuming there is just something about these leaves they don't like??