Oh how my little girl has grown up so fast! Here she is dressed and ready for her 1st day at full-time Kindy last Monday! Talk about excited... She HAD to wear a skirt, she is starting to want to wear dresses and skirts ALL the time...Anyway, she loves Kindy and I am loving the break from her, she is into the FERAL FOURS, although still lovely aswell!! (of course!!)

CHICKEN CHOW MEIN!!!!!
From Jamie Oliver's Ministry of food!! Was a really yummy dish and I knew that DH thought so too, as he took leftovers for lunch and he only ever does that when something is really good! So, I was pleased with myself!! If you want the recipe, let me know and I will post it!!

This photo of my friend's baby is too cute, she bought her around for her first swim yesterday but she didn't like it at all!!! She was interested to see what was going on, but I think the pool scared her.. She is too cute and had real tears when close to the pool....

CJ entry for Simmi's swap, it has sort of hidden journalling ont he two red pages poking out of each side, and the affirmations are from a deck of Louise Hay Affirmations. I looked through them for appropriate ones and was going to re-write them but thought, I may aswell just use them on my page! (A-la Witchy style)

All is ok around here, am starting to have a little panic about the future, but my feelings are up and down anyway so I know I will be ok in a day or so... The baby's birth is coming up soon now, and I am forced to think about things a bit more...
A couple of things lately have made me face the actual reality of the situation...
I have been putting off thinking about things as I knew it was a long way away,
And now it seems as though the birth is really not that far away now...
And I'm scared for the future and what might happen and I know that worrying now won't help things one bit but I am suddenly remembering how small Mia was when she was born and the truth of what may come our way with a brand new baby. I just hope that it's strong and fights with everything it's got!!

Enough sadness, it's a beautiful day here today and when Mia goes to Kindy this afty, I am going to sit at my scrap table and play and tommorow when Mia goes to Kindy I am going up the road to sit at my wonderful friend's house and scrap there too!!! So, let's bring on some scrapping,hey!!


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A few pics of Bubbas room for a friend that would like to see!!
Hope this gives you an idea!!
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Hi there!!! Been a little while! But I'm still around, blog hopping when I can and trying to inspire myself... just not sitting at my scrap desk and actually scrapping... Oh well, it shits me that I'm not scrapping much, I have a lot of nice new papers and embellies, but just am not into it! I have to pull my finger out this week and do the two CJ's that are sitting on my desk, so that is this weeks mission! One of my CJ's from another swap I have been involved in has gone missing at this stage, and I am a bit upset about it, but really in the big scheme of life and things in life, it's not going to affect me forever IYKWIM, so I am not getting that upset over it...
The below LO is for The Boxx's monthly sketch challenge, it's ok, was DH's birthday on the 29th so used some photos from that....
Oh, and the photo of Mia and I was taken today, we have been swimming in the pool today, it's the first time that I have gotten in this season, and I must say it was nice and warm in there, we all had a great time.. lots of pool toys that I just have to have in the pool too, and even though we had sunscreen slapped on, it's nice to feel the sun on the skin! I am 27 weeks in this photo, DH was sitting down, while we were standing up, surely I don't look that big!!! Not in my tummy, but everywhere else?? Anyway..... As long as the baby is healthy apart from it's existing probs, I'm a happy camper!

This post has turned into a bit of a ramble as usual, but here is a piccy of the new Jamie Oliver cookbook I scored this week, full of fabulous, back to the basics recipes that I need, I am not into my cooking either ATM, so it's going to inspire me (I hope)... Far out though, these books are exy, I saw this online for $65 not that I paid that much, but it was still $40..... That's retail therapy for you!!

And I watched an episode of this (Jamie at home) on Austar this evening, what a great show, tonights was about carrots and beets, so now I want to grow white, purple, AND orange carrots... Maybe next year but I have already found heritage seeds online, I just love to grow vegies.... Next year FOR SURE!!!

Thanks for visiting, and thanks to all my internet friends who I know think about us... I am doing ok, just have to wait and wait now.... Baby is kicking strongly and that makes me so happy... DH and I are working on a few names, I really want one with 'meaning' behind it...
Thanks for visiting!!
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G'day there!
Above is the weekly challenge for THE BOXX, use a B&W photo, and B&W with one other colour! I hope that i actually got the challenge right, it doesn't really matter, at least I scrapped!

My scrap area is like a bomb has hit it, I really really need to work out some storage solutions, but what happens is, is that you get your scrap area all sorted and then in about 6 months all those solutions don't work so well anymore as you have somehow accumulated MORE scrap stash! I wonder how that happens! Are we all a bit guilty of having all this 'stuff' to scrap with and then never really having a hope in hell of using it all????

Here I am at 24 weeks, I am actually 25 weeks today and this pic was taken by my friend on Tuesday so to I'm not going to get all technical BUT I suppose I am 24 weeks and 5 days in this pic! I have to print this out and do my pregnancy journal TODAY, it's been too long between journalling in that journal of mine! It's like a lot of things I start, I start them, never to continue, but I had better, this journal is going to be like one big book by the time I have finished! I've decided I might just keep using it once bubba is born, so that when it is older this bubba can read the whole story of it's journey to get to good health in one convenient spot!

Mia's new blow-up easel, that Mum and i picked up in Adelaide last week for $25!! I couldn't leave it behind for that sort of $$$$$. Very cheap entertainment I rekon! Tatum, Lil and Bastian came and visited last week and the kids had a good ol' paint, I think they had more fun painting themselves and each other! Mia had a bath when it was all over... all the kids looked like they belonged in the circus! It's all about fun, fun, fun when you are a kid!

Well, within myself I am ok, my brain is always thinking, sometimes the only time it goes quiet is when I sleep, so I have been going to back to early pregnancy days and having little laydowns in the afty... I could be using my time so much better, but I really don't care, it's working for me and Mia is happy to flit around and watch tele, play with her babies and barbies, and do her thing! It's a little stress relief... and an indulgent part of my day, in a few months I will no longer be able to do this at all unless Bubs is a better day sleeper than Mia was... I'm not even sure this baby will have much of a routine for the first few months, I just know I will be a soft touch and give this little one whatever, whenever!!!!

So, that's about it for the moment, thanks for dropping in, and if you visit Lucy, (cyber granny) I am thinking of you heaps and have been very slack, but you have been on my mind, I hope you drop in here to catch up with us!!

Better go, Mia is cutting and pasting at the dining table and has just deliberately cut her t-shirt! FAR OUT!! At least she is honest and told me she did it just to see what would happen!

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Not much happening around here... Can't really be bothered to scrap, I know I will get over that and have a burst shortly and pump out lots of LO's.
Mia and I are flying off to Adelaide to the WCH today to have a check-up, this ones more just your routine checkup not anything really to do with the bubs condition, it's mainly because the lovely Beck from WCH felt sorry for me, when she told me that the Dr didn't need to see me until 32 weeks, I became a little bit of a basket case, she immediately booked me in for this vis.. I was feeling VERY emotional at the time, and she took pity on me. I am ok, just thinking alot about it all, I have some beautiful friends who have offered to come to Melb when baby and us are over there, it may not happen, but that these two special friends have offered, well it means the world, at this stage none of us know what is going to happen and when but it's a pretty special offer I think!
I'm a bad blogger, but at the moment, I just am a pretty uninteresting person!

Hope all who pop in here are well!!!
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The above LO is for The Boxx's weekly challenge, my first LO in about 3 and a half weeks, so it felt prertty good to actually sit down and scrap!!

The above LO is just for me, went to Tatums to scrap today and took just one photo with me and this is what I came up with, I'm pretty happy with it!

Mia is soooooo into scissors and cutting at the moment, she goes on the hunt for empty toilet rolls and cuts them up too, then out comes thje sticky tape to stick it all together! Except Mia says Stippy Tape, she's too cute really!

What can I say, I bought myself a Pandora and I'm mighty happy about it, I plan to get a bead every week or two, I'll see how I go with that one! Then by the time baby is born, it should be getting nice and full!

And a Father's Day hug, we had a great day, DH got a coffee machine, which is something I have really wanted for ages but luckily he is pretty happy with it too! LOTS of hot chocolates getting consumed around here at night!


Thankyou to everyone who has offered me/us support, an ear, a shoulder, just to know that you are there makes me feel so much better...
I feel more on an even keel, even though I am ALWAYS thinking about Bubba and it's future and what is in store for us all, but I can think more about Bubba's problems and not cry (for now anyway) so I'm feeling that that is a good thing for now, there will be ALOT of tears soon enough!

Anyway, thankyou it all helps... in the words of Witchy, leave me some love if you visit!
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Well after a "i'm not coping" day yesterday
today is much better
there are so many things to be thankful for
an unexpected hug from a friend who has no idea how much it was actually needed
(and how much better it made me feel)
flowers from my 'sister-girl' in Darwin I miss her so much
fresh loaf of bread from the breadmaker, 3 laps of woolies waiting for the bread to be unpacked, and I thought, I can make one myself!
hot homemade sausage rolls from the oven, hearty and yum
sitting on the lounge while the sausage rolls are cooking with a hot water bottle to make my sore back feel soothed
an enthusiastic 4 year old who won't let you feel sorry for yourself for too long
because she wants to PAINT, GLUE and play with pastry offcuts
and
little kicks from inside me reminding me that there will be so much joy aswell as worry but still a little miracle inside me....
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