Archive for February, 2009

I wish I could see these myself one day

My friend Jude sent me this email with the Northern Lights photos attached – OMG it just looks so so beautiful.   I hope you get the same sense of wonder and peace I got from looking at them.
The photos were taken at Yellowknife, Yukon, Canada

Check out the temperature!!This next picture is a Fire Rainbow – [...]

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Day Seven

Wow!  Where did the week go huh?
Today started on such a wrong foot I’ve been out of sorts all day!  Spare a thought for Jess who is the reason we were in a wee rush this morning.  She came to me last night complaining of a sore gum and when I looked she had [...]

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A typical morning

So alarms go off and we roll over and try to go back to sleep – seriously we do!!  I hate getting out of bed,  especially in the dead of winter when its still dark and oh so cold.
Leo heads out to the kitchen and starts breakfast and I make the bed and double check [...]

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Hello Sunshine

Oh My Giddy Aunt – the sun is out and I am warm lol!  And look washing – on the line!
Even Texas was loving the sunshine – man this cat sleeps in some weird positions!
My amethyst Buddha – he sits on the window sill of the big window that faces the hospital.  When we moved [...]

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Day 4 already!

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence–neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish–it is an imponderably valuable gift. (Maya Angelou)
I had the camera in the car when I was picking Jess up from school – I like the slightly befuddled look on her face – she could see [...]

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Roadworks, homework and bad weather

I came home from work this morning to find the street leading to mine a mess.  Big diggers and trucks forcing cars to creep along.  I live on a no exit street so I really don’t have any choice but to come down the through street but I’m so done with road works at the [...]

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Questionable…

From Hannahs blog – she was interviewed with five questions and I found the answers really cool so I thought it would be interesting to see what I thought about things – so I asked her to send me 5 questions…
1. I know you love scrapbooking. Tell us how you got started, and what inspires [...]

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And at 3.30pm

today we pretty much had given up on the day   The weather has been the pits all weekend with a constant drizzle and the forecast for the week ahead doesn’t look promising.   But we had a quick visit from Ash and Steven with the girls.  Opa is here for the afternoon so Oma [...]

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Right Now…

Following Vicky’s lead I grabbed my camera and at 4.45pm on a cold wet Saturday afternoon this is what we are all doing…
Jessie has hauled out her old dollshouse and is renovating it!!??  Using what looks suspiciously like some of my scrap stuff…Jos is updating the journal he keeps for all his Club Penguin adventures…
Tea [...]

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A Week Of Real Life

So I’m doing my weekly run of blog hopping and came across Vicky’s gorgeous blog Everyday Beautiful.  I love to read this blog because this woman is seriously someone I wish I knew personally, everything is so real and down to earth and so very honest.  Anyway she is challenging us to do this…
The [...]

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