Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Well the cake went down a treat, Mrs Frizz no I don't know how old she really is, lol but one of the kids thought she was maybe 43 but i don't know that shes that old. But the good day ended on a bit of a low when Liam's teacher told the class that she was leaving and not teaching at his school next year and she might be moving to Hamilton.......I'm really sad, she is such a great teacher and gives the kids a push when they need it. So the class is having a shared lunch next Tuesday, parents welcome to come, so I might give her her album and lolly/chocolate tree that I have made then. Will see how the week goes.
Whoo hoot Wednesday
Just a short list for me this week even though i know i have missed more than a couple of weeks of doing this.
YAY for getting a good night sleep....Steven was asleep by 9ish(which is great for him at the moment) so that meant i could have an early night and even though at some point in the night Liam climbed into my bed i still managed to get a good night sleep and both the boys slept in till 7.15 this morning....now that's a BIG plus.
Also YAY for the sun being out and there being blue sky today, I have got the sheets out on the line finally.
Liam and i baked a cake last night got his teachers birthday today...he decorated it with green icing and LOTS of 100's and 1000's and then pebbles around the edge and he wanted to put her age on it so I asked him how old he thought she was and he said 22....so 22 went onto the cake....his teacher was over the moon with the cake and the fact that she is only 22,LOL. And they funny thing was that all the kids in the class believed that she was 22 and they were all amazed that she was younger than their parents. Kids are so funny sometimes. So I stayed at school for a bit to get a photo of Liam's class for his teachers mini album that I'm doing so will get those photos developed and then that will be my weekend project. Also very sad that she wont be back next year so the class will be having a shared lunch next week.
YAY for getting a good night sleep....Steven was asleep by 9ish(which is great for him at the moment) so that meant i could have an early night and even though at some point in the night Liam climbed into my bed i still managed to get a good night sleep and both the boys slept in till 7.15 this morning....now that's a BIG plus.
Also YAY for the sun being out and there being blue sky today, I have got the sheets out on the line finally.
Liam and i baked a cake last night got his teachers birthday today...he decorated it with green icing and LOTS of 100's and 1000's and then pebbles around the edge and he wanted to put her age on it so I asked him how old he thought she was and he said 22....so 22 went onto the cake....his teacher was over the moon with the cake and the fact that she is only 22,LOL. And they funny thing was that all the kids in the class believed that she was 22 and they were all amazed that she was younger than their parents. Kids are so funny sometimes. So I stayed at school for a bit to get a photo of Liam's class for his teachers mini album that I'm doing so will get those photos developed and then that will be my weekend project. Also very sad that she wont be back next year so the class will be having a shared lunch next week.
Monday, 8 December 2008
photo time
Each year the kids do art work to be made into a calendar (if you choose to) here are the boys artwork they did this year.
First is Stevens....I really think he was having a bad day when he did his as his first year at school and last years artwork had so much more detail than what he has done here. Also his class didn't use pastels and dye which i think looks alot better.
Here's is Liam's artwork.I love how much detail he put on this, when you see his sketch of the picture its just stick figures and some waves to show the water, but this he even put his glasses on him and did spiky hair for himself.
Okay here is the finished inside of Stevens teachers album, I just love the rub on i used on the left hand side, just finished that page of nicely I thought
And a close up on Stevens writing which i got copied and added to the album
And the back page....and i had to have a giggle at what Steven wrote because hes such a Wheres Wally fan and relates everything to that at the moment. So when I saw he added Where am I? to his writing i thought it was very funny.
Well thats all from me, off to get some dinner sorted and then early night for all tonight.
First is Stevens....I really think he was having a bad day when he did his as his first year at school and last years artwork had so much more detail than what he has done here. Also his class didn't use pastels and dye which i think looks alot better.
Here's is Liam's artwork.I love how much detail he put on this, when you see his sketch of the picture its just stick figures and some waves to show the water, but this he even put his glasses on him and did spiky hair for himself.
Okay here is the finished inside of Stevens teachers album, I just love the rub on i used on the left hand side, just finished that page of nicely I thought
And a close up on Stevens writing which i got copied and added to the album
And the back page....and i had to have a giggle at what Steven wrote because hes such a Wheres Wally fan and relates everything to that at the moment. So when I saw he added Where am I? to his writing i thought it was very funny.
Well thats all from me, off to get some dinner sorted and then early night for all tonight.
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Its been awhile.....
......since my last post and its now 11.25pm Sunday night and I cant sleep so here I am blogging listening to music on you tube. Okay this may turn into a really long boring post so feel free to stop reading now and just look at the photos instead,LOL....you have been warned. Things are so busy and rushed at the moment and yet some things seem to stand still with no change to them at all. I want to move forwards with my life and stop reliving the past and yet there are so many things that remind me of the last year. There were so many things that have happend many I dont often talk about some i dont want to talk about.I have had many weeks now with broken sleep(and yes i know the obys are both sleeping and i should be making the most of it, but its too hot and i have so much going on in my head at the moment)and i think if you lack sleep everything else seems to suffer. Steven has had a few bad days at school where he has been up at 2.30am and not gone back to sleep then tried to get out of going to school becasue he is tired. The teacher had noticed that he shakes his head alot more some days than others(Steven slowly shakes head as if saying no when he is tired or stressed..its like a stress reflief for him or stimming as its called)but most days he seems to cope with being up early a full on day at school and then going to sleep late. I guess it will all catch up with him at some stage.
A few weeks ago Liam got this cerficate in school assembly and hes so funny because the first time he got one he didnt waant to get up infront of the whole school but now he pretty mych runs up to get it and holds it up and then gives me the thumbs up and big smile. He also got antoher one last Friday for having water courage.....YAY for Liam. He is doing so well at school and im very proud of both him and Steven. So I hace been going up to school with Liam during his class swimming time and the water is so lovely, ashame they only have 20 minutes in the water I could stayin there all day which is saying something because Im not much of a water person.
Here is the finshed survival kit for Stevens teacher. I really do love how it looks and almost dont want to give it away. I showed Stevens old ESW(Educational Support Worker) the kit and she asked if Steven would like to go back to kindy for a term so that when he leaves I can make her one,LOL. But I thought what i might do is make her one next year as she is now our carer support person and Steven goes to her house every monday for the night after school.
One of the things on the teachers survival kit list was 'A girft- to remind you that your students are a gift to you and you are a gift to them'....so this is her gift that I have made. Just a fold out Kaisercraft album for her to remember Steven and the great year he had in her class.
So I went up to school and got a class photo and one of just Steven and his teacher and told her I need them for his school scrapbook album...and I have put them into this album to give to her in a weeks time. Also a week ago she showed me some wriiting Steven had done ast school when they were asked to write aobut their year at school he wrote the following (I tired to scan when he had written but blogger wouldnt let me up load it so i will jsut retype it as he has written it)...'In room 6 I like computer time, battleship, easy homework and numbers up. I love Mrs Carpenter because I like you. I get better at writing and handwriting. I play outside is tag with Evan.'
Again I just love that first he is expressing his feelings/emotions about and to someone, and it was funny she was telling me when he handed his book in he asked her not to read it till he was outside playing and i swear when she showed it to me i had tears in my eyes it was just he sweetest thing he has written. And I love Stevens honesty....Im am very sure he goes to school knowing he will get his computer time once he does his school work, he will only willingly do homework if it is easy, if there is any chance he feels he may get the work wrong then we have a fight on our hands with that homework. Numbers up is a computer game that he loves and gets to play when he gets his school work done. He has gotten so much better with his writing, he still struggles but at the start of the year he was hardly writing a sentence that made sense, but now on good days he will write a whole page and it makes sense too. His hand writing has also improved so much in the last 6 months..he is doing so welll and im somewhat scared of what next year will bring. I feel we will be back at square one if he has a different teacher. I will be finding out this week who his teacher is so I have time to say yes I think they will be fine or no way.....LOL i have become very good at voicing my opinion when it comes to Steven and the school and even Liam with the swimming.
Look what new brand the warehouse have got...and these stamp packs were only $5 each which I thought was a great price for clear stamps. The border set were from spotlight and I thought I could use them a bit on cards. The warehouse is getting in some really good scrapbooking stuff now.
A few weeks ago when shopping with mum and my sister tanya this little guy came home with me...I thought he was so cute and just had to bring him home to add to my growing collection of snowmen.
And here are just a few snowmen...I counted 62 here and there are a few more in the main xmas tree as well.....snowmen are my Christmas addiction,LOL.
The boys and I made these little gift bags for their friends. At first Steven said he doesnt have any friends(which made me sad) but then he was trying to write down the whole class so i told him he could have ten giftbags to give to his friends. So off he went with his list of names and cards and started writing. i really thoguht he would have given up after a couple of cards but he kept going and even put his teachers name down on the list. And he was so funny when he handed them out, his teacher had the class sit in a circle and he sat on chair next to her in fornt of the class. She asked him why he was giving something out to everyone and Steven replied with 'I have no idea'(and just imagine him with his hands up in the air when he said this,LOL) his teacher and I just started laughing it was so funny. And so he called out his friends names and they came adn got the bags and he said merry christmas to each of his friends and then he got to his teachers one and let out a little giggle and said there even one for you,LOL..........I tell you this boy makes me laugh so much. He is such a happy carefree child and does amazingly well with all the struggles he has to deal with in every day life.
I have been doing a little bit of creating and finsihed of my advent tree, not sure that I 100% like the brightness of the red numbers and may change them for next year but for now they will do.
PS when reading this remember that it was late at night so im sorry for the mistakes, blogger spell check sint working and im too lazy to go through and proof read.....I hope it all makes sense....nite nite of to be now to see if I can sleep.
A few weeks ago Liam got this cerficate in school assembly and hes so funny because the first time he got one he didnt waant to get up infront of the whole school but now he pretty mych runs up to get it and holds it up and then gives me the thumbs up and big smile. He also got antoher one last Friday for having water courage.....YAY for Liam. He is doing so well at school and im very proud of both him and Steven. So I hace been going up to school with Liam during his class swimming time and the water is so lovely, ashame they only have 20 minutes in the water I could stayin there all day which is saying something because Im not much of a water person.
Here is the finshed survival kit for Stevens teacher. I really do love how it looks and almost dont want to give it away. I showed Stevens old ESW(Educational Support Worker) the kit and she asked if Steven would like to go back to kindy for a term so that when he leaves I can make her one,LOL. But I thought what i might do is make her one next year as she is now our carer support person and Steven goes to her house every monday for the night after school.
One of the things on the teachers survival kit list was 'A girft- to remind you that your students are a gift to you and you are a gift to them'....so this is her gift that I have made. Just a fold out Kaisercraft album for her to remember Steven and the great year he had in her class.
So I went up to school and got a class photo and one of just Steven and his teacher and told her I need them for his school scrapbook album...and I have put them into this album to give to her in a weeks time. Also a week ago she showed me some wriiting Steven had done ast school when they were asked to write aobut their year at school he wrote the following (I tired to scan when he had written but blogger wouldnt let me up load it so i will jsut retype it as he has written it)...'In room 6 I like computer time, battleship, easy homework and numbers up. I love Mrs Carpenter because I like you. I get better at writing and handwriting. I play outside is tag with Evan.'
Again I just love that first he is expressing his feelings/emotions about and to someone, and it was funny she was telling me when he handed his book in he asked her not to read it till he was outside playing and i swear when she showed it to me i had tears in my eyes it was just he sweetest thing he has written. And I love Stevens honesty....Im am very sure he goes to school knowing he will get his computer time once he does his school work, he will only willingly do homework if it is easy, if there is any chance he feels he may get the work wrong then we have a fight on our hands with that homework. Numbers up is a computer game that he loves and gets to play when he gets his school work done. He has gotten so much better with his writing, he still struggles but at the start of the year he was hardly writing a sentence that made sense, but now on good days he will write a whole page and it makes sense too. His hand writing has also improved so much in the last 6 months..he is doing so welll and im somewhat scared of what next year will bring. I feel we will be back at square one if he has a different teacher. I will be finding out this week who his teacher is so I have time to say yes I think they will be fine or no way.....LOL i have become very good at voicing my opinion when it comes to Steven and the school and even Liam with the swimming.
Look what new brand the warehouse have got...and these stamp packs were only $5 each which I thought was a great price for clear stamps. The border set were from spotlight and I thought I could use them a bit on cards. The warehouse is getting in some really good scrapbooking stuff now.
A few weeks ago when shopping with mum and my sister tanya this little guy came home with me...I thought he was so cute and just had to bring him home to add to my growing collection of snowmen.
And here are just a few snowmen...I counted 62 here and there are a few more in the main xmas tree as well.....snowmen are my Christmas addiction,LOL.
The boys and I made these little gift bags for their friends. At first Steven said he doesnt have any friends(which made me sad) but then he was trying to write down the whole class so i told him he could have ten giftbags to give to his friends. So off he went with his list of names and cards and started writing. i really thoguht he would have given up after a couple of cards but he kept going and even put his teachers name down on the list. And he was so funny when he handed them out, his teacher had the class sit in a circle and he sat on chair next to her in fornt of the class. She asked him why he was giving something out to everyone and Steven replied with 'I have no idea'(and just imagine him with his hands up in the air when he said this,LOL) his teacher and I just started laughing it was so funny. And so he called out his friends names and they came adn got the bags and he said merry christmas to each of his friends and then he got to his teachers one and let out a little giggle and said there even one for you,LOL..........I tell you this boy makes me laugh so much. He is such a happy carefree child and does amazingly well with all the struggles he has to deal with in every day life.
I have been doing a little bit of creating and finsihed of my advent tree, not sure that I 100% like the brightness of the red numbers and may change them for next year but for now they will do.
PS when reading this remember that it was late at night so im sorry for the mistakes, blogger spell check sint working and im too lazy to go through and proof read.....I hope it all makes sense....nite nite of to be now to see if I can sleep.
Monday, 17 November 2008
Busy creating
Well not really creating alot but have been finishing a few things of which is always nice. The main one i have been working on is this teachers survival kit for Stevens teacher. So here is photo of all the bits for the kit in their little bag with their tags that I made up(what a mission but i think it looks great)
This is the poem/list of items in the kit(if you click on photo it should make it big enough to be able to read it)
On Sunday i went to a friends house who was having a Paperbag album class. I have seen these albums but never tried making one myself...but once stared it was so easy to do and the end result is just stunning(maybe mine not as stunning as the ones that were shown for examples)so this is my one I made. if anyone knows where to get brown paper bags from please let me know. the need to be thick ones with the fold up bottom to them not the thin ones you can get for kids lunches. The S is tied to the string and moves. Other people at the class just stuck their letter to the front of the album but i wanted something different.
The tabs pull out and there is another space to put either more photos or hidden journalling.
This is the poem/list of items in the kit(if you click on photo it should make it big enough to be able to read it)
On Sunday i went to a friends house who was having a Paperbag album class. I have seen these albums but never tried making one myself...but once stared it was so easy to do and the end result is just stunning(maybe mine not as stunning as the ones that were shown for examples)so this is my one I made. if anyone knows where to get brown paper bags from please let me know. the need to be thick ones with the fold up bottom to them not the thin ones you can get for kids lunches. The S is tied to the string and moves. Other people at the class just stuck their letter to the front of the album but i wanted something different.
The tabs pull out and there is another space to put either more photos or hidden journalling.
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
IM BACK
I's been about 3 weeks since my computer decided to die...lucky it was just the motherboard that was fried and not the hard drive. I was stressing there for a bit that i had lost 3years worth of photos that have not been saved to disk.......but they were okay and i have got some Cd's to back them up and will get more tomorrow so over the next few days i will be busy sorting photos onto CD. My brother gave me the use of his computer over that time while mine was getting sorted and then he came in yesterday and got mine up and running for me. So here I am...i do have a few photos to share but want to get photos and journalling for some layouts i have done finished. I have been reading every ones blogs but while on my brothers computer it wouldn't let me post comments for some reason.
Anyway enjoying today's lovely weather and was up nice and early this morning and managed to get a couple loads of washing done through the dishes into dishwasher and got them done(didn't do them last night cause i had INTERNET lol which i have not had computer or Internet since last Thursday...yes the Internet is an addiction just like scrapbooking).
Liam got sent home about 5 worksheets of maths to do for home work over this week....he only has to do one pages per night, but once he started he didn't want to stop, he really enjoys his maths. He surprised me a bit with how well he can do it and alot of the problems he just writes the answer down no problem at all. So he ended up doing nearly 3 pages of the 5 last night....and then you have Steven who would never do more homework than he needs too,LOL. Steven is back to bringing his school work home to do as he is refusing to do it at school. Its just story writing which he hates doing. Mondays they have to write about what they did in the weekend...I personally think for Steven he hates doing story writing because he knows what he did in the weekend so why would he need to write about it. And he sits there and he says i don't know what to write and you give him ideas and he says he not want to write that. And then when he does write something he makes the sentence as short as he can. One sentence was 'I got a Ben 10 book'. I said to him to write i got a Ben 10 book because.....(he got it for doing good homework last week), he replies with i already know that. So i have tried to explain to him that who ever is reading his story doesn't know that and you need to write it down so they know why you got that book. He can be so frustrating because I know he can do it he has written a whole page about his weekend before, hes just soooooo stubborn sometimes and flat out refuses to do the work. But then i think how frustrating our world must seem to him and he does do his best and he is doing well in all other areas at school so that's great.
Not sure if there are any fans of the programme House of Tiny Tearaways out there but i really enjoy this programme as Tanya has some really good ideas on it. This week there is a autistic boy on it with a younger brother and I'm hoping it might have some good ideas. With Steven most games/toys are played with in a totally different way that they are meant to be used, and so Steven will often want to line things up or play his rules and then you have Liam who wants to play with cars and crash them not just line them up and then you have two boys angry at each other cause they both have different ideas about hoe to play with things. The family in the house this week seem to have the same problem so hopefully there will be some good ideas today. More often than not i will say to Liam just let Steven do it the way he wants, but that's hardly fair on Liam is it?
Anyway off to do some more scrapbooking, hope everyone has the lovely warm sunny weather like we have here today.
Anyway enjoying today's lovely weather and was up nice and early this morning and managed to get a couple loads of washing done through the dishes into dishwasher and got them done(didn't do them last night cause i had INTERNET lol which i have not had computer or Internet since last Thursday...yes the Internet is an addiction just like scrapbooking).
Liam got sent home about 5 worksheets of maths to do for home work over this week....he only has to do one pages per night, but once he started he didn't want to stop, he really enjoys his maths. He surprised me a bit with how well he can do it and alot of the problems he just writes the answer down no problem at all. So he ended up doing nearly 3 pages of the 5 last night....and then you have Steven who would never do more homework than he needs too,LOL. Steven is back to bringing his school work home to do as he is refusing to do it at school. Its just story writing which he hates doing. Mondays they have to write about what they did in the weekend...I personally think for Steven he hates doing story writing because he knows what he did in the weekend so why would he need to write about it. And he sits there and he says i don't know what to write and you give him ideas and he says he not want to write that. And then when he does write something he makes the sentence as short as he can. One sentence was 'I got a Ben 10 book'. I said to him to write i got a Ben 10 book because.....(he got it for doing good homework last week), he replies with i already know that. So i have tried to explain to him that who ever is reading his story doesn't know that and you need to write it down so they know why you got that book. He can be so frustrating because I know he can do it he has written a whole page about his weekend before, hes just soooooo stubborn sometimes and flat out refuses to do the work. But then i think how frustrating our world must seem to him and he does do his best and he is doing well in all other areas at school so that's great.
Not sure if there are any fans of the programme House of Tiny Tearaways out there but i really enjoy this programme as Tanya has some really good ideas on it. This week there is a autistic boy on it with a younger brother and I'm hoping it might have some good ideas. With Steven most games/toys are played with in a totally different way that they are meant to be used, and so Steven will often want to line things up or play his rules and then you have Liam who wants to play with cars and crash them not just line them up and then you have two boys angry at each other cause they both have different ideas about hoe to play with things. The family in the house this week seem to have the same problem so hopefully there will be some good ideas today. More often than not i will say to Liam just let Steven do it the way he wants, but that's hardly fair on Liam is it?
Anyway off to do some more scrapbooking, hope everyone has the lovely warm sunny weather like we have here today.
Thursday, 23 October 2008
This is from Hannah's blog
Where is your cell phone? On the dining room table
Where is your significant other? Waiting for me to find them...lol, no significant other at the moment
Your hair color? boring brown
Your mother? I appreciate and love very much
Your father? Great fun loving family man
Your favorite thing? lots of favorite things but i guess sleep-ins would be near the top of the list
Your dream last night? dream who has time to dream, my head hits the pillow and I'm out like a light till the boys wake up
Your dream/goal? to continue to live a life filled with happiness, creating endless memories for and with my family
The room you’re in? The lounge
Your hobby? Scrapbooking
Your fear? That something bad will happen to my boys
Where do you want to be in 6 years? Same place i am now but older
Where were you last night? home
What you’re not? I'm not messy
One of your wish-list items?A new camera
Where you grew up? Tuakau and Port Waikato
The last thing you did? Rearrange my bedroom to fit in scrapbooking counter/desk unit(fingers cross that it fits in the space i have made)
What are you wearing? Jeans, t-shirt and long sleeve top.
Your TV? is behind me on tv2 waiting for house of tiny tearaways to come on
Your pet? Had two cats summer and sass before i had kids but re homed them when we were expecting Steven. Then had kitten Tiny for Liam but sadly she had to be re homed as well because Steven just couldn't cope with her, frog called wormy
Your computer? Is in pieces at my brothers house till he can get a new motherboard for it
Your mood? Very tired at the moment, 4am wake ups for months on end is not good
Missing someone? Family and friends i don't see often
Your car? Nissan Pulsar and gets me from A to B and back again
Something you’re not wearing? Slippers...which means the days are getting warmer cause i get cold feet and wear slippers for over half the year.
Favorite store? I actually really like the warehouse at the moment they have everything there and great prices
Your summer? looking forward to some sun and warmer days
Love someone? Family and friends
Your favorite color? red
When is the last time you laughed? today
Last time you cried? yesterday when watching tiny house of tearaways, which has a special needs child on there at the moment and the mothers words of how he child is little now and people will accept her but as she gets older her behaviour will not be accepted as much, and how she didn't wish this life for her child....hit home a bit for me
As Hannah wrote... Passing this on...
To ALL the blogs I read - I wouldn’t read them if I didn’t love them!
Where is your cell phone? On the dining room table
Where is your significant other? Waiting for me to find them...lol, no significant other at the moment
Your hair color? boring brown
Your mother? I appreciate and love very much
Your father? Great fun loving family man
Your favorite thing? lots of favorite things but i guess sleep-ins would be near the top of the list
Your dream last night? dream who has time to dream, my head hits the pillow and I'm out like a light till the boys wake up
Your dream/goal? to continue to live a life filled with happiness, creating endless memories for and with my family
The room you’re in? The lounge
Your hobby? Scrapbooking
Your fear? That something bad will happen to my boys
Where do you want to be in 6 years? Same place i am now but older
Where were you last night? home
What you’re not? I'm not messy
One of your wish-list items?A new camera
Where you grew up? Tuakau and Port Waikato
The last thing you did? Rearrange my bedroom to fit in scrapbooking counter/desk unit(fingers cross that it fits in the space i have made)
What are you wearing? Jeans, t-shirt and long sleeve top.
Your TV? is behind me on tv2 waiting for house of tiny tearaways to come on
Your pet? Had two cats summer and sass before i had kids but re homed them when we were expecting Steven. Then had kitten Tiny for Liam but sadly she had to be re homed as well because Steven just couldn't cope with her, frog called wormy
Your computer? Is in pieces at my brothers house till he can get a new motherboard for it
Your mood? Very tired at the moment, 4am wake ups for months on end is not good
Missing someone? Family and friends i don't see often
Your car? Nissan Pulsar and gets me from A to B and back again
Something you’re not wearing? Slippers...which means the days are getting warmer cause i get cold feet and wear slippers for over half the year.
Favorite store? I actually really like the warehouse at the moment they have everything there and great prices
Your summer? looking forward to some sun and warmer days
Love someone? Family and friends
Your favorite color? red
When is the last time you laughed? today
Last time you cried? yesterday when watching tiny house of tearaways, which has a special needs child on there at the moment and the mothers words of how he child is little now and people will accept her but as she gets older her behaviour will not be accepted as much, and how she didn't wish this life for her child....hit home a bit for me
As Hannah wrote... Passing this on...
To ALL the blogs I read - I wouldn’t read them if I didn’t love them!
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Whoo Hoot Wednesday
Well my big plus this week was getting the use of my brothers computer for a bit till he gets my one sorted. On Saturday my computer just died, I was so annoyed as i use my computer all the time not just for the Internet but i use word alot for journalling for scrapbooking. But yesterday my brother stopped of with his hard drive so that i could have computer access...YAY for lovely kind younger brothers.
The boys school had pet day on Saturday and both got a certificate for one of the work they did. Will post some pictures when i get my computer back.
I have been and read every ones blogs and wow there were a few to read after four days without reading them...but for some reason I cant post a comments on every ones blogs on this computer...so just wanted to let you all know that I'm still around and reading what you are all up.
With this great weather the boys and i have been walking home from school everyday, although while playing tag after school with some friends Steven fell over so was a bit upset but otherwise the boys get 10minutes to play before we walk home and they both seem happy with that. When we are organised(which at the moment isn't often) we walk in the mornings too.
The boys school had pet day on Saturday and both got a certificate for one of the work they did. Will post some pictures when i get my computer back.
I have been and read every ones blogs and wow there were a few to read after four days without reading them...but for some reason I cant post a comments on every ones blogs on this computer...so just wanted to let you all know that I'm still around and reading what you are all up.
With this great weather the boys and i have been walking home from school everyday, although while playing tag after school with some friends Steven fell over so was a bit upset but otherwise the boys get 10minutes to play before we walk home and they both seem happy with that. When we are organised(which at the moment isn't often) we walk in the mornings too.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Whoo hoot Wednesday
haven't done this for awhile so here is my list for this week
*The start of term 4.....YAY.
*Steven being extra happy this afternoon after school. he cam racing up to me with a certificate for taking part in the Dog "Do's" and "Don'ts" programme. Last year he didn't go anywhere near the dogs having a huge fear of them(or any animal that moves for that matter, he can get just as upset by a fly in his room as he can a dog...I believe its because he has no control over then and doesn't know what they are going to do next as with any living animal and he hates to not know whats going to happen next) anyway he was so happy and read out what was written on the certificate and showed mew the little booklet they good about the do's and don'ts of dogs...Well Done Steven.
*I have been getting back into scrapbooking and enjoying it again.
*Gotta be happy with this lovely weather we have been having and being able to put washing on the line instead of the airing rack.
*Steven might not be need to see his speech language therapist much longer, she sees him at school and I'm told is quite impressed with how well he is doing.
*Walking to school to save on the gas, and I have been enjoying the walks, this morning the kids pretty much ran to school, I don't know where they get all of their energy from.
*Sorting out Liam and his swimming problems at school. School start swimming this term and Liam is very stressed about it and has huge fear about getting in the pool. So have arrange for me to be there and get in the pool with him but if he not keen to get it then that is fine and I have been told they wont push him to get in, but he is still to get changed into his togs with the rest of the class which I'm happy for him to do so that when he is ready to get in he will be all set. Also will get a school pool key over the Xmas holidays and go up there everyday or second day and get him into the pool a bit.
*The start of term 4.....YAY.
*Steven being extra happy this afternoon after school. he cam racing up to me with a certificate for taking part in the Dog "Do's" and "Don'ts" programme. Last year he didn't go anywhere near the dogs having a huge fear of them(or any animal that moves for that matter, he can get just as upset by a fly in his room as he can a dog...I believe its because he has no control over then and doesn't know what they are going to do next as with any living animal and he hates to not know whats going to happen next) anyway he was so happy and read out what was written on the certificate and showed mew the little booklet they good about the do's and don'ts of dogs...Well Done Steven.
*I have been getting back into scrapbooking and enjoying it again.
*Gotta be happy with this lovely weather we have been having and being able to put washing on the line instead of the airing rack.
*Steven might not be need to see his speech language therapist much longer, she sees him at school and I'm told is quite impressed with how well he is doing.
*Walking to school to save on the gas, and I have been enjoying the walks, this morning the kids pretty much ran to school, I don't know where they get all of their energy from.
*Sorting out Liam and his swimming problems at school. School start swimming this term and Liam is very stressed about it and has huge fear about getting in the pool. So have arrange for me to be there and get in the pool with him but if he not keen to get it then that is fine and I have been told they wont push him to get in, but he is still to get changed into his togs with the rest of the class which I'm happy for him to do so that when he is ready to get in he will be all set. Also will get a school pool key over the Xmas holidays and go up there everyday or second day and get him into the pool a bit.
Saturday, 11 October 2008
More bits and pieces
When I got out of the shower yesterday morning this is what the boys were up to, I'm not sure why but Steven is loving lying across the top of the sofa at the moment I'm sure he must think hes a cat,LOL.
I picked up my latest Creating Keepsakes September magazine yesterday and always I sit down at night while watching TV flipping through the pages looking for new inspiration. There are a few layouts I really liked and will have to scraplift at some stage and one that I did last night and this is my end result - I have since taken the star away as I decided I didn't really like it there.
A big thank you to the lovely Mrs Frizz...the boys checked the mail in the morning and just before lunch(its there addiction at the moment to keep checking the letterbox just in case the mail lady comes back to put stuff in our letterbox,LOL) anyway no mail then when I went out last night I noticed a bit of an envelope sticking out of the letter box, so I'm thinking the mail lady must have slept in,LOL...anyway this is what I got from Mrs Frizz so a huge thank you it was a very nice surprise.
So I have been rearranging my scrapbooking stuff again and sorting through getting rid of stuff when i came across one or two kaisercraft beyond the page items.....putting them together like this makes them look like a mini addiction on top of my scrapbooking addiction. But I'm sure its not just me who has this addiction.
When I saw the gingerbread men I fell in love with them and have got a few of them and I'm going to make(probably not this year but maybe for next Xmas)gift tags for my nieces and nephews and then every other year they can hang them on their Xmas tree.
I picked up my latest Creating Keepsakes September magazine yesterday and always I sit down at night while watching TV flipping through the pages looking for new inspiration. There are a few layouts I really liked and will have to scraplift at some stage and one that I did last night and this is my end result - I have since taken the star away as I decided I didn't really like it there.
A big thank you to the lovely Mrs Frizz...the boys checked the mail in the morning and just before lunch(its there addiction at the moment to keep checking the letterbox just in case the mail lady comes back to put stuff in our letterbox,LOL) anyway no mail then when I went out last night I noticed a bit of an envelope sticking out of the letter box, so I'm thinking the mail lady must have slept in,LOL...anyway this is what I got from Mrs Frizz so a huge thank you it was a very nice surprise.
So I have been rearranging my scrapbooking stuff again and sorting through getting rid of stuff when i came across one or two kaisercraft beyond the page items.....putting them together like this makes them look like a mini addiction on top of my scrapbooking addiction. But I'm sure its not just me who has this addiction.
When I saw the gingerbread men I fell in love with them and have got a few of them and I'm going to make(probably not this year but maybe for next Xmas)gift tags for my nieces and nephews and then every other year they can hang them on their Xmas tree.
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Feeling Great......
..and even managed to get a bit of scrapbooking done. The first two pages are for a me album I'm doing for Steven. Love the cosmo cricket get happy papers, they are so bright and fun. I haven't got much done on it but managed to get the second page with the photos done last night once the boys were in bed sleeping.
I just love all his funny faces he makes...such a happy boy full of character and sooo much energy.
Okay so i got this idea from Hannah's blog and I thought it was really cool so I thought since Stevens teacher this year has been his best teacher yet(and it will be very sad if he doesn't have her again next year)I would make her a survival kit. So this is what i have come up with so far. This box was from a breakfast set I got form the warehouse and i have just covered with paper and then put a coat of modge podge on it. Very simple but i really like the colours and end results.
this is on the inside of the lid......love this quote, used it in a mini album i made for Stevens kindy teacher when he left kindy
Well it was nice to see the sun out today although it was still cold and windy. Would have been good to get washing dried though but i couldnt be bothered have had so much washing this week i wanted a day off from it. Right im off to see if i can get motivated to get some more scrapbooking done, have a great evening all and keep warm....it seems to be cold tonight even though with each night we are getting closer to summer but it doesnt seem to be warming up any.
I just love all his funny faces he makes...such a happy boy full of character and sooo much energy.
Okay so i got this idea from Hannah's blog and I thought it was really cool so I thought since Stevens teacher this year has been his best teacher yet(and it will be very sad if he doesn't have her again next year)I would make her a survival kit. So this is what i have come up with so far. This box was from a breakfast set I got form the warehouse and i have just covered with paper and then put a coat of modge podge on it. Very simple but i really like the colours and end results.
this is on the inside of the lid......love this quote, used it in a mini album i made for Stevens kindy teacher when he left kindy
Well it was nice to see the sun out today although it was still cold and windy. Would have been good to get washing dried though but i couldnt be bothered have had so much washing this week i wanted a day off from it. Right im off to see if i can get motivated to get some more scrapbooking done, have a great evening all and keep warm....it seems to be cold tonight even though with each night we are getting closer to summer but it doesnt seem to be warming up any.
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Catch up
Most of my posts these days seem to have that title catch up.....Since Sunday afternoon i have been in bed sick. The boys have been fantastic and entertaining themselves with games and tv while letting me rest, I would get up to do meals and then go back to bed. Felling a bit better today but still not 100%. Hopefully tomorrow I will be feeling alot better and hopefully the boys wont get it.
Anyway with this horrible wet and windy weather its feeling a bit like winter again, but we had great weather for Stevens little birthday afternoon tea so that was great. So before school finished a letter from school saying the following came home
Dear Alison
Each year we get tickets given to the Annual Ten Pin Bowling Party, hosted by Epilepsy Foundation of N.Z.
We give these tickets to children and their families who may have faced adversity, or who need to go that extra mile to gain success in reaching their potential in learning.
I am pleased to select your child as a worthy recipient this year. We hope you and the family will enjoy celebrating with your child and that the date of the 4 October in the school holidays is convenient.
At first cause there was just 3 tickets i thought can i handle this by myself with both the boys and do i really want to go alone....party normally =balloons, lots of noise and people.....balloons, lots of noise and people = grumpy moody Steven,LOL. And the morning of the party i told Steven and Liam where we were going( I try not to tell new things to Steven too far ahead of time as it gives him too much time to get stressed about it) and we went online and I showed him some photos but he just kept saying I don't understand mum....so we went along and first thing was the clown standing at the door handing out balloons, but we manage to get in without too much fuss, they had sausages in bread and fizzy drinks for everyone and face painting and more clowns inside giving out lollies and more balloons but both the boys hid behind me when a clown got to close. BUT once Steven had his eyes set on the bowling balls he was happy with a smile going from ear to ear. And he had so much fun after waiting for nearly an hour for our turn he was so good and then he just wanted to get up there and roll the ball he not care too much if he hit the pins or not he just wanted the ball to be rolling,LOL. But in the end we all had a great day and I'm SO glad i braved the day by myself and had so much fun with my boys.
And just because I'm a mum and mums like to talk about when their kids do well I thoguth I would show the certificates both the boys got on the last day of school....well done boys I'm so proud of you both.
And I think I spy and wheres wally have moved in...this is all the goodies Steven got for his birthday and wow they just keep coming. he really loves the wheres wally stuff at the moment and we have found some great bargains on trade me...YAY for trade me.
Right I might go and crawl back into bed again...hopefully tomorrow I will have a bit of energy to do some scrapbooking.
Anyway with this horrible wet and windy weather its feeling a bit like winter again, but we had great weather for Stevens little birthday afternoon tea so that was great. So before school finished a letter from school saying the following came home
Dear Alison
Each year we get tickets given to the Annual Ten Pin Bowling Party, hosted by Epilepsy Foundation of N.Z.
We give these tickets to children and their families who may have faced adversity, or who need to go that extra mile to gain success in reaching their potential in learning.
I am pleased to select your child as a worthy recipient this year. We hope you and the family will enjoy celebrating with your child and that the date of the 4 October in the school holidays is convenient.
At first cause there was just 3 tickets i thought can i handle this by myself with both the boys and do i really want to go alone....party normally =balloons, lots of noise and people.....balloons, lots of noise and people = grumpy moody Steven,LOL. And the morning of the party i told Steven and Liam where we were going( I try not to tell new things to Steven too far ahead of time as it gives him too much time to get stressed about it) and we went online and I showed him some photos but he just kept saying I don't understand mum....so we went along and first thing was the clown standing at the door handing out balloons, but we manage to get in without too much fuss, they had sausages in bread and fizzy drinks for everyone and face painting and more clowns inside giving out lollies and more balloons but both the boys hid behind me when a clown got to close. BUT once Steven had his eyes set on the bowling balls he was happy with a smile going from ear to ear. And he had so much fun after waiting for nearly an hour for our turn he was so good and then he just wanted to get up there and roll the ball he not care too much if he hit the pins or not he just wanted the ball to be rolling,LOL. But in the end we all had a great day and I'm SO glad i braved the day by myself and had so much fun with my boys.
And just because I'm a mum and mums like to talk about when their kids do well I thoguth I would show the certificates both the boys got on the last day of school....well done boys I'm so proud of you both.
And I think I spy and wheres wally have moved in...this is all the goodies Steven got for his birthday and wow they just keep coming. he really loves the wheres wally stuff at the moment and we have found some great bargains on trade me...YAY for trade me.
Right I might go and crawl back into bed again...hopefully tomorrow I will have a bit of energy to do some scrapbooking.
Sunday, 28 September 2008
My baby is 8 today
Well I guess hes not really my baby anymore since hes 8. The years have gone by so fast and I have been through alot more than i ever thought I would have to get through, but I wouldn't change the last 8years for the world.
Today started at 5.30...yip that's right Steven was up at 5.30 asking if i had any presents for him,LOL. then once all the presents were opened he then played every game he got read every book he got and did a puzzle or word search in every book he got....he got lots of Wheres wally books and a Wheres Wally poster and lots of I Spy books which he has taken with him tonight to his dads house. So we had a very small afternoon tea to celebrate Stevens 8 years and now I'm about ready to fall into bed...but not before i do a bit of scrapbooking...so here are a few of my favourite photos of Steven.
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Feel like shopping?
So if anyone is interested in looking at a new website or/and spending some money go and have a look here at Artfullcrafts They have speicals on at the moment with the launch of their new website. Lots of great products at great prices.
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
IM on a creative roll....
well a very simple layout creative roll but hey it gets those photos that have been arund for a while done and ones where you have lots of them done and out of the way ready for the next lot.
Sorry its not a very good photo of the rooster hunt layout.....this was a scraplift from one of my recent mags....I really likethe white paper as a background for a nice change.
Really love the way this one turned out.
Sorry its not a very good photo of the rooster hunt layout.....this was a scraplift from one of my recent mags....I really likethe white paper as a background for a nice change.
Really love the way this one turned out.
there comes a point.......
There come a point in your life when you realize
who matters,
who never did,
who won't anymore...
and who always will.
So don't worry about people from your past,
theres a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
who matters,
who never did,
who won't anymore...
and who always will.
So don't worry about people from your past,
theres a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Bits and pieces, catch up
What a lovely day nice to finally get some fine weather...nearly warm enough to get the 3/4pants and skirts out but not quite yet.
So Steven had last Friday of school, his teacher was away Thursday and Friday and after Thursday with a reliever which he has never had before and a male teacher too he was so stressed out and unhappy so I decided to keep him at home. We did some of his reading and he did some writing as well. I also noticed that when he wears his hooded tops he loves wear the hoods(he went through a stage of not liking anything on his head at all) but notice his right ear sticking out...Steven is deaf in his left ear so i figure this is why that ear is covered up and his right ear sticking out so he can still hear things,lol. And the photo is Steven and his groupings of coloured jacks he calls them. They belong with a set of straws that you connect up and make different things and Steven loves the connectors.
Layout i have done just because...not a challenge or sketch just one that i did to get another page done. Quite like how it came out
Okay so the story behind farm fun is that I really do hate this layout, it needs something else but I'm not sure what. So this is how the layout started and then i didn't like it and ripped the photos of it to start over again, but then i didn't like where that was going so for now the photos are back on this layout but I really don't like it and will re do it again at some stage, but thought I would share anyway...maybe someone has some ideas of what i can do to it
Also I got this little bundle of goodies in the post the other day from Vicki....a just cos envelope so a big thank you Vicki its nice getting that sort of mail and im really loving the swirls well I love the whole lot might have to invest in a machine like yours and have a play around(oneday,LOL).
So Steven had last Friday of school, his teacher was away Thursday and Friday and after Thursday with a reliever which he has never had before and a male teacher too he was so stressed out and unhappy so I decided to keep him at home. We did some of his reading and he did some writing as well. I also noticed that when he wears his hooded tops he loves wear the hoods(he went through a stage of not liking anything on his head at all) but notice his right ear sticking out...Steven is deaf in his left ear so i figure this is why that ear is covered up and his right ear sticking out so he can still hear things,lol. And the photo is Steven and his groupings of coloured jacks he calls them. They belong with a set of straws that you connect up and make different things and Steven loves the connectors.
Layout i have done just because...not a challenge or sketch just one that i did to get another page done. Quite like how it came out
Okay so the story behind farm fun is that I really do hate this layout, it needs something else but I'm not sure what. So this is how the layout started and then i didn't like it and ripped the photos of it to start over again, but then i didn't like where that was going so for now the photos are back on this layout but I really don't like it and will re do it again at some stage, but thought I would share anyway...maybe someone has some ideas of what i can do to it
Also I got this little bundle of goodies in the post the other day from Vicki....a just cos envelope so a big thank you Vicki its nice getting that sort of mail and im really loving the swirls well I love the whole lot might have to invest in a machine like yours and have a play around(oneday,LOL).
Monday, 15 September 2008
Monday, 8 September 2008
Day on the farm
So not alot has been happening other than my sister keeps asking me to up date my blog it's been a week I have been told, so here are some photos of the boys when we went out to visit my parents on Saturday.
I just love this photo of Steven with the lovely background and love that Steven is waving.
Then he is on the move again and ready to jump and move onto the next great adventure on the farm.
This photo of grandad Steven took which I thought he did a pretty good job as all of grandad is in the photo and its not blurred.
So the guys went for a walk on the back of the farm to find the roosters that a friend let go out there...so they took water and food for them...Liam wasn't too sure about them.
Steven seemed to enjoy them.
Next adventure was this slide that grandad created for them...Liam didn't go down it and to be honest i didn't blame him....Steven loved it.
Another Steven taken photo of grandad and Liam.
Scary...I recommend that mums not watch their kids go down home made slide on dirt hills.
But Steven had a great time and that's what matters.
And this is Master Liam who without me know climbed onto my bed with his blanket and went to sleep...Maybe I should give him my double bed and i have his single bed then he wont be able to climb into my bed,LOL.
Not alot of scrapbooking being done at the moment and i have decide that I'm going to give challenges a miss for a little while and get back into scrapbooking for me and not for challenges. i do enjoy the challenges and they are fun but im finding I just need to do scrapbooking when i want to with my own deadline, be it a day or a week to get a layout done...scrapbooking for fun.
Updated:I thoguth I would add that the photography is all done by Grandad and Steven....arent they great at taking scrapbooking photos for me lots of different angles and great shots, in total I think I have about 50 photos from our visit to the farm so lots of photos to scrapbook. I only took the terrible dark photo of liam sleeping in my bed,LOL.
I just love this photo of Steven with the lovely background and love that Steven is waving.
Then he is on the move again and ready to jump and move onto the next great adventure on the farm.
This photo of grandad Steven took which I thought he did a pretty good job as all of grandad is in the photo and its not blurred.
So the guys went for a walk on the back of the farm to find the roosters that a friend let go out there...so they took water and food for them...Liam wasn't too sure about them.
Steven seemed to enjoy them.
Next adventure was this slide that grandad created for them...Liam didn't go down it and to be honest i didn't blame him....Steven loved it.
Another Steven taken photo of grandad and Liam.
Scary...I recommend that mums not watch their kids go down home made slide on dirt hills.
But Steven had a great time and that's what matters.
And this is Master Liam who without me know climbed onto my bed with his blanket and went to sleep...Maybe I should give him my double bed and i have his single bed then he wont be able to climb into my bed,LOL.
Not alot of scrapbooking being done at the moment and i have decide that I'm going to give challenges a miss for a little while and get back into scrapbooking for me and not for challenges. i do enjoy the challenges and they are fun but im finding I just need to do scrapbooking when i want to with my own deadline, be it a day or a week to get a layout done...scrapbooking for fun.
Updated:I thoguth I would add that the photography is all done by Grandad and Steven....arent they great at taking scrapbooking photos for me lots of different angles and great shots, in total I think I have about 50 photos from our visit to the farm so lots of photos to scrapbook. I only took the terrible dark photo of liam sleeping in my bed,LOL.
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