more scrapbooking

My take on the fortnightly sketch over at SE, wasnt sure on the sketch at first and thought I might have to give it a miss this time.

The saying at the bottom of this page says"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery

Vicki and Trace this is how big those weeds are and now they are all gone, I started and did a bit of weeding this morning and then my brother stopped of this afternoon with a weed eater and did the weeds plus the lawn too since that got a bit long too. So now I just need to spray so they not have a chance to grow back.

Okay Trace and Vicki my weeds are still there,LOL. Maybe tomorrow be weeding day, when I get scrapbooking out of my system if that is possible to not want to scrapbook. The other day I picked up 92 new photos that I want to scrapbook. So looking over at Scrapbook Essential at all the past challenges Im using them to scrapbook these photos, even going to try and get some pages done for the Book Of Me challenge. So here is todays layout and i know boring same sketch as the last two but I do love that sketch.

School photo

Okay I have my camera back and here is a photo of Liam, he really didnt want a photo taken,LOL can you tell but the grumpy face.

Liam fell out of bed last night and now has a couple of bumps on his face, very close to his eye, it was lucky he didnt get his eye. Otherwise he slept all night. Wasnt keen on the swimming and he was telling me he is sick and cant go to school today. So I have told him that he doenst have to go swimming today(and he has a bit of a yucky nose), but on Thursday he can take his togs and get dressed like the other kids and go through that part of the swimming rountine. And I have talked to his teacher and said that I can go up to school when its swimming on thursday and get in the pool with him and slowly get him into the pool step by step.

This is my scrapbook layout I got done yesterday. Its using the sketch from the fortnightly challenge over at SE. I really enjoyed using this sketch again and I really like this layout.


Right of to do some more, looks like its going to be another lovely hot sunny day, might have to go and attack the weeds today,maybe.

Well Liam had a good day at school today. And it was nice to see him at the end of the day, he saw me sitting outside of his class room and gave me a big smile and little wave he then continued to peek out the door at me smiling. So its great that he had a good day. I had a long day well the morning seemed to drag on forever but once it got to 12 the afternoon went really fast. Liam was pretty tired since he asked if he could go to bed at 6.30 and asleep within seconds I'm sure. May the joy of school last for him

1st Day od School

We went to
school today.
My little boy
and I.

I worried all
through
breakfast,
afraid that he
might cry.

I watched
him walk away
with pride
and I was
quite alone,

The tears I
thought would
surely be his,
are indeed my
very own!

Bits and Pieces

A present Liam got from his dad that we put together, they turned out to be alot bigger than i thought they would. Tiny not so keen on them,LOL

This is Liams picture he drew on his farewell balloon on Friday


Here is my take on the fortnightly challenge over at Scrapbook Essentials


Someone really needs to let Tiny know that this is MY computer chair not her bed,LOL. When I get off it shes not that far away to claim it as her bed.


Well I can't belive that Liam is off to school tomorrow. He seems quite excited althought he did say he was too sick to go swimming. Since Friday he has had a bit of a runny nose and funny voice, but still happy within him self. His class has swimming on Tuesday and Thursday so we will see how we go. I will have talk with his teacher tomorrow and might look at going up to school during Liams swimming time and get in the pool with him.

Funky Blog Award

A few days ago Trace awarded me with a Funky Blog Award. So with the help from trace and her instructions here it is, now I have to decide who I want to give the award to

Friday Night Challenge

My take on the Friday Night Challenge over at Scrapbook Essentails

Forgot to mention that the head teacher at kindy has asked me if I would be interested in the near future to work with any kids that need extra support. I said yes and Im really looking forward to it. I have for some time now thought about being ESW/working with kids or something along those lines but I guess because I have always had Liam or Steven at home or in kindy it made things a bit difficult. So it will be nice to have a bit of time out of the house and doing some work

OKay so I didnt make it back here last night to tell all about Liams last day at kindy. I ended up going down to my sisters for the night and we had a dvd night. So just back tracking a bit to Thursday; Liams practise day at school. The plan for the day was to have practise day which was 9-11.10, then go inot town and get a present for kindy and then come home get some baking done for the kindy teachers then once the boys were in bed I was going to wrap everything up and ready to put into the car in the morning. Well so much for plans cause this one went right out the window.

The practise day was all good, Liam sat with the kids for the mat time to do the day and weather then they went out and did some fitness. He drew a picture and wrote his name and then the teacher helped him with writing a story. Then the class went out to do swimming. I didnt think Liam would be keen but he was so I went home to get his togs. I told the ladies that were taking swimming that he has really never had any swimming experience and she said to me in front of Liam thats fine he can just sit on the edge of the pool and watch, and then asked me to sit back down away from Liam. Next thing I know she is putting Liam into the pool and OMG he was screaming blue murder it was horrible. And at the time I felt okay they must know what they are doing the are swimming instructors after all and this is there job. And they said we are not hurting him there is no reason for him to be crying and I felt like I was the only one who could see this as being cruel and put him off swimming for good. And if you know me I cry at the drop of a hat, and to see Liam in this state of shock and fear brought me to tears; and there was nothing I could do. And it got me thinking could/should I have done something, were they right that there was no reason for him to be so upset. And then my mind works overtime and I put doubt onto myself as my role as their mother, am I doing all I can for them, should I be taking them to after school activities. All afternoon Liam kept saying that he doesnt want to do swimming at school next week, that he wanted me to go into the pool with him and that he was scared.

After buying present for kindy I got started on some baking. Ran out of butter so went to sleep out to get some from the big freezer only to find that there was no power in the sleep out and that my 1/4 full freezer full of food had all defrosted and was off. So then rang up landlord to get that sorted but nothing would be done till Friday. Got more butter and the boys sorted and into bed went to do more baking but everything I wanted to bake there was one ingredient that I didnt have so I just gave up in the end and decided that maybe I wasnt meant to get up on Thursday cause it turned out to be one of those days that you want to end but it just keeps going and goes from bad to worse.

Friday Liam all keen that its his last day at kindy and happy that I was staying all day.The first couple of hours he hang around me a bit but then he went of and played with his friends.

And he was quite chatty for his farewell too. I thought he would just sit there but he did a bit of talking so it was good. And then when it was time to do his song choice he choose cool cats and did his bit then sat down on the chair and watched everyone else started waving at myself and Donna(his ESW who was video recording for me so I could take photos.

So all in all it was great day on Friday and his teacher loved her altered book.

Friday night once the boys were at their dads I felt a bit down that Lliam was off to school and there was no more kindy for him so I went down to my sisters for a dvd night.

This morning I cleanned out the freezer after getting power back on down there and getting rid of the meat, now I jsut need to build up my meat supply again. It was somewhat depressing throwing out big black rubbish bag full of non meat items-bread, butter, frozen veges, iceblocks icecream and it was bout 1 and a half black rubbish bag full of meat.

So now I might go and get some scrapbooking done, I think I will have a go at the Friday Night Challenge over on SE.

Liams last day at kindy

We here it is the day I have not wanting it to arrive, but it has and I think Liam is some what happy that he will be a school boy next week and go to school with his brother. But also he is not wanting school and after the practise day yesterday and the bad experience with swimming(I will fill you in more on this later tonight)he is not so keen to do swimming at school and is now quite scared about it. So it was a late night for me last night; after a long day that seems to go from bad to worse. I got baking for the teachers done, handmade cards made, presents wrapped, batteries on digital camera and video camera charged. Everything as ready as it can be. I promised myself to try not to cry but who am I kidding, I know I will, Im like a waterfall and tears come at a drop of a hat,LOL. Anyway I should go and get myself sorted now that everything else is done. I will have some photos tonight.

Happy Birthday Liam

My son, if I could have one wish in all the
world on your birthday.....

...I'd wish that you would
always be happy, forever healthy,
and that your life would be filled
with all the things that bring you
laughter and love.

I wish you a life where
your dreams come true
and your goals are achieved;
I wish that I could always
wipe any tears from your face
and make everything okay again.
I hope you will always know
that I am thinking about you
and forever wanting nothing more
than your complete happiness in life.
It's your happiness that brings
me such immense joy,
because you are my son
and I love you so much

Where do the days go

The days are flying by, another couple of weeks and we will be into March already. Tomorrow Liam will be 5, and he is ready for school I think. He has not wanted to go to kindy since he had his practise day at school last Thursday, and today when I said I was leaving he started to cry. So I stayed for mat time and then helped with making the new lot of play dough. Then him and a teacher went to find more information aobut peacocks on the internet and I said good-bye, I will see you soon and he started to cry again. But I dont think its that he doesnt wasn to be at kindy because he has always loved kindy, so I wonder if its more he is nervous about the whole starting school thing. Im guessing there maybe a few tears neext Monday when I dont stay with him at school.

Okay here is my layout for the Friday night challenge over at Scrapbook Essentials

Liam and Steven getting a bit more comfortable with Tiny now

Steven okay to hold her but not sure about touching her

And Wormy now with legs and minus a tail spends most of its time out of the water

Practise day today at school

Well Liam had his first practise day at school today, it was good. He is so shy and when it came to standing infront of the class to show them his picture and story this look of fear came across on his face(I dont blame him though Im not really a fan of getting up and speaking infront of people, even if it just a class of 5,LOL)..but otherwise it was a good visit. And only a week left of kindy and then Liam be off to school, he is so ready but Im not, I will miss him so much not haivng him at home with me. Everyone's telling me that I will get over that felling pretty fast, but I dont know he's my youngest, my baby and I really enjoy him at home.

Name for the kitten, well Im not sure if we are getting less names or more names for this little one; at the moment she has the names Dora-Boots-Tiny-Mitten-Kitty-Boy, LOL.

Paper has arrived

Well my paper I order from the Scrapbook Essentials website sale and some I also got of trade me from Meg has arrived today. I got home after dropping boys at school and kindy and doing some shopping to find this lovely box of scrapbooking paper on my door step, it was like xmas again.

Liam wasnt too happy today, I stayed for the first mat time with him at kindy and they were going over to the school to borrow some library books and I told him I wasnt going that I had to go and get some stuff done while he was at kindy and wiht that he just started to cry and got quite upset. I wonder if he is a bit nervous with his first school visit tomrrow. And I just know he is going to cry that first day of school when I leave, I do hope he proves me wrong and doesnt cry, but he is more of a mummys boy than what Steven is.

Right no boys here so must be time to go and get some scrapbooking done, hopefully the new paper will bring new inspiration

Liam's kitten is yet to be named but we have now narrowed it down, Steven still wants to call her 'boy',LOL, and then Liam wants to call her Dora(yes as in Dora the Explorer) and then Steven wanted to call her Boots, but they not like Dora Boots,LOL.....I think she will be a cat of many names

Changes

Liam's birthday is a week from today and for early birthday present we went and picked this up for him

Also I noticed Wormy has got his front legs now

Altered book update

Only two pages to go and just over a week to get it finished. I should have started it earlier than what I did but I tend to leave these things for the last minute.
Inside cover

I love these butterfly photos so had to add them into the book and I used the butterfly in the wind poem too

This is the first page of the book, its not my favourite page, and spot how young and little Liam looks. When he started Kindy he looked to little to be there and now he is about to start school he looks to little for that.

the back inside cover

Friday Night Challenge

OKay this is my first friday night challenge that I have done for over on Scrapbook Essentials. I had lots of fun doing this

Butterfly in the wind

A child is.......

A butterfly in the wind
Some can fly higher than others;
but each one flies the best it can.
Why compare one against the other?

Each one is different!
Each one is special!
Each one is beautiful!

I found this poem on a website but cant remember which one it was now, but thought it was just lovely and so true. I think as parents we want our kids to do well but we forget that they are all different and special and every now and then we tend to compare them, but what a boring world this would be if we were all the same, different is good.

School

Today was better than yesterday. With lack of communication yesterday there things didnt go as well as I had planned. Today was better meeting Stevens teacher and talking with her about Steven, it was good. He was happy today, adn told me that they went swimming today, but that was all he did, I said to him I think your tricking me, and with a big grin Steven replied wiht no im not,lol. He so funny, and he does this thing now where if you ask him a question or to do something he says'actually I dont want to talk to you anymore',LOL or he tells me dont ask me anymore while he waves his finger side to side,LOL so cute.

I have done a bit more on the altered book but not much, we did Liams hand prints on the front and back inside covers

A picture Liam did at kindy, its great as he normally will only paint pictures and then its just putting paint on paper there is no really picture. So this one of our trampoline and swing ball next to it and him jumping on the tramp is great and is hanging proudly on the fridge

Well I havent really got any further on my book other than painting the pages and one more page finished. im not liking it as much as the bush walk page, i think it needs something else just not sure what. Maybe its cause its so bright that i dont like it who knows.

Anyway i got Liam to write the names of his friends on the page for me which i think is nice, to have some input for kids in scrapbooking. I got him to practise first and he did really well I thought.

Back to school tomorrow, great looking forward to it, back to the good old routine of getting up early, lunchs and kids organized and of to school and kindy. And then two weeks and it will just be off to school in the mornings. Once Liam is at school we will start walking to and from school. Then 6 hours to myself each day, hmm what will I do with myself.

Altered Book

This is what I have done so far

Last week of holidays....

....and I must say that I am glad. Holidays have been good with a few downs but lots of time with the boys. But I think we are all ready for school to start back again. The last few weeks with Liam at kindy have been nice too as I have had a chance to have some one on one time with Steven which I dont normally get. Steven has however informed me that he doesnt go to school on Thursdays, LOL and school of course starts on Thursday so we will see how that goes. Wormys legs are getting bigger each day Liam tells me and he keeps looking for front legs to appear. I realised that tomorrow its only 2 weeks till Liams birthday and I havent sent out invitations yet, I havent even made any for that matter so that might have to be todays mission I think. And today its 3 weeks till Liam goes to school, and I just know those 3 weeks will fly by. I have been busy doing this altered book, not sure if im doing it right or wrong but Im jsut doing it and its fun. Might have some photos of it tomrrow.

Lines

This is my take on the next Fortnightly sketch challenge over at Scrapbook Essentials. And it didnt take long to do I was somewhat surprised,lol. I saw the sketch and knew that these were the photos I wanted to use.