Goodbye Semester One!

Hi everyone! How was your week? It has been interesting week with news via my social media.

 

Yesterday I found out my ex-consultant from Creative Memories is planning to joined up as a consultant for Close To My Heart company.  It's another papercraft company based from the US and they are going to expand their business opportunities to Australia from July 2013 and New Zealand from August 2013. They have already expanded out their business in Canada.... so who knows!  It could become a world wide business of papercrafters for customers and their consultants.

 

I had a good look at their US website last week and I was quite excited to see what products they have for sale.  I like the circut package idea where you get the stamp set as well as the cricut cartridge.  It's been quite a while since I last used my cricut machine and I think it's about time to get that machine going before it collects dust or needs some oiling in the motor.

 

Today was the last day of semester one for school age children.  This term Rachel has learnt on how to sew at school.  She made a small drawstring bag. Next semester she has two new electives to study.  One subject is about Business and IT and the other is about woodwork. I won't know either of their school results for semester one until after the school holidays as I was told in their latest school newsletter about when the reports will be posted and when their parent teacher interviews take place in July.

 

As from tomorrow all kids will be on school holidays for two weeks. More a headache really as I need to find activities to keep my teenagers occupied. At this stage next Monday and Tuesday has been planned.  As for the other days of the week I will worked out what to do later on.  Also it depends on the weather. I am hoping to catch a couple of new release movies and have lunch with my parents at the sports club they regularly attend to in the next two weeks.

 

Rachel is quite happy to be just at home to entertain herself on either her ipod or laptop while Monique thinks I am an ATM machine and have money coming out of my ears. There are alot of times I wish there was a money tree existed, then again....... where I live with alot of little finger thieves (including my two) my tree would have missing money. It would be gone like a bolt of lightning.

 

My holiday plans doing some activities with my kids could easily change as I had an unexpected phone call from a cousin of mine this afternoon. It turns out her mum (who is one of my aunties from Central QLD) isn't well. Her medical profession has found cancer in her bladder which will require major surgery.  She will have surgery in Brisbane at a private hospital after the school holidays. Don't worry it aren't the Wesley Hospital, thank goodness!  Otherwise I would dragged her out of their there very fast!!

 

Monique is now old enough to seek part time work so I am hoping over the holidays she will start dropping off her resume off to some businesses down the road. After these school holidays her school based traineeship supposely to start.  She will be attending to her on the job training as a sports and recreation person on Fridays and goes to school four days a week. After she leaves school, she plans on going to university to study teaching as a PE specialist.

 

How's the weather?  It's been a miserable day here today with clouds and rain periods. A couple of people called it the Duck's weather which I am sure the ducks loved swimming in their ponds. Rachel's school supposely had the second day of sports day on today but I think those events would of been postponed until after the school holidays. I have afew loads of washing to catch up on so I am hoping the weather prediction is right to have sunny days this weekend.

 

To all the QLD parents and teachers, enjoy your holiday time with your family.