Goodbye Holidays

Hi everyone!  How was your week?  It's almost the end of the school holidays and what a busy week we had. 

While my 14 yo had her own organisations of activities with friends, her sister was booked in to do a sports program for four days.  Normally it runs over five days but Monday was a public holiday.  She seem to enjoy it but I think the last two days might of been abit too warm to be playing sport.  It will be her last time of doing this program because next year she will be in high school.

During the girls absence I spent majority of my time at home.  Except for Tuesday as I was at the craft store for my weekly of casually scrap with others.  Also on Wednesday night I was out as I had a workshop on about BOM. This time we had to do a page about our favourite things and things about yourself. 

It's just about the start of this weekend and I am guessing the highways will be busy both up and down the coast as we are predicting summer temperatures.  Tomorrw I have organise a day to go to a local pool in Brisbane to catch up with another family there with afew kids.

So whatever plans you might have for this weekend, don't forget to safe travel and slip, slop and slap if you are going to spend your time outdoors. 

It's now just after midnight and I better get some sleep, otherwise I will be snoozing more at the pool then swimming today. 

Have a good weekend!

September report

Goodbye September!  Well...... that is what I seen on the facebook wall this morning from Snoopy page.  It was then I realised how quickly the first month of spring went.  I hope you all had a good month.  Any exciting news you wish to share, be my guest!!

Inspite on being involved in normal activities, I got back into the swing of things with my scrapbooking attendance again regularly at the craft store or through my CM consultant.  But I am now thinking of trying out French Scrapbooking as I have found some interesting and challenging templates to use at the craft show.  I have found a local consultant who does french scrapbooking.  I have booked my first introduction workshop to attend next week.  A couple of craft ladies I know at the craft store has done the introduction workshop in August and I had seen their first page layout done.  It looked simple to do to me!!

Also I joined twitter, only because Rachel's class is on twitter and tweets daily with what they get up to and learn.  I am not sure if her teacher will continue to tweet in term 4 as there is staff changes taking place after the school holidays. At present time I am following around 100 people, events or businesses and try to tweet daily. So if you have a twitter account, feel free to forward your details in the comment's column.

Rachel and her father had three nights in Hervey Bay.  Besides spending time with some family members, they experienced whale watching on a boat that went offshore from Hervey Bay.  They seem to enjoyed this experience and may wish to do it again in the future.  I know I don't want to this because I suffer sea sickness quite badly. It seems my body takes sometime to gain my land legs back after being on a boat cruise of all standards.  I can't even handle cruising down the Brisbane River anymore.  I only had this problem since I was pregnant with my first liveborn child. Fifteen years ago I board a day boat cruise to Brampton Island from Mackay. Because it was cyclone season at the time, the cruise was one uneventful ride of my life. I thought my life was over because the waves were very hugh. Easily been high as a dinosaur!! I was double the amount of sickness because I was just in the start of the first trimester of being pregnant and I had morning sickness too. It taken me days to get my land legs back to normal. 

Currently it's school holidays for my kids.  They already had their first week passed and they were busy with places to go.  This week will be just as busy with things to do and places to go.  Today it's the public holiday known as the Queen's Birthday in our state. For further details about this public holiday, read it in my Expression of Interest blog.

Whatever plans you might have for October I hope it will be a good month for you. If you celebrate an anniversary or birthday this month, I hope you will have an enjoyable day with your loved ones.

First week of School Holidays

Hi everyone!  How was your week?  This week marked the first week of the school holidays for spring. Inspite the weather changes from hot to storms and cooler days throughout the week, didn't this week go by fast? 

While Miss M had organised her own lifestyle with her bf and/or friends, I had to organised some activities to keep Miss R entertained.  This week we seen two children movies at the cinema and spend an hour at a public holiday for fun activities with other primary school children.  The activity tables had a rotation system going because they were about 30 kids of all primary school ages in this room. It was either lego creating, art and crafts or playing games on the ipad. I think the ipad table was her favourite because she taken a while to leave that table.

Yesterday we went to the club to meet up with my parents there for lunch to help celebrate my mum's birthday.  Even through I am now a yearly member there I don't go to this club very often as it is an hour's drive away from home. The club had Friday raffles going and a morning entertainment for two hours with a man and a woman (in my age group) singing a variety of music to the audience of mostly seniors who were doing line dancing.  Not sure reggae is the right music for line dancing but I love listening to their reggae stuff.

Poor little Miss R might of been abit bored because the childcare area wasn't opened during the daytime hours.  But she managed to keep herself amused by doing some origami folds of animals and a table lamp from the raffle tickets (after the draws were over).  She gave two of her origami folds to the lady who organised the raffles for the day. Miss R must of had the luck of the day on our table because she came home with $50 cash. She wants to save the money to use to buy an ipod later on. My Dad gave her only $2 to spend on the raffles. Also my Dad paid for our drinks because I was short on cash at hand. Thanks to someone who might of borrowed my money without asking.

What's on your agenda for this weekend?  Don't forget this weekend is a long weekend in Australia.  Queen's Birthday is held on Monday!  Haven't really got much planned with this household.  Just take the days after I wake up each morning.  But today I am hoping to get some washing done as I heard it might rain tomorrow

Whatever plans you might have, have a good weekend!

Term 3 ended

How was your week?  Being the last week of term 3 I had a busy week attending two scrap meets, a school appointment and two school events.

Naplan results came in this week too and I have viewed my children's results.  They seem to be doing okay in a couple of areas while other areas need exra work.

Now it's the start of school holidays.  After all the dramas I had during this term I wasn't really in the mood for making any holiday trips. I had to think and organise activities to keep my girls busy for the next two weeks.  This weekend will be busy as I have two events on.  Tomorrow night I have a night of bowling fun with some friends until late. 

Speaking of time I think it's now time to get to sleep as it's getting quite late here in Australia. To all the parents I hope you will enjoy your holiday time with your kids. If you have any travel plans, have a safe destinaton!

Goodnight!

Tweet Tweet

How was your week?  This week I had a busy week so far with things to do at home and places to go while the kids are at school.

Consider I have been on facebook for two years now, I found alot of past and current friends and relatives on there. It's great to catch up with everyone at somepoint of time.  I found this service addicted at start but since then I don't intend to spend many hours on there as I used to. I generally log on once a day for an hour to see wall messages posted.  Either I will I probably might have an odd chat to someone if they are happened to be online at the same time or play a game or two if the laptop doesn't freeze on me.  

Only yesterday I decided to join twitter. It was more a group who gave me the incentive to join this service.  Its free to join and all you need is a username and so on. After day one I am following 17 groups (from TV) or people and have two friends following me. Yesterday I posted 20 tweets, mainly to a TV show as it was on TV last night. Will I become addicted to this service like facebook?

Have a good weekend!

Memorable Weekend

How was your weekend?  I hope you had a great time with your family and/or friends.  My weekend was good!  Rachel and her father was away in Hervey Bay for two nights. They enjoyed the experience of whale watching with the inlaws.

Monique and I done our own thing. I basically spend some time with my best friend and  watched a couple games of the football as it is the start of the finals now.  The Grand Final will be held at the end of this month.

I had a day of scrapbooking on Saturday.  Wasn't really in much of a creative mood but managed to complete only a couple of pages.  I haven't seen alot of ladies in a while so I was busy more socializing then scrapbooking.  Saturday's lunch at he venue was good!!  I had fish, chips and salad. In the evening I had chinese takeway with my friend.

Last night's bowling was good and we managed to win most of the points.  But after bowling was more a memorable moment in the books.  For further details, you need to read he story from my Expression of Interest blog.

It's now that time of the day for the parent/s to pick up their children from school. The kids only have another two weeks of this term left then it will be school holidays again.

August report

Goodbye winter!  Welcome spring!  I enjoy this time of the year as the temperatures during the day and night rises slightly each month, the daylight hours increases, new wildlife animals are born and flowers are in full bloom.

 

How was your past month? I am glad August is now over as it hasn't been a pleasant month.  I had a couple of uneventful news or events had happened. We had one death in the family, flu virus hit most household members here and two cars with mechanical problems. 

 

The kids and I are still recovering from the flu for the past two weeks. We been to the doctors twice and consumed two coarses of antibotics for infections. I had sinus and chest infection. Rachel had one week off school because she was quite sick with a lung and chest infection.  She was a close call to be admitted into hospital too.

 

August was a busy month for birthdays. Consider I have met afew people through craft and bowling, I intend to hear some people celebrate their birthday this month too.  Myself and my rebellious 14 yo daughter are only three days apart. No celebrations happened this year because I have been sick with this winter bug. 

 

August was a very dry month with limited rainfall. The highest temperature we had was 28 degrees which happened on last Thursday week.  The lowest temperature we had was 1.9 C which happened in the first week of August.

 

Today is the first official day of spring here in Australia..  And what a gorgeous suuny day it was here (where I live).  A great day to start spring cleaning around the place but I think I will wait until I get over this flu.  I was told by the doctor it could take a month to really get over it fully.

 

Depending on how the tempertures go we could be in for an early summer this year.  Our storm season has started but the two storms we had recently sizzled out by the time they moved to the coastal areas. 

 

Our football season will be ending soon.  Both AFL and NRL games will start their final series next weekend. This year I started to do footy tipping, just for fun!  A good thing I didn't pay for it as I didn't get all my predictions right on most weeks. There was only one week I had my predictions spot on with all games.

 

Three games of State of Origin (NRL) were held between May to July.   These games were played between Queensland and New South Wales.  Queensland had won for the 7th time in a row now!!

 

In Australia it will be Father's Day tomorrow. The kids and I have been to the shops to do some present shopping today. Guess I better think about an early night as I will have visitors over tomorrow.

 

Enjoy your first month of spring (for southern hemisphere residents) or autumn (if you live in the northern hemisphere)!