- I had weird dreams all night that had to do with VBS. not very good for actual sleep. =(
- I'm hoping the house cleaning, child minding, laundry folding, massage giving fairies show up at my house next week.
- I came down with a summer cold on Wednesday. YUCK!! Friends of ours has it too. I'm hoping the girls don't get it.
- Speaking of the girls, it is 6:30 in the morning, Beka is watching BOZ and the other two are still asleep!!
- So far this week at VBS our numbers look like this: Monday-86, Tuesday-97, Wednesday-100, Thursday-100.
- Today is a big day. Regular times at VBS this morning but added water slide and bouncy castle. Pizza lunch for the workers, clean-up of the church and school, then time on the bouncy castle and water slide for the workers until it gets taken away. Then tonight at 7 is the Parents' Night. And between now and then I need to figure out what awards we're giving and possibly go buy more.
- I've started working on next year's program. We're going to do an Aussie theme. I'm trying to tie it in with stories of God's provision to the children of Israel in the desert. We have absolutely no info on this. I'll be doing it from scratch. Which is why I've started now. =)
- My garden is DEAD!!! The heat killed it. I think we'll till it all up and then come March plant some more. The sunflowers are all drying. We often have sulphur crested cockatoos eating the seeds in the morning.
- Marlana, I have Catie's birthday party invite ready to send but haven't made it to the post office this week. It is next Sunday the 25th after morning church at our church. Hope you guys can make it.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Random Friday
Monday, January 12, 2009
Real Time Monday
well, Beka is sleeping and Catie and Emma are watching a Spanish version of Little Einsteins. They think it's funny. And they can still figure out when questions are being asked and know the answers. And they will probably walk around speaking "spanish" gibberish the rest of the week. =)
VBS went well this morning. At our "good, bad, ugly" workers meeting afterwards they all said good. So hopefully this continues all week. We had 86 students which is the most we've ever had on the first day. So we might end up with well over 100 on Tuesday and Wednesday. Those are normally our highest days and then it slows down Thursday and Friday. Although we are having a bouncy castle and slippery slide on Friday so that might be our big day. We'll see.
Anyway, thanks for your prayers. =)
VBS went well this morning. At our "good, bad, ugly" workers meeting afterwards they all said good. So hopefully this continues all week. We had 86 students which is the most we've ever had on the first day. So we might end up with well over 100 on Tuesday and Wednesday. Those are normally our highest days and then it slows down Thursday and Friday. Although we are having a bouncy castle and slippery slide on Friday so that might be our big day. We'll see.
Anyway, thanks for your prayers. =)
Monday
So, it's Monday morning and the girls slept in until 7:15!! YAY!! We have to be at the church at 8:30 so we're eating breakfast at the moment.
I didn't sleep well as I had weird "VBS gone wrong" dreams all night. Including a little 2 year old walking along a 2 story high window sill and falling off. Good thing we don't have any 2 story buildings. =)
It's a bit cloudy out at the moment which is actually a good thing. Cloudy and breezy will keep it cooler this week.
Do you think it is unfair of me to not go buy camo stuff for the army dress up day for the girls? I don't think they would wear it after so it seems a waste to me. Plus I'm not sure I'd want my little girls wearing camo. Oh well. I'm not wearing any camo this week either. We have a "dress in your team colour" day as well. Emma and Beka are on the orange/purple team. Emma has decided to wear the dressy purple dress-up that Grammy made. Little flower head thing included. =)
On a different note, I made scones/biscuits yesterday and they actually rose!!! I even took a picture for proof but the camera is at church in preparation for this week.
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna need to hire a house cleaner by the end of this week. We're all so tired by the end of the week that I'm not sure much is going to be done. Oh well. No visitors this week. =)
I'm gonna go blow part of my grocery budget on Dr. Pepper's today after VBS. I figure a little treat after each day will be nice. Especially a nice cold Dr. Pepper. =) And next week I'm so going in for a massage.
Well, I'm done with my breakfast and have less than an hour to be at church so I'm off!!
I didn't sleep well as I had weird "VBS gone wrong" dreams all night. Including a little 2 year old walking along a 2 story high window sill and falling off. Good thing we don't have any 2 story buildings. =)
It's a bit cloudy out at the moment which is actually a good thing. Cloudy and breezy will keep it cooler this week.
Do you think it is unfair of me to not go buy camo stuff for the army dress up day for the girls? I don't think they would wear it after so it seems a waste to me. Plus I'm not sure I'd want my little girls wearing camo. Oh well. I'm not wearing any camo this week either. We have a "dress in your team colour" day as well. Emma and Beka are on the orange/purple team. Emma has decided to wear the dressy purple dress-up that Grammy made. Little flower head thing included. =)
On a different note, I made scones/biscuits yesterday and they actually rose!!! I even took a picture for proof but the camera is at church in preparation for this week.
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna need to hire a house cleaner by the end of this week. We're all so tired by the end of the week that I'm not sure much is going to be done. Oh well. No visitors this week. =)
I'm gonna go blow part of my grocery budget on Dr. Pepper's today after VBS. I figure a little treat after each day will be nice. Especially a nice cold Dr. Pepper. =) And next week I'm so going in for a massage.
Well, I'm done with my breakfast and have less than an hour to be at church so I'm off!!
Friday, January 9, 2009
real time...
This is Beka.
This is Beka 2 minutes ago.
This is Beka 10 seconds after she woke up from her 3 hour nap.
This is Beka wearing high heel dress up shoes that she put on within seconds of waking up from her 3 hour nap.
This is Beka 2 minutes ago.
This is Beka 10 seconds after she woke up from her 3 hour nap.
This is Beka wearing high heel dress up shoes that she put on within seconds of waking up from her 3 hour nap.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Fun Day
Tuesday we drove 2 hours north to visit with some friends who are holidaying. They normally live 4 hours south of us so this was much easier to do in a day trip. We went to Bargara (just outside Bundaberg) where they were staying. We had lunch together, swam in the pool, walked a couple blocks for an ice cream, played at the playground and had a great time together. I didn't take a camera but oh, the picture opportunities there were. Beka and Nathan walking hand in hand down the sidewalk, messy ice cream faces, fun in the pool, etc.
After we left Bargara we stopped at Subway in Bundaberg for dinner. Then made a last minute call to Shane and Marlana and dropped in on them for a "quick" visit. I think we were there for about 2 hours. =) It was really good to see them as they just got back from 6 weeks or so in the States. The girls had fun playing with Noah and Dave and it was great for us to catch up with their parents.
All 3 girls slept for most of the 1.5 hour trip home. When we got home we stuck them in bed and they slept until almost 7 this morning!! YAY!!
After we left Bargara we stopped at Subway in Bundaberg for dinner. Then made a last minute call to Shane and Marlana and dropped in on them for a "quick" visit. I think we were there for about 2 hours. =) It was really good to see them as they just got back from 6 weeks or so in the States. The girls had fun playing with Noah and Dave and it was great for us to catch up with their parents.
All 3 girls slept for most of the 1.5 hour trip home. When we got home we stuck them in bed and they slept until almost 7 this morning!! YAY!!
Monday, January 5, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
It's me
okay, so I've been pretty slack. Everything seemed to happen so fast this year. Yes, I know that Christmas is the same day every year but still... School didn't finish until the 13th. Josh worked most of the following week and then suddenly it was Christmas. And along with that was all the Christmas things--Sunday school program, Carols by Candlelight, shopping, etc. Add to that the idea that I had that most of our gifts this year should be handmade or consumable and it got busy at the end. We kept things simple with the girls this year. They got their stockings which had breakfast, play money, a 4 color pen, and smelly stickers. Then they got two other gifts from us. One gift was books and then the other was actually a family gift. They got puppets (a puppet theatre is in the processes), dress-ups, and the table tent. Even though they didn't get much from us they still made out like bandits. =)
The year ended with the hottest day all year. yuck! And I had the flu! Double YUCK! 2009 was ushered in with yet another very hot, humid day. Think 90+ degrees and around 80% humidity. We spent the day inside with the a/c on. Thankfully it rained Friday and Saturday so it's much cooler now. Those hot humid days just suck the energy straight out of you.
VBS starts in 8 days. I spent quite a few hours on the computer this week getting stuff done. Then I spent about 3 hours in the school office yesterday printing and hole punching, etc. I tried laminating on their big fancy machine and it ate two of my papers. I couldn't figure out how to get them out so they are still inside the machine somewhere. I need to remember to have Josh check that today. I came home to do a bunch of laminating and gluing and cutting. The Sauvageot siblings came and helped out with that. I still have a few more things to do. And hopefully the guy writing the skits has them finished today. Nothing like waiting until the last minute, hey? He leaves for vacation on Tuesday so I guess I'll have them for sure by then.
This week--Monday Catie gets her cast taken off. Hopefully they won't need to put another one on. We've been praying every day for that. Also on Monday or maybe Tuesday we are headed to Bargara for lunch with friends. Possibly some swimming too so double hoping Catie won't have a cast. The rest of the week will just be staying cool and finishing everything for VBS. I think. =)
Check in with you later.
The year ended with the hottest day all year. yuck! And I had the flu! Double YUCK! 2009 was ushered in with yet another very hot, humid day. Think 90+ degrees and around 80% humidity. We spent the day inside with the a/c on. Thankfully it rained Friday and Saturday so it's much cooler now. Those hot humid days just suck the energy straight out of you.
VBS starts in 8 days. I spent quite a few hours on the computer this week getting stuff done. Then I spent about 3 hours in the school office yesterday printing and hole punching, etc. I tried laminating on their big fancy machine and it ate two of my papers. I couldn't figure out how to get them out so they are still inside the machine somewhere. I need to remember to have Josh check that today. I came home to do a bunch of laminating and gluing and cutting. The Sauvageot siblings came and helped out with that. I still have a few more things to do. And hopefully the guy writing the skits has them finished today. Nothing like waiting until the last minute, hey? He leaves for vacation on Tuesday so I guess I'll have them for sure by then.
This week--Monday Catie gets her cast taken off. Hopefully they won't need to put another one on. We've been praying every day for that. Also on Monday or maybe Tuesday we are headed to Bargara for lunch with friends. Possibly some swimming too so double hoping Catie won't have a cast. The rest of the week will just be staying cool and finishing everything for VBS. I think. =)
Check in with you later.
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