Emotional Scarring (lol)

I have just sneaked into the shop with the spare keys.... My hubby thinks i'm dropping off the boys at school and doing a few jobs...well I am - I've had the weekend that you'd rather forget. We shift next weekend - only next door, which happens to be across a few paddocks but in my infinate wisdom, we're moving to a bigger house but I am eliminating clutter!!!!!!!!!! You can't open the door to my new craft room, AND whilst in the loft at weekend, I found a box of photos and i mean PACKING BOX of photos (AAAAGH!!) They've been up there since we moved from the UK. I also found every single schoolbook of the boys, my dh had a heart attack and thought that by the time they leave college, we'd have to be leasing a lock up unit just to house their schoolwork, so I decided to just keep their home sample books (with a few extras) and their best artwork.. These books that I'd kept go right back to daycare and kindy, first shoes, balankies and first soccer shoes have gone in their too.... Now what did I say about eliminating clutter!! Well i'd better go before I get caught out! I'm just wondering, how many of you are reading this knowing EXACTLY where i'm coming from..................................

Happy Birthday Wilma!!!

If you've been into the shop - you will probably have seen Wilma - she almost lives there (she would if we didn't lock the doors at night!!) Anyway we wanted to wish her a very happy birthday today!! The photo you see above is of her reading our card last year.........um, yes, it was a bit of a shocker..........teehee!!

My Sons Project......

When I had my boys, I vowed to my hubbie that we'd raise them to be independent thinkers only to have it slapped into my face this week...... My eldest (9 year old) had a project to do on FIJI, so this being my domain, I offered him help. We sat down, planned it downloaded everything worked out what was going where then got everything together. Mum he said, this will look fantastic, so I "offered" him ideas of how to improve on it - Mum he said, I'm a boy and I'm 9 years old, I don't want to use chalk, ink or fibres (I hadn't asked him if he did), and your always telling people they should trust their writing, so I will, that computer font's great but my writings OK and that's how I'd like to do my project thanks...With my tail between my legs and licking my wounds, the hardest thing that i've ever done is to leave that project alone and let him do it for himself - I suppose i packed a bit of a sad to my hubbie later because he did it and did it very very very well, and what do you think my dh said - well, you have your wish - he listened, politely stated his wishes, and did it - isn't that an independent thinker........
Yep it is, and the fact that I STILL think that it would have looked better with ink or chalk was only my view!! So just keep this in mind when you're "helping" your children!!!!

What a weekend

Phew, what a weekend! We had the crop this weekend and we're soooo worn out today! Annie had to get woken up by Christine on Sunday morning!! How bad is that? Who's seen the fantastic images being loaded onto the gallery - AND HAVE YOU GOT YOUR WOMENS RFUGE RAFFLE TICKET!! Priscilla is off having a wisdom tooth dug out today, so she tells us that she'll be back in in the morning - WHATEVER!! We think she'll be doing computer work from home for the rest of the week!!!! Annie isn't in this week, so we can play - (oops) catch up!
DONT FORGET YOUR RAFFLE TICKETS! and keep watching this space........