Getting there

slowly but surely my back is starting to come right, I had acupuncture on Tuesday and that helped but I am still living on painkillers and resting when I can, its been such a busy week though that I haven’t had much in the way of rest.

Yesterday I took Katie into the hospital to get her hearing checked and see if she needed grommets or not. She refused blankly to be even slightly helpful at first, right up until i bribed her with McDonalds for lunch. Her hearing is ok at the moment but if she gets more ear infections this winter she may have to have them. She’s got another appointment in 3 months time.

Today it was Steve’s turn, He had to get part of his big toe removed to stop him from constantly getting ingrown toenail. Poor bugger has already had the nail removed once and as soon as it grew back he had the same problem so today the doctor cut one side of his toe away to allow the nail to grow normally. He must have got about 10 stitches. Our doctor is wonderful though, he kept Steve distracted while he was busy with the scalpel. It was pretty gross to watch!

and tomorrow its more physio for me. Talk about a week of medical drama lol…there has only been one day without some kind of medical appointment this week and that was Monday! talk about an unhealthy lot!

Its just been one of those weeks and I am so tired, Katie had a bad night last night and was a bit snuffly, so she ended up in bed with me at about 2am.

That kid is a clown, you should see her at the moment, she just had a banana and put the skin on the ground and pretended she was slipping over on it! lol she’s definitely got her brothers mad sense of humour.

anyway I am going to have dinner and hopefully an early night.

night night all

hugz

V xx

One in Ten

In the last 10 days I have managed 1 layout and that was with Katie’s help yesterday. She loves Tinkerbell and for ages I have had a wee pile of Tinkerbell embellies in my stash. It just happened that last time my brother brought his granddaughter over the girls where playing dress up and I got some awesome shots of these two being fairies and princesses. this is the layout Katie and I yesterday, Katie kept handing me things and telling me put it here Mummy lol…finally she is getting interested in scrapbooking…I’ve been waiting 3 years for this lol!!!

and now…I am off to Bebo to send a message to my niece for her birthday since she isn’t home for me to call her.

night all

hugz

V xx

How lucky am I?

Just watching my crazy kids are cuddled up on the couch together watching Playhouse Disney, its so cute….for those that don’t know, my kids are 3 and almost 17! lol, their so close these two and they never fail to make me smile when they play together like this. Katie just decided Steve looked far to comfortable so she climbed over him and then into his blanket with him lol.

How many 17 y.o boys do you know that would put up with being bossed around by a 3 y.o baby sister? he’s so patient.

Katie made her biggest brother nearly cry last night, I was talking to Jodi on the phone (he’s still living in Taranaki) and I put Katie on the phone, and she chatted away for a few minutes then said, “i got to go now dodi, I love you” when I got back on the phone he was having a wee sniff and said he wanted to come home lol. He has been gone for a year now but Katie knows exactly who he is, she often carries a photo of him around and tells us that its her dodi.

I wish he would come home but I know he cant, he’s got a bakers apprenticeship do to and he’s a big boy now…doesn’t mean I cant miss him though. He is coming home for a visit in September, that will good.

well my back is slowly getting better, I had another visit to the physio on Friday and that helped, so does having a spa bath every night. its still sore but not nearly as bad as it was, at least I can sit up now, that’s more than I could do a few days ago. And the kids are both healthy again though Katie just cant shake that barking cough, funnily enough Steve use to get a cough at the beginning of winter and it would last until spring, hope Katie isn’t going to be the same.

She has an appointment at the specialist to get her ears check next Wednesday, which just happens to be the day her preschool class is going to NatureLand, she misses out again, she missed out on the Christmas party because she was sick, and PJ day because it was on a day she wasn’t there and the teddy bears picnic because I was sick. poor girl…not that she even knows or cares lol, and she has been to NatureLand a number of times, I might just have to talk to my cousin and see if she wants to take the kids there in the weekend. Her kids are 10 month older and 10 months younger than Katie so they all play together really well.

anyway must be cup of tea time…I am hoping to get into my scrap room for a wee while today, I had this great idea for a multi photo layout which, if it works, i will share later.

look what’s going on now… Katie stole the blanket and climbed on the step ladder giggling her hear off and started teasing Steve with “I the king of da castle, you da dirty wascle” lol, crazy kid!! she has a real thing about ladders, anything she can climb. Dad was using the stepladder yesterday and she stole it as soon as he was finished and has been climbing up and down all morning. Maybe she will following in her Grandfathers footsteps and be a lineman or is that line person? lol

she is still only half dressed, she has informed me she wants to stay in her pjammies today lol…she does take after me! nothing like a nice comfy pair of pjammies and fluffy slippers on a cold morning! And here it is 11 am and I have done nothing! how lazy is that? oh well, its Sunday…no rush!

have a wonderful Sunday everyone

hugz

V xx

oh the drama

this week so far has been one thing after another. Last Friday i fell over on our gravel driveway and wrenched my back and have out of action ever since. I went to the doctor on Monday and he gave me some pain killers and muscle relaxants and sent me to the physio which was one of my two appointments on Tuesday. First I had to go to the rheumatology nurse to be assessed to see i still qualify for the Humira injection that keeps the RA in check, seems I am borderline to keeping it because I still have a far bit of joint pain…something else to worry about. after a quick trip to warehouse to get Katie some more PJ’s it was back home with just enough time to grab a quick cuppa and then off to physio, who is really lovely and also treating dad at the moment lol.

and to add to that both Katie and Steve have been sick this week, they both had a tummy bug and Steve had a couple of days off school and Katie had one day of preschool but their both fine now. And Dads ankle is getting better at long last, he has been on crutches since Easter and is now getting around with just one crutch and is a lot happier, another week and he will be back to normal.

so all in all its been a pretty stink week really, i am sick of reading, i cant sit up long enough to scrapbook and i am bored silly!!! Mum got a part time job with a company that does stocktaking, today is her first day, so i haven’t even got her to moan to lol. But I am glad she has found a job that’s low stress but gets her out of the house for a couple of days a week, she must get so sick of looking after Dad and I, today she is working out Countdown in Nelson and had to leave at 5am so she will be buggered by the time she gets home. but it gives her a little extra income now that they are both on the super.

Oh talking about getting older, the other day I was reading our local paper and came across an article about a guy i went to school with, it had a photo with it and OMG he looked old!!!!! the in dawned on me, all those kids I went to school with are the age our parents were back then lol…if not older. we are the ones now who have kids at school who think we are old lol.

and on that note. its taken me nearly two hours to type this, its very to type lying down so everyone have a wonderful Thursday hope the sun is out at your place, it is here but its still cold.

bye

hugz

V xx

The little things

I need a vent…..My mother is driving me nuts….she has been so naggy lately,  and interfering constantly. I know she’s stressed because of Dad being on crutches but honestly Mum…find another target!!! she keeps nagging me about doing this or that wrong with Katie, I dress her wrong, I don’t spend enough time with her, I spend to much time with her, I let her watch TV, then when I change the channel or turn it off I get nagged about not letting her watch her favourite programs!!!! I cant win!!! Yesterday I just about lost it…Katie fell and banged her chin, I dropped what I was doing and gave her cuddle and checked for injury (just a fright, no blood) when Mum calls her away from me to sit on her knee…I was so angry…its my job to comfort her and that’s what I was doing. Mum just had to interfere again! I know she only means well but honestly, I have brought up two kids already, I think I know what I am doing. You would swear by listening to Mum that I was a first time mother!!! I know what Katie needs and when…so Mum….Butt Out!!!!

Oh that feels better….sorry for the rant but I needed to get it out…I love my Mum and we are really close but sometimes….well even the closest people get feed up with each other sometimes!

Now talking about Katie…the kid is nuts lol….look at the photos I took yesterday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

she was “helping” me make up some wee diecut dolls I got of Trademe a while ago and pulled out her wee magnifying glass (which use to live in my tool kit) and examined it in detail lol Needless to say I took a pile of photos and used them with the wee doll in a layout. You will have to wait to see that one

But I will show you this one, this is the one i did for Scrappin Patch shabby chic challenge, I don’t know if its really shabby chic but I like it. I don’t really know what Shabby Chic is, can anyone explain it to me?

Another thing I want to ask, does anyone out there know if its safe to use Beados on a layout? I got some for Katie and I to play with together but they are so cute I thought they would look great on a layout. I haven’t seen any used in scrapbooking but I figure if their safe for kids they must be acid free. what do you think?

anyway thanks for putting up with my ranting, sometimes you just gotta get it out there! we all have days like that dont we?

time to do something before I go pick up little miss mad girl from preschool.

have a happy day

hugz

V xx