Wordless Wednesday.

Busy, crafting

another call the midwife blanket done. This one has a different boarder 

I’ve started this blanket for melody. It’s a pink sparkly yarn and the pattern is a square from a CAL 

Called stardust melodies. It’s one of many but I’m just going to keep going and make one big square 

I hope she likes it 

Our travel buddies are leaving Friday to head up north. We leave two Fridays after that 

So in the next day or so I’ll get hubby to park the van out the front and I’ll start to organise it 

I’ll go through all the packet food to see the use by dates, and work out what I need 

And slowly get it packed and ready to go 

Today I put in a suspension at the pool to begin when we go and last until a few days after we get back 

So suddenly this holiday is very very real and coming fast 

I look forward to escaping the winter and heading north to the warmer weather.

Not like me at all really, is it lol 

But looks like I’m getting older and really feeling it 

Hope your life blissfully busy 

See ya xxx

I guess it serves me right

I’ve been doing too much, and I’ve been going for too long 

I forget, when I’m feeling good, that I’m not your normal healthy person 

I forget, in the midst of my day to day life, that if I over do I will pay dearly

I forget, in my arrogance, that I do not own my body. But that the monster inside me does 

So today I’m paying for it 

All these symptoms and a few more 

So I’ve looked in the mirror and told myself. 

How stupid were you  

I will rest today 

I will nurture myself 

And I will try to be kind 

I hope I will at lest be over the pain by tomorrow, the fatigue I can push past. 

But the pain, it’s soul destroying 

Well it is today 

Progress

I’ve put all books and DVDs away 

Omg. So many books, photo albums, and DVDs 

But lots of boxes have been emptied. 

I’ll be able to go into my sewing room now and organise that, give it a good clean and maybe get back to some crafting 

But not today 

I’ve done something terrible to my left knee, I’m limping and I can’t bend it 

So I think I may soak in a bubble bath, then put on my pjs and relax for the rest of the day! 

Another step closer to being done 

See ya xxx

Installation complete

Last week book cases were put together but didn’t have doors on them 

They weren’t bolted to the wall either 

So Chris our wonderful friend came over to help finish them off 

There was a lot of discussion on which was the best way to attack the job 

Eventually it was decided to just take one book case down at a time and instal the doors 

 There is a centre thin unit that won’t have a door. It was placed in the centre of the 

Wall and bolted into place. 

We then began assembling the doors and fixing them onto the book cases 

First one took the longest. With the the last one hardly taking any time at all 

Finished 

Now my job to arrange the shelves and put everything away 

But I’ll start that either tomorrow or during the week 

Kneeling down and bending over has hurt my back 

In fact my knee made a very worrying sound, twice! 

So it’s currently up and resting 

What do you think? 

I love it. It’s exactly what I wanted 

More progress. Soon it will all be done 

See ya xxxx

Wordless Wednesday

Consequences

This is Agatha. Agatha loves to lay around, especially in front of the fire 

She also loves to give me hair makeovers while I sleep! 

But Agatha had decided she doesn’t like to be brushed 

She slowly slowly has just become too hard to brush and groom 

So this is Agatha now 

Been to the vet, had her fur shaved off and her nails clipped. 

Remember the hair styling while I sleep. Well her nails really don’t feel nice on my head! 

So right now Agatha doesn’t like me very much. Which is fine 

I mean I have starved her since six last night, too her far away from the fire and made her go through 

The indignity of being totally shaved 

And to top it off I won’t let her go outside or eat anything until five!

I can give her a little water, but right now she won’t come near me 

Oh well. She doesn’t look like she’s starving to me lol 

All actions have consequences. Now maybe we can get back to letting mummy brush her 

See ya xx

Mother’s Day 2018

Mother’s Day today was a relaxed one. 

Except for flat packs being delivered lol 

Luckily for me, my beautiful daughter in law came to visit and helped get it all going. 

She’s the flat pack queen! 

Here she is hammering away 

Not too shabby with the tools 

Yes that’s wonderson watching and being a supervisor lol 

Here is hubby. See the concentration on his face 

This is what we achieved today. 

Me I did what I always do 

I feed everyone lol 

Doors next and then fasten them onto the wall 

After that I get to play around and fill them with all my books, dvds, cds and nick nacks 

Already the room feels more homey 

To all the mums and those in mothering roles. 

Hope you had. Happy Mother’s Day 

I know I did 

See ya xxx

Total transformation

From this 

To over a week of this 



To this. 




Yup. I’m a happy girl 

Furniture shopping. Here I come! 

See ya xxx

New car!

This is bonnie 

Bonny gave me many years of faithful service. 

But bonnie was getting on and so hubby decided we needed a new car 

So bonnie was traded in. Where she will be cleaned up and a few booboos fixed and she will go on to be 

A wonderful car for someone else 

I’ll miss you bonnie 

So meet keely 

I don’t know why keely. Keely just came into my head when I saw her. 

We ordered her ages ago. And it’s been very hard keeping the secret from you all. 

Isn’t she beautiful. She is so smart. She has so much technology in her it was a full two hours 

Of hand over 

And we haven’t finished yet! 

There’s an app I downloaded so I can control things from inside my house! 

I have to go back and finish setting that up. As keely, had to be finished being set up on their data base first 

I seriously think you need a degree of some kind soon just to drive the new breed of cars 

Incase your wondering 

Keely is an M140 spots. 

Whatever that means 

I just know she’s a BMW and she’s blue lol 

So two new babies in the one day 

Funny how things work out. Isn’t it lol 

Anyway. Another big day today 

I have a bit of running around, some shopping for me and for my girls

Going to pick up the practice epipen and train my three amigos for when we go into the outback 

And the big news is 

CARPET IS GOING DOWN TODAY 

Finally things are moving again 

Oh joy! 

Furniture shopping next lol 

Have a great day y’all 

See yanxxxx

Brianna

Here is my beautiful new granddaughter Brianna. Born this morning a healthy seven pounds in the old scale 

Here I am having my first cuddle. They are home. Believe it or not. 

I’ve put mama to bed and Brianna is asleep. Trying to convince dad to sleep. But his little girl is loving having him home. 

He really is a great dad and hubby 

With my girls. 

So happy. So very blessed 

Finally finished

The only up side of being drugged and not being able to drive is your able to spend lots of time 

Finishing your crochet project 

The pink looks very dark here but in reality it’s not. It’s a lovely warm colour 

I did make the boarder like the video except I only did one row of 

The V stitch 

I’m happy with how it turned out 

I hope the mama is happy 

So now we wait. 

Four days over and counting 

Let’s hope she goes into labour naturally and hopefully soon 

I’ll keep you posted 

Me. Well I’m resting and it’s annoying to be feeling like this. 

But today was the last day of steroids. So hopefully I’ll start to feel normal again 

See ya xxxx

Preparing. The blog post I was planning to write today

This is what I had planned to post about today 

Th ripping up of the old carpet. 

Chris came over to help as I was not able to do a thing. In fact I slept through most of the commotion 

Jody did the sweeping up of all the mess associated with cutting carpet up 

And here is the concrete floor all ready for the new carpet 

Hopefully some time this week 

And this is the old. It’s going over to the shed to be used by the boys to lay on while they arya working under trucks 

And machines 

It’s been a very durable carpet giving us 24 years of faithful service and mostly looking about as good as the 

Day it was laid. 

It’s left big shoes to fill 

I hope the new stuff is half as good as this was. 

Me. Well like I said. I have spent most of the day sleeping

I came home. Showered the hospital smell off me, ate a huge plate of left over bbq and coleslaw and bombed. 

Woke up. Had some meatballs in tomato sauce and a piece of sourdough 

And tonight jody has made her own lasagna from scratch including the pasta. 

So I’ll go over eat dinner, and come back home to bed. 

I’m so very tired. Poor hubby he’s been on the go since one this morning 

So he will sleep well tonight! 

See ya xxx

Anaphylaxis

Good morning all. I’m posting from a hospital Bed

Didn’t expect that. 

No. No baby news. I’m in the hospital because I had to se one of these last night 

Remember the drama of obtaining them. Well thank god my pharmacist friend get them. 

I only used one. The hospital is ten minutes away from home. But I’ve been here since around 1.30 am 

It’s now 9.30am and they are still monitoring me 

Hopefully they can let me go soon 

I’m ok. It was a scary waking up with swollen face throat and mouth. 

I couldn’t swallow any meds. So woke hubby to take me to emergency and gave myself the shot. 

Good news. It worked. 

And I did it myself 

Let’s hope it’s a long time until I have to do that 

See ya xxx 

Update

Weight still holding. 

I’m hoping it drops. But it’s just steady right now. 

I even went on a big bike ride but it hasn’t helped. 

Might have to do more riding but as long as it doesn’t go up I’m happy 

Daughter is still expecting.  Her offical due date is this coming Saturday but 

We are hoping for her to come soon 

As for me. I’m working furiously on this 

It’s growing slowly so I’m sure the new baby won’t be getting it when she’s ready for school lol 

Have planned an evening of videos and crochet in bed as hubby is in town getting parts. 

I’ll keep you all posted

Have a great rest of the day 

See ya