School Holiday Fun

The kids and I have two days together in the school holidays.
One Thursday a week.
So I wanted to do something fun...

Pop had been trying dissection at school.
Sheep hearts, and she LOVED it.
(Go figure, my vegetarian wanna be daughter who feels sorry for flies and spiders when they get killed...)

So... after much searching we managed to track down some hearts (and kidneys)
And some special knives
And some sciency looking tweezers
And they got to work.
It was Rad.

Not as cheap as you'd think, but I know that they will want to do it again, so I was ok about it...
I reckon it's pretty cool.
Felt really proud of my little weirdo's today :)

I found it really fascinating watching the kids do this. They sat side by side at the kitchen bench (which got a thorough cleaning!)  And they really enjoyed it.  They were both really cooperative, it was great!

A month later:

The most beautiful place in Christchurch (this is a bad example) The bluebells under the spring trees, right in the center of town...

Wow.
Ok, so it's a little long since I blogged.
If you think thats bad, you should see my journal. I could probably keep using the same one for the next 3 years and I still wouldn't finish it...
Part of me thinks thats a little sad, as I was such a 'journal-er' But on thinking about it, I guess it's just another one of those things that has altered over time, changed as I have grown up...

I have kept one since I was 9 or so, every year. Mostly to whine about how  I perceived my situation to be.
A release of energy, of emotion, of pent up frustration...
Now I just take it out on the kids instead...       Joking. 

I think it's something to do (or at least I aspire for this to be the reason) with the fact that I am more in the now. I'm trying to deal with stuff that comes up as it happens, not 5 hours later with my head in a diary, and a pen furiously writing away the anger/guilt/sadness/overwhelmy feelings...

Even blog was never spost to be about an audience (how many times have we said that to ourselves)

I didn't even sit down to write this!
Was going to say, that my job has been going well.
I have team mates.
I am learning that there are definitely people I work better with.
I have re-learnt that I still get on better with guys in general than girls in a workplace. (study place, etc)
I have a teensy tiny, but oh so regular paycheck to count on every week.

And all of that feels good.
There was a moment yesterday when I thought : Oh crap, this is forever... I work everyday... I feel trapped.... 
And then I pulled myself together and told myself that I was being paid for it, and it was filling my days... and that is what I wanted.
Christmas holidays are a whole different row of ducks that are as of yet to be lined up, but.....
I am not freaking out.
yet. 


So thats been my month.
New Job.
New responsibilities.
Learning, and trying to pray for those around me who need a break, who need a load taken off their shoulders.
Gosh, thats actually a whole post of its own...

I'll try to put proverbial pen to paper before the next month ends....

Over and Out xx

A new Season

I have a NEW JOB!!
I want to say a 'real job' as I have an employer who pays me, a team who work beside me, and a time sheet to sign at the end of the day!
As of today I  work at a well known toyshop (who's having visions of Mr Magoriums wonder emporium? ) ;)

Not sure if the wee face they drew for me should worry me.... lol

It's great.
I have been searching and searching (and soul searching) for this for months.
I feel like it is straight from God.

{ I say this now in a happy and somewhat endearing way... I may be ripping my hair out come 'Christmas Mad Season Time at which point you can all have a quiet laugh to yourself}
But for now, I feel I am actually earning money doing something fun, and enjoyable
(albeit challenging, as it's so new.)

What did the kids say?
"do you get free toys mum?"
"yes kids. they are all free."
- Rolling my eyes.

But, yay for day one ticked off!

Fun Friday

I decided to wear bright red lippy today.
I felt ALIVE!!!!
It's one of those lipsticks I know I don't even suit, but it was kind of like giving 'it' the finger today and doing it anyway!

Ahhh, it's the little things.
Red lipstick on a friday afternoon.

Photobooth

Thankyou

You know who you are
(although I don't!!)
So I'm going to say thanks to God on your behalf.
You were a wee angel in my morning today.

Are you laughing out loud right now?
I am guessing whoever you are, you don't look like this dude....
I hope!!! 

Clink!

I have been collecting old jars and bottles in all shapes and sizes for our wedding in March..
We are sort of going for a vintage, semi kitschy theme... which also suits our tiny budget!

I bought these beauties off trade me for $16 (for the lot!) there are old, highly collectable cream and milk bottles from the ACTAUL old days... I was so so pleased.
Thanks God!
(am doing this thing where I try to remember all the blessings along the way.)
(Especially after I sat with me 2 besties today and discussed where I was at with my faith. (well, where we are all at..)
Besties are called besties for a reason.
Ok, thats another thing I'm grateful for.

I got Pop to pick me a few branches from the camellia tree, and popped them in some of my favourite bottles from the bunch.

Poos.

For some reason, I had become so addicted to my iPhone that I decided to take it to the loo with me yesterday.
I put it in my hoodie pocket.
When I stood up and flushed (try to not be too visual about it) I heard a loud crack and bang
I thought,' oh no, I've droped the phone... but... where??'
I had at the exact same moment flushed the toilet as well.
You probably see where this is going.
iPhone was not on the floor.
iPhone was not in the hoodie. No matter HOW many times I kept patting my pockets in denial.
I stood back and looked down the s bend of the loo.
Oh.
I could see the cover sticking out just a bit.
So, whilst saying the word that was also pretty much describing what I was fishing around in, I grabbed the  iphone, and pulled it out.
It was dead.
Like, soooo dead.
So, whilst I wait for insurance to do it's jobs,
I am disconnected from the world of instant communication (yes, there is the actual telephone, but please, I can't get pinterest, email, a camera, instagram or trademe on that now can I??)

Welcome to the dark ages...
Perhaps I'll like it.
Ha!