Back online

Well I have had two weeks offline. Well mostly, I managed to connect for short, very slow periods of time on Jases aircard but as the signel round here is slower than dial up it made for a very frustrating time!
I was nearly shaking to start with - no internet - how would I cope! I actually got a lot done, lol! The house is clean and tidy for a start, I managed to finish some projects that I had started.

I have now got my speedy internet back, which is awesome, didnt realise how fast it was till it wasnt here!
So I decided while I had my speedy internet back I would clear my hard drive and see if I could get some speed back into this old machine. Given that we wont be able to replace it for a long time it needs to keep going. I was having to give it CPR everytime I used it and slow was an understatement for loading time!
Anyway I am pleased to announce that it is now working really well. I have a few more things that I need to load back up (like the printer driver lol!) but things are looking more stable.
I am just busy downloading photos. Unfortunately the program I thought came with the computer for loading photos obviously didnt and it is another one that is slower at loading, a tad frustrating but I am sure I will find something to compensate at some stage!
Right will go and load some photos to share.

Some randoms.........

Well we have a busy day here today. Jess has her first school visit, she is there until morning tea today. Next week she will do till after lunchtime and after the holidays she will do a full day before starting full times the following week. She is soooo excited. It seems really funny that she is off to school, it kind of snuck up on me I think! I will soon have three children at school, more than I have at home!

Further to that at the end of last week we got the call up for Sam to start afternoon kindy. So this afternoon he starts afternoons three times a week for two hours. He is also very excited, he has his kindy bag all organised. He is somewhat nervous about the fact that mum will be leaving him there though, so I suspect that Jess, Charlie and I might be staying for some or all of the session until he gets used to it. I am hoping when he sees some of the kids he knows from playgroup there he will settle in and we will be able to leave him for a while. (we might need to go and have a coffee and come back ;-)

So it is a big day coming. Probably more for me than the kids too!

A birthday cake I made for a friends son. They had a wee train at home to put on it.

I recently did another yarn swap on my nappy forum, we provided a painting as the inspiration. Mine was lavender fields in provence and this is the delectibly delicious hand dyed yarn I received. It was all wrapped up with a bar of lavender soap so it smelled divine when I opened it. I havnt decided what I am going to knit yet, I am too busy drooling over it to knit it up yet!

Lucas's Birthday

It has been a while since I updated here, mainly just due to the normal busy madness that envelops this house on a daily basis! So here are some snaps from Lucas's birthday in August. The kids all had a great time (not least becuase there was lots of new toys to play with, and Lucas was happy to share his new haul of goodies) He had an awesome Tonka Truck cake made by Gruff and Brenda. Aunty Brenda also made a Sam friendly cake so he could have birthday cake too. He was very impressed and enjoyed his Sammy Spotty Cake as he called it. (dairy free lolly cake, lol!)