The Week that Was

It was a lovely week with the girls home on school holidays. But unfortunately the weather wasn’t the best. We saw days like this….

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and others like this….

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It was the week Amy and I head up to Sydney for another eye test at the Center for Eye Care…

Center of Eye Care

She had sensers put all over her head and even VERY thins one on her eyes….results in a few weeks….

Amy at her eye test

On the way home we did some shopping at Westfield Miranda and stocked up at the Lush shop….

Lush bath goodies

It was week filled with a lot of craft…

Halloween craft

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and the making of Halloween invitations…

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and a lovely painting by Christy of Kevin & I watching the sunset…

Painting by Christy

It was the week Christy finished her first sewing project….

Bag by Christy

and lots of games were played…

Game time

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It was the week friends came for a sleepover…

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and we went to visit with my Aunt, Uncle and cousins. It was lovely to catch up (though Kevin had to work) and Christy loved letting everyone know when “Queen Fiona” wanted to talk….

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Christy also had fun climbing their giant tree. If you’ve been reading here for a while you might remember a previous climb.

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It was the week I greatly admired my Aunt’s photo display of places they had visited…

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It was the week of pizza from the freezer….

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homemade soup….

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and my fav. fast food – Salsa’s…

Salsa's for lunch

It was the week of Rosie being cute…

Rosie

and Bailey trying out the new lounge for the first time…

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And it was the week I found this photo in an old Country Living magazine and found the perfect saying….

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A Day in my Life – 30th September, 2011

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Surprisingly I managed to sleep in to nearly 7am (probably because I was awake for a few hours in the middle on the night). It was dogs out, kettle on, tea made and blogs read :-). Christy was up and watching TV, Amy having a shower and Kevin headed off to work.

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I made breakfast for Christy (toast) and tidied the kitchen….

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including doing some washing up….

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before enjoying my own breakfast…

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Christy is now in charge of giving the dogs their breakfast.

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About 8am I headed upstairs to make the beds, shower and get dressed. I only have to run a few errands, so just put on a little make-up and pulled my hair back.

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Then it was off the mall. It was a lovely looking day but it was rather chilly – just 16deg according to the car.

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I had my papers in order …

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I got distracted by Rockmans and ended up buying a couple of tops….

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Then it was the travel agents to pay the balance of our Fji trip, then the chemist to fill the script for my pain medication…

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Next was Woolworths for a few grocery items. I wanted to buy some flowers but they didn’t have anything nice :-(.

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Then the post office to pick a parcel from Brands Exclusive. While there I made an appointment for Christy’s passport (her’s expires early next year).

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Lastly it was Baker’s Delight for some bread.

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Then back home…

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where I found the girls playing on their computers….

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I put away the groceries and opened my box. It’s funny because I do order quite a bit from Brands Exclusive and it can take up to 8 weeks to arrive, I never know what I’m going to get. Today it was 3 handbags. I seem to have been on a bag buying spree lately – but they are all different colours/styles. These retailed for $60-$70 dollars each but I paid $20-$30 each.

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I also took my pain medication, and almost right away felt light-headed, which is one of the side effects.

At 11am Amy’s friend Milly arrived for a sleep over. In no time at all they were in the pool. The weather had warmed up slightly but it was too cold for swimming, in my opinion.

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I spent some time downloading some new music to exercise to.

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The girls made their own lunch- Christy made hers while wearing roller blades …. as you do :-).

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I hung out the washing…. and as you can see I had changed into one of my new tops..

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cleaned the kitchen table and glass doors…

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then made a falafel salad for lunch.

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I had planned to watch some youtube videos while eating…

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but Christy bought down her baby books and wanted me to go through them with her. It was a fun trip down memory lane. She was excited to learn the first movie she went to was Harry Potter.

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After lunch I took a cup of tea and one of the cookies the girls had made into the scrapbook room and did a few layouts.

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Around 4pm I played the Harry Potter lego game with Christy….

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and then went and did some ironing, while watching videos and eating some popcorn the girls had made.

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I head the chickens carrying on and found Bailey outside the laundry door (Milly had left him out there).

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It took a while but I got ALL the ironing done.

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I bought the washing in and hung up the beach towels. It was then time to have a bit of a relax. The girls did some face painting.

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I had planned for Kevin to cook BBQ for dinner but he was late coming home so I ended up just cooking things inside. We had some veggie burgers, potatoes, sweet potato, corn, brocollini and asparagas. It was help yourself and I totally forget to take any photos. After dinner I got into my PJs, took off my make up and painted my nails. Todays colour China Glaze’s Flirty Femininity.

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Then finally time to settle on the lounge with Christy, Kevin and the pups (Amy and Milly were watching Pet Cemetary).

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We watched Brother Bear, which I was really enjoying but found myself falling asleep.

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Before the end of the movie I had to head up to bed. I didn’t even read, just went straight to sleep. Not sure if it was because of the new meds, but I think so.

6 months…. really?

I knew it had been a while since I’d had any layouts to share with you but I didn’t realize it had been OVER 6 months. That’s crazy. And sad. I’ve been really struggling about whether to keep going with my scrapbooking. I do enjoy it but kind of feel it’s a bit obsolete with having the blog. So I’ve given myself a Christmas deadline to get back to doing on a regular basis. And in just the last week I have completed the following layouts. It’s funny, the more I do the easier it is becoming, and the more I want to do it.

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Expect to see more soon as a big box of goodies just arrived from Scrapbook.com 🙂