Life is a Journey – Page 236 – The life and times of Libby Withnall

Spring 2010

Posted on December 10, 2010November 11, 2026 by Libby Withnall

Time for another seasonal update. Spring was rather uneventful – in a good way. Lots of time at home, balanced with plenty of fun times out.

I travelled to….

Sydney…. to climb the harbour bridge

and Bowral for the tulip festival

I listened to….

the new Bruce Springsteen album – The Promise ,the kids arguing over silly little things and scrapbook podcasts.

I read….

Eyewitness Travel – Alaska and a run of not-so-great romance novels

I watched….

the latest Harry Potter (Gold Class), the Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Despicable Me at the movies. At home we watched a few series including The Mentalist, Lie to Me, final season of The Tudors, and Modern Family. When Kevin was in the States Amy and I watched all 3 Twilight movies.

We took the girls to see the musical Fame up in Sydney.

I wore…

my new camera bag, Crocs most days, and make-up whenever I left the house (trying to make a bit more of an effort with my appearance),

I scrapped….

the whole of our UK trip – consisting of 3 albums. Also got quiet a few pages done for other albums. I completed LOAD (layout a day) in October and attended a scrapbook afternoon and a weekend away.

I made….

coconut date balls (yummy and healthy!!), eton mess with mango (for friends), and banana muffins.

I planned…

the vegetable garden (and got all the seedlings planted), our Alaskan flights and worked on plans for our motorhome portion of our trip.

I celebrated…

Christy’s 9th Birthday, Fathers Day, Amy finishing her 2 years in the Academically gifted class, and Halloween with our annual Halloween Party.

I dreamed….

of Christmas and of finally getting some warm sunny days

Odd and sods…

I had to get a new passport due to water damage (and I’d just gotten a new one last year)

The girls started attending roller skating lessons again

I enjoyed 2 weeks school holidays at home with the girls

Amy got glasses for reading

Basketball season started

The girls had their school fun day

We went on a few family bikes rides

And we put up the Christmas tree and started decorating the house.

Christmas Giveaway draw

Posted on December 8, 2010November 11, 2026 by Libby Withnall

Sorry to keep you guys waiting. Since I had a few things to giveaway I thought I draw 3 numbers and work my way down the list. Luckily it appears that all 3 will receive something.

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Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

4	1	11

Timestamp: 2010-12-08 04:00:06 UTC

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4th Commentor – Bridget – was happy to receive everything except for the calender kit.

So the calender went to the next person

1st commentor – Elizabeth (ejay)

And I decided to give away the second calender kit so that goes to ….

11th commentor – Cyndie – who especially asked for the calender kit so that works out well.

So sorry I couldn’t send you all something :-(.

**** LADIES – please let me know your postal addresses by Sunday night so I can get them in the mail to you ASAP. You can e-mail me on libby@withnall.com. If I haven’t heard from you by then I’ll do a redraw.

Christmas shows and haircuts

Posted on December 7, 2010November 11, 2026 by Libby Withnall

Christy performed with her school at the Wollongong Mall today. She was so excited and did a great job (though I’m sure all Mums say that :-)).

Then this afternoon it was off to the hairdressers for both the girls.

Before…

Doesn’t she look so cute…. shorter and a fringe (which she is very proud of)

And Amy is all ready for high school….with a hair style to match…

NOTE: It’s been a crazy few days but I promise to do the draw for the Christmas Giveaway tomorrow. So if you haven’t yet entered you’ve still got a bit of time.

Friends and food

Posted on December 5, 2010November 8, 2026 by Libby Withnall

Slept a bit better last night and managed to sleep in till nearly 7am! We had breakfast included this morning so we got dressed and headed up to the restaurant.

I really wasn’t in the mood for a big breakfast so just had a piece of raisen toast and cup of tea, and later a little mini chocolate muffin.

We then packed up our stuff, took our luggage to the car, checked out and went to meet a fellow blogger – Lisa of Bake Bake Blog. It was so nice to finally meet after following her blog for around 6 months or so (maybe more). And she was just as nice in real life as on her blog :-). Lisa is currently in training for a triathalon and I always feel so motivated and inspired when reading her blog. Plus she comes up with the most awesome recipes – many of whom have become part of our favourites. We had tea/coffee’s and sat and chated for around an hour.

All to soon it was time to say our farewells and hit the road back to Wollongong.

Still in the search for Christmas presents we decided to go via Bowral, stopping at yet another markets. The Highland Christmas Fair – but we didn’t see too many Christmas things :-(.

We only had a quick walk through before heading to the shopping center. But still no luck with the presents. We did however, find this is lolly shop selling UK and USA chocolates…. probably not a great discovery to have made….

We bought some of our favs (like UK’s Galaxy and USA milk duds) and went in search of lunch. Evenutally we settled on this Fresh Food Cafe and I had the MOST delicious salads. Yum! I’ll definitely be eating here again next time I’m in Bowral.

Then it was the final stretch home…. to see the kids and pups. It’s been such a fun weekend and neither of us really wanted to go home. But I must say I’ve returned feeling much more relaxed and ready to face the lead up to Christmas 🙂