Just wanted to wish everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2008!!! We are seeing the new year in quietly with a family movie marathon. M doesn't have to work tomorrow so we are going to try and make it up to midnight. We just finished tomb raider 2 and are now on to one of the star wars epics-not sure which number but it is the one in the snow with luke, leah and han. Provided we are all still awake I think night at the museum is next.
I don't do new years resolutions so I am not going to make a long list of promises here that I know I won't keep. Instead, I am going to do my best to make 2008 a happy and fun year for us. With aims that broad I should have a fighting chance at succeeding.
Apart from a few blips it has been a good year, there have been some losses but we have also gained-a new dog, a new home ed group and lots of new friends. I hope we are able to say the same at the end of 2008 ( all except the new dog thing! Three dogs would be way too many).
However you choose to celebrate tonight have a wonderful time and best wishes for a wonderful 2008!!
Monday, December 31, 2007
puppy cousins
And you thought our dogs were big! My stepsister and niece with dad's afghan hounds, abe and j.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Lego, lego everywhere..
It has been lego mad here in the last few days. Sam has been busy building the bat cave as well as star wars lego and he isn't done yet. I think tomorrow he is tackling the batmobile. It has been a lovely christmas week, lots of lovely presents, lots of family and friends and lots (perhaps too much food and drink).
Christmas and Boxing day were lovely, xmas day it was just the three of us and boxing day M's parents came up. Christmas day started at a fairly decent 7 am with the first wave of presents, followed by breakfast, dog walking and more presents. Thanks to St. Mary and St. Martha the goose was cooked to perfection (or perfection for me) and we all ate so well that we forgot about the xmas pudding! Santa was very good to us all, especially me-I received beautiful jewellery from M as well as nice smellies from sam and the doggies. Sam was blessed with lots of lego and warhammer as well as games and cds. Santa brought M an iphone and he has spent most of this week learning to drive it. The pups received a bumper pack of toys and treats, most of the toys were shredded within a matter of hours!!!
Boxing day M's parents came up and we had a second christmas, this time with beef.It was a very jolly day and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as I did.
We managed to see golden compass and were bitterly disapointed. Having both read the book and listened to the audio book we all felt that the movie did not live up the original story. I think if you saw the movie without having read the book it would probably be a good fantasy adventure but if you have read the book prepare to be disapointed.
This weekend saw the launch of sam's new radio controlled boat (thank you nan and grandad!)It sails really well and both boys had fun, despite having to retrive it from the reeds several times. Unfortunately we were so busy having fun that we didn't get any pics! Next time I promise.
Saturday we went to lunch at sam's friend J's house. It was a very nice way to spend the afternoon. All the adults had a good natter while the boys played, mainly on J's new Wii. Sam had a go at boxing and he was sweating by the end of it. M had a go too and I am not sure who enjoyed it more. I have a feeling that "I want a Wii" is now going to be a constant refrain in our house now.
Christmas and Boxing day were lovely, xmas day it was just the three of us and boxing day M's parents came up. Christmas day started at a fairly decent 7 am with the first wave of presents, followed by breakfast, dog walking and more presents. Thanks to St. Mary and St. Martha the goose was cooked to perfection (or perfection for me) and we all ate so well that we forgot about the xmas pudding! Santa was very good to us all, especially me-I received beautiful jewellery from M as well as nice smellies from sam and the doggies. Sam was blessed with lots of lego and warhammer as well as games and cds. Santa brought M an iphone and he has spent most of this week learning to drive it. The pups received a bumper pack of toys and treats, most of the toys were shredded within a matter of hours!!!
Boxing day M's parents came up and we had a second christmas, this time with beef.It was a very jolly day and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as I did.
We managed to see golden compass and were bitterly disapointed. Having both read the book and listened to the audio book we all felt that the movie did not live up the original story. I think if you saw the movie without having read the book it would probably be a good fantasy adventure but if you have read the book prepare to be disapointed.
This weekend saw the launch of sam's new radio controlled boat (thank you nan and grandad!)It sails really well and both boys had fun, despite having to retrive it from the reeds several times. Unfortunately we were so busy having fun that we didn't get any pics! Next time I promise.
Saturday we went to lunch at sam's friend J's house. It was a very nice way to spend the afternoon. All the adults had a good natter while the boys played, mainly on J's new Wii. Sam had a go at boxing and he was sweating by the end of it. M had a go too and I am not sure who enjoyed it more. I have a feeling that "I want a Wii" is now going to be a constant refrain in our house now.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
tuckered out
Miko as taken by daddy on his new iphone. The dogs had a hard day playing and waiting for sam to drop goose from the table.
warhammer!
Sam was pleased to find that santa brought him two warhammer sets. He and M have now assembled them both and no doubt will paint them in the comming days.
One for daddy
Here is daddy opening his present from the dogs. It was a magnifying lamp for painting his warhammer figures.
merry christmas pups!
Santa didn't forget the doggies, here is sam presenting miko with their bumper pack of toys. Unfortunately all of the fluffy toys are now shredded and the squeekers from the squeekie toys are long gone. They had a good time though, playing with everything.
wow!
The theme of the morning was definately lego. Sam was in heaven and will be putting things together for days to come.
Monday, December 24, 2007
It goes there dad
Sam and M putting together lego from Nan. We met Nan and Auntie S on saturday for a pre-xmas lunch. It was lovely to see them.
The boys and girls together for xmas
We met up with the boys for our annual xmas party on friday and we all had a blast. It was lovely to see everyone and catch up on all the news. We couldn't believe that it has been 7 years since we first met at our antenatal class, time really does fly.
The stockings are hung..
well almost! The boy and the dogs have hung their stockings but we grown ups are lagging a bit behind. Apart from picking up the goose and a couple of things that I couldn't find at tesco yesterday we are done. The boys very kindly accompanied me shopping yesterday, we took a divide and conquer attitude-I split the list into 4 and we each took two parts. M and sam did a fantastic job with their half and we got everything done in record time. The store was almost empty when we arrived but by the time we left it was heaving. Today we plan to spend cooking and relaxing and with any luck we will get to our annual xmas movie. We are all keen to see Golden Compass provided daddy isn't kept too late at work. He is supposed to work late but we are hoping that the list will be short and quiet and he can sneak away.
In case I don't get time to blog later hope you all have a wonderful christmas and that santa is good to you all!!!!!!
In case I don't get time to blog later hope you all have a wonderful christmas and that santa is good to you all!!!!!!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Gap Boy..Again!
Sam has now lost his third tooth, well not so much lost as daddy assisted extraction. He wiggled it to the point of dropping out and when it wouldn't budge he had M pull it out. This all happened at the bowling alley while waiting for the beaver bowling night to begin. He ran off excitedly to show all his friends his new gap. Despite being told that the tooth fairy was extremely busy and may not be able to manage a hot wheel car but may bring a pound instead he was still bitterly disapointed when he found said pound under his pillow. Our first errand of the day was to wilkinson so he could buy a car!
It has been a jam packed week, starting with a bday party on sunday followed by home ed xmas party and beaver bowling on monday, costco yesterday and the movies today. Tomorrow we are doing more baking and then friday we are meeting up with the boys for our annual xmas get together. By the time tuesday finally comes we are going to be shattered.
Today we went to see Enchanted. I have to confess that I was surprised that he wanted to see it as a) it is disney and b) it involves princesses, I think the clip where the prince stabs a bus and the bus driver tells him off was what sold it. We both really enjoyed the movie, though I did have to explain a lot of the references to older movies like sleeping beauty and cinderella. It was really funny and of course, had a happy ending. A thumbs up from both of us.
Am feeling very pleased with myself because for the first time ever all the present are bought, all the cards are sent and most of the food is organised. All we have left to do is decorate and start the food that can be done ahead of time. We have decided to have goose this year for a change and I am looking forward to the challenge. I have vowed not to do it what I did to the turkey last year, ie turn it to dust. This year it will probably go the other way and be under done! At least this year we have rogue and he will help with any leftovers.
It has been a jam packed week, starting with a bday party on sunday followed by home ed xmas party and beaver bowling on monday, costco yesterday and the movies today. Tomorrow we are doing more baking and then friday we are meeting up with the boys for our annual xmas get together. By the time tuesday finally comes we are going to be shattered.
Today we went to see Enchanted. I have to confess that I was surprised that he wanted to see it as a) it is disney and b) it involves princesses, I think the clip where the prince stabs a bus and the bus driver tells him off was what sold it. We both really enjoyed the movie, though I did have to explain a lot of the references to older movies like sleeping beauty and cinderella. It was really funny and of course, had a happy ending. A thumbs up from both of us.
Am feeling very pleased with myself because for the first time ever all the present are bought, all the cards are sent and most of the food is organised. All we have left to do is decorate and start the food that can be done ahead of time. We have decided to have goose this year for a change and I am looking forward to the challenge. I have vowed not to do it what I did to the turkey last year, ie turn it to dust. This year it will probably go the other way and be under done! At least this year we have rogue and he will help with any leftovers.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Getting there...slowly
the only bad thing about xmas shopping on line is the waiting! Everything is now ordered and am just waiting for it all to either be delivered here or to its recipients. I just hope that everything arrives in time and that I have not placed too much faith in the postal service!!
We have had a very snotty week as both sam and I have colds. Yesterday we spent sunuggled on the sofa watching dvds and napping. Today we made it to french but sam's snuffles are getting worse so not sure what the weekend will hold. At least we are getting all our bugs out of the way before xmas, there is nothing worse than feeling under the weather on xmas day.
Not so much formal schooling this week, though we are now up to date on our raddish project and sam has started Singapore Math 3A which is designed for third graders. He is taking it all in his stride and hasn't batted an eyelid at progessing to the thousands column.
We spent last weekend at M's parents to help his mother celebrate her birthday. We had a lovely time and they were gracious enough to not mind that the dogs covered their kitchen floor in mud! It rained all weekend and everytime the dogs came in they were covered in mud. We got to see my sil, bil and my nephews. It was lovely to catch up with them as we hadn't seen them since september. One of the hits of the weekend was watching everyone play on the pedalo that I got from my friend C who has a great website: www.thewoodentoycompany.com. Everyone had fun attempting to stay balanced and all of the boys were great. Will post a few photos once I have downloaded them.
Managed to persuade sam to watch high school musical 2 and surprise, surprise he enjoyed it! I expected lots of protesting as it doesn't involve super heros and saving the world but he really liked it. He went to bed trying to create the perfect musical with our dogs! Not sure how muscial Rogue is but Miko is very chatty! He even asked if we could rent the first high school musical. If only high school had really been like high school musical I would have had a lot more fun, then again maybe not I would have been too concerned about my gpa to let my hair down.
We have had a very snotty week as both sam and I have colds. Yesterday we spent sunuggled on the sofa watching dvds and napping. Today we made it to french but sam's snuffles are getting worse so not sure what the weekend will hold. At least we are getting all our bugs out of the way before xmas, there is nothing worse than feeling under the weather on xmas day.
Not so much formal schooling this week, though we are now up to date on our raddish project and sam has started Singapore Math 3A which is designed for third graders. He is taking it all in his stride and hasn't batted an eyelid at progessing to the thousands column.
We spent last weekend at M's parents to help his mother celebrate her birthday. We had a lovely time and they were gracious enough to not mind that the dogs covered their kitchen floor in mud! It rained all weekend and everytime the dogs came in they were covered in mud. We got to see my sil, bil and my nephews. It was lovely to catch up with them as we hadn't seen them since september. One of the hits of the weekend was watching everyone play on the pedalo that I got from my friend C who has a great website: www.thewoodentoycompany.com. Everyone had fun attempting to stay balanced and all of the boys were great. Will post a few photos once I have downloaded them.
Managed to persuade sam to watch high school musical 2 and surprise, surprise he enjoyed it! I expected lots of protesting as it doesn't involve super heros and saving the world but he really liked it. He went to bed trying to create the perfect musical with our dogs! Not sure how muscial Rogue is but Miko is very chatty! He even asked if we could rent the first high school musical. If only high school had really been like high school musical I would have had a lot more fun, then again maybe not I would have been too concerned about my gpa to let my hair down.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
So what is your penguin called?
Sam's latest obession is Club Penguin,(www.clubpeguin.com) it is a huge craze among his age group and everyone we know seems to be playing. It is a online game, where you are a penguin and you play games to earn coins to decorate your igloo, buy pets called puffles, buy clothes and generally hang out. Sam is completely penguin mad and has spent all his computer time the last few days playing games to earn enough money to upgrade his igloo. Apparently he and his 4 puffles were too crowded so they have now gone upmarket and have a split level igloo. His next purchase is disco flooring! At first I was a little wary of him playing an online community game for fear of who might be lurking out there but it is very safe. He only goes on the ultra safe server where they can only say set phrases and it is heavily moderated. Users are reminded everytime they log in to never give out personal details to anyone. He really enjoys the games and if nothing else it has taught him a little about the value of saving up. While saving up the 4600 coins necessary for the new igloo he had to forgo the temptation of getting yet another puffle! It is nice to see him enjoy a game that does not involve world conquest for a change!
Home ed group on monday was chaotic but fun. Our theme was holiday celebrations and it was one big make and do fest. All the children came away covered in glitter and tissue paper, all except sam who spent most of his time making fimo creations.
Yesterday we had an outing to the botanical gardens, it had been arranged by one of the moms in our group and we did a special christmas activity trail. The children got to investigate the plants and foods that go into making christmas. Sam's fav part, you will be surprise to learn was getting to eat chocolate. We saw a coco plant and the children learned about chocolate production and got to sample some! It was a fun morning out and it gave us a chance to meet some new families.
Today I have had a poorly boy on my hands. I got up extra early to do transcribing work and it wasn't long before he came padding down. He hadn't been down long when he threw up for the first time. He has subsequently spent the rest of the day snuggled either in bed or on the sofa. We watched Miracle on 34th Street to get us into the holiday mood and to take his mind off of being poorly. I hope he perks up tomorrow it, it is not nice seeing him poorly. The dogs were very understanding and spent most of the day snuggled up with him.
The xmas gifts have started arriving thick and fast and I have almost done all the children on my list, if only the grown ups were so easy to buy for! I hope everyone likes what we have chosen, sam has put a lot of thought and care into choosing everything.
Home ed group on monday was chaotic but fun. Our theme was holiday celebrations and it was one big make and do fest. All the children came away covered in glitter and tissue paper, all except sam who spent most of his time making fimo creations.
Yesterday we had an outing to the botanical gardens, it had been arranged by one of the moms in our group and we did a special christmas activity trail. The children got to investigate the plants and foods that go into making christmas. Sam's fav part, you will be surprise to learn was getting to eat chocolate. We saw a coco plant and the children learned about chocolate production and got to sample some! It was a fun morning out and it gave us a chance to meet some new families.
Today I have had a poorly boy on my hands. I got up extra early to do transcribing work and it wasn't long before he came padding down. He hadn't been down long when he threw up for the first time. He has subsequently spent the rest of the day snuggled either in bed or on the sofa. We watched Miracle on 34th Street to get us into the holiday mood and to take his mind off of being poorly. I hope he perks up tomorrow it, it is not nice seeing him poorly. The dogs were very understanding and spent most of the day snuggled up with him.
The xmas gifts have started arriving thick and fast and I have almost done all the children on my list, if only the grown ups were so easy to buy for! I hope everyone likes what we have chosen, sam has put a lot of thought and care into choosing everything.
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