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January Update

2012-01-23T19:31:00.000+11:00

This is a photo from November of my daughter's graduation from high school. Last Wednesday she got accepted into The Australian National University. I have two days of her left at home. She has cleaned up her room, discarded some clothes and made a time capsule of her treasures. It is four hours from home, and she won't be back until a break probably, or maybe a weekend in a month's time, we'll see how we go.

I made it to my father in law's 80th birthday celebration in early November. I saw some wildlife on the way including a frilled neck lizard, so I was happy about that.

Her younger sister is working again part time while going to high school. My eldest son is continuing on his graduate diploma and my other son, his science degree. I had a nice Christmas we opened our presents early with my eldest boys and eldest's girlfriend here with us.

I Have Never Loved Someone

2011-11-28T13:52:00.001+11:00

This song is the background song to a hug project that Tania found. I find myself wanting to copy her makeup etc.

The Nicest Place on the Internet

Every Little Thing Will Be Alright

2011-11-20T21:27:00.002+11:00

Bob Marley Three little birds HD (Original)

Ready for Halloween

2011-10-30T22:28:00.000+11:00

My eldest and his girlfriends efforts at their place. We have a tin full of lollies we bought at Coles. Not sure if there are any locally. Was sorry I couldn't get a Halloween witch cake here, they are at Woolworths. As a young mother I wanted nothing to do with witches etc. This is just something that has evolved for us. In the town we live in it is usually people who know each other going around together. Last year I wasn't prepared. My husband had been to the US in October in the late 90s. I have pumpkin lights on the mantlepiece. They need new globes, we have no idea which Christmas light globes would fit them yet.

Simple Woman's Daybook

2011-10-29T23:20:00.000+11:00

FOR TODAY Saturday...

Outside my window... dark & quiet

I am thinking... about my weightloss and how it affects my life. It has dropped off me, though really probably only I notice

I am thankful for... the friends my daughter's have

I am wearing... a top my Mum sent me in the mail. I have checked the label it is from K-mart. I used to always get my clothes from K-mart when I lived in my hometown now 8 years ago sadly

I am remembering... how a lady at one shop shoe suggested graduation shoes even down to the place on the shelf at another shoe shop, said it was the only one left and in my daughter's size. This was after seeing her dress below. She is graduating high school.

I am going... I have been invited to an 80th birthday celebration. I am not sure how to go about the trip. Always safety is a factor. Maybe my little girl and her Dad can go on the Saturday and come back Sunday while I help the other two girls with their activities

I am reading... Barbara Pym, it is great, not as exciting as facebook, but I am trying to read it

On my mind... what my older kids will be doing next year, and the end of this year, some years are a trauma until everything settles down, only winter is peaceful lol, but very very cold

Noticing that... the tulips have finished in my garden

Pondering these words... words in the Barbara Pym novels, interesting

From the kitchen... something with too much cayenne in it!

Around the house... new shoes for the graduation, went this time last week to get them for a trip to the regional centre, a whole days work for two pair shoes, two pairs of bras and not much else, a layby I think. A small amount of groceries and a necklace.

One of my favourite things... the box of 14 items that my Mum sent me to wear over summer. After wearing a couple of items, when it was warm I wore shorts, another time a 3/4 top and a jumper, I realise how lacking my wardrobe was and how it affected me.

From my picture journal... my daughter in her graduation dress. The lady at the shoe shop says many girls complain their mother's iron and ruin them. First thing I said when I posted a picture of this dress on facebook was it had to be pressed! I'm hoping hanging for awhile will help.

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Mark Boyle - Living without money

2011-10-29T22:27:00.001+11:00

Country Music Pic

2011-10-26T19:07:00.001+11:00

Simple Woman's Daybook

2011-10-15T14:52:00.001+11:00

FOR TODAY Saturday...

Outside my window... tulips

I am thinking... I could look on facebook for fashion ideas, either that or buy a Woman's Weekly like I usually do

I am thankful for... being able to manage Christmas, I thought I wasn't going to be able to, presentwise

I am wearing... an old top, rust coloured, my jeans and shoes

I am remembering... that I got around a daily limit on my card by my husband trying the same account using his card

I am going... one more time to the regional centre to pick up a layby containing swimming togs, and choosing shoes and jewellery for my daughter's graduation and any other event she may like to go to

I am reading... Barbara Pym. I haven't started it yet, still

I am hoping... my middle daughter is enjoying her new banjo. My other daughter has had her mandolin a week and her fingers are numbing up from all the playing. Before that they were sore. The church people are supporting my girls with their instrument playing. I am so blessed. We live in an isolated area. Last night my middle daughter got picked up by a family to go to camp. They heard she was getting her banjo and she asked if we could drop it into camp on the way past

On my mind... how I didn't quite manage to get everything at once shopping today, but I think it has turned out well, will go one more time next week and get shoes, then again briefly in early December. It will be much hotter then, I like going before it is hot in the car parks

Noticing that... all the blossoms are gone, the trees have their summer leaves, but it doesn't feel like summer here

Pondering these words... different things Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying

From the kitchen... Beef & Bacon Burger with Dijonnaise

Around the house... my daughter's copper metallic graduation dress

One of my favourite things... the fact my middle daughter got a nice medal at the regional sports for long jump this week, there were three girls by the same name first, second and third

From my picture journal... my eldest daughter and her 18th birthday present her mandolin named Darren, meaning "present"

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Needtobreathe - Able

2011-10-14T20:32:00.001+11:00

Country Music Pic

2011-10-02T19:33:00.001+11:00

Busby Marou - Biding My Time

Happy Homemaker Monday

2011-09-19T19:21:00.000+10:00

The weather in my neck of the woods:

Mon Sep 19	2.4°C	-	0.0mm
Sun Sep 18	3.0°C	23.2°C	0.0mm
Sat Sep 17	1.2°C	20.3°C	0.0mm
Fri Sep 16	2.6°C	17.6°C	0.0mm
Thu Sep 15	1.2°C	17.3°C	0.0mm

Things that make me happy:
peanuts!

Book I am reading:
I just got a gorgeous book from the library Civil to Strangers and other writings by Barbara Pym. It includes her writing that was unpublished when she died

What I am enjoying on TV:
The Waltons, Spirited, Selling Houses Australia

On the menu for dinner:
Potato Spinach Frittata

On my To Do list:
shopping list, finalise bills I want to pay

New Recipe I tried or want to try soon:
BBQ Chicken with Greek Salad

In the craft basket:
my daughter is still painting, she has done two of three paintings, I am thinking I hope she gives them to me to keep, I don't have a lot of art work, well some but could do with some more lol

Looking forward to this week:
knowing what everyone is doing for the week, what is possible and what isn't for my daughter's 18 and all sorts of stuff, the holidays come around too quickly

Tips and tricks:
Coles have preserving jars or Target?

My favourite blog post this week:
Prelude
Cheerfulness
Housework

Blog Hopping (a new discovered blog you would like to share with the readers):
Life is what we make it!

No words needed: taken yesterday after my walk, my new t-shirt from Target that I think has shrunk?

Lesson learned the past few days:
if you have been having little naps, keep doing it if you need them

On my mind:
facebook's silly answer to the other new fb copy, not exactly the same kind of thing

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:
Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend, relating to facebook

This meme is from Sandra's blog.

Simple Woman's Daybook

2011-09-17T15:28:00.003+10:00

FOR TODAY... I started this on the 9th August. It is now Friday & Saturday

Outside my window... ornamental pear trees, three of them down my drive in flower. I noticed this year the flowers are a full round shape

I am thinking... about my daughter going to Melbourne 5.5 hours drive, she is doing VCE revision

I am thankful for... my son being home and reasonably well. It appears he had electro something treatment on his knee, must have been sitting up and blacked out and toppled off the table/couch. He was incoherent and the doctor rang me, 4 hours away. He remembers them saying it can happen before he had the treatment

I am wearing... a skivvy, and two jumpers, jeans and wool socks, then today it is warmer and I have lost the socks and the second jumper

I am remembering... that my daughter has a gym concert and she has her gypsy costume hanging in her room

I am going... eventually to pick up a Target layby, go to the dentist and drop off some of my girls to Mum at the same time, holidays coming up, they always come around too fast. I managed to pick up a Target layby last Sunday of a t-shirt for me. I am trying to buy clothes in larger normal sized clothing rather than plus sizes. I have lost weight and I am not used to looking in that section. I got the largest size in it, then when I picked it up I tried the next size down just to make sure. Luckily for me I had to pick up my daughter from the regional centre (1 1/2 hours away) she went to Youth Alive in Melbourne. Her friends parents dropped her at the regional centre, the girl's sister took her to Seymour, back to Seymour then back to the regional centre. We had a lovely chat on the way home and dropped in on my daughter's friend who has moved as well. Got home around 8.30. I am not used to shopping on the weekends. May do it more often.

I am reading... I did start Emotional Intelligence, but I am not sure I like it, the introduction put me off

I am hoping... I am wise with dealing with the money this week, I guess if you start thinking about it early it all comes together

On my mind... VCE revision classes at the regional centre, at least I know when they are now

Noticing that... my first tulip is out

Pondering these words... aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands” (1 Thessalonians 4:11).

From the kitchen... last night all very budget I am afraid, had a lovely dish with tamarind last night, the tamarind makes up for the lack of ingredients

Around the house... my husband is sweeping the side verandah, lovely outside today

One of my favourite things... these things my friend posts from

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From my picture journal... my daughter's painting for art, this was one of the canvases I bought for her to paint on

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Music Pic

2011-08-31T18:50:00.001+10:00

KuschelRock presents: Katie Melua - Gold In Them Hills

Country Music Pic

2011-08-16T18:43:00.001+10:00

Colt Ford - Chicken and Biscuits

Happy Homemaker Monday

2011-08-09T11:44:00.003+10:00

The weather in my neck of the woods:

Tue Aug 9	5.0°C	-	2.0mm
Mon Aug 8	3.0°C	10.8°C	10.2mm
Sun Aug 7	3.3°C	11.5°C	19.0mm
Sat Aug 6	6.6°C	11.2°C	10.2mm
Fri Aug 5	0.7°C	20.3°C	0.0mm

Tue Aug 2	3.6°C	15°C	0.2mm
Mon Aug 1	2.4°C	12.0°C	0.8mm
Sun Jul 31	-1.7°C	10.7°C	0.2mm
Sat Jul 30	-3.7°C	13.2°C	0.2mm
Fri Jul 29	-4.6°C	12.0°C	0.2mm

Things that make me happy:
finding a pyrex lid for our casserole dish at the op-shop last Tuesday, ours broke ages ago

Book I am reading:
because I love Spirited TV and think maybe this book will be similar
Freedom by Franzen, Jonathan from this five from Facebook

What I am enjoying on TV:
Spirited, as it really isn't about ghosts, it is a very clever love story where the money or sex doesn't come into it because one of the people is a ghost

On the menu for dinner:
we had pea and ham soup and added kranskys and brussels sprouts when I wrote this

On my To Do list:
a bit of bill juggling, pick up the above book from the library, and rest to get better, I have a virus, which is still hanging on a little

New Recipe I tried or want to try soon:
Speedy Burritos

In the craft basket:
no craft. One daughter though wants me to buy canvases online for her next art project

Looking forward to this week:
paying my rates finally, I have two properties, it gets a bit much

Tips and tricks:
don't use masala instead of dry sherry for soup, the kids didn't appreciate it much, as I suspected

My favourite blog post this week:
... went up the hill
Housework

Blog Hopping (a new discovered blog you would like to share with the readers):
none this week

No words needed: another pic from my husband's lunch at the power station where Victoria gets some of it's electricity

Lesson learned the past few days:
just to be kind and have faith in people

On my mind:
I have been looking at the B. Arts degree at one uni here. Some of the subjects have a bit about witchcraft in them, learning about it I guess, to do with society? I wonder if that is an issue for some studying it, or is it better to know what goes on?

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:
Matthew 5:48 we read, “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father
is perfect.”

from here.

This meme is from Sandra's blog.

Spiritual Sunday

2011-08-01T14:34:00.000+10:00

I found this Christian band by accident with some search terms on google, I watched these videos and they are all good. Thought I'd share, I'd even buy their album at some point. It is similar to music my daughter plays already. Her favourite is The Rocket Summer.

Wisdom for Life

2011-07-31T13:55:00.001+10:00

A Conversation with Louise Hay

2011-07-30T19:30:00.007+10:00

I googled emotions menopause and found a page by Menopause Centre of Australia
in which is says: "Find something that resonates with you. If you need more help try reading the work of Louise Hay, who may be able to provide you with further guidance on finding the right affirmation for you." The second video relates to what I heard, I just thought of the title in my mind.

"It is in the quiet crucible of your personal private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born, and God's greatest gifts are given in compensation for what you've been through."

Skywatch

2011-07-29T13:03:00.001+10:00

Yesterday my husband went to the power station for lunch. He and some work friends were invited there.

Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are

2011-07-29T12:52:00.001+10:00

Skywatch

2011-07-24T17:32:00.000+10:00

Photo taken today at our other house. Always there is something interesting in the sky there. Most people are on double blocks so it seems the sky is open above you.

Happy Homemaker Monday

2011-07-18T14:45:00.001+10:00

The weather in my neck of the woods:

Mon Jul 18	3.3°C	-	7.0mm
Sun Jul 17	-1.1°C	11.3°C	0.0mm
Sat Jul 16	-4.1°C	10.6°C	0.0mm
Fri Jul 15	-5.0°C	11.0°C	0.2mm
Thu Jul 14	1.3°C	12.0°C	2.0mm

Things that make me happy:
ginger flavoured honey, I quickly bought some in Beechworth when I went out 2 weeks ago on my way to the dentist. He says my hygienist appointments will go back to yearly. Hooray!

Book I am reading:
Style Notes by Maggie Alderson. I think she wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald, her writing is lovely to me I could read it all day lol

What I am enjoying on TV:
the whole of series one of Spirited on youtube before the new one comes out on Wednesday, plus the Waltons, and even some of North and South on Austar

On the menu for dinner:
potato salad, a reader pointed out we must love potato salad, yes, altogether I managed to put three on the menu, oops. Oh well, the potatoes are going off

On my To Do list:
plan a trip to Canberra, I sort of am chickening out even though I can catch up with a facebook friend and even have a ride around the block on his motorbike and see ANU again which I love

New Recipe I tried or want to try soon:
Chorizo and Silverbeet Soup, though it sounds familiar

In the craft basket:
my son is doing another big costume while home from uni until mid August. It is the male version of a lopunny, a Pokemon. So far the head is taking shape

Looking forward to this week:
just quietness I think, maybe talking to my friends on facebook to see how they are going after their big weekends

Tips and tricks:
not sure

My favourite blog post this week:
May's Gifts From His Heart was meaning to do a post like this myself, I started this post around a month ago, it is still a great read

Blog Hopping (a new discovered blog you would like to share with the readers):
Out Back Trains
Merewether Life
Last 100 Days as an Alcoholic

No words needed: my daughter's friend made the long trip from Ballarat to see her, and they went to this lookout. The school holidays finished today

Lesson learned the past few days:
doesn't matter how awful things look, something surprising comes with each new day. Today someone said they would try to send me a DVD which has on it.... wait for it my deceased Nana acting natural for the camera about 30 years ago. The time when I was a teen and the time of the reunion of facebook, a time we seem to be all thinking about and playing music from. It all helps me remember who I am.

On my mind:
my daughter's VCE and her plans for next year and if I am up to the challenge, please pray all goes smoothly, I think I need it

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:
blessed are the...

O daughters of Jerusalem, do no awaken or cause love to arrouse, before it so desires.

Song of Solomon 2:7 (CEV)

" . . . never to awaken love

before it is ready." both from Youtube from Brooke Fraser's Love is Waiting.

This meme is from Sandra's blog.

Country Music Pic

2011-07-08T16:41:00.001+10:00

Catherine Britt & Kasey Chambers - That Don´t Bother Me

Country Music Pic

2011-06-20T14:08:00.000+10:00

She Only Smokes When She Drinks by Joe Nichols.

Simple Woman's Daybook

2011-06-20T13:42:00.001+10:00

FOR TODAY Monday...

Outside my window... there is a parrot and it is foggy and wet

I am thinking... about Sara Storer and lyrics from the CMC Rocks cover that they posted on facebook

I am thankful for... my boys who live in the city, sometimes makes sense after I have been talking to them lol

I am wearing... skivvy, windcheater, jeans, socks. It is a warm morning today, expected to be 12 degrees

I am remembering... that my husband enjoyed his birthday yesterday

I am going... no where, just to school each day

I am reading... I just finished Cents and Sensibility by Maggie Alderson, a whole other world to me

I am hoping... the rest of the week goes smoothly, the kids are going out, which means a big trip for them, which takes organising etc. I haven't all the food bought yet for the following week, it makes me nervous lol

On my mind... bored for once, I am not usually

Noticing that... my husband looks better now that he has written his school reports two very late nights over the weekend

Pondering these words... Won't Give In, Sara Storer

From the kitchen... Crispy Bacon, Bean & Cheese Penne from recipes I pulled out of recipe+ magazines my Mum gave me, we have been having them all week

Around the house... lots of good dresses my Mum sent up for the social the girls are going to. My youngest daughter found a blue satin dress, eldest see below

One of my favourite things... my daughter's outfit for a hidden identity social this week. It is a paisley-like dress with little frill around the neckline, slim fitting, a cord jacket, suede boots, glasses with fake nose and moustache and a "mans" hat, it looks really good. We were very lucky to get just the right boots at the op-shop on Saturday, even though she is an odd size

From my picture journal... the ash in the sky when the planes were grounded, usually we can see them, before it gets dark, but around that time of night

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