Decided to have another cooking day with the kidlets. Made lamingtons, patty cakes (choc and vanilla), bannana cakes, apple tea cakes, choc chip cookies, almond and apricots biscuits (my favs), jam drops (kids fave) and pulla...haven't made pulla in...hmm, 7yrs or more. Decided not to make pumpkin scones, couldn't be bothered peeling pumpkin and ( Read more... )

Well it's been one of those rough years that everyone gets now and then. Hopefully things will improve for awhile now. (Though I darn't lay bets on it ( Read more... )

Today we buried my baby niece.

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Please can this year be over yet? Can next year pass without anymore deaths or serious illnesses?

Obviously my youngest sister is avoiding me. (although she tells my mother, when mum badgers her to call me, that she "Rings and rings and rings," but I'm never home. Considering I'm still not allowed to drive...well home is where I am.).  Not sure what I've done this time, not sure I even care anymore. *sighs ( Read more... )

My daughter just returned from the library. She brought home the book "All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome" by Kathy Hoopman.

OMG! I'm sure she was a cat in another life! This book is HER! (the kitty pictures are full of cuteness too!)

Seriously though. This book is awsome!

Ramblings. Real life. Boring stuff.

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Other parts found here-  http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=gottaluvit123&keyword=The+Great+Outdoors&filter=all

Title: The Great Outdoors
Authors: Christine (Mybatboys) and Kim (Gottaluvit123)
Rated: PG
Warnings: None
Synopsis: The Bats and Arrows have some fun under the Arizona Sun
Disclaimer: We don't own them, but we sure do love'em!

( part 8 )

Thanks to all of you who left me encouraging comments.

As you can see I'm home again. I actually think only having two days notice before having surgery works well for me, I think I went into shock and ended up not being anywhere near as stressed as I would have been if I'd had the two or three months wait I'd expected to have.

I had a brilliant ( Read more... )

Argh! *Flails/Panics* I thought I'd have a few weeks to prepare for surgery, but not so (thanks to setbacks).

Doc say's day after tomorrow at 7.15am. I'm so shocked I'm shaking. Oh well, at least I won't have too much time to dwell on the whole thing.

See you all in a week!