tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6913865734509480662024-03-06T03:34:26.564+10:00daydream in colourdaydream in colourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292841288986490762noreply@blogger.comBlogger407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-691386573450948066.post-56889680995492981452020-04-29T12:55:00.000+10:002020-04-29T12:55:22.827+10:00The slow turning of the days<div style="text-align: center;">
Is anyone else forgetting what day it is and finding the days seem to be trundling along at a slower pace than usual? It isn't a bad thing as I'm loving the slow rhythm of our lives right now.</div>
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I also know how very blessed and fortunate we are as hubby is still able to work and we're not suffering the stresses that so many others are currently feeling. We're learning not to take our life for granted.</div>
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Ours days are gently meandering along following a very loose routine. The week hubby is home, Patch and I get to go for our usual morning, hour long walk where he can run off lead, sniff and piddle on nearly every blade of grass and find very smelly, muddy drains and creeks to play in.</div>
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The track is so overgrown and in some places the grass is taller than me but we love this spot and are hoping the grass may die down a little with winter on the way. I hope so because I won't be looking forward to snake season around August if it's still overgrown like this.</div>
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School still trundles along at our own pace. It's a bit hit and miss each day but I'm not letting it bother me as the kids are still learning and we're embracing the extra family time.</div>
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Many evenings, weather permitting, when hubby is home, we are enjoying a backyard fire.</div>
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I can sit there for hours watching the flames and it's nice to be outside, glass of wine (or cup of tea) in hand enjoying our time together. </div>
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Everyone seems to come and go, doing their own things, then enjoying the fire for awhile before going back to doing their own things again. I'm loving some of the conversations I've been having with the kids too and learning a few more things about what makes them tick.</div>
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Patch is usually my constant companion when I'm out there and refuses to go inside until I do. He's good company as he doesn't chatter or say much at all :)</div>
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Hubby heads back to work tomorrow for another week so there's usually no fires when he's gone. I'm pretty hopeless at keeping them going so we usually only enjoy them the weeks he's home.</div>
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That means it will be more snuggle time with the kids of an evening. They like to do their own thing most nights but if they can agree on a movie we'll all watch that together although that's pretty rare. </div>
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Whoever's turn it is gets to choose the movie and we snuggle up in my bed watching it then the next night it's the other child's turn to choose the movie and have snuggle time. It's saving arguments and it also gives the kids a chance to have that one on one time with me that's been a bit difficult to find these days.</div>
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Patch and I are also slowly working out a routine for our walks when hubby's not home either. We don't go for our big walk but he does get shorter walks each day. Once school goes back we can adjust our routine again but for now he's still happy he's getting out and about.</div>
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During this time when we're all cooped up in the house, I have been able to get a few crafty things done.</div>
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I had been sewing quite a bit but have no photos to show you what I was in the process of making. All of that ground to a halt once the kids were home with me each day as where I sew is in a section of our living room. That is mainly the kids domain when they're home and I found the constant interruptions when I was trying to concentrate on sewing a bit of a pain. In the end I packed the sewing things away until they go back to school.</div>
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So it's back to my favourite craft of crochet and using up what's in my stash.</div>
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I found a lovely, easy pattern on the <a href="https://www.anniedesigncrochet.com/2020/02/07/one-skein-crochet-shawl-free-pattern/" target="_blank">Annie Design Crochet</a> website for a scarf. I loved the asymmetrical design and the fact that you only need to tie in two ends, one at the beginning and one at the end. That's always a bonus!</div>
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In fact, I enjoyed making it so much that I ferreted through my stash to find some more yarn that I thought would look lovely in the pattern. I'm loving making this one too and I suppose all we need now is some cooler weather so I can wear them although I'm not holding my breath for that to happen any time soon in my neck of the woods.</div>
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I don't think I've shown you another version of my <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/venetian-shawl-2" target="_blank">Venetian shawl</a> either. I made this months ago in a silk/alpaca blend and it's really soft and drapes beautifully. The photos don't do the colour justice but it's a really lovely, silky olive green.</div>
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More wash cloths have been flying off the hook too. I'm trying to use up my cotton scraps which is why I've been making scrubbies and wash cloths. I love using things I've made myself and they also make great little gifts.</div>
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Staying at home is nothing new for us. In fact our current circumstances feel a bit like a usual weekend so we're dealing with it all fairly well here.</div>
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For the record, we're not in lockdown right now but there are a lot of restrictions in place. In Australia, we have the advantage of seeing what's happened in the rest of the world and can get a head start on self-isolating and putting into place many of the practices other countries have been using.<br />
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I'm also trying to get as many walks in with Patch as I can, while I can. Where we go is quite isolated (and very overgrown right now) so we've been happily enjoying our walks when we get the chance to have them. Not only has it been wonderful walking in the fresh air for an hour but it's giving us a bit of a break from a constantly full and relatively small house. I've been loving how many butterflies and dragonflies have been flying about when we walk. There's so many of them and just a small thing like that can lift the spirits.<br />
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Today is also the first day of the school holidays but the kids have been off school for the last week and a half. They made the school's here in Queensland student free for the last week of Term 1 for all except Health workers and others who need the support of the school's right now. Hubby and I made the decision to take our kids out earlier as it didn't make sense to us when the government kept saying to social distance, only be in small groups etc and then said it's still safe to send all our kids to school.</div>
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Six months ago I would have freaked out at the thought of having the kids home and home schooling for a time. After doing just that with Master M for most of the school year so far, I knew I could cope with it. That's not to say I'm a great home schooling Mum. In fact I'm completely crap at it as I learned very early on with Master M that I'm no teacher.</div>
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We just do the few tasks the kids have been set by their teacher and puddle along with other things. If they're still home in Term 2 then things will have to change and I'll have to get with the program a bit more but the one thing I won't be doing is putting pressure on myself or the kids.<br />
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We have been baking. They both love to help out with that and really enjoy it when they do cooking at school so we're trying to schedule that into our weeks as that's something I can handle. We've made muffins and cakes but the main thing that Miss R wants to make and help with are dog biscuits for Patch.<br />
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They're really easy to make and since we don't have a dog bone biscuit cutter, he gets a tub full of hearts and stars. It's a little embarrassing how excited he gets and how much drool lands on the floor when he knows he's getting one of these treats (or two depending on who is sneaking them to him).</div>
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They also freeze well so we keep enough out for 3 or 4 days worth and pop the rest in the freezer. They go really mouldy quickly in our humidity so it's best to get out just a few at a time.</div>
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Mix together with enough water to form a dough. You'll need about 1/4 cup of water which I add about half first then about a tablespoon at a time until I get a dough consistency. Roll out until the dough is about 1cm thick then cut out with whatever shapes you have and place on a baking tray.</div>
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Bake in a 180 C (375F) oven for 20 minutes. Once cool watch them be devoured!</div>
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We have also been doing jigsaws. For some reason we usually only ever seem to do jigsaws at Christmas time but I was de-cluttering the games cupboard the other day and found a few I had forgotten we had.</div>
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I always do my jigsaws on artists canvas which you can get from craft stores or many of the bargain stores around the place. They're light and non-slip so the pieces don't slide off.</div>
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Most of the day the jigsaw sits on the dining table because you have to walk past it to get to anywhere in our house really. So we just put in a piece or two as we're walking past then at meal times it's easy to pick up the canvas and move it to a coffee table or sit it on a bed without worrying about pieces falling off.</div>
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Until then my friends, stay safe and find some little bit of peace in your day if you can. Patch and I are enjoying quiet moments outside after dinner. The evenings have been beautiful and I'll head out there with a cup of tea (or wine if it's been that kind of day) and we just watch the amazingly clear night skies of late. It's been a tonic.</div>
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One thing I seem to be doing more of while we're still tweaking our new home schedule is craft. Not just crochet but plenty of sewing as well and I'm really loving it.</div>
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I started to sort through my stash of fabric and decided to make more shopping bags as I really enjoy making them. I also sold some of them just before Christmas as someone I had gifted some to wanted to purchase a few for Christmas gifts of their own.</div>
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So while Master M is doing some school work, I cut, pin, sew and press and keep myself occupied making bags. While doing it I'm right on hand to help him and keep him on track too which is working out well.</div>
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The best thing is that I'm using up my stash and also selling some which is very gratifying.</div>
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As well as going through my fabric stash, I've been having a clean out of my yarn as well. I've got a couple of scarves made in recent months which I don't think I've posted about yet so I'll have to go back a bit further in my photos to see if I can find some to show you.</div>
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Since it's been such a long hot and humid summer, working with wool hasn't really appealed so I've piled up all of my cotton and have been making dish and wash cloths.</div>
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The ones I use everyday were looking a little worse for wear so new ones have been much needed. Very few of them are the same size since I'm using up all the tiny leftover bits that I'm never quite sure what to do with.</div>
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Even if I'm only making a half size one, I've been finding a great use for them and can whip one up in an hour, sometimes less if there's not much cotton. They've also been a great small project when we're 'in school' too.</div>
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I admit that I did try my hand at amigurumi since I had so many small balls of cotton but I have to say that I really don't think I have the patience for it. I love the end result but find all the bits and pieces that need joining together too fiddly so I'm not sure if I'll be doing much more of that in the future.</div>
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We have FINALLY put Miss R's new bed together after it sat in boxes in our hallway for weeks.</div>
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Her old bed was in the most horrendous condition and this time she got to choose which bed she wanted from what was on offer at IKEA.</div>
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She chose one of the day beds which has storage and a second bed can be extended as well.</div>
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He's also only going to school for one hour a day for now so we're really adjusting to things and trying new routines to see what's going to work best for us. Well best for me anyway since it's my days that have just completely changed.</div>
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I hadn't meant to go AWOL for so long but somehow I found myself flitting about, doing a multitude of things and realised I'd hardly turned my computer on in weeks. It was quite refreshing actually and has helped me begin the year in a reasonably relaxed mode.<br />
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I rarely make resolutions for the New Year but I've found that watching so many people in this beautiful country of ours lose everything in the horrific bushfires made me take stock of the clutter in our house. I really looked at what we have and realise that we really don't need half of it. So I've started 2020 with a fresh outlook and have been decluttering on a bit of a grand scale.</div>
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It's been quite uplifting and cleansing but I'm breaking it down into small areas and just doing a bit each day so I don't burn myself out and then stop completely because it all becomes too much. So far things are going really well and I'm loving how much tidier and nicer some of the areas in our small home are already looking.</div>
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In my last post I mentioned that Miss R wanted me to make Gingerbread muffins over the weekend.</div>
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I'm happy to report that one batch has been made but as there's not many left then I'll probably be making another batch on Christmas Eve.</div>
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This year we're having muffins and fruit for breakfast as I really like to start the day with as little fuss as possible. </div>
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As well as the Gingerbread muffins, I'll also make a batch of <a href="https://www.recipetineats.com/cheese-garlic-muffins/" target="_blank">savoury cheese muffins</a> to balance things out a bit. Both kinds of muffins freeze really well and are great popped into the microwave for 30 or 40 seconds for a yummy breaky or snack at any time.</div>
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The mixture itself is quite liquid so don't panic if you think you've missed an ingredient. It also fills 12 muffin cases up nearly to the top. In the past I've used smaller cases and made around 20 or so muffins which is a nice little bite full but this time I've made them the normal size.</div>
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I can't believe that it's now over a week since Master M finished Primary school. It's certainly the end of an era because my kids were 5th generation at that school and you don't hear or see that in many places anymore.</div>
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It's always held at Kings Beach in Caloundra and they get to play some games on the grassy areas, play in the fountains and swim in the pool.</div>
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There were also class parties to be enjoyed and cupcakes were requested as the dish of choice. I really don't enjoy decorating cakes so I try to make things look as festive as possible with as little effort as possible.</div>
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It's also been the only baking I've done in the lead up to Christmas so far. It's been too hot and I really haven't felt like doing much in the kitchen at all but Miss R is<strike> nagging</strike> regularly requesting me to make the gingerbread muffins with cream cheese icing that I've been making the last few years so I believe I may be making some over the weekend.</div>
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I might make a double batch as they freeze really well and I can get the baking done on one day then put my feet up in front of the air conditioner while watching cricket and scoffing muffins. Sounds like a plan!</div>
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Since my brother's and my children were very young, we go over to my sister's house in early December each year and they decorate her Christmas tree and her house.</div>
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It's become a tradition that they all love and receive their first gift of the season which is a new decoration from my sister. Often it's a special one from her travels like the gold plated maple leaf from Canada or the kilt wearing piper from Scotland.</div>
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Then they're given their boxes full of their decorations from previous years. As they're getting older it's wonderful to hear them get excited about a special one they remember receiving.</div>
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So Tree Day is over for another year and it's on with the preparations for Christmas which all of a sudden is hurtling towards us at great speed.</div>
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Each year I like to do my own special advent celebration that doesn't involve chocolate and lollies. Usually I'll burn an advent candle but I've found that I get side tracked and it often burns down two or three days at one time.</div>
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Last year I found an advent calendar at Kmart that had a different scented tea light candle in it for each day. That ended up being the perfect calendar for me and this year I wanted to do the same kind of thing.</div>
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I didn't find one already made up, but then I didn't really look either. I just decided that I would burn one special tea light candle each day for my own little celebration. I ended up buying a pack of berry scented candles at Ikea which fit the bill perfectly and fill my house with a really subtle berry smell.</div>
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It's also a practical bonus for our summer when the power often goes out, especially if there's a storm. Then it's usually Uno or a board game by candlelight until either the power comes back on or it's time for bed.</div>
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The kids have had a felt advent calendar for about the past 10 years too. There's a little felted present attached which gets moved to the next pocket each day and they love this little one. They also love their chocolate (Master M) and candy (Miss R) calendar that they get each year too. I think there would be a mutiny if they didn't have one of those!</div>
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There have also been some yummy treats made at school. Master M made a gingerbread house although there's no gingerbread in sight. It was made out of different kinds of biscuits and lollies and plastered together with icing.</div>
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I hope the weeks are being good to you and that you're coping with this endless horrible heat if you're in my part of the world. I can't believe it's going to be 40 degrees celsius for the next couple of days and that we've hardly had a day under 30 celsius in the last month. That's a Queensland summer for you though I suppose.</div>
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That moment I've been dreading for years finally came around this week and wasn't as traumatic as I thought it would be. So yes, Santa is out of the sack in our house now (I'm sure you all know what I mean), and that's all I'm going to say on that so there are no spoilers. </div>
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On the crafting front, I've finally finished the shopping bags I've been sewing for the teacher's gifts. I've even got a few extras to add to my gift stash and am loving the way these have turned out.</div>
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He really doesn't cope with change well and the thought of high school has been daunting for him so I'm often getting phone calls from the school and have to drop everything and run to pick him up. I can only make appointments and plans for myself when hubby is home from work so I know there will at least be one of us here for him if needed.</div>
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I feel like we're hurtling towards the end of the school year at an alarming rate. </div>
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I start to think that things are slowing down and I can catch a breath but next thing I know our calendars are full again. I'm learning quickly to manage things when they crop up as well as to take the spur of the moment opportunites to relax and do something with those I love.</div>
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Last week was the perfect case in point. I feel like I'm up to my ears in paperwork of some kind lately and in the middle of what ended up being a really busy week, hubby and I were able to spend some time together.</div>
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While out and about up the coast we were able to squeeze in a wonderful lunch at The <a href="http://bridgeseafood.com.au/" target="_blank">Bridge Seafoods</a> at Mooloolaba</div>
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My girl is 14! I can't believe another year as whizzed around already and my little one is now as tall as me (well almost... says I as I stand up tall to try and stretch out my 5'3" height). She's becoming such a lovely young lady.</div>
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It's been a bit mad around here lately with constant appointments and so many things happening. I've been looking forward to the end of this week where I had intended to just have some quiet time to recharge. Unfortunately both kids are sick this week so they're having miserable time cosied up on the lounge or in bed and I'm enjoying the quiet moments in between Mum duties.</div>
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My Dad also had his hip replacement yesterday. He did lose a bit more blood than expected so it took a little longer for him to get back to the ward but he seems to be okay. We'll find out more today but I won't be visiting him with two sick kids in the house. I really don't want to pass on anything when he can least afford it.</div>
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I've also been working on something based on a doily my Grandmother made for me over 20 years ago. I'm not having a lot of success with it and have pulled it apart about 5 times now. Funnily enough, I have the edge section worked out in a sample I made, I just have to get the main part of the project working out how I can see it in my mind.</div>
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My current project is a version of my <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tea-time-wrap-2" target="_blank">Tea Time Wrap</a>. The last one I made using a whirl and the colours gently change as the wrap grew.</div>
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On the school holidays Miss R got the chance to take part in an Adventure Day Camp, an event organised by the <a href="https://www.stepsautismtreehouse.org.au/" target="_blank">Autism Treehouse</a>. It's the first time we've attended any of their events and her paediatrician recommended them. </div>
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As soon as I read about this Day camp I KNEW my girl would want to go. She loves this kind of thing, especially doing ropes courses and we were lucky there were still places left. </div>
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Master M spent the day with a relative as this isn't something he would enjoy and he wouldn't have coped with a full day out watching his sister. So he had a special day with my Uncle which meant Miss R and I could fully enjoy our day.</div>
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First up our group went to the archery range.</div>
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I had never tried it before and when they said that the parents and carers could have a go I jumped at the chance. I can't believe how much I enjoyed it. In fact I enjoyed it so much I'm looking into local archery ranges so I can have another go.</div>
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The next thing our group did was the Possum Launch or something along those lines. It involved one child being hooked up and 10 children (huskies) being hooked up to the other end of the rope. The faster the 10 kids ran up the track, the quicker and higher the child at the other end was launched into the air.</div>
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The last mid-term holidays are over for the year and we now have one school term to get through before the summer holidays and Master M's start to high school.</div>
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Back to school means that I also get my computer back. I don't get much of a chance to use it when the kids are home as there always seems to be one of them on it. So school is back and I am back!</div>
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We had a few plans for these last holidays but in the end they didn't eventuate. Hubby had to work quite a bit so the kids and I pottered about and perfected the art of slothing and doing not much.</div>
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Other plans for when hubby was home got postponed when my Dad went to hospital. That's okay, we can easily do them another weekend or even the next school holidays. </div>
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At least Dad is okay now and is on the right medication for his heart to work better than what it was. Fingers crossed that all will be well and he can still get his hip replacement in a few weeks as planned.</div>
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Patch and I have been happy now that we're walking a little more. During the school holidays it's not always easy to get a good walk in </div>
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He even stood in front of the mirror in my room a few times and just looked sadly at himself which was hilarious although I was a good Mum and didn't laugh at him. I just told him he's still our beautiful boy, he'll be much cooler now that the weather's warming up and his hair will grow back. </div>
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I've got plenty more to show and tell as I've been busy with the crochet hook and Miss R had an awesome day at an Adventure Day Camp over the holidays where she got to do archery and swing from ropes high in trees (no fear of heights that one).</div>
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I'll leave you with about a 15 second video that I took so you can hear the hail on the roof and see it falling. I hope it works okay as I've never posted a video before.</div>
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I also stopped filming early because I didn't think you would hear much of the hail on the roof. At the time there were 6 kids and 3 or 4 adults on the verandah watching it and everyone was yelling and squealing and exclaiming so loudly and all at once. </div>
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I am very happy to say that he DIDN'T have a heart attack.</div>
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Even though there are obvious issues and he was in hospital for 3 days, he's home now and feeling much better.</div>
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I ended up getting plenty of crochet done while waiting for news and only have the border left of my shawl before it's finished.</div>
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We're almost half way through the weekend here and it's very hot again. There are some storms building up but I don't think we'll be getting much out of them which is a pity.</div>
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It's so dry here now with large patches of dirt on the lawn and the rest of the grass is brown and crunchy to walk on. Rain will be a blessing so I hope we get some soon.</div>
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I'm vigilant in keeping his tick treatments up to date, especially as he has long hair and we go for our walk where there's plenty of bush and scrub for him to run through. Perfect tick hiding spots!</div>
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Thankfully it was only just attached so it made removing it fairly easy but I thought I'd give you a little tip I heard about years ago for removing ticks. I have no idea where I heard it but I've used it on Patch a couple of times and the kids and it works well every...single...time.</div>
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Just place a couple of squirts of liquid hand soap on a cotton pad, folded tissue, toilet paper, paper towel or whatever you have, and hold it over the tick for about a minute.</div>
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Pretty gross I know but our boy is fine. I didn't sleep much that night as I let him sleep on his bed in my room so I could check on him and he kept coming to wake me up, wagging his tail. I think he was excited that he got to sleep in Mum's room!</div>
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As the tick wasn't far in I only had to hold the soap over it for about 30 seconds before it was fully out. One of the kids had one once that was tiny and quite embedded and I needed to have the soap on it for a little over a minute but that one backed out fully too.</div>
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The kids and I did go on a short outing on Sunday but it ended up being a bit much so we came home and then I ended up being a bit of a wreck trying to work out how I can deal with it all. I'll get there though, I always do, and the crochet is certainly helping so I'll update you with that soon.</div>
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On another note, my Dad was taken to hospital with chest pains early this morning so please keep him in your thoughts. I'm off to do some more crochet to help keep my mind off things and am looking forward to hubby getting home tomorrow. A little help would be wonderful.</div>
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Things have been extremely busy and very up and down here at the moment. I won't go into the details but I will say that I'm not getting the chance to blog or even catch up with my blog reading as much as I would like to.</div>
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School holidays start next week so I'm hoping things will settle down a bit and I'm able to get back into a bit of a routine for myself for a few weeks.</div>
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I haven't been crafting that much either. Well I have been doing some but nowhere near as much as I would like.</div>
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You will be pleased to know that I've finally finished my table runner.</div>
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It was touch and go for awhile even though it was a really easy pattern to work on. I had this brilliant idea to make some place mats to go with it but they weren't working out how I wanted them to. After nearly finishing one and then pulling it apart about 4 or 5 times I got the<strike> shits</strike> a little cranky with it all and placed the table runner out of sight until I was happy enough to work on it again.</div>
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We had some really, really hot weather last week and over the weekend it's been very windy. It's also very dry and as a result parts of our state are battling bush fires. Thank goodness there's been no loss of life but a number of people have lost their homes and unfortunately the weather forecast isn't favourable. </div>
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We have cabbage, leeks, zucchini (courgettes), tomatoes, choko, lettuce, celery, parsley and snow peas. I will admit that the snow peas didn't make it to the fridge as Miss R and I munched on them which means they also won't be making their way into the stir fry for dinner either.</div>
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We celebrated Father's Day here last Sunday and apart from a special breakfast it ended up being a quiet day. Hubby was heading back to work early the next morning so a big outing wasn't really an option.</div>
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A really lovely place to visit, especially in warmer weather is <a href="https://www.visitsunshinecoast.com/Gardners-Falls" target="_blank">Gardners Falls</a> just outside of Maleny. It's only a 15 to 20 minute drive from home and a nice spot to spend some time.</div>
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I realise now that I couldn't be a teacher. Not that I ever had any aspirations of becoming a teacher, but after a day out on excursion with Master M's class, I know it will never happen.</div>
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We headed into Brisbane city for the day and the first stop for our group was the <a href="https://sparklab.qm.qld.gov.au/" target="_blank">SparkLab </a>Science Centre. It was so much fun.</div>
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The second half of our day was spent at Queensland's <a href="https://www.visitbrisbane.com.au/the-city/things-to-do/arts-and-entertainment/heritage-and-architecture/parliament-house" target="_blank">Parliament House</a>.</div>
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It's a beautiful building but no photos were allowed except for the main staircase. A minute before I took the below photo it was full of school kids sitting on the stairs for their group photo.</div>
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We arrived home pretty tired but enjoyed our day. Master M really loved the SparkLab but struggled at Parliament House and then the bus drive home was long (traffic) and very noisy with excited kids so he was really happy to get home to the familiar quiet of our house.</div>
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Recently I mentioned that I was sorting through the thousands of photos I have. Well thanks to a lovely readers suggestion, I have launched myself into the tech age and am currently uploading everything into a Cloud.<br />
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I'm loving knowing I'll have access to not only all of our photos but plenty of official documents, especially all of the kids medical, paediatric, occupational therapy, speech therapy etc reports. They're all now (or nearly) in one file each that I can access on my computer, phone or tablet.<br />
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While sorting through the photos I did come across some very special ones. They are of the very first thing I EVER crocheted.<br />
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It was a simple granny square made with really horrible acrylic yarn. There wasn't much choice at one of the shops in town and all I really wanted to do was practice my new skill so it sufficed until I could buy some nicer stuff.</div>
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I also have a couple of photos of the very first time I picked up a crochet hook. December 21st 2009 was the day and 12.46pm to be precise if you go by the time in the photo information.</div>
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I was at my sister's house chatting away and she had some crochet beside the lounge. I picked it up and asked how you do it and the rest is history as they say.</div>
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She also took a couple of photos of the moment because we both found it so hilarious and thought we'd document this one and only time I'd probably crochet. How little we knew at the time.</div>
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I called into one of my local shops on the way home to buy some yarn and a hook because all I wanted to do was practice my new found skill. I loved it from the instant I picked up that hook and I now do some form of crochet most days.</div>
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So there you go. My first ever time crocheting!</div>
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I finished the white shawl last week but have only just got around to taking a photo of it to show you. </div>
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I've also been working on the table runner I started a week or so ago. It may not look like I've done much but I ended up pulling the whole thing apart and started again, this time using a longer stitch than I was using before. It's coming together a bit quicker now and we are friends again.</div>
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I re-joined my library recently and have been making up for lost time. I hadn't visited for about a decade and was no longer on file so I've joined again and am now happily spending about half an hour each night reading a chapter or two. Although if it's a book I'm really enjoying then that time can stretch out quite a bit!</div>
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We often have quiches or omelettes and Master M's favourite breakfast is an egg on toast. When I buy a tray I usually boil some up once I get home and keep them in a bowl in the fridge. The kids love them for a snack and they're also great with a salad for lunch so we certainly plough through them.</div>
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Miss R and I had a quiet girls night at home since hubby is away at work and we certainly loved the peace!</div>
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