o pain

after a few days of weaving our way through the craziness of melbourne we are happily back home. unfortunately veda brought home with her, a sore ear. :-( my sweet big but still little girl. we went to the doctor and have medicine that will hopefully hurry up and work.

sindri brought home with him a gigantic white teddy bear that was once his BIG cousin-williams. sindri loves its bigness. its almost as big as him and definitely at least twice his lean bodies width. it's in bed with him at the moment.

amelie also brought home a bright green teddy bear from her BEAUTIFUL cousin rebecca. i don't know what is going on but i've never seen so many teddy bears in our house ever. amelie brought on this phenomenon . and they are all called teddy.

i brought home lots of happy thoughts about my little brother...we stayed with him and his sweetness is inspiring. ...andddd i also brought home a bag full of surprises. surprises that sparkle and surprises that are verry loud..and some surprises that smell divine.

so my family are all in bed..veda in my bed with murray. i don't know how i will move her back to her bed. i don't think i can..or want to. as much as i was looking forward to sleep in my own bed. it looks like it is the futon couch for me tonight. i just hope he doesnt roll over and bang her in the ear!!!OUCH.... it could quite possibly happen he's so dead when he sleeps.

school starts in a few days. i dread the thought. maybe veda won't be well enough to go? ;-)

as you wish

last night i had reallly horrible dreams. which in itself isn't so surprising...i have always been an intense dreamer. but lately they have been scary and sad and horr i ble. i think i'm two things. ultra tired. and my mind is too full. so many ideas and thoughts all mixed up/ i have a mini tornado going oninside as i try to shoosh it up so i can be a calm happy mama for my three kids. and murray..well he usually cops the tip of the tornado :-(.

i got my christmas cards back from japan...so now i will be able to send them to their rightful owners. i'm not keeping them here for easter ;-) or christmas this year....they will definitely get lost in the rubble. so i'm just going to surprise our friends with an unexplained, very late christmas card. that will reaffirm all their thoughts of me. :-)

red gum beauty

there's this tree around the corner, on the side of the road, out the front of an old unused dairy. and it makes my heart flutter when i stop the car beside it, get out and stand in front of this absolutely beautiful tree. melinda, you understand i know.

so this year ive been drawing lots and these amazing red flowering gum trees welcomed the new year and inspired my first drawings.

lets go

this year

what a great feeling...a new, fresh year. on the first day i sharpened lots of coloured pencils...crayola pencils are my favourite. . they even out-do derwent in deepness of colour...fancy that!
on the second day we drew some really cool pictures together, the kids inspired by the tin of pencils sitting on the CLEAN kitchen table.
from then on the days have already begun to merge into neverending days and nights. i didn't know it was friday yesterday. such is the bliss of school holidays and no commitments to be anywhere other then here.
i had delicious thai at my favourite restaurant with my sweet friend. the only thing that annoys me is that we can never eat it all and we aren't allowed to take the rest home with us. i could eat green curry chicken for breakfast. yum!
we have also brought some off-white paint to paint veda and amelies room...from pink to white. i think i would like a white house. with big windows. looking out over the ocean. (did u hear me universe?) i also watched a nice movie called the lake house. it made me cry which is a good thing. i watched it on the morning too which meant i was fully awake instead of fighting off sleepy eyes.
so today, is saturday :-) and we are still in pyjamas at lunchtime. i would like to paint the room, but the kids all want to help me...which is lovely but a nightmare at the same time.
i'm happy for everyone involved in the kim family auction. it's a beautiful thing they are doing. i hope it's a huge success, i'm sure it will be.....look at the intention behind it.
and blogger still won't post my photos...really annoying. should i go to typepad? im thinking about it.