sunnyday

sunday was nice. first i was a bit happy to see the end of john howard
and then we had a nice day by the river with a cool 85 year old nanna
and then at night natalie won australian idol.
easily pleased i am. some days.

nice warm day

the kids and i had a hot happy day .....we found some very nice music with matching poster for our boy who has fallen in love with this brother and sister duo. i like them too.
i really like my kitchen window. i couldnt stand a kitchen without a window to look out of.
i found this book on another website that my deteriorating memory forgets where or who..sorry.;.. but i got the book from amazon.uk and it is a very very lovely book to look at. it arrived today at the post office which is a bit painful because that involves a 30 minute drive to pick up parcels. and i didnt know what i was picking up. which tells me that i am buying too much STUFF over the net. nice stuff but. and the book. well it has many pictures of nice homes and nice words to go with them. how anyone keeps a home nice like that? i dont know. i missed out on that skill/gene.
yesterday i brought home with me two new canvases and two new paint brushes. im juggling ideas around as i do things like cook tea for eternally hungry children. and step over piles upon piles of clothes. and water my garden. yes its a drought. but gingko in a pot needs a drink.

l o v e

this afternoon i made this strange creature. its a distant relative to another soft heart i made for little hana. this one is for a child that will hopefully have a strange sense of humour to match. im sending it off tomorrow to Pip for the Softies for Mirabel christmas craft appeal.

in other exciting news..we have puddles in our driveway. what has my life come to?

hello rain

i woke today to the beautiful sounds of pouring rain . it was nice to be able to walk outside without sizzling.
here is the pink cactus flower....now floppy but still beautiful. and i have a new geranium, a red and white stripey one. geraniums are usually out of control. i like them.
my new gingko friends.

comings and goings

sometimes life happens so fast im left sitting in a dishevelled state with a pool of dust around me wondering what in the world just happened.

well its not like that. but sort of.

i wonder how the above translates into japanese?

ive asked the kids for ten minutes peace to just sit here and write something. ten minutes? how long is ten minutes they ask. and funnily. the minute i actually ask for ten minutes...which is usually never or when im desperate. it has the opposite effect and the kids cannot resist saying mum. even in a whisper voice. mummmm.

they are quiet.

so quickly...im at 8 minutes already...

i had lots of photos to show but blogger couldnt cope with the load, so i tried only one and it worked. my mum is moving up to our farm. how very exciting it will be to have her just down the driveway.

and so it's goodbye to our old house. her and dads home.

goodbyes and hellos.

goodbyes werent meant to be easy .

my little Sindri is feeling sad ..about goodbyes... and more....and to cut a long story short, we are keeping him home from school for the last term of grade prep. and maybe even beyond.

we have been having some happy days playing with melinda and hana. it will be very surreal when they go back to japan soon. im sure we will be left wondering were they really here, like a dream.. time is a strange thing. not to mention life itself.

oh gee i can hear veda in the kitchen rollerskating , banging into cupboards and walls. we already have one rollerskate hole in the hallway wall. im trying not to be a grouch , but jeepers girl. cant you stop before you crash!

if i could show you some more photos i would show you the beautiful flowering cactus type plant i got at the local farmers market from an old lady selling her potplants. it had the most beautiful pink flower but it only lived for two days. that kind of irritated me but also made me love it even more.

i would also show you my henna-ed hands, or melindas actually her photo is nicer ;-)

now they are fading. the feeling of having henna beautifully decorating my hands is such a warm , happy, wonderful feeling. henna - love. maybe one day that is all i will do. henna people. id like that.

and i was also going to show you the photos of the day when we stumbled across the castlemaine steiner school spring fair. it was by some great luck for us that we went to a garage sale with a secret magical garden behind it, with elderly people talking about the steiner fair they were on their way to. so off we went, totally excited. and it was sooooo very fun to be there. together. with our girls.

well my ten minutes is well and truly over. amelie stands here beside me asking for something to eat. i had better go whip up something for tea.... any suggestions?

oh and by the way....

say hell0. to me.

i like hello.

just not goodbye.

70

we've had our little hana staying with us for a bit. and for that little bit she has captivated us ......with her duckaduckaducka and we all want to pick her up and squeeze her tight. amelie wants to keep her, she told me today. sindri likes to kiss her and veda likes to carry her on her hip like a mummy. murray scares the hell out of her. me. well i could keep her here too. and her mumma.
mums 70th birthday party. the drought tried to break. just for the night of the party. it was so funny (to me) and so fun.
melinda made her the coolest 70th birthday cake ever.
my brothers decorated and partied and had so much fun. i love brothers.

life comes and goes. so much anticipation, and you blink and then it is gone. and a new thought, a new moment is there. again and again...
i have one little boy who really doesnt want to be at school anymore.
i have one stiff shoulder.
im waiting for something else to focus on now.
i really love having my sis and her bub so close.
i like the weather now. warm, sometimes cool, sometimes windy, even sometimes raining. but not extreme. i dread extreme heat. with no beach.
and my garden. oh my god. i now have four gingko trees hanging out in pots in my garden. and i mean trees..tall trees. happy me.
and my garden is growing happily. i'm going to love to meet all the giant sunflowers i have planted.
hmm .. so anyway, last night i watched babel. tonight i hired paris, je t'aime. i may have been a little ambitious to think i could sit up late watching a whole movie two nights in a row. but once i watch a dvd that i like...i get excited and remember that its fun to watch movies.
anyway..babble alright.. goodnight. off to try to watch another whole movie.