better

thankfully our veda does not have appendicitis. with the way she was cring in pain in the last few days i was a little panicked... but after a traumatic trip to the hospital and a long nights sleep, she seems to have magically healed herself of the bug that was invading her temple. phew.

today we go to meet new kinder and school teachers. im hoping its going to be an exciting day that melts into an exciting first day back to school tomorrow. hoping.

two owl

today we spotted a pair of owls in our garden! they were mostly white and just sat and looked at us. then flew from tree to tree as we followed them. they were so very close to us... they are magical. ..yes how beautiful they are. it would be nice if they have decided to move into our garden.
i mowed the lawn today and then went to get some wood to finish the kids play deck cubby...i couldnt believe how expensive the wood was. i didnt buy it. i want recycled wood but where will i find it? my boy will have to go buy the wood. hes good at buying things without looking at how much they cost. i usually look at how much they cost and then buy them anyway. not good. but not this time with the wood.

im not buying anything (trying not to ) at the moment because i need to save my yen for my visit to here..

and . how sad sad sad that heath ledger died. i have to say.. its heart breaking. i know people die all the time. but i liked him. i like michelle. i like their baby matilda. a sweet little family. its always sad that a little girl wont have her daddy. because little girls love their daddys dont they. our two girls definitely do.
tonight veda phoned murray and broke his heart with her beautiful outpouring of emotion. how beautiful she is. its so wonderful and so hard to watch her growing up.

coco the kitten , the burmese kitten...im thinking that is the difference here, ....well she has adhd. she jumps on and attacks and stalks our two BIG ELDERLY cats. coco has no fear and no respect. how do you teach a kitten these things? the kids smother her in love all day every day. they couldnt love her anymore. and im thinking she thinks she is the new queen of the house. shes certainly treated like it. although tonight veda told her shes bad and locked her in the laundry. she then tried to scratch her way out which made the kids giggle their heads off.

amelie is sleeping on the futon couch in the kitchen tonight..just for fun... she received a letter from her new kinder teacher.. a beautiful letter with a heart around her name.
its those little acts of kindness that change the world.

smile

four inches of rain

a first prize and then reserve champion! for my boys' cow at a big cow show

the tooth fairy came , shes a dandelion fairy..she brought sindri a wish flower to blow

our renovation..getting closer

and maybe a trip very soon for me.

happy.

on saturday

i found some cute old things, i drew pictures and it rained and rained and almost flooded.

pixie or pony

veda and i went horse riding during the holidays. this is pixie or pony..i cant remember which was which. veda would be able to tell you. have you ever sat on a real horse? s c ar ey! but fun with my horsey girl.

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when i used to work for my brother, doing his bookwork, which itself seems like another life ago, he had a client called thank god its friday.... a bar i think. and anyway, today im thinking that i would like to be there...saluting the fact that i have survived this trying week. and giving thanks (whilst being served alcohol) for the family i grew up in and around. we may all be dysfunctional in one way or another, but my goodness,, the things that matter, mattered. and they still do. and really, thats all that matters. and any annoyances i have with any of my family, dont amount to much in the end. and so i am also thankful for this trying week because it has spoken loud to me:
unconditional love. and. the world needs more art.
i could go on rambling, and since this is my blog, i may as well.
the greed of people has been up close , breathing on me like some evil green monster. it was horrible, very horrible. maybe like a scary dream of a child. i wanted to yell, spit even , go away but instead i blocked the energy of it. let it breathe its nasty breath. eventually it stopped. and went away.
and i found myself chanting....go away go away leave us alone. a whirlpool of emotion. anger and disgust. even sadness for the monster. guilt for even thinking of the monster as a monster.
but after awhile, the gratitude and the peace came. because i have a beautiful dad. and a beautiful mum. and i have our children. they burst with love. how i want to protect them from all the monsters out there. so hard..so very hard...because i cant can i?

outside and in

i planted a red flowering gum tree a few years ago. i didnt know if i would ever see it flower. red gum flowers are amongst my favourite. and then.. afew days ago my boy told me it has a flower. firstly i didnt believe him. and then i saw it. just one, perfect flower. against a bright blue sky.

and then tonight, he takes a photo and brings the camera for me to see. the sunflower i had just picked ( it was a small one...not one of my sunflower people)...well its leaves are magic.

my garden is keeping me from losing balance and falling over. . today i planted my gingko that has lived in a pot for many years. she looks very happy in her new home.

i got 6 metres of black cotton broderie anglaise type fabric today from the local farmers market. strange .. i know. for $6. perfect :-) i have a dress in my head that i want to make with it. if only there was a button i could press .........
and now it is holidays for the 5 of us this week. i wonder what we will get up to.

beautiful heavy heads

joy :: whilst my kids play in fantastic, imagined worlds, i read my great book, i eat tomatoes and nectarines in the garden, straight from picking them, i stand near my sunflowers, in awe.

i have little voices sometimes poking me in my ribs telling me what i should be doing... but other than having a beach in our backyard, we are happy just doing not a lot at all.. or rather..not going far at all.

before i sleep

i like these drawings very much

vedas photos

a flickering butterfly

i have new drawers that weigh more than a freight train. but are so very beautiful. they, and my other new furniture gifts to me from me, and from my boy, will live in my studio. i think maybe thats what i need to focus on. getting our house made bigger. the builders are all on holidays im assuming....and its a bit tricky.... only because its been so hot around here and i just want to go float in some salty water in the ocean at fremantle. weve delayed our holidays because it just didnt seem to be coming together,,... im so bad at planning holidays (or anything) i wish my boy would do it. but he wont. probably because he finds it hard to move being the rock that he is (metapyhsically speaking, or something like that).
anyway... the beach.

maybe we could go to fremantle once all the school hoilday people go home? perth is so far though....it has always been the problem with perth..even when we lived there. its a big shame,....because its a beautiful place. a clean warm beach is all i need.

i went and brought more new fabric yesterday. i cant help it. i really want to be sewing myself some new beautiful fine clothes. the kids brought themselves little purse making kits with money that uncle anthony and aunty anne gave them. so cute. and excellent because we got to use our new unused glue gun. see- i did need one. veda shared my joy about having a glue gun. thats my girl.

this is my new chair my boy gave me for christmas. now that i think of it, its funny. because im always so flippy floaty...ready to run off into the neverland at any minute, no wonder he gave me a chair. sit down! or maybe he finally understands my tiredness. here honey ..sit down..relax. im awful. .. . .... i think he really just wanted to buy me a nice chair in excitement about me having my own new space to create in.

so its the 4th of january already. my heart is skipping little beats every now and then in a little panic that the days are flying past me faster than i like. that im not living in sync with time. i cant keep up with it. why do i care anyway. the kids are just happy that it is a new day to play in. on. around. amelie just told me shes tired..at 7.45 am. im thinking she should start eating more food. she's turning fussier god help me.

ok...time for a coffee i feel.
kids are awake on the couch in the kitchen, coco kitten is running around the house psycho because thats what she does.
friday. hmmmmmm i wonder what this friday holds for me and us?
i wish for new clothes today.

hello new year

making wishes for the new year