saturday night

mmmm....

mmmm i smell cannelloni cooking in the oven. sindri just declared that tonight he's going to try some cannelloni because it smells yum. yay! go sindri. its only taken 9 years for me to hear him say im going to try something ..lets hope it tastes yum too ( i forgot to put egg yolks in.) woops.
im excited about tomorrows election. which is strange. but im really hoping that the greens give the major parties a good kicking up the behind and get some more say.
im slowly collecting seeds to plant. ive been ordering off the internet late at night and then i forget what ive ordered. i thought i had carrot seeds coming, but so far ive got giant sunflowers, sweet capsicum and hot thai chilli. funny combination. clearly i need to do some more seed collecting.
id better go check the oven.
x

taking you for a walk

making me smile:::

kids covered in mud

flowers about to pop

the garden inviting me outside

my studio also inviting me outside

the kids drawings stuck here there and everywhere

sweet people

angus and julia stone music in my ears..and the possibility of surprising farmer boy with birthday tickets to their melbourne show on his birthday

and the sun shining whilst there is mud under my feet

friday night

these two couldnt be any more in love with each other. Sindri and Coco. every night they snuggle up together(all night) and then during the day Coco may or may not give someone else in the house some of her attention....it depends what mood she's in, the brat cat.
my mum is slowing feeling better :-) we arent sure what it was..or if it is gone. she doesnt like doctors, which makes it hard to get an idea of what it was. she had one night in hospital which freaked the pants off all of us kids...and her too, because the next day she was out of there no matter what. im hoping and wishing that she just keeps getting stronger and sparklier. this morning she was looking more like herself with her fluffy white hair that drives her crazy :-)
today i was a couch potato most of the day....after i got the kids to school an HOUR late. ohhh its hard some days to get out of my warm bed...and to get the kids out of theirs... today was one of those days. my energy is drained. and i need a massage on my stiff shoulders. amelie gave me some squeezes with her little 6 year old hands but it didnt quite do it, even though i loved it. so im happy its friday night. im happy that today i found some really beautiful old library books at the op shop for 50 cents each. beautiful ones that were waiting for me im sure. and for amelie my little book worm. i love having three book worms in our house. and i love the way amelie sticks pictures on the walls in random places. she also decided to draw me a picture on my bedroom wall the other day. when i later found it i told her i LOVED it....there amongst the kids other pictures and creations. its only a wall after all. i love that our home lets the kids and us be free. the mess annoys me of course....but im good at not seeing it.
anyway i could chatter on some more but i should get some sleep. my sister is coming up to visit mum and us tomorrow. i hope she wears her gumboots-not that she would own gumboots :-) love 2 u x x x

love your mum

two of the biggest loves in my life, my mum and my farmer boy muzz. my mum isnt feeling well right now....my world will return to normal when shes feeling better. p.s my farmer boy is probably gonna hate me for putting him out into the internet universe. but i love him. you cant hate love.

these days

oh, poor Pixie.

Amelie is happy with scissors and paper in her hands.

::we've been playing more in the garden because the sun is out there to warm us up a little. . me planting, the kids bouncing and somersaulting . how some sunshine can brighten your day :-)

::there's usually someone in our house bandaged. thankfully not for real, but for play....its one of their favourite things to do. this time , Pixie hurt her arm.

::the kids had a stall at the farmers market today selling strawberry plants that we grew (rather than strawberries unfortunately!!) over summer. it was so cute. and so great for them. veda started off a little shy...more happy to be the gardener i think, sindri was the friendly salesboy and amelie hoola hooped in the background. that was until mum and co. arrived with their new puppy....then it was cuddle puppy time. happy days. and tomorrow the kids have a day off school...a perfect way to start the week.

late nite blah blah

the truth is i really dont know what to do with my days.still! there is lots i could be doing but nothing that makes me want to do it. is it me who has to make me do it...not the something? i found some very cute waldorf ish dolls on etsy tonight. almost as cute as amelies Tinky. that made me want to try to make some more dolls. but generally i have just blah blahed my days away for alot of this year. thats bad isnt it. i guess i have my new room (which is looking rather cool and rather messy after veda and her friend played in it on the weekend) but i still havent unpacked the piles and piles of fabric. and paper. . . . ohhhhh,,......
i think i need some more sunshiney days. i helped amelie and sindri make pom poms tonight. i like pom poms a lot. id like a pom pom door hanging to keep the damn swallows out of my room, pooping everywhere. why am i always surrounded by poop is another question i have ?
and i also need to see angus and julia play in melbourne in september except they are sold out. and i need to just get past tomorrow because im going to the dentist and if you knew me you would know that its probably my least favourite place in the world that i know of. luckily my mum is coming home from holidays tomorrow so at least i have some happy to look forward to after visiting hell. im so tempted to chicken out but im not. good girl manda.
the wattles are so so beautiful right now. our giant one in our front garden is GLOWING. i have vegies to plant but my goodness...so much rain and hail, we are surrounded by mud. which we cant complain about because then we would be whingeing farmers ;-)
anyway. i have to get some sleep, tomorrow theres about 50 things going on and im not ready for them and im wishing i did bake those banana muffins i was thinking about this arvo . and i wonder where amelies ballet shoes are.........