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Well we had a ball, K had a wonderful time and was absolutely spoilt. Today has been lovely, lots of blobbing around, although we did manage a good walk this morning.
First of all big big hugs to Ginger . My dear friend: not being able to talk about it IS part of grieving - don't be so hard on yourself. I don't talk about this much on BB but I can see, hear and feel Spirit - my experience doing psychic readings and healings has taught me that our special loved ones are often with us after they have passed over. Most people only ever catch a fleeting sensation or glimpse - we are too wrapped up in our physical senses to be able to perceive the energy - but I am 100% sure your Mum has been with you as you struggle with your terrible grief, and that she sees and knows what a joy and consolation L (and esp J) has been to you and especially your dad. xxx
What a wonderful day we had yesterday. As you know it all starts on Christmas Eve...very first pressie off the rank was a bag of Avon Little Blossom stuff... DD was absolutely taken with it - the lipbalm most of all - and spent the whole night getting each bottle out and putting them back - and lipbalming her mouth...didn't want to put it down long enough to open any of her other presents LOL. The big hit yesterday was the wooden cutting vegetables - and then later the scooter from her aunty...she scootered up and down the hallway all afternoon LOL. DD1 was very well pleased with her "loot" (as she calls it) too. We stayed out quite late both nights and were rewarded with a biiiiiig sleepin this morning - really going to chill out and try to maintain that holiday feeling at least thru until Tues...DH is finally starting to relax and smile a bit a more, poor man needs all the R&R he can get.
Awwww G hun I'm sure that she would *know* about your boys and the special relationship that your Dad has with them. Maybe this was all in a great big plan, that you were meant to fall pg with L so your Dad had someone as his offsider kwim? I don't have a religion and I'm not sure I believe in God, but I do believe that things happen for a reason.
Well we had a lovely day. We didn't get to bed till 2am yesterday because Santa also brought rain, so we had to wait till it stopped before we could go up to the shed and get the cubby and motorbike and bring them to the house. So we were dead tired by last night LOL. The kids loved what they got though. All we got them were the cubby and bike, but because Alister is too little for the bike and poor kid has buckleys and none of the girls letting him in the cubby we got him a farmyard and barn and some farm animals which he loved. Mum and my brother spoilt them again. My brother is single with no kids so he loves to spoil them rotten. The IL's got them loads of craft stuff which will keep them happy over the holidays. SIL got Alister this little remote control car which has wheels that light up and he thinks it's awesome - he sits down with the control and thinks he is just neat driving his car around. Mind you he puts it on full lock so all it does is donuts
G - Christmas especially must be a difficult time for your family. I'm sure your Mum would be so proud of you and the beautiful little boys you have brought into this world.
Clare - hope you've been having an enjoyable time with your grandparents. Hope you're not getting too wet up here. Safe trip home.
Trill - Hope the kids left out some extra special treats for Santa - sounds like he needed caffeine to keep him awake!!!
md - glad you and the family had a wonderful Christmas. I shed a tear with your beautiful words about BB and our wonderful little group. i too would never have thought that 3 years later, I'd still be at my putie 'talking' with my friends. I tell you guys more than what I tell my friends IRL. So, really, you ladies are my BOLFF's. (Best on line friends forever!!!! ) lol.
Arte - I'm so glad you have your happy W back. Just in time for Christmas
We've had a wonderful time catching up with family over the past 2 days. The girls were spoilt - and so was I.
Hannah has been so funny - everything is hers at the moment. I'd picked up a bit of rubbish off the floor and she said ' Hey! That's mine!! She's also started saying
'oh all right' (in an exasperated tone) when i ask her to do something.
Anyway, heading off to the coast tomorrow for 3 weeks. Dh will have his laptop (got the latest Call of Duty pc game for his birthday ) so i'll still be able to catch up.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Clare I *****ed up my ears when I heard the word Coonabarabran on the news last night ...that was before I knew you were there...had a feeling it affected someone I knew! I hope you're able to keep yourselves entertained (and above water!) until the road conditions improve...stay safe my lovely!
Trill - love your descriptions of the kids playing with their stuff!
Jazah - BOLFFs - I love it! We're having attack of the Mine!s here too...over really random stuff as well. We had friends visit this morning for a Chrissy morning tea, exchanged gifts, poor E was crushed because she saw a parcel change hands and thought MINE! and it wasn't LOL. Luckily another gift was shortly forthcoming so all good then. Enjoy your coastal soujourn, soak up lots of good rest and fun so you're all set for a new year. xxx
Thinking of MP thick in the middle of her move and everything.
Cally, enjoy your blobbing around, I hope you get in some nice qual time with your DH before he's off playing cricket up and down the coast LOL.
How's everyone pulled up after Christmas? Kids still playing happily with their toys? I'm very tired - it's been a big few days for me but also great. Looking forward to some quiet family time tonight - just can't get enough of my lovelies at the moment.
LOL Clare, what were the odds of it finally raining this much at this time of year? We've just had another lovely heavy storm pass over. We were just about to cart water too but we have been saved in the nick of time again.
Jaz that is so cute. i can just picture her doing that. Does she roll her eyes when she says it as well? Alister gets the 'no, MINE's' happening too ROFL. Trying to take something off him when he has his heart set on it is like trying to wrestle a bone off a dog.
MD I was cut short and didn't get to reply to you Today I feel like Christmas is over for the year - the last of the rubbish from presents is all gone and everything tidied up properly so bar the tree still being up it is back to normal. Kids are still happily playing with everything which is great. Everyone was on a winner with what they got the kids and nothing was excessive kwim? We don't have a house full of new toys that we don't know where we are going to store. DH is back at work tomorrow so it will be back to the same old same old here.
Oh and Clare, are you travelling on the Newell hwy? If you did you passed literally within 14kms of my house!
Hey Cally! I missed your post. blobbing around has been on the agenda here too - too wet for anything else.
It still feels like post-christmas here - we had visitors and exchanged gifts last night and again this morning - the kids are still discovering their toys - a few of which are still lying around - still eating ham and the remains of the mince pies - and enjoying my pink chrissy tree (still got the lights on hehe). We spent a lot more $ this year (we felt like everyone deserved an extra special treat after the year we've had) but it was quality not quantity pressies so no hassles putting things away here either. The kids slept in this morning AGAIN and tonight we're gonna catch up with some of the chrissy telly we missed ...I'm determined to make the holiday feeling last until Tues when 'normal' life starts again (ie interfacing with the outside world) with a visit to the surgeon & a trip into town to look at the sales if I can stand it.
Just poking my head in so I get the thread updates. IL's here, Christmas morning was a fun. Biggest hits were a bug collector and a Mack truck from Cars that the other cars can park inside.
MP, I must have missed that you were moving so soon, hope all is going well
Clare, hope the floods weren't too much of a problem and you had a good Christmas with your family.
Trill, I am also wondering where to store all the extra stuff. Not that they got lots, but I hate clutter.
Sounds like everyone had a good day.
I got a voucher for some books and I was wondering if anyone has read the TrueBlood series?
Sherie: ARGHHH!!! YES! we were travelling on the newell!!! i KNEW you lived close to that...i said to DH that i should of asked where you live and dropped by...i can imagine that it wouldnt happen too often for a BB girl to 'be in the area' lol! but i guess you woulda been hectic at this time of year anyways...
Arte: a bug collecter! that is really cool. i had one of those and spent hours and hours combing the garden.
Mum has read the trueblood series. she is a fan of that kind of thing (as am I) and we love the TV series. Mum said the first book was pretty good but after that it got a bit OTT...but that said, i will be trying to buy the series too LOL!
Jaz: ha ha ha! Leila has also been showing a bit of the 'tude. mostly telling us that it is 'really late' and we 'must go sleep now'. so bossy! kinda sorta love it too though...so going to regret that LOL!
MD: you tuned your senses right....coonabarabran proved most *interesting* for us.
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as i mentioned to MD our return trip for the most part was successful. until the part between Coonabarabran and Gilgandra where the song 'We are Sailing' came into my mind.
I (of course ) was the one driving, we came around a bend and saw the darkest meanest clouds i have only ever seen during cyclonic conditions in Fiji. my stomach began to sink...
we were travelling behind a Nolans fruit semi truck and little did we know that he would be our saving grace that day! basically about 5kms after we saw the first big clouds the truck started flashing his hazards and slowed to about 10kms/hr. and that's when i saw that the creek had burst and was fast flowing across the road. luckily it was only to the halfway mark of the hubcaps so although scary it was nowhere near what we were about to face.
for about 20ish kms we had to negotiate (with no way back or option of stopping because it was driving rain and the water had flowed so much that it was impossible to know where the road and the paddocks started IYKWIM. there was sooo much debris. i ran over a number of road signs that had been torn up. twice (!) the bonnet disappeared under water and i lost traction of the car as it got picked up by the water. at one point a truck travelling in the opposite direction went past and the whole car was covered. i was so so terrified. talk about white knuckles LOL! leila got scared at the last one as she must of picked up on my anxiety (and that of DH and my mum!). at one point i told DH to unbuckle DD from the carseat because i thought we had lost out. the poor car was making the worst noises and was constantly on the verge of stalling.
but thanks to Paul the truck driver, he guided us through and i could see that he was checking on us in his mirrors, so that gave me some hope. i love that man LOL! we eventually got out and all the cars and trucks that had just gone through all stopped and we all got out and just stared LOL! eventually we all got together and had chats and spoke about what we just got through which was really needed. even the truckies were sweating bullets!
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BUT all through the trip back home i needed to pee...often...
hehe Clare, I just saw the announcement. Such happy news and a great way to end the year. All we need now is for H to get her forever baby too.
Will you be coming back this way on the way home? You should have let me know because I would have found the time. It's scary driving though water like that. I've done it once a few years ago when I was alone with the kids - just Lindsay and Erin at the time and it's not something I'd like to do again in a hurry. So if you are coming back this way, let me know and I will come and meet up with you in West Wyalong.
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. My dear friend: not being able to talk about it IS part of grieving - don't be so hard on yourself. I don't talk about this much on BB but I can see, hear and feel Spirit - my experience doing psychic readings and healings has taught me that our special loved ones are often with us after they have passed over. Most people only ever catch a fleeting sensation or glimpse - we are too wrapped up in our physical senses to be able to perceive the energy - but I am 100% sure your Mum has been with you as you struggle with your terrible grief, and that she sees and knows what a joy and consolation L (and esp J) has been to you and especially your dad. xxx
Christmas especially must be a difficult time for your family. I'm sure your Mum would be so proud of you and the beautiful little boys you have brought into this world.
Today I feel like Christmas is over for the year - the last of the rubbish from presents is all gone and everything tidied up properly so bar the tree still being up it is back to normal. Kids are still happily playing with everything which is great. Everyone was on a winner with what they got the kids and nothing was excessive kwim? We don't have a house full of new toys that we don't know where we are going to store. DH is back at work tomorrow so it will be back to the same old same old here.
) was the one driving, we came around a bend and saw the darkest meanest clouds i have only ever seen during cyclonic conditions in Fiji. my stomach began to sink...
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