Trying to fix it!

I'm sorry, I must have done something to stop people from being able to comment, and I don't know what it is...  For now, please comment where you can if you would like to, and I'll try to....   not sure yet  :)
If you know what I need to do, please leave a comment!    lol   
- perhaps by email, or by commenting on a recent post please  :)

A photo of Abby but nothing at all profound!

I haven't written for a while :)

Just doing other things, I guess.

Our daughter Abby is pregnant! That is very happy news for us all, as you might imagine :)

That is Abby in the photo above. She's bigger now. But still our baby having her own baby! The baby is due in January next year.

....

I'd like to write something profound,

but would need to found/find it first!

I'd like to write something beautiful,

but just thinking about you seems to cover that :)

Would love to share something very interesting!

In Ter Rest... Nope. Sorry :)



And that's where I've been folks! :) I've been reading a lot, and really enjoying some others' profoundly interesting and amusing thoughts... And have been loving the beautiful days we've been having - the weather is perfectly lovely recently! I've been getting onto my list of Things To Do. But nothing to really share, which concerns me with wondering thoughts about whether I am selfish: glad to take but not much to give.. oh dear...



Sigh.

:)

xo

I Think There's a Deeper Metaphor in This....

There are no rules about what I can put on my blog are there? (Apart from the obvious - no photos of me or Tammy :)!

Because Tammy just sent me this on email - and I think it's hilarious - it made me laugh and laugh. (Leah, I really want to see you trying this! Bec, Kaili, Lizzie too! :) Here goes:


HOW SMART IS YOUR RIGHT FOOT?

This is hysterical.
You have to try this. It is absolutely true. It only takes 2 seconds..
I guess there are some things that the brain cannot handle.
It is from an orthopaedic surgeon..
This will confuse your mind and you will keeptrying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot, but, you can't. It is pre-programmed in your brain!

1. While sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your rightfoot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your righthand.

Yourfoot will change direction. I told you so! And there's nothing you can do about it!
You and I both know howstupid it is, but before the day is done you are going to try it again, if you've not already done so.


xxoo

Money Money Competition!

Neil and I had a few hours at home alone recently - it felt fun and we took the opportunity to plunder our full 'Dad's Overseas Odyssey' money tin and count it up. We've been adding to it with one and two dollar coins and fifty cent pieces, (along with the occasional note), since the children gave it to Neil on Fathers' Day a while ago. Eventually it will help us go tripping again! Neil is funny - he loves to put money in each day, and often contrives to get as much change as possible when he shops! We have started a new tin, but meanwhile...

Can you guess how much is there??

We've counted, and are wondering who can best guess the correct amount. What do you think?

"Only three days behind"

We are always told that we should write down our goals. I just know that there are lots of good reasons for me not to do that... but - here goes - in the interest of... clearing some room in my head for other things :)

MY GOALS FOR THIS YEAR (what is left of it and them!):

To finish scrapbooking my Mother's eight week holiday with us and send it down to her in Adelaide.

Plan a holiday for Auntie Linda come up and stay with us.

At least 20 mins. in depth scripture study daily.

Design new office furniture for Neil - in reception and in his office. Research building materials; collect quotes; organize a builder; have the work completed and installed before June 30.

Design landscaping around Neil's office; collect quotes and organize machinery; purchase plants; coordinate deliveries of mulch etc. for a family work week-end 6th and 8th June, to have work completed by mid-June.

Purchase new cupboard and sliding doors for Neil's office; paint them; organize builder (or the boys) to hang them, before end of June.

Design and organize someone to build a wheelchair ramp up to the office veranda.

Lose weight and get fit, (2 hourly gym visits 3x week), partly in order to complete a 50k hike to celebrate my birthday at the end of August.

Babysit adorable grand-child for beautiful daughter Jessima once a week or so. Be available as much as possible. Have a grandchildren sleepover once a month (whenever Jenna's parents are ready).

Complete Tammy's huge 'million year quilt' before the end of the year ( It's in the photo - I only have the edging to do). Make a few baby quilts before the end of the year. (For future grand-children.)

Begin on some children's quiet books.

Learn how to redo my blog page.

Clean out Michael's room; repaint and re-decorate it as a spare bedroom/grandchildren's room/new room for Ben or Oliver/exercise room????

Spring-clean through the whole house - every cupboard, shelf, nook and cranny. Re-plaster and re-paint the garage ceiling; paint some of the internal walls.

Replace the garden shed; redo the foundation and clean everything out. Oversee wall and ceiling storm damage repairs. Get roof fixed.

Work out what to do about a new lounge suite. Fix up the old one? Again?

Make new floor cushion covers for Abby and for us.

Make alterations to Abby's black dress, temple dress and orange blouse before winter!

Weed, fertilize, spring tidy and planting - then spread 5 square metres mulch in the garden.

Knit at least one scarf for my mother and send it down to her for winter.

Plan 2 family holidays for the next 12 months - one for those at home and one for extended family.

Be available for my family and friends when needed.

Regular temple visits.

Restock my food storage and help the rest of the family to get theirs.

Help Tammy with purchasing and compiling 24 hour packs for everyone in the family.

Decoupage a tissue box for Jessima (and one for us too).

Complete the Christmas presents I have planned for family gifts. (I can't write this one down - but it's going to take more time than anything else.)

Learn how to make great raspberry jam and give it away for gifts at Christmas.

Make Christmas parcels for the missionaries who don't get them from home. (Last year there were 45.)

Offer to cook and decorate for the missionary Christmas lunch (120) in December. Consider asking some friends to help this time!

Make sure I send out a family Christmas letter and cards this year. (Missed last year :(

Read lots of good books. Try to learn more than I forget!

Continue planning some family childrens' books I would like to write. (Hoping to get Mum and Abby to illustrate them.)

Be a diligent SS teacher and a good friend and VT.

While I am working full-time for Neil from July to November - get the office in tip-top shape. Get some paintings framed for the office.

Organize all the photo and other folders on my computer.

Enjoy a monthly one-on-one activity with each of the children at home. See if the others would like a turn too :)

Socialize with old and new friends at least once a month - invite them over for dinner.

Help with catering etc. as required for the regional Priests/Laurels Ball on July 10.

Be cheerful, humble, kind, charitable, uncomplaining, hard-working and Christlike. (ok - that's a long term one.)

So!

In the spirit of Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley who once said, “I have a new project to read one chapter a day from each of the standard works. I’ve been on it four days and I’m only three days behind" - that is my current list of goals!

(Please feel free to make further suggestions. If I have missed anything. :)

Reporting in..

Had at least half a day where I did a little better. Yay for me! :)

'Go and Do!'

John 13:14,15 'If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example,that ye should do as I have done to you.'

I was given this scripture to read in a workshop yesterday and it really struck me - that I really need to 'do' a lot more than I have been doing!

I think about 'doing' good things all the time - worthwhile, useful things. Then I read a book or putter about instead! Meanwhile, my time on earth is wasting away...

Abby gave me a lovely little book a few days ago, (thank you Abby! :) called, 'it's a happy thing'. One of the quotes from it reads,

"Live with your whole being... all the days of your life!

Your reward will be true happiness!

(Rebecca Thomas Shaw)

-not a new thought, but perhaps a timely nudge!

A doctor once described me in a reference (I was a nurse), as being 'self-actualized' to a high degree. It was true then, but I'm sorry to admit that it hasn't been true lately :( I am too often paralysed into inactivity by procrastination. I've got so much that I want to do that I often do nothing at all!

Why am I inflicting this on you? lol :) I don't usually write down, or like to write down goals etc. But perhaps I can write soon that I am, in fact, 'doing' better - a small framework of accountablility as such.

Meanwhile - it's a gloriously beautiful day outside; it's a public holiday; my husband is on his way home from dropping the twins at a friend's house, to spend the afternoon with me; I had a great sleep last night; my life is full of blessings... (My husband just got home -with eggs benedict for lunch :)

And of course, I have some good books to read and some puttering about to do!
(haha - just kidding, kind of! I'm going to do better. Thanks for listening :) I'll be here all week folks :)
xo

Time to go to bed :)

Haha! I'm going for the 'Most Blog Posts in One Day' award. Is there such a thing? Can we make one up? I think the prize should be.... hmmm.... Nope, no idea at all really! :)

I suppose it's not ever going to be as prestigious as the 'Most Interesting Blog' award, or the 'Most Impactful Blog Entry', etc. Sigh.

:)