tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384476692024-03-19T12:51:40.912+10:00Tales from a full household<p>A place for me to write about my life and what goes on....</p>
basically anything goes here, really!Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-32956127903902080172010-04-01T17:11:00.000+10:002010-04-01T17:11:02.137+10:00A day out for the Crane Clan...One weekend, Pete got stir crazy......he didn't have to go to work and didn't have any work around the house that he had to do (or FELT like doing, more......always plenty to do around here!). So he decided to pack everyone in the car and head out on a local road trip, sightseeing. It was a lovely drive from here, to Yeppoon and back - you can actually make a round trip of it....sortaShellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-17995133611001276522010-03-29T12:35:00.001+10:002010-03-29T12:41:57.054+10:00A wedding of the Celtic traditional kind!How time flies!! So much for me starting another blog! I have been very busy with work and have been unable to find time to do anything other than spend time with my family and go to work! So, it has not been all dull and gloomy here....although the recent cyclone that threatened our shores made the days that way!
We enjoyed a trip down to Gladstone, once again. Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-13024453442703142372010-03-18T05:40:00.000+10:002010-03-18T05:40:45.256+10:00Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes"Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time"
Yep - that song is in my head! And it is only very early here! So early that none of the kids are up yet - darn leg/hip/back! Woke me up early with painShellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-72042866061775523902010-03-11T00:02:00.000+10:002010-03-11T00:02:57.482+10:00What is worse - study or work...?I sat here and started to type my title for this post as "Tired!!!" But then realised that I have already written that post title before in the last couple of months! Thank goodness for 'autocomplete' or I would bore you to death with a post of much the same thing!
So, back to my original question (but not my original post title) - What do you consider worse for making you tired?
I Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-92230740384968079062010-02-26T11:32:00.000+10:002010-02-26T11:32:01.952+10:00Hmmm.....It's Friday and that means that I have Mickey and William at home.....all to myself! I am yet to determine whether this is a good thing or not, as the house always seems a mess with kids at home during the day and my 'days off' (Monday to Thursday, when they are at daycare) seem to make me a little complacent of things that go on in the house of a family! I mean - I get to do pretty Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-83217553435462462762010-02-25T15:33:00.001+10:002010-02-25T15:34:23.876+10:00Tired! And my first T recon!!!!What IS it with this dang weather!!?? It has rained on and off over the last couple of weeks and, I can tell you, I am totally sick of it! I have read US blogs and I can definitely sympathise with them over the amount of (in some instances) unseasonal snow (Although we dont get snow here and I have only seen it once in my life)! Monday, tuesday and Wednesday were reasonable daysShellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-17825039215687523932010-02-22T16:41:00.001+10:002010-02-25T15:12:14.858+10:00EMPLOYED!!Well....not officially, just yet (still have paperwork to do, like bank account numbers and the like to give to them), but I got 'the' phone call this morning, confirming my employment with the Cerebral Palsy League!! Just another area that I want to delve into.....besides nursing, that is!
So.....I will be doing a minimum of 48 hours per week (ETA - Um....I meant fortnight!)....permanent Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-58224844452012207312010-02-18T22:05:00.000+10:002010-02-18T22:05:34.328+10:00Meep Meep! EEP!!!Just popping in to let you all know that I am still alive....just VERY busy this week! I have finished one of those crochet projects that I was telling you about......3 to go!
What am I 'EEPing' about? I have not one, but TWO job interviews tomorrow!! EEP EEP!!! The first will be for Maccas (yay!) and the 2nd is with the Cerebral Palsy League.....hmm...wonder which one Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-61627235530215526032010-02-16T10:49:00.000+10:002010-02-16T10:49:36.193+10:00I have been quiet because....I have started the nerve racking experience of finding a job! Our situation dictates that I need to find a job in order for us to live the life that we want to live, so I have been here (but not exactly on blogger) searching for a job online!
I am amazed at just how easy this internet has made it for us job hunters (well...as easy as job hunting can be)! There are many sites that Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-5659171666593147292010-02-10T22:08:00.003+10:002010-02-10T22:13:38.444+10:00Just HAVE to boast!! (Mass picks!)
Isn't he just the cutest little thing you have EVER seen? I tell ya - i am one PROUD Aunty! Fell completely in love with him straight away! I got HEAPS of cuddles with him and Will just couldn't get enough, either!!
Just a few more photos of the kids:
Mumma T - a VERY proud Mumma!
Aunty Shelli having a chat with Blayde! I SWEAR he was trying to tell me Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-35504593664964961592010-02-10T15:49:00.000+10:002010-02-10T15:49:27.574+10:00I have to get these up!!I absolutely HAVE to get these photos up, coz I am expecting some visitors soon!! One little visitor in particular, I am VERY much looking forward to meeting for the first time. That is right - I get to meet my new little nephew tonight! Can you tell I'm excited? Have a goosey at these little beauties! I hope that T likes them and will use them often!
Most of them Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-5690954758468504682010-02-09T22:51:00.000+10:002010-02-09T22:51:28.918+10:00On and off....I have been on and off the bed today! Just not feeling right. Pains in the tummy like you would never believe and nothing to show for it (IYKWIM). Therefore, my sewing project that I started this morning has only just been finished! It was a bit of a 'make it up as I go' thing, but they turned out good, I reckon! Well...from what I can see in this artificial light, Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-27641404524628379672010-02-08T17:15:00.001+10:002010-02-09T13:58:18.448+10:00Monday, Monday....And yes...I DO have that song in my head, right now! I made up a whole playlist of 60's and 70's songs on my iPod for my Dad's party and I have been listening to it while on my machine every morning! I guess I may be a hippy at heart....?
With the cooking fiasco of yesterday behind me (the boys...not the food - might look a little ordinary, but is actually very Nom-Nom!!), I turned Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-81809974763116841452010-02-07T13:55:00.000+10:002010-02-07T13:55:49.455+10:00Sunday...funday!I tell ya! Today has been a whole lot of fun so far! Now....read that again with some sarcasm and you will catch my mood properly.
First off....set to the kitchen to do a little baking for the boys for lunch (today and school/daycare lunches) and asked if they would like to help. Of course they did! But proceeded to muck about and throw things instead of getting on with Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-90394022054155441872010-02-05T14:59:00.000+10:002010-02-05T14:59:46.231+10:00WHOOPS!!Remember how I told you that I would come back here for a show and tell of what I made yesterday? Well, I forgot to take photos of the completed projects before they were whisked off to school! So sorry! I will come back on tonight and post them up (provided they come home today!).
I hope these photos more than make up for my lack of organisation this morning!
From this Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-58960549763410590292010-02-04T15:03:00.000+10:002010-02-04T15:03:21.764+10:00Thursday already???Holy COW!! The weeks are just FLYING by!! I s'pose that's happens when you are busy, hey?
I have some op-shop goodies to share with you!! I went out yesterday on the sole purpose of finding Bubba Pete some new (old) school shorts and came home with a heap of goodness (as well as some shorts and two shirts - bonus!). Of course, I expected myself to find these other said Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-86994928830384523392010-01-29T16:29:00.000+10:002010-01-29T16:29:08.079+10:00Things have popped up....And they need attending to right away. Financial things.......serious financial things from our old business (damn dodgy bookkeepers!). Therefore I have made the hard decision to defer my university studies this year to enable me to concentrate on this problem and solve it once and for frikken all (sorry bout that - I hate having to do things twice....or in this case 3 times!). Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-17698228073902040632010-01-28T17:24:00.000+10:002010-01-28T17:24:07.194+10:0015 minutes.Yep - 15 minutes! That is all it took me this afternoon to clear out some of my clothing from my drawers. I have very limited hanging space (a small hanging cupboard for just me and Pete.....UNTIL he can get his butt into gear and reno our room!), so all things in there are left......for the moment.
I sorted my clothes quite viciously.......one pile for 'never wear again', one pile Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-31870716128520735922010-01-27T15:22:00.001+10:002010-01-27T15:30:57.788+10:00What a week!I realise that it is only Wednesday, but I want this week to be over already! Nothing like trying to speed up time to speed up the aging process, hey? LOL
Monday, Mickey and Will started at their new daycare. A much better centre that is better equipped and better service (their old daycare was a little run down, dirty looking and their program for the kids was almost Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-21837730589218374772010-01-25T14:43:00.000+10:002010-01-25T14:43:37.299+10:00Life sends you lessons.....And from them you must learn. And you thought I would have learnt already to take it easy and NOT lift a 20L container of fuel and put it into the car, hey??? I COULD have demanded that my husband come home from work and do it, like he said that he would that morning, but I didn't. I COULD have asked the older kids to do it together, under supervision from me......but (yep - youShellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-75576316269247636722010-01-12T21:46:00.001+10:002010-01-12T21:46:58.018+10:00Tuesday Trio.Instead of doing some sewing/crocheting or whatever other crafty thing my mind was supposed to be set at yesterday afternoon, I decided to head downstairs and go through some of my fabric stash. I wanted to make a little purse out of some of the sample curtain material I got really cheap from a curtain shop that was closing down a couple of years ago. I found some of said material, Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-77855307459902637592010-01-11T10:24:00.000+10:002010-01-11T10:24:03.405+10:00Monday Mojo!After a full-on week last week, I am looking forward to a week of relative peace and quiet! We held Dad's birthday party on Saturday night, which went quite well, so we are very VERY happy. There were a few moments of disorganisation, but we stumbled through them and came out the other side trumps! All in all - a good night was had by all and Dad really enjoyed himself and let Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-61999175109668640062010-01-08T12:35:00.003+10:002010-01-08T12:47:08.483+10:00Free Friday!Here is some of the free stuff that I have found on the web this week:
Crochet Patterns/tutorials:
Craftzine.com - where people write in with a link to their free pattern, tutorial or whatever and have it published here. Gives you plenty of links to patterns and has a category for just about everything you wish to know about!
The Crochet Dude - not many people know about Drew over Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-88512443231368719622010-01-06T14:07:00.001+10:002010-01-06T14:11:49.735+10:00Wattsie Wednesday!Today is my Dad's birthday (hence the 'Wattsie')!! Therefore, I am going to dedicate this post to him. He is now a large 60 years old. Not being there before, I would not know what it would be like to be that age (remember when you were a kid and considered 60 to be, like, ancient?) - I still have another 28 years to go 'til I am THAT age!
My Mum and Dad raised me to be accept Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38447669.post-39875286201000552982010-01-06T13:39:00.000+10:002010-01-06T13:39:43.387+10:00Trashy Tuesday(yes, I am writing this on Wednesday, but I had absolutely NO time to post last night! Sorry!)
I have decided to make Tuesday my 'sorting out' day - for the moment, anyway. This is where I will go through my stash (of one sort or another) or my office or my bedroom (which seems to be a dumping ground for most things!) and sort a few things out - whether it be rolling up fabric onto Shellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572904795338178801noreply@blogger.com0