Hello everyone,
The sun is hot, the pool is blue and my 7 yr old daughter NEVER STOPS TALKING!!!! She starts talking before she opens her eyes in the morning and is still chattering, singing or both when she finally goes to sleep. School holidays mean I am in the front row seat for all concerts, performances, whispered secrets, stories and wonderings. I love her. I really do. I just wish she had a mute button occasionally.!
The Christmas break for us was busy in a lazy kind of way. We had a family friend and her 3 boys here for Christmas Day ( hmm, 3 young boys full of lollies and chocolates, with a slip-n-slide and water guns, how is that going to end well???).
Then on Boxing Day My Mother-In-Law, Sister-in law + Hubby and 2 kids arrived for a week relaxing by the pool. We ate a ridiculous amount of food, the kids swam until they grew gills and we brought in the New Year with a whimper not a bang- not exactly big party people in our home.
New Years Day saw all the in-laws depart, and after a 5 hour break to mop, wash and wipe the bathroom over, my parents arrived. See... I told you we should have installed a revolving door.
Mum and Dad have been "grey nomads" this year and plan at least another year of travelling so it's a treat to have them here for an extended visit.Sarah is very excited about a sleepover in the caravan - apparently she will sleep sooooooooo much better on the little bed in Nanna's van!
I have been busy painting and restocking many buttons, lots of the more intricately painted buttons were running low, so I have tried to refill. That means that I don't have new buttons to show you today, but in the next few weeks, I have some lovely ideas to bring to life.
Most of all, life is good here, happy, peaceful and blessed. I hope you had a great Christmas and New Year... what are your plans for 2012? Are you going to have a UFO year or do you have a few new projects planned?
Lovely reading that you had such a good time over the holidays. Oh, I can almost hear my daugher chatting and chatting when she was young. I never found that button and am sometimes still looking for it.
This year I hope to finish many Ufo's! Already finished one and a big one is almost done. Can hardly believe it.
Have a great weekend!
Posted by: simone | January 14, 2012 at 06:06 AM
Hi Lisa- I was SURE I was one of your followers - well I will make sure now. DUH! LOL
It sounds like you had a lovely Christmas, we had a quiet one but very ebjoyable. Our DD and DGD came up from Sydney yesterday with our belated gifts. My DD has been very sick and is waiting on a date for surgery.
I am determined to get to some of those pesky UFO's this year.
I hope this year is an excellent one for you- looking forward to reading what you have been doing . Hugs, Sandy. :)
Posted by: sandra parsons | January 15, 2012 at 06:59 PM
Hi! Dopey here I don't know how to follow you. I like you on F/B but I am used to google friend Connect so I don't know what I am supposed to do. let me know, ok??? x
Posted by: sandra parsons | January 15, 2012 at 07:03 PM