New Years Eve 2010

Quiet Night In. Cheers!!!

Thursday dressups

On Thursday Daddy got out all his gear from his time in Bosnia ready to send off to the Australian War Memorial where he is donating everything he has from that time. He is also going to write up a piece about his experiences, and while we are very proud of all that he has achieved as an army officer and veteran, this will be another step in the journey in leaving that time behind. Tassie thought it was great fun playing dressups with Daddy.

Wednesday

Ian very sweetly offered to be the Mummy-Daddy today so I could have some project catch-up time. Having these two small children at home is a fulltime job, and without his help I'd get no break! So I sat outside on this warm day, going through years of newspaper and magazine clippings - a job I've been putting off for ages but that has become interesting for me again since I started my journal in November. And at about lunchtime first Mum then my sister dropped over and I had to press pause on the project. But it was actually really lovely to be outside relaxing on the deck, and I still had a break from being the Mummy today.

Scrap pages and more applique and embroidery

This was a page made a couple of weeks ago, the last one I made before the month got hectic. The photo was leftover from another project, so I grabbed and made this sweet, simple page. Exactly my favourite kind of page, simple and colourful.






These are the little tops, left over from Tassie's baby days, that I saved for baby Delilah, but added some applique and embroidery embellish them for a great Christmas present.

Tuesday - visiting day

In the morning, I took Tassie with me to visit Mum (Gandy) and later, Manda and Delilah. The images don't really show how amazing the view is from Mum's unit. She has a view of the magnificent hills behind the trees. She also has a unit in the village positioned in the best possible place, in my opinion, to see all this from her bedroom and kitchen and lounge room windows. Sigh! Mike finished building the new IKEA desk too, so Mum was keen to show it off. It looks exactly right in her unit.

After returning from a visit to Manda and baby Delilah, who looked so sweet in her Jolly Jumper, holding Tassie's hand, we returned for lunch out on the deck with Angus, while Ian took the car to spend some more time with his son, Josh. They went for lunch again, before returning together to stay for the curry chicken I'd made in the slow cooker.