Just Do It

I am changing my blog site - don't like the changes that have been made here!  My new blog site is

http://lyndabnz.blogspot.com/

Please change any bookmarks or favourites and visit me at the new place.

Have a good day

Gotta mention this site Whitcoulls where they have a competion going at the moment where you tell them you 3 favourite books and they will send you a 50% off voucher for another book.  Awesome, valid until 14 June - go and vote!  Thanks Mel for alerting me to this :-)

It really makes me wonder why I bother with kids sports sometimes.  We went to hockey for Nick and Tommy tonight, Nick played for the first 10minutes and then walked off when the opposition scored their second goal - absolutely no persuading him to get back on the field, especially with everyone watching me!  Tommy got to play the last 5 minutes of the second half and the first 10minutes of the second half.  For that, I sat in the freezing wind and rain for an hour!  Not impressed.  I really feel like washing and handing back their uniforms - maybe after a decent nights sleep I will change my mind.

We are heading down to Auckland tomorrow for a bit of retail therapy, visit Mum for Mothers Day and to stay in a hotel for the night - Spencer on Byron - they have an awesomely huge spa pool.  We had booked to come and stay here the Sunday night after the V8s were at Pukekohe.  We had a change of plan though and change the booking to coincide with Andy's birthday which is the Monday.  Unfortunately (or not) we forgot about Mothers Day, so I  guess I will wake up in the lap of luxury on Sunday morning - bummer!

Happy Mothers Day to all the Mums out there and catch you again on Monday.

Finally managed to get a pic of the layout I completed over the weekend - a whole pile of hidden journalling behind the photo reflecting where I am at the moment.

Can't show you the pic of the other piece I did until after Mother's Day 'cos Mum reads this occasionally and I don't want to ruin her surprise.  Sorry about the large size of the pic, blog have changed all the software and you either get a huge pic or a thumbnail that you can't even see.  I will keep working on it and see what I can do.

The phone rang tonight and we had 2 boys fighting over who was going to answer it.  It brought back memories of me as a teenager and always wanting to answer the phone just in case it might be for me.  Ali was most disgusted when Nick got the phone and then told the caller that Ali was just having to go for a shower.  The rebuke sounded so like what I would have said to my brother or sister if they had said I was going for a shower.

When we got home from the supermarket on Saturday it was the boys job to unpack and put the groceries away.  Andy went to cook dinner and couldn't find the rice anywhere.  We call out to the boys to see where they put it.  Tommy answers immediately "Oh, I put it in the freezer" as if that is where we always keep the rice.  Too funny, took ages for us to stop laughing.

What a busy weekend of scrapping I have had, the first time in ages that I have scrapped in the weekend and it coincided perfectly with National Scrap Day.  I completed two projects, one of which I will share a photo with tomorrow.  The camera died and the battery charger was up at the Lake. 

Andy and Ali took off over the to the lake today and packed up the caravan and pulled it home.  Now we have a huge clean up job over the next few days getting rid of 6 months of dust and sand and prepping it for next summer.

Been in a bit of a funk lately and not really sure what I am doing or where I am going.  Hence no posting to my blog.  Got all inspired today and started to create a layout of where I am with lots of hidden journalling.  All set and just needs to be assembled now, when I go out and buy some hinges in the morning.

Can't believe we are having a weekend at home for a change - the boys are really looking forward to that and I am looking forward to sleeping in, in my own bed.   We still need to head back to the lakes and pick up our caravan and start the clean up process ready for next summer.  Yuck, that means summer is over and winter on the way - I am so not ready for winter yet.  I wore my jeans and sweatshirt all day today and wanna go back to singlets and shorts!

Thanks for all the phone calls and comments regarding Nicks injury.  He is racing around everywhere at the moment and doing very well, loving being the centre of attention.  I think he did get a bit sick of telling everyone what happened at school today though.  I was talking to a friend at the lake over the weekend and she mentioned a brown micro fibre type of tape that they used to use when she worked with a plastic surgeon.  Apparently if you put this tape on the scar once the stitches are removed and leave it there permanently for about the next 3months or so the scar will disappear completely.  I need to get in touch with her and find out the correct name for it.

I went to the gym this morning and got my new programme with a whole pile of new exercises.  I tell ya I have muscles where I have never had muscles before!  Strange thing is the exercise that I felt was a bit of a waste of time this morning because it didn't feel like it was doing anything is where I hurt the most.  Sat in the spa earlier and felt pretty good, but I think that is wearing off now.  Time for bed I think.