coping mechanisms....

Sometimes a little chocolate and a little wine are just the things to help you through the day...........and sometimes a HUGE amount of chocolate and a vast amount of wine are the ONLY way to get through the day.......


do you think I over did it on the chocolate?

Frizz.................

This horrid damp weather plays havoc with my hair.

And why do you always run into those damn Barbie-Moms at the grocery store when you look like crap? Somehow their hair never seems to be effected by the rain. Gggrrrrr

In disguise.........................

Laurie won a stick-on false moustache today at the library and had great fun wearing it around town.......so when we got home we all tried it......sadly (ha ha) the pictures they took of me were all blurry ;)

A disappointing end to Sundays sunset

Last nights sunset started so beautifully but then seemed to just give up and the sky just darkened. It started off so well with this glorious pink sky that I imagined glorious oranges and reds. No such luck! But thats probably a good thing as by that time I had gone up to bed and would have had to go back downstairs and get my camera if had been that good!

That time of year.....

It's that time of year again......the stores are filled with school supplies! If I was back in England I'm sure I'd find the stores filled with little grey pinnafores, red checked dresses, grey trousers and little white polo shirts......sweet neat little uniforms even though the children have only been off of school a week or two!

This year I have no need to buy any school supplies at all....we unschool...we have plenty of craft supplies, paper and pens and there isn't much else we have a need for....but that doesn't mean I won't walk the 'back to school' aisles...I LOVE school supplies. My favourites are spiral bound notebooks and nice pens :) especially those packs with pens of different colours....not markers/ felt pens...but writing pens that come in jazzy ink colours!

It's lovely not to have to face the back to school rush in the stores...its fab to be able to cruise the aisles and buy what we WANT to buy.....and we can even wait until the sales if we want!

And another FAB thing is that anything we buy we can claim back from the homeschool funding...so we get to go loopy over spiral bound notebooks and not have to pay :)

No school fees to pay this year, no back to school clothes we have to get......no special indoor runners that don't have marking soles........we can buy any shoes we like :)

Its a really nice feeling :) and luckily my children seem to have inherited my love of nice pens and notebooks.....pretty writing tablets and post-its!!!!

Those lovin' looks

Sometimes I catch Lloyd sat looking at me......I like to think he's looking at me thinking how lucky he is to have me in his life.......................

...................But probably he's just trying to work out what planet I'm from ;)

Rainy days and Mondays.......................

Wow did it ever rain last night! I don't think I have experienced constant heavy rain like that since Scotland. It just rained and rained...I began to wonder if we should be using the wood from the barn to build an ark.......

This morning was COLD....lovely and cold :) and wet :) we had the heating on! Lloyd took Chris to work which means he left late enough to have coffee with me :)

Today I've done the floors and laundry and pottered about...then we ran into town to get Chris from work and the childrne played the game at the library...they each won a toy. We picked some books and dvd's to borrow and also went into the big book sale there and managed to spend $14 on books! More books than I have shelf space for.......

The library was quiet while we were there but we managed to run into two other homeschool families! Then when I got home I had an email from another homeschooling Mom who had been at the library earlier and had seen Chris working...she wrote to say hi and tell me Chris was doing a great job helping the children with the summer game :) That was lovely to hear!

This afternoon I have read to Sam, chatted with Lloyd and we watched some of the mighty Machines dvd we borrowed. I've started a letter to my sister to go in with her birthday card...must post that tomorrow.

One of the books we borrowed for Sam was a House Mouse book.....I just adore the House Mouse art......they are just the cutest......I'd like to get some large prints done to frame. They do rubber stamps too:

http://www.quirksofart.com/rubber-stamps-house-mouse-stamps-c-28_284.html

We have two eggs so far today......we seem to be getting two a day at the moment....Lloyd gets very excited about taking Sam in to find the eggs :) I just love that the children are growing up experiencing all of this!

I trimmed Sams hair today.......only a bit as he wouldn't keep still for long!

Dime bars

I miss Dime bars...do they still sell them at Ikea???? Skor bars are ok but they aren't as nice as Dime bars....

How long?

Several weeks ago I wrote 'Love You' on the bathroom mirror with my mascara (Yes I do occasionally wear make up lol) so that when Lloyd got up for work he would see it.

So now the question is, how long do I leave it there? Lloyd wants me to just leave it until it wears away or until we renovate the bathrooms......but I'm thinking maybe I should wash off the mirror at some point....

So how long is it appropriate to leave it on?????