HAppy birthday sweet Josaye! 13...

13 years have passed - what on earth! it has flown, and been a miraculous and amazing journey...one my sweet girl, that I am proud to hold your hand for...you amaze us with your insight and compassion, your helpfulness and intuition, your inner strength and beauty....I love that you are so different from me in some ways and so the same in others....I love that I can rely on your care of your siblings, and that you try to put them first - I love that your plans for life include shooting for the stars....know this baby girl, we will protect as much as we can, delight with you in your achievements, cry with you in your sorrows (may they be few and far between); support and love you always. Happy birthday sweet lady-child.

She chose to take her friends camping for the night out in our local bush/streams...we had a blast! I learn't a few things to about 13 year old girls!! 5 in a tent!...they are all lovely girls and it was a treat to hang out together....our wee lads thoroughly enjoyed the attention! and also learnt about peeing - ie not into the wind, not on mum's foot, not near the BBQ etc...good times hehe!!

The the rest of the family joined us the next day, for a lovely BBQ that was a teeny bit posh...and a swim down at the bay.... I so hope she will remember this time.

ps, I know the above photo of her cracking up isn't the best posed photo...but to me its gorgeous - her sister is pinching her butt and she's just lost it, and is laughing crazy.... it makes me smile everytime I see it.

happy birthday catch up!

well its been crazy birthday month in our family - with about a million of our family celebrating another number...heres just a few pics from the Man's birthday and mine - and check out who we got to play with - yay Ms Dee from dee-construction ...love my friends from a million years ago!

....and then as if I wasn't spoilt enough....these two lovely ladies threw me a gorgeous birthday luncheon....how cool are they!! LOVe em! Thanks so much Frith and Sarah....can't wait to do the same for you xx

Have to also say HAPPY late BIRTHDAY sweet neice and other sweet neice, lovely sister in law, lovely brother in law, lovely friends...all October babies. xxx

I'm back!

Hooray! My hardrive is fixed, dustfree (ahem!), up and running like a smooth running machine...to be honest, after heavy, serious withdrawals, we all go used to it not being here, and although I missed reading all your lovely blogs so much; I was amazed how much time I had to use differently...for shame on me!....anyho, since last here, so very much has happened....I turned another number, and was so spoled by my beautiful family, and sweet friends threw a birthday lunch for me...my sweet baby girl turned 13!!! (EEK!)...we took her and 4 girlfriends camping in the bush, was involved in helping a criminal investigation, followed by a birthday bonanza with my sweet sisters and their families and parents, have driven endlessly to see Miss Daisy Brown, cleaned her, brushed her, poked her when shes stubborn for my girl, been to 2 calf club days, planted masses of potatoes and corn, have suported my family through Mr Man rupturing his achellis tendon YOUCH! bigtime! - and its ingoing as you can imagine), sewn 4 peg aprons, 3 pairs of shorts, 2 summer pjs for my girls, one crazy patchwork bathmat, 3 christmas type projects, a skirt, 2 pillowslip dresses, altered clothes, mended, crotcheted, knitted with jersey yarn that has to be made as a go, started sorting the house for a moving in 6 weeks, worked a wee bit, and very sadly and with a heavy heart buried Mr Man's lovely Nana....its been a bumpy ride my friends, a bumpy ride....so a few pictures to catch up with .... its good to be back....