When I was Christmas shopping for E the other day, I only bought myself ONE present and it was this little gem from Natures Window; How cute is that! $6.95 friends! It’s one piece and so teeny, made from good quality nylon, it has a …
Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful….“ It has now been raining for about 3 days and I’m not quite sick of it yet as I’m pretty sure I can see my veges growing from where I sit. Yus. BACK …
The first Christmas Post of the year!!! Excited much?
Mark your calendars, for today the 3rd of December is the all-time Melissa’s Best Day of 2009 Winner. Don’t ask why, just tip your cans and wine glasses and give us a big ol cyber hug!
Thanks.
Now, on to Christmas. I started and finished ALL of Ethan’s shopping today with the exception of the fish tank which is not in stock yet. So, again, yay me. I think even Dave is happy with the budget which is a small miracle considering my penchant for blowing exorbitant amounts of money on the little prince and Dave’s rather conservative Southern-boy expectation of acceptable amounts to spend on lil chil’ns.
After I picked Ethan up from school we headed a l o n g way away to Christmas Wonderland for the first time – and it wasn’ t that far really.
Oh my Jesus. Holy smokes. That place is awesome. There are like 160 bee-ootiful Christmas trees all decorated with different themes, some people have worked on this display for 5 months! Imagine dedicating 5 months of your life to Christmas. If anymore people start doing this there will be no-one left to celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day and then where would we be?
So I may or may not have taken pictures. With my camera, which is not that small (hello big ol Canon DSLR), but somehow these pics have found there way into my hands – I know people in all the right places. This was a covert operation so there is some blur due to adjusting settings in the dark and shooting from out of a purse which may or may not have been mine. I have told you before, I live on the edge people.
I am soooooo excited about my vege garden this summer, I haven’t felt this excited since the summer of 2006 which is when we moved to opposite land and I couldn’t stop planting shit because we had a GARDEN AND WE DIDN”T LIVE IN AN …
I’ve harped on enough about this already……so here’s the gallery (he looks so cute in his uniform!)
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You are a star. After your 18 hour arrival into this world five years ago in California, you have certainly turned everything upside down. You arrived early, which I was super happy about because it felt like you were getting bigger every day – it …
I’m loving the addition of the cheetahs in this lot of artwork, nice to see Ethan branching out a bit and painting something other than sharks! You can click on the images to view them in the lighbox, tres fancy I know!
The nice flip-side of my darling boy growing up and starting school dawned on me today. I mean, I realise that there are many flip-sides such as the confirmation that Dave and I have seemingly done a great job these past five years and have raised a pretty well adjusted little kid who after being at school for five minutes on his first day looked at me and told me ::very s l o w l y in case I might have trouble understanding:: that it was time for me to go now, he had school to do.
But today….Oh my goodness. I haven’t had a hair cut in approx 6 months. I have had my colour done but not a cut, so basically it looked like the remnants of a hay bale stuffed into a hair tie. I was that girl who entered the salon wearing a hat. But I left with the best haircut I have ever had.
I figured that it was my duty to go clothes shopping, you know, doing it for all the recently-separated-from their-kids-by-school mothers out there. So I took one for the team and picked out a new outfit for the Pearl Jam concert tomorrow. Let me tell you, if you are not a fan of your mid-section or if you straight up hate it like I do, GO AND TRY ON A MAXI-DRESS. I did, I bought one and I am going to rock it tomorrow. They are so slimming, the long full skirt just draws the eye down and of course there are no muffin-top-nasties anyway because you’re not being cut in half by your waistband!
After that I met Dave for lunch and we sat poolside at The Backyard and soaked up the sun. Yes it was sunny. I promise. We enjoyed prawn and sundried tomato fritters and split a Backyard Burger. So good!
Best day I have had in a long time. And all because I can work three days and make the same hours I was previously doing over 5 days. Bless you school, I am definitely Thankful for you!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Here are some shots from Halloween / Thanksgiving 05
After the shittiest of shitty springs here in New Zealand, finally, this sunset tonight; Ethan started school on Monday and has transformed into a Big Boy seemingly overnight. I can barely get a word out of him about his day apart from that he thinks …