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Sunday, August 17th, 2008

we’ve been crossing off the TO DO list……

add neck flap to son’s cap…..take daughter’s skirt in…..purchase presents for family in Malaysia (and then spontaneously make gift bags out of funky NZ fabric)….work out time line for purchasing train tickets (too scary to actually do it yet though, even though we theoretically could buy the first two tickets already as we will be on those trains in less than sixty days—eeeeeek!)….gather together items for first aid kit/medicine cabinet….print out all our memorisation work in a smaller font and squeeze it into a more portable folder….sew patches over old stains….organise arrangements with family who is renting our house…..wonder about changing banks to make use of the no-overseas-fees offered by a rival bank…..collect boxes to pack our stuff away in…..change buttons on second daughter’s top….return another stack of books to the library…..arrange to visit out-of-town friends one more time….make a wee protective bag to keep our NZ Book in….paste our favourite poems into a book to take (we decided our newly-acquired poem habit was one we couldn’t do without)….*knit knit knit* (I have got so much done – every spare-ish moment I can be found with needles in hand….now there’s just a few hats to complete, a cardy for me and my second cotton top is half done)….apply for homeschool exemption for M6…..attend a birthday party……get hair cut…..and we have even had our first “last visit” with someone.

Fifty days to go.

And you know what? All that goes on in the midst of “normal” life continuing. There are still meals to cook, toilets to clean, books to read aloud, extra children to babysit, a funeral to attend, words to spell, bread to bake, songs to sing, arguments to referee, washing to fold, money to earn, life to live.

purchased!

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

After serious amounts of research in each and every instance, Rob’s been making some Very Important Trip Purchases……like a steripen, a GPS unit and an Ipod (no link, because I’ve got no idea what he’s got except that it has cool little pictures of the album covers to show what you’re listening to in case you couldn’t work it out from the music alone, but I suspect you can put them on any ipod so that’s no help, is it?)….anyway, I have to admit each and every one of these will have its uses. One might save our health, one our marriage (I believe in asking for directions and using maps, he’s a guy, nuff said….but if it’s a tech-y map, then that’s a different story, right?) and the other will surely preserve his sanity.

I, on the other hand, could travel much more simply. I just want a decent pencil sharpener and these. Coz you’re not allowed sharp metal needles on aeroplanes (and seeing as we are booked on the sum total of two aeroplanes, it really is an issue), I figured I’d found a fine justification for rounding out my tool supply. So I did. Cost less than any of Rob’s toys tools, will last forever and will never need to be updated to a smaller-sized-bigger-memoried-takes-fewer-batteries-model. Ever.

of flowers and funds

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Upon hearing about our upcoming silent auction, a lady who had purchased homemade flower presses from our Entrepreneur Son a couple of years ago, asked if there would be any more at the auction. ... [Continue reading this entry]

elefanx

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
She was so impressed at the children's determination to save up enough money to go to Disneyland that one of Rob's work colleagues gifted them a handmade-by-her-husband-elephant-bank to keep their savings in. Thanks Mrs S! We ... [Continue reading this entry]

traditional crafts

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Over the past few years I've joined the resurgence of Young(-ish, in my case) People tuning in to the joys of slowly-made hand-crafted items. I record much of what I make on one of my other blogs: intricateSIMPLICITY It seems to ... [Continue reading this entry]

B.S.C.

Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Just doing a little blog spring clean (virtual spring cleaning is so much more interesting than the bucket-of-water-and-old-rag-real-life sort!) I've discovered I cannot put categories on the pages listed in my sidebar. Well, actually you CAN put them on, but they ... [Continue reading this entry]