Happy 2009..

Opps can hardly believe I haven't been here in this long, so let's do a quick update on what's been happening.....

Children- well they be the bane of thy life and also they be the joys. One wishes sometimes that we could freeze them so they wouldst stop growing and be children for but a while longer and then there be days when one wishes one could zap them all away and they be grown and gone and thy be free... and why am I talking in medieval speak? Ahh that's easy, I be reading a wonderful Book- called "The Ancient Future" by Traci Harding, she's an Aussie author and this book is very long but very exciting and wants you to keep reading it and reading it which is always a good thing to have in a book.

The only other books I've felt this excited about recently have been the "Twilight" series which my 18 yr old daughter got me hooked on and it turns out I read the complete series and over took her and then got my cousin and her family hooked and now my Bloke is reading part one, although to be completly fair he's not enjoying it as much as we did, I guess Vampires just are not his cup of tea, or glass of beer.

Art- I haven't done too much on that scene, although I do keep reading the books and have my easel set up, one never knows when the urge to work will strike.. I did a great Pelican piece a few weeks ago to take down to our on-site Van at St. Leonards to put on the wall.. I took a bunch of pics of the pelicans that are residents on the beach down there and then painted one for our wall.

Life in General- Over the Christmas break, The Bloke spent alot of time building new furniture for down at the Van, we lovingly refer to it as "The Love Shack", so we have a couch which has underneath storage and it becomes Star son William's bed of a nighttime. We also have some neat little matching coffee table storage shelves by our recliners, and he built a set of shelves for underneath the tiny bathroom sink to hold all the toiletries that one uses. And then as if that wasn't enough he decided that the couch turned out so well and the storage amount was quite large that he built another one slightly smaller which we'll use for the beach stuff, boogie boards, beach shade hut, you know the deal plastic buckets and shovels, that kind of thing, and the top of this one we'll paint game boards like Chess and backgammon on and make it a games table.. gee, sometimes I'm so clever I amaze myself even. In fact we are headed down there tonight to celebrate the Bloke's birthday, which is really only his pretend birthday because of course it's not a leap year so he doesn't really have a Birthday.

School- My cousin Lee and My good friend Lisa and I have gone back to school, we are studying "Certifcate 3 in Education- Intergration Aide stream" we go to school on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday- in Melton- 9.30am till 2.30pm and then in March we'll be starting in school work placements, so we'll do Wednesdays at a school of our choice, I chose Kismet park where William goes to school, because I know it and also because I do not drive and this is a short- very short walk to work. Lisa has chosen to do Secondary school and Lee has said she doesn't care where she goes but our teacher Issy is trying to get us both into Kismet park. Then Lee happened to find a job advertised for an Aide on some website and so I took it in to class to show Issy and she said "Apply for it, and if you get it we'll go on a one on one teaching program and that way you can do teaching while you're learning and get paid for it" So I wrote out my application and then took it back to class to show Issy and she was very pleased, made me add two more lines and then sent me home to apply which I did on Tuesday afternoon , applications close on 4th March so keep your fingers crossed for me and I'll be back to let you all know how it goes. I am so loving the course and you know I don't know why I didn't think of doing this earlier because I've always been interested in Education, and even home schooled Jarrah for 12 months a few years back now. I owe all the thanks for liking it to my Grade 5 teacher Mr Stuart Cooper.

So now that seems to beme up to date and now I'll have to book mark this site so that I can come back and add more news..

The above pic was taken last weekend, the 21st Feb, when we were at Rob's Neice's wedding, it was a great day, we stayed in a Motel in Eltham and made a night of it.