Happy on Holiday

Happy on Holiday, yes well now we are, but the holiday break started with a bit of a hiss, as the door of the utility was unlocked to a hor-rid-able smell. The power in the whole utility had been 'tripped' and so the freezer had been turned off since around labour weekend. Decomposing fish bait makes for a bad, bad smell. Still, we dealt with that calamity, had two others - caravan canopies ripping etc and finally made it to bed that night exhausted. Day two - much better, kids playing in the sand, friends and family visiting, Coromandel FM on the radio.. now it really feels like a holiday.

The Day After

The day after Boxing Day.. the recovery

• finding the kitchen bench after yesterdays cooking
• finding the lost parts of toys ..already
• finding the patience to listen to crazy frog 'We are the Champions' for the 20th time this morning
• finding the keys to the boat lock thingy, so we can take the boat on holiday
• finding the Mylanta to combat all that rich food I ate yesterday

Yep, 'spose it's a fairly typical Boxing Day here.

We had a great Christmas, you can't beat your four year old pulling you by the arms out of bed at 6am screaming 'come on Mum, you gotta come, you won't believe this, you won't believe what is in the lounge ..truly Mum, come on.'

It really felt like Christmas for me when I heard that.

Pete and I did the big splurge and got the boys a 50cc motorbike. Cam says 'This is the best present I ever got in all my seven years Dad'. Aaron has one comment 'Yea-ass' which I think means pretty great.

We had breakfast with Peters parents, then late lunch/dinner with mine. Lovely company, lovely food, great day.

Best present: DH and I got a Digital SLR ..pretty darn cool

Noisiest Present: Kids got these screaming monkey things that you fire like a catapult and they scream monkey screams as they fly through the air .. umm lovin' that present, we have three of them as well, one for each of the boys. Thank you Aunty Lynne.

Best cooking success: New recipe for Curried Mango and Chicken salad went down a treat.

We are off to the beach early tomorrow morning, setting up camp, awnings etc for most of the day tomorrow, then pure beachin, boatin bliss for 3 weeks. Yeeeha

Christmas is coming closer

and closer and closer. My lack of organisation is showing. I am feeling very overwhelmed.. so what is a girl to do.. scrapbook of course. I spent three whole hours on one card for a challange at Scrapbook Outlet. Three whole hours, cripes, this model isn't going on the production line!.

I used the beading dimensional magic idea from Nic's blog and had to use non-christmas colours to make a card. It was a good medative workout gluing those beads on, I chilled out heaps and went to bed at 2.00am in the morning - a happy little scrapper.

The card won the competition too!, and was sent to a very special lady who has made so much home baking for my dad and our family lately. A very special lady indeed.