HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
I might even go out and buy myself a cake....a really rich baked cheesecake...YUM!!!!

It's my Birthday!!!!!

Woo Hooo, 32, 32, 32 today!!!! not that a number matters much, but no use denying that fact I recon!!, hard to believe I am actually in my 30's. Like Homer Simpson said last night 'I haven't changed since high school, but suddenly I'm not cool anymore' I don't feel my age, and I guess thats what counts. I'd like to known when it is that I should actually start growing up though!!!!

On a slightly more depressing note, Kelly has completely forgotten!!!! he got, got dressed, made his brekky, kissed me goodbye and off he went to work. I know that we aren't doing anything in the way of celebration. With Lily having her birthday on the weekend and the boys needing stuff to go back to school, there simply isn't any money left. But a simple 'Happy Birthday' would have been nice. Never mind I will ring him at lunch time and remind him

I'd like to say a HUGE 'Thank-you!!!!!!!' to all of you guys that have visited my Blog and to those that left comments, thanks too, they mean alot to me!!!!!!

Keep smiling, happiness is infectious!!!!

Cassxxxxxx

Wooo Hooo First published LO

Ok, so it's probably not a huge deal to alot of people, but I am feeling very special.
The current issue of 'For Keeps' has a LO of Mine in it. My first Published LO. It felt so cool to walk into the newsagent and pick up the copy this morning, flipping through and finding mine.
It's on page 84, a yellow one I did of my Daughter Lilyana and her bestest buddy Caeligh. Lily was so excited to see her face in a mag...a little too excited maybe, she dribbled all over the page, good thing I bought 2 copies...I'm so pathetic!!!!!

My Beautiful Mikayla

DRAMA

OMG!!!!!!! yesterday afternoon I had the most horrible experience.
About lunch time I went out, over to Lu's then to mums, I stopped at the newsagent to see if the FK was in(I Have a LO in the next issue) but when I came home I was so glad that I stuff around for a while. The neigbouring spare alotment had caught FIRE while I was away and had burnt down part of my fence!!! The lovely lady next door, Leanne, called the fire brigade so no more serious damage was done than that but boy oh boy did I have a break down!!!
Just to let you know about a bit of history, on the 10th of Sept. 2000 my house burnt down at 5.30am. I lost all my worldly possessions (when I came out of hospital I didn't even own a pair of shoes) but all materil things can be replaced. I also lost my 2 year old daughter Mikayla, something that no parent should ever have to go through.
So I guess coming home to the burnt down spare alotment was a bit of a flashback. It's not so much the sight of the char and ash, it is the smell of the wet smoke. That damp, musty, revolting smell that permiates into everything. ATM I can't step out the backdoor without smelling it and remembering how my house looked and how everything that we gathered from it still smells like that.
So I have had a bit of a downer of a day, I've cried a bit and wondered if the saying, 'all things come in 3's', actually holds any weight. Cos I swear the next time a fire threatens to burn down my house I recon the easist thing would be to sit down in the middle of it and surrender. I know I wouldn't but boy oh boy how much FIRE can one peron have in thier life????
No one knows how yesterdays fire started, but it was incedible hot and windy yesterday, and there were tradsmen building on the house on the other side of the alotment, so maybe one of them flick a ciggie. Who Knows?? and I guess it really doesn't matter, there was not a hell of alot of damage done really.....only to my emotional state
Thanks for having a read, I actually feel better for having written this

Lilyana's 3!!!!!!!!!

I heard on the radio that they are looking for photos of how you celebrate Australia Day. I am thinking of sending in this one, particularly seeing it is the year of the lifesaver, I honestly can't think of anything more Australian than a day at the beach....sand in knikers included!!!!LOL

My Baby turned 3 yesterday, my how time has flew by. We went down to Broadbeach for the day, it was hot and the waves were choppy. The boys bogieboarded all day and we had a BBQ in the park for Lunch....CLASSIC. Can't get much better than that I believe. The kids all has a fantastic time, Kristofer has a nasty case of sunburn today though. Being 12 I thought that I could get away with putting the sunscreen on his back and allowing him to do the rest. Well he thought it would be cool to go back to school with a tan....stupid stupid stupid child!!! He's paying for it today though and I have no sympathy, I would have asked him 15 times if had put the sunscreen on properly "yes Mum" obviously not as responsible as he would like to think.
My little princess had a good day though, she loves pressies (who doesn't!!) but she got a pair of Ballet shoes cos she wants to start classes, such a girly girl that one

Oh and my birthday is on thursday, and it looks like Kelly is going to take me out....woohooo, but don't get too excited...it's to the CRICKET!!!!!!!!!!

Funny old Day

Ok, so today was a pretty nothing kinda of a day. But I kinda like those. I got a page done, that I am somewhat happy with, and I have a idea for one that I am going to do tommorrow. I have made the patty cakes for Lily to take to kindy tommorrow (she's three on Sunday). I washed the floors, I did the dirty washing, all those mundane every(gawdamn)day things.

So overall a productive kind of a day...if somewhat boring

The Lo I did if for the 'How dare you' site, thier challendge is for LO that are inspired by film. I took my insipration from that tacky (yet wonderful) 80's film Dirty Dancing, and something accured to me. I really like tacky 80's films, you know....Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candels, Dream a little dream (or the Corey and Corey films), and my beloved Breakfast Club (all time Fav). They were easy to watch, I obviously hate to think to hard, always had happy endings, and they make me feel good!!!!!! I am not saying by any means that i don't enjoy a good drama, or thriller, It's just that sometimes with all the murder and crime shows on TV, I just want to watch what my DH calls 'a bit of fluff'.

Oh well thats my confession for the day......do I have to say 5 hail Corey's or am I not the only one with a secret Patrick Swayse fetish...lol

me and my Girl

Some moments as a mummy are hard to hang on to. Some days I have to remind myself that she wont be a little girl, sitting on my lap forever...soon enough she is probably going to be embarressed to be sitting next to me ( I know this first hand with my eldest son, he's 12 and just starting the 'don't embarress me mother' thing). The one thing that I truely do love about scrapping is that I can stop and cherish these kinds of moments, they fleet away so fast. I was once told that there are two types of scrappers, Events ones (they scrap wedding and birthdays, first teeth...etc, etc) and moment scrappers, that are inspired by the 'moment' or the emotional memory that a pic can conjoure. I know which type I am and I don't care if it's popular, or not. I don't care wheather it is not recording the important events of my childrens lives or not. To me the moment is so much more truthful to the soul, not manufactured or created, but real.
My kids may not have a page dedicated to every birthday, or sporting event, but they will have albums dedicated to how much I love them, how much they mean to me, and what thier personalities are like 'right at the time I made the page'.
I know now, as an adult, that I can't remember what mum and dad got me for my 7th birthday, but I do remeber that they love me, and those are the kind of pages that I want my kids to have

Georgie....GONG

Burd GONG!!!!!

Well It's offiacial, I am the worlds worse parent!!!
Yesterday morning, my darling 19 month old son, climbed up on to the outside table and realesed into the wild my husbands cockateil 'George'.
Apparently I should have been watching him, apparently I 'let' him do these things, apparently I am a lazy parent!!!!!!!
At the time the bird was broken out, I was in the little monsters bedroom, cleaning up the baby wipes that had been strewn everywhere, and I was just putting the vacume cleaner away, after he had emptied an entire bottle of shimmer embossing powder all over the computer, office, chair floor...HIMSELF!!! (I must say that the boy sparkled in the sun all day) when he came up to me pulling on my shorts, 'Burd' "Gong' 'gong' 'gong' waving his little hands around like a tap dancer. 'Gong'( or 'gone' in english) is never a good thing, it ussaually means he has broken something...particually if it is followed by an 'oh oh'. I followed him out to see the cge door flying open and no george, all I have heard ever since is 'gong' gong' , I think he feels badly for what has happened (well as badly as a baby can)
His father on the other hand is just furious...with me, I'll never understand men, I sometimes wonder why I try

Thanks for having a read
Cass

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My Boys are HOME!!!!!

Yeah!!!!! My two big boys, Kristofer and Scott came home from a camping trip with thier father last night!!!!!
I have missed them like crazy, in fact I think it was making me edgey and irriatible. They are my two from my previous marrage (i absolutley hate saying that...sounds scummy or something) and thier father who ussally only ever takes them every second weekend, took them out to mt Warning for a 10 day trip. Offcourse he also took his new live-in girlfriend and her 3 children. Not a particually happy situation for my boys (they don't get on very well with any of them) but they were looking forward to getting away. which is all well and good, but they have come home cranky and irratated. They recon that they couldn't stand another night with 'those' kids, and wanted to come home days ago. A bit sad for them really, they wanted to spend some quality time with thier father, something I encourage, but instead spent more of thier time trying to get away from 3 little rat bags, that were consuming thier fathers time anyway. Not fair!!!!!!!
But I am just soooooooo happy that they are home, I have never, ever not been able to contact them (they were out of phone range) in thier whole lives, let alone spent 10 whole days away from them, it was alot tougher on me than I think it should have been. Kris is 12 now, and I know he is getting older and will be spending more and more time away from me for a variety of reasons, and I know that he should be independant, and so should Scotto too. It's jsut that it's a bit hard on the mummy!!!! after all the crap that the 3 of us have gone trough together watching them drift away from me is probably going to be the hardest thing I have had to do, in regard to raising them, so far....the midwives didn't tell me how to deal with this part!!!!!!!!

Finally!!!!

yeah me!!!!! An acceptance from Scrapbooking memories!!!!!
Late last year I had a really good run with SM, they took quite a few of my LO's, 12 or so, but then I went through a real dry spell. I was still submitting and scrapbook creations took one, but I was getting no love from SM. I was a bit ummm concerned quite frankly.But today my drought was broken and they have taken one YEAH!!!!!!!!
I really do scrap for pleasure but I will honestly say that the recognision is nice, a really good feeling that you are doing OK.
The LO they have taken is one called 'Mates' about my son and my bestie Lu's son Blayd. They are actually cousins, but they are the best of mates first. The funny thing is I was so lacking in personal mojo the other day when I did the LO I ripped an idea, well a few actually off Lu. The LO has alot of her techniques on it that she did on a couple of LO she has done recently that I loved....I hope SM taken them too, would seem a bit unfair otherwise
Any hoo, just had to share...too excited!!!!

New Phone!!!

I have a new toy!!
My mobile was up for renewal, so I took the opportunity to upgrade. Cool toy it is too. Cos Kelly got his phone at the same time, we both have the same new phone now...and very cool features. This video conferencing will be fun, now when he tells me he is on his way home, I can actually see weather he is at the pub or not....got to love technology!!!!!!
isn't it funny how some little things can make your day so much better, now all I have to do is find the song 'Bitch' for my ringtone and it will be happy happy joy joy!!!!!!!

Bloody Kids

I love my children, don't get me wrong, but some days I wonder what the name of good gravy am I doing!!!!!!
My youngest is driving me NUTS!!!!!!! You would think that by the time you have your 5th child, you would have the whole parenting thing worked out....WRONG!!!!!!
This kid is doing my head in. I love him to death, and he is a cutie, but my hat is he a handful. for everything I need to do he makes me pay. If I want to hang the washing on the line, he throws the washing on the gound, so I battle to keep it in the basket. If I want to pack the dishwasher he is beside me tring to pull the draws out. God forbid I want to get a little scrapping done!!!! He just pulls the house apart for the mear thrill of seeing the mess. It might be alright if he pulled all the plastic cups and plates out of the cupboard and then played with them, but no he pulls them out, throws them all over the floor and moves on. He will pull all the books of the shelf, not look at any of them, and then...move onn to the next thing to distroy!!!! He has more toys than I can count, but all they are is projectiles!!!! I am at my wits end!!! all I do all day is pick up after the monster 18month old.
I told Kel that all I want for my birthday(25th of this month BTW) is one single day where I don't have to get down on my hands and knees for anything!!!!!
Huh, in the time it has taken me to type this he has, eaten another 2 ink pads (a particular fav), distroyed a journalling pen, unrolled a roll of glad wrap, pulled all the books of the shelf, made of with his sisters doll (much distress), and rolled the carpet mat in the lounge room in to the corner. Best go now, he has found Lily's milo and is sprinkleing it all over the floor ARGHHHHHHH