Space!!!

I can’t believe I haven’t posted anything since Wednesday. Anyway we have a had a bit of a busy week. I worked for my Mum who has her own cleaning business while she attends an Army reunion, we are getting into the swing of school and about a billion other things have been done (at least that’s how it feels) but my wonderful husband has managed to finish the desk for our office.

His space (we still need to put all the computers in)

My space. Now its just a case of personalising  and moving everything in

I am looking forward to a couple of projects I am about to start and will post them as they are started and have had a couple of requests for Naughty Mat which I looking forward to whipping up this week (hopefully)

FLYing

A few years ago this very adventurous lady (Sarah) introduced me to the FLYLady. The FLYLady is a website aimed at helping everyone get their house and life in order using routines, baby steps and zones. I have found myself in struggletown a lot lately and today remembered the website and how it had helped me before. So I googled the website and have started my “Control Journal”

I moved through a couple of things very quickly to do each member of our family a weekly planner (these will go up on our kitchen wall one next to the other so we can all see what’s happening that week)

but most importantly (and those that check out the website will understand this) tonight I am going to go to bed with a shiny sink and hope to hit the ground FLYing tomorrow morning

I really encourage everyone to visit this website and check it out especially if you are feeling a little chaotic at the moment

The most important job

Today the house is a mess, the dishes are still there and there is still a pile of washing. I didn’t make anything or go to a job and earn any money. Today I spent time on and with my children. Today we went to playgroup and then I decided I would ignore all the things that “needed” to be done and focus on the two little people who are growing up so fast I feel like even though I am with them I still miss so much because I am so busy cleaning the house, studying or any number of things that have to be done.

So when asked what I did today my answer will be: today I did the most important job of all… I spent the day creating precious memories, reinforcing bonds, raising and loving the two most special little princes in the world.

Goals update–Mothers Day Classic

I thought I might share with you an update on my goals 

I have managed to make at least 1 thing per week but more excitingly for me I have lost 4kgs and only have 5kg to go to my ideal weight.

I have also signed up again for the Mothers Day Classic doing the 4km run.

If you would like to sponsor me you can go here and help raise much needed funds for breast cancer research. This is the first year that I will be seriously doing the run, in the past I have done the walk and I kind of jogged it last year so I am looking forward to pushing myself. I am not sure how this is being kind to myself it feels more like torture but I am determined to do it.

Hmmmm?

I have these 2 pieces of beautiful material but I don’t know what I should do with them. If you had them what would you make?

Time to get organised

Today I packed up my little man Michael,
Got some cuddles

and took him to his first day at Kindy

After he waved us off I went and met up with 2 of my sisters. for San Churros (I should classify this statement, I have 3 brothers who are related to me by blood and no sisters but I am a very firm believer that family is what you make it and you don’t need to be related to someone by blood for them to be your family. So there are 3 very very special women in my life who I believe to be my family.)

After getting home I looking around at where I have been creating…the living room coffee table! and as much as I love my couch it’s killing my back and with Uni starting up again next week I thought I had better get my butt into gear if I wanted to be organised for study. My biggest problem is that although we moved into a much, much, much bigger house over 6 months ago I have yet to get a space of my own. The boys have their toy room and Louis has his office but me, no where… yet. I haven’t yet worked out where my little creative/study space will be I did recycle some IKEA material shelves we used when we first moved in and had been sitting around collecting dust to organise my sewing material, equipment and patters

It’s not perfect but it’s a starting point

School Bag Tag

Michael starts school tomorrow and with that comes the brand new school bag. We got him a Toy Story 3 bag from Kmart and since I thought that there maybe a number of them when we go tomorrow I whipped up a bag tag for him.

I printed out a photo of him and a Toy Story picture with his name underneath

Laminated them together

Punched a hole in the corner

And cable-tied it to the zip

There you go…. Michaels School Bag Tag

(sorry about the photo alignment, Live Writer has an issue with me today and wont centre the photos )