Can’t believe its Friday already!

I can’t believe how fast this week has gone its been so jam packed I haven’t even managed to blog yet

This week we have had school, I stepped in for my Mum while she was away and cleaned some of her houses (she owns a cleaning business check out her facebook page here) been to IKEA and got lots of goodies including these shelves for our office

and our littlest prince (Zachary) has come down with tonsillitis again,

which throws everything out.

But I have managed to make a tiny dent in my Christmas shopping for this year

I have a couple of projects on the go at the moment

but none of them complete which makes me a little sad but then I remember that its Friday and Friday means GIRLS NIGHT!!! when my best friends come over and we spend time encouraging, laughing and commiserating with each other, the week that has been and of course doing girly things. This is the absolute highlight of my week and when we don’t do it I miss it so much. So here is me hoping you have had a more creatively productive week than me and saying TGIGN!!! (Thanks God It’s Girls Night)

Play dough

Michael was at school this morning and in an attempt to get out of the classroom with as little fuss as possible I promised Zachary we could make some new play dough when we got home. So as soon as we walked in the door Zac rushed over to the table, pulled a chair up to the bench and waited for me to catch up.

For those that are interested the Play dough recipe I use is below

Ingredients

2 cups of plain flour

1 cup of salt

1 Tablespoon of cooking oil

2 drops of food colouring

1/2 – 1 cup of water

Method

1. Combine flour and salt

2. Add food colouring to water. Add coloured water and oil to flour. Mix until well combined

3. Knead well

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?