chaos dreams

Which is kind of like “Four Seasons in One Day” but not set to music! (although if you’re anything like me, you’ve now got that song stuck in your head, so it might as well be set to music!) (and it’s Crowded House, for those who are racking their brains trying to remember!)

Ok, so we left off midway through May, just after the Gossamer Dreams stocking.
You may remember it was rather wet at that point in time!

The week after that I was a bridesmaid at my sister’s wedding which was awesome, although a little (ok a lot) wet and muddy.  Despite the floods, everyone got there safely and home again and it made for some seriously cool wedding photos!

Oh, and the family tradition was kept intact, I was sewing Rhiannon’s dress (with the help of a family friend) until the early hours of the morning the night before, and it got finished off on the day! Looked great though! (and who gave my daughter permission to look sooo grown up!!?)

Skip forward to June, we had Mikey’s birthday (wow 10!), followed by school holidays, and the HAIRCUT!

Since then everything seems to have been on fast forward.  Gossamer Dreams stockings have been a little crazy - good, but crazy.

As of July, I’m officially an auntie (bout time, lol!) and my niece is absolutely beautiful! (of course!)

September saw the bi-annual nappy hunt start again with the Cloth Nappy Shop as an extreme site.  For those who are musically challenged, apparantly things will never be the same again! or so I’ve been told by at least one hunter!

September was also time for another birthday, with Lukas turning 7. He had a fantastic party, with cupcakes decorated by the party guests! I’m not sure that a corn chip would be my first choice of cupcake decoration, but then again, I did discover back on New Year’s Eve that sausages with icing are surprisingly yummy, so maybe I shouldn’t knock the corn chip cupcake until I try it!

We then headed north to Hervey Bay for my husband’s highschool reunion, and stayed with family up there for a week, much to the joy of the kids who had a great time! 9 kids in one house is pretty full-on though, I think all the adults were ready for another holiday by the end of the week!

Sadly when we came home, there was still another week of school holidays left to survive…  Ok, so I’m exaggerating slightly, the kids were pretty good on the whole! But with one thing and another, it’s really brought home how hard it can be juggling 4 kids and the shop during the holidays, so there will be some changes happening before the Christmas holidays - stay tuned for more about that later.

So that pretty much takes us up to yesterday, when the kids went back to school (yay!) and supposedly life goes back to ‘normal’! Normal in this instance involves catching up on everything that hasn’t gotten done in the last month or so! Apologies to people who are waiting patiently for nappies - I have my To Do list all typed up officially, and am crossing things off as quickly as I can.

This has ended up much longer than I intended, so I’m going to call it quits for now, and will post again later to tell you all about the exciting new stuff that’s going to be happening!

I don’t usually get sucked into the blog games that go round, but this one made me laugh! Thanks Kat and Mel!

The idea is that you do a Google search for “unfortunately, (your name)” and see what results come up. (don’t forget the “quotation marks”)

I thought this one was the pick of the bunch!

Unfortunately, Rebekah and I just haven’t been to the park much together lately and when we have, it was for very specific purposes. …

Feel free to leave comments with your own results!

I’ve been a bit slack with updating the blog this month, although I did finally finish the one about our holiday!

In the last couple of weeks, my darling children have been displaying a disturbing tendency to want to incapacitate me! First Ben dropped a heavy stool on my foot, which meant a few days where standing up to cut fabric (or do anything else remotely useful) was just not possible!

Then Rhiannon tried to knock me out with the door to the toilet(!!) and while I avoided a black eye by getting my hands up in time to catch it before it slammed into my head, my right hand took the brunt of the force and the edge of the door hit across the heel of my hand and the edge of the pinkie finger knuckle. Being right-handed, that meant a good 4-5 days where I couldn’t hold scissors or a rotary cutter, so that delayed cutting even further! It also made cooking dinner and other simple day to day tasks difficult! You have no idea how much you use your thumb until moving it hurts! I have to say, 47kg of daughter is a formidable force when it runs into a door!

So I’m hoping that this particular turn of events doesn’t run in threes, and that I will be fully functional for the rest of the month so that I can catch up on orders and life in general!

I tried taking some photos, but the bruising just didn’t look as impressive when it was in a blurry photo, so I won’t be boring you with those afterall! I will however show you what happens when Mr Benjamin decides that he’s going to dish up his own dessert! (yes, I think it was pretty much the whole tub in there!)