Still here... kind of!

If anyone ever stops by here anymore (which I don't blame any of you if you don't - but thanks for letting me know that you still do, Ali ;) ) then you'll have noticed I'm rather absent!!

Life is very busy, and I've been maintaining a "business" blog over at www.she-essence.com/blog. It's not just business though, it's all about life in general, and I'm thoroughly enjoying the experience of writing.

So, if you'd like to keep reading my blog, check out the new address www.she-essence.com/blog and let me know you're still around :)

I do have some wonderful news to share... Mel and Jim are now the very proud parents of a beautiful baby boy!! You can read more about it here.

Looking forward to hearing from you over at She-essence :)

Just a quick one....

Seeing as how it's been so long since I blogged, and I can't even begin to remember what has happened since the start of the year (and even if I could, you'd be bored senseless, so I won't go into detail ;), I've decided instead to share with you this gorgeous piece of work from DS1. It was his homework the other night and had me in stitches for ages. I'd just like to ask... can you define "NORMAL"????

Happy New Year!!

Wow! It's 2007! Can you believe it? I can't! LOL!

I've been thinking (way too much really, so if you can smell burning rubber, that's probably why! LOL!)... It’s a New Year, so I’m going to tackle it with a new attitude!!

There's so much I want to achieve and improve in my life, and I can't do any of it with a negative attitude. I have to reach for the stars with both hands, and damn it... if my feet leave the ground, even better!!!

OK, enough of that ;)

Christmas was more or less lovely ;) We had the most glorious pre-Christmas night on the 23rd with my Mum, niece and some dear friends of ours who are expecting their first child in mid-May. It was a beautiful night with lots of love and laughter... just the way Christmas is meant to be ;) (Check out my goofy kids pulling faces for the camera! LOL!!)

Christmas Eve DH and I got to bed early-ish (by about 10.30). Good thing that... DS1 came prancing in at 12:36am declaring "SANTA'S BEEN!!!". By 2:45am we'd managed to get him back to sleep... but only for 2 hours! LOL! I guess that's what happens when they actually realise that Santa means presents!

We managed to catch Santa (well, his lights anyway) in the act of delivering presents...
How cool is that?!?!

I've also discovered a new item to alter... mdf boxes!! I did this one for a RAK on the She-essence forum, and I loved it so much I didn't want to give it away! I quickly ensured that Chantal's name went on it, just so I wasn't tempted to keep it for myself :):) I'll just say that there's going to be many more of these boxes altered by me this year!!


In other news, I've started contributing to the All Things Scrapbooking Blog, which is rather daunting really! I need to keep finding interesting things (altered item related) to gabber on about! Any ideas are gratefully accepted!

And just a couple of weeks until Lisa comes home from the UK! I can't wait to see her!! It's been almost 12 months, but thank goodness for the internet! What would we (read I) have done without it!!

Well, you're basically all caught up. Let me know how your Christmas and New Year's went, what Santa brought you, and whether or not you've made any New Year's resolutions!!

Take care!!

Clever Kid!

Campbell's such a clever kid. And I'm rather slow on the uptake! He's been telling me, "Wees Mummy", and I've been responding... "Good boy, Campbell, you've got a nappy on". After a week or two of this I finally pinged... Derr!! It was toilet training time!! After his lunchtime nap last Monday, I put him into underpants. We had 2 accidents, and 2 successes.

Tuesday, that was it. He was done. No accidents. He went to Day Care on Wednesday (with lots of extra clothes ;)), but when I picked him up he was in the same pants!

This week hasn't been as good, but hey, it's all practise!!

Only 11 sleeps till Santa comes!! I'm looking forward to the weekend before Xmas more than Xmas itself... Mum and my niece are coming to visit, and we're having our dear friends over for dinner too, so we're having an early Xmas celebration. It's going to be wonderful!!

Anyway, just a quick post tonight. Hope you're all well! Don't forget to say Hi so I know for sure that hardly anyone visits ;)

Why is it never good enough?

What the heck is wrong with me? I have a wonderful DH and a wonderful family, but you know what... no matter how hard they try or what they do, I only see the shortcomings... the things that are wrong.

DH spent 3 hours assembling our 7 foot Christmas Tree on Sunday. I've decorated it tonight, complaining terribly that he hasn't pulled all the branches on the tree out properly so the decorations are all stuck and there's big holes that you can see through... WTF is wrong with me?? Why can't I just be grateful that he put the tree up and I didn't have to do it?

And it's not just the tree, it's everything. He'll try to do something to help me out, but because it's not the way I would do it, or would like it done (and who died and made me God, anyway?) instead of being grateful for the act, I tear it apart.

And it's not just DH either!! It's the kids, family, friends... What the hell makes me think that my way's the right way, or that these people are so perfect that they shouldn't make a goddamn mistake? Is it because I can't tolerate my own mistakes? Is it because I don't think that what I do is good enough?

WHY? WHY? WHY?

And why am I sitting here writing this when I should be in bed beside my husband apologising for being the Queen of Bitches??????

I love you honey, with all of my heart
xxxxx