deerly beloved

i finally found a little snippet of time to get a little crafty.

a week or so ago i saw these sweet little blue deer over at dottie angels flicker page.

immediately i thought of my little family of deers that i found hiding in a cabinet at the sweetest little op shop around the corner from my home a few months ago.

they needed a little cheering up so i gave them one in the form of a new coat of paint.

the little guy was fascinated by the process, when i put everything out on the grass ready to begin he raced off back into the house and grabbed his tool box and came and sat and watched me work.
obviously it was not the type of work that daddy usually does that requires lots of tools but the screw driver did come in handy to open up the lid on the spray can!

now look at the little sweeties after a little time sunbathing in the garden, they look a lot more cherry.

thank you to the ever so lovely and ever so crafty dottie angel for the inspiration,
i just love my new little family of deer

i am linking up here.

i will never understand boys

i grew up in a house full of girls. i am one of three girls and my dad worked away a lot when i was younger so pretty much we were in an all female house.

now i live with two boys, my hubby and our little boy of three. now i am exposed to the whole world of boys and the crazy things they do, say and think which is a lot different to the way girls do things.

i am constantly picking up after both of them, clothes left in the living room and even on the floor in the kitchen, books and newspapers being left on the toilet floor - why they have to read in there i don't know.

they prefer to play rough and tumble games and throw things around and make all sorts of loud noises from all parts of their bodies. they eat cake and lollies for breakfast when i am not watching and when i leave the house they run a muck from one end to the other, all in the name of having fun of course.

i have found myself uttering the phrases "you do not pee on the coffee table", "do not play out on the road" and "do not shoot your friends with sticks". i never in a million years thought i would have to say some of these things, it is a whole new world.

i have tried to keep william away from play that involves armies shooting each other, anything involving guns even water guns and all form of good guy bad guy games. but despite my effort he is drawn to these types of games. anything becomes a weapon. he uses the shovels from the sandpit as a gun, he plays good guys and bad guys with his little friends and he is usually the bad guy and he even steals the garden stakes that hold up the tomato plants as a weapon and he stands down the end of our driveway and shoots at the passing cars with it.

crazy boys. why do they do these types of things?

i have tried to open will up to all sorts of play and play equipment. we have lots of planes, trains and automobiles but we also have dolls, prams, mini kitchen and shopping toys. he has a great imagination and he loves to sit quietly and play drs with his little doll buddie. he checks his temperature and listens to his heart beat. he gives him medicine to help him feel better and then he stuffs him in the back of his car and goes tearing around the backyard with him while he makes police car noises!

i guess the saying boys will be boys still rings true.

do you have any advice for me about surviving with boys?

weeks end hangover

it is sunday afternoon and i am wrecked.

i am so tiered i think i may need two little toothpicks to prop open my eyelids to get me through the evening until bedtime.

i usually feel like this on a sunday afternoon. tiered from working to much and partying too hard.

when i say party too hard it is not in the sense that i am going out late and drinking too much, i dont party like that. my partying is enjoying the simple things in life eating, enjoying the sunshine, chatting with friends, watching the football, working out at the gym, shopping... the list may well be endless.

saturday started with an early morning workout at the gym and then some much needed play time with the little guy and a little housework.

we had visitors and enjoyed a delicious lunch. then we watched our football team lose, unfortunately by a lot and now they are out of the finals chase. but lucky the day ended well, it was roller derby night!

the big guy stayed home to look after the little guy and i headed out with friends to watch the girls on wheels. it was great and this time the team that i support won, yeah!

sunday is church day, then home for play, housework and afternoon naps in the fading afternoon sunshine. then it is time to get ready for the week ahead - clothes to be ironed, lunches to be packed and school books to be gathered up.

the hubby has taken over the kitchen today experimenting with cooking cookies for the new store - a minute on the lips a life time on the hips. unfortunately i am too tiered to hit the gym so i need to lay off the taste testing. it is a hard life living with an entrepreneur some times :)

there is only one more week of school and then it is school holidays. pause for me to do my happy dance...

i am so thrilled that it is holiday time again and now that it is spring hopefully we will have some lovely weather. i can not wait to enjoy the beautiful outdoors with the little guy and our little friends. i think there will be zoo trips and beach trips, a family day out to the perth royal show and even some shopping trips for the mummas. i can not wait.

happy weeks end everybody
xoxo

attack of the flying chicken

this morning i was attacked by my own chicken!

i was letting the girls out of the pen so that they could have a run around the yard. i opened the door, she flew at me, i squealed and ran away.

now i am locked up in the house and they have taken over the back yard.

 i think she was just showing her displeasure at being locked up all week.

so my lesson is too spend more time with the chickens!

who would have thought that they would need a little company and a little play time.

it was supposed to be the hubby's job to look after the girls, but i have a sneaking suspicion that he has forgot to feed them the last few days, naughty boy! he will definitely be in trouble when he gets home, and from more then one grumpy lady!

so i better go and make peace with bob and wendy, give them a bucket load of food, a pat and a good talking too, maybe an apology and then they might stop scaring me.

things i am loving

I wholeheartedly believe that no matter what is happening in your life, there is always something that you can be thankful for... no matter how simple it is.  

i am loving that we finally got a new oven.

my old oven was probably older then me and the temperature was all out of whack. the lowest temperature was 210 degrees, not ideal for baking only ideal for burning. 

so the first thing i did in it was bake a cake...

the second thing i did was to cook a roast. the hubby and the little guy are loving the fact that we have a new oven too! 

i am loving finding the perfect gift. i love giving gifts. i love taking the time to think about a special person and what they would love to receive. i also loving hitting the shops to buy it too!

i found this lovely angels wings necklace and it was just perfect for a friend of mine who i work with. she is definitely an angel sent straight from heaven to brighten up this old world.

i love that my little guy is such a good little boy.

he comes to work with me on a wednesday while i do a little prep work (getting activities ready for the kiddies, photo journalling, programming and general teacher stuff) and he is so good at playing with the kids and looking after himself while i get my work done.

the kids just love having him in the classroom as well which is so sweet.

i also love that the ladies that i work with are so wonderful with william when he is at school. they chat with him, watch him play when they are on duty outside, sneak him treats and just shower a little love on him.

and my big loving this week is spring...

this time of year we get all sorts of lovely weather.

beautiful sunshine, warm clear days, thunderstorms and rainy days which are just perfect for cuddling up on the couch and reading stories.

i am linking up here with the lovely kristy from paisley jade.

hope you have a fabulos weekend

love blessed

xoxo

have you heard of madeit?

it is an australian online store which sells lots of handmade goodies.

i guess it is kind of like etsy, you can have your own little online store to sell your crafty things.

i love it as i love handmade things but do not have the time (or sometimes skills) to make lovey little things.

i just received these adorable prints in the mail which i ordered from sweet william (found through made it)...

they are prints of lovely drawings from artist paula mills.

i just adore the little love birds and the balloons make me want to fly away and explore more of the world.

life is busy

life is very busy in the blessed house as of late... hence the lack of blog posts.

the hubby has been working his butt off at the office as usual, and now he has the ice-cream store to think about as well.

i have been doing the usual, working, mothering, housewifeing and trying to fit other fun stuff in like going to the gym and catching up with my friends who i miss very much.

i can not wait for the next 12 weeks to roll on by and then i will be done with work, it will be summer and Christmas will be just around the corner, my favorite part of the year.

i know that i should not be wishing my life away, but it is hard to do that when you are in the trenches working hard and looking up and out for a bit of peace and calm.

yesterday afternoon and evening i was struck down with a migrane. Gods little way of saying stop and slow down just  little.

so on my half day off today and my free day tomorrow i am going to slow down and take it easy. spend some time with the little guy and some time just with me.

we are going to sleep in, play, eat, drink tea, read, listen to music, watch the box (well i guess now that tvs are flat screen the saying 'watching the box' is really null and void), walk in the sunshine (if we get any) and maybe fit in a little shopping... just maybe.

and of course i am going to try and get through my long lit of blogs i love to read...

here are just a few of my faves, go check them out too...

blogs, tea and me

childhood 101

dottie angel

paisley jade


wow that is a lot to cram into one day

maybe we wont get to doing it all just as long as we do some of them then i will be a happy gal.

weekend fun

another weekend has come and gone and what a glorious weekend it was!

the beautiful sun was shinning here in wa and the temperature was a lovely warm twenty five degrees.

saturdays around here are usually reserved for catching up on sleep, shopping, reading, housework and work outs. this weekend was no exception except it also included watching a finals footy match.

my football team is in the playoffs and game one was this weekend so we all snuggled up on the couch to watch the game. unfortunately we lost but we get another shot at it next week. we have a do or die match next weekend to get to the grand-final. fingers cross we win.

sunday is church day and family fun day. after church we headed down to the foreshore to enjoy the beautiful weather.

we dined on fish and chips and then us big guys layed out in the sun while the little guy paddled in the surf...

the foreshore was packed with people enjoying the lovely spring weather. we stopped off at the ice-cream shop to see how they were going and business was booming! the hubby was even called into help out they were that busy.

the weekend finished with some telly watching (the amazing race, love that show) and a delicious sunday roast.

hope you had a lovely weekend
and that you have a great week ahead
xoxo

roller derby

for all my local perth readers, this one is for you!

there is another roller derby coming up on saturday the 24th of september, i just booked my ticket and so should you!

i love watching the derby girls battle it out. check out the last time i went here and here.

it is a great family event and the tickets are pretty cheap.

if you would like to go and see it for yourself you can book tickets online at the perth roller derby website.

see you there!
love blessed
xoxo

i am grateful for...

spending time in the sunshine with my special little guy.

as you know i have gone back to work for three and a half days a week (just until the end of the school year) and even though i love my job and it is a breeze i am really missing spending every day with my little boy.

so after we finished school on wednesday morning, will and i grabbed some lunch, his choice so it was red rooster, and we headed down to the foreshore.

we ate, talked, chased sea gulls, played, walked, searched for fish and just had a great time in each others company.

next year he will be going to kindy, he is growing up way too fast. at the moment we are still going through toilet training with him. he is still having accidents, i tell you it is worse then having a new puppy in the house! i can not wait until we are through this milestone and then he can slow down on the growing up!

if you are at home with your children full time i know sometimes it can be hard and you just want to get away from the little ones for a little while. but please stop, slow down and enjoy the moment while you have it because there will come a day like me where you will wish you could have that time back again.

so for now, seeing as though i can not travel back in time or stop working, i will enjoy spending every minute i have at home with my little guy before he is off to full time school in a few years.

i love finding new blogs and new linky parties to join in with so i am linking up here.
please go and check it out and discover some wonderful new blogs for yourself.

i got a new job...

my new job is an ice-cream taste tester!

i am not usually an ice-cream lover but since the hubby got his new ice-cream store he has been bringing home lots of delicious new ice-cream flavors for me to taste. so far my favorite is forrero rocher flavor, it is the bomb!

on the weekend he was trying out some new ideas for the store. he spent friday afternoon with his sister (who is a baking queen) cooking lots of cookies to try out ice-cream sandwiches.

and i have one word to describe them, YUM!

i was lucky enough to have the very first ice-cream sandwich....

lets just say that the choc chip cookies need a little more tweaking! all my ice-cream came out the sides of the cookie, but it was absolutely delicious.

my favorite so far has been a cinnamon cookie with vanilla bean ice-cream. i am going to need to go more then 4 times a week to the gym to keep up with our new indulgence!

i love you daddy...

today was the day when we stopped to say i love you and thank you to all the wonderful fathers in our lives... today was fathers day

my dad left this world two years ago to go and be with his heavenly father

i miss him terribly and i miss him even more on weekends like this
i love you dad
xoxo

even though my dad is no longer here i still have a number of wonderful men in my life to celebrate fathers day with... husband, father-in-law, poppy's, step-dads, uncles and friends

in our house this morning we let daddy have a sleep in, then we woke him up with handmade gifts and breakfast in bed.
then we dragged daddy out of bed and made him get ready for church.
we had an awesome church service, there was even free bbq hotdogs for all the men.
after church we went back to the in-laws place for a delicious lunch.
we spent the afternoon lazing around in the sunshine eating and drinking tea.
in the evening daddy went out with the boys from work to go and see bear grills live at challenge stadium.
he is the best daddy in the whole world and we love him to bits!

i hope everybody had a wonderful weekend
happy fathers day
xoxo

summer sun and ice-cream... lots and lots of ice-cream

i am now the proud (part) owner of an ice-cream store!

my crazy hubby and his equally crazy business partners bought a little gelato store.

it is down at our local beach (the locals around here call it the foreshore)

it is a cute little shop that sells gelato ice-cream and coffee.

there are a few tables an chairs in the shop and some out on the boardwalk.

the boys plan on revamping it.

they will still sell gelato and they will add other delicious treats and drinks to the menu.

it is an exciting new venture for us

my fingers are crossed that i will not have to do any shifts in the shop

only taste testing for me!

for all my local readers i am totally expecting all of you to come and visit this summer and enjoy our delicious treats!

i will keep you updated on the stores progress