I wish I could fix my baby

As all mothers will know, the worst feeling in the world can be when your baby is sick and you can't do a thing to make them better. Well Meggie has a very sore eye. It's infected just like it was when she scratched her face before Christmas and her whole eye swelled up like crazy.



This time there was no scratch - the infection just appeared after she'd been sick for a few days with a fluey type bug. It's not effecting her eye itself - although as it gets more swollen it is almost touching her eye ball. I've been to the Dr.s twice and have her on antibiotics but it still seems to be getting worse. I hope that she wakes up tomorrow with some improvements as I just feel helpless to do anything. She is actually quite happy though, which is the one thing that is making me feel a little at ease.



Here's a LO that I did of her the first time she got this infected eye, and I've got some piccies of her that i took today.

Now on ScrapLounge news - we are four days into May but obviously I'm behind the 8ball with all of my munchkins being sick one way or another this week but we will have the challenges and sketches up in the next day or so. We will also be announcing APril's winners in early in the week.

I just read this tonight - it's quoted in a cook book my mum bought me '4 Ingredients' which I absolutely LOVE by the way! I've been very clean and tidy the last couple of weeks since mum was up from Melbourne and I've been so proud of myself, but looking at the dirty dishes tonight and all the rest of the 'stuff' that needs to be done but hasn't yet....after reading this, i felt a lot better, and I swear it describes my 'today' exactly!

I hope you get something out of it too:)

A recipe for all Mothers

Today I left some dishes dirty;

The bed made at 3:30

The nappies soaked a little longer,

the odour grew a little stronger.

The crumbs I spilt the day before

are staring at me from the floor.

The fingerprints, there on the wall

will likely still be there, next fall.

The dirty streaks on the window panes

will still be there next time it rains.

"Shame on you old lazy-bones", I say

"And just what have you done today?"

I nursed a baby till he slept,

I held a toddler while he wept.

I played a game of hide and seek

I squeezed a toy, so it would squeak.

I pulled a wogon, sang a song,

Taught a child right from wrong.

What did I do this whole day through?

Not much that shows, I guess it's true...

Unless you think that what I've done

Might be important to someone

with bright blue eyes and soft blonde hair

If that is true, I've done my share.

Joanne Green

just an update

well it's been a while so thought I'd better give an update.

First - some funny photos.....Lilly got BUSTED big time. She's going through a 'want to shampoo my hair for no aparent reason when I'm NOT in the bath' phase.

She just froze when I caught her in the act, expecting to be in big trouble but I had to hold back the laughter as I ran for the camera...lol

On other news, ScrapLounge is coming along nicely! I'm still getting myself into a good routine but am almost there. Most of the comps for April are in the forum now so go check them out. March winners will be announced early next week.

I'm soooo excited to be in the final five in Chook Scraps Survivor challenge. Each week we've had a criteria to create a page and once the pages are judged several people are kicked off the Island. Well amazingly I'm still here!!! I'm really enjoying the competition and am eagerly awaiting Saturday's announcement of the final two. The winner receives a $50 voucher along with a Guest dt spot!

Here are the Layouts I've created so far

Our Little Preppie

Well the big day came about on the 29th of January. She is now in prep. Of course in typical Emma style she wouldn't smile for the camera outside with the nice scenery so I will have to re-shoot those photos. Here are two from the morning of day 1.


She just seems so grown up all of a sudden - it's a very happy sad proud feeling for us at the moment. She absolutely loves school and has already made a few little friends. She's also doing Ballet lessons once a week and she's loving it!

And here are some piccies of the other two munchkins. Miss cheeky aka Lilly is as bubbly and cute as ever. Miss Meg has been in agony with five YES FIVE teeth all deciding to come through straight after each other, but she has also well and truly figured out the crawling thing so is trying to chase her sisters all over the place. She's also standing up and walking along the couch - this usually ends in tears though :(

Here's a recent LO of Kevin and I. This is the Challenge pack for March at Love 2 Scrap. I really struggle with this range from Sassafras Lass but once I got the Cricut out and cut some shapes it was really easy to work with.

Long time no post

Well sorry everyone, whoops so much for my weekly blog update hey!!



So lots been happening, ScrapLounge is almost here and it's all so exciting! We already have a heap of amazing retailers on board as sponsors which is fabulous and I'll be adding them all to my fave scrap sites link soon.



With the extra time I have now that I'm not uploading new products or packing orders I've been scrapping away like a crazy person! I've added some of my favourite recent creations. Most of them where for our EMM cybercrop last weekend which was sponsored by http://www.kitiq.com.au/ and the girls produced some amazing creations, the other pages were done for the Cybercrop over at http://www.chookscraps.com.au/ Lorraine and the dt girls put on a fabulous cybercrop let me tell you!!!



Lilly and Meg are back at daycare this week so I took Emma to the Andy Warhol exhibition on Monday - it was fabulous and I'll be going back by myself before it finishes in March - a four year old can only tolerate so much art at one time..lol.

Emma starts school next week OMG!!! She's very excited but i think may be quietly nervous too as she's had a few bad dreams the last couple of nights. she'll be fine and I'll have the camera ready and waiting for the big event!

Meg still has no teeth but gee are they giving her some greif! She's happily sitting up by herself now, and is mannaging two or three leg moves in the crawling department....she finds bouncing like a little frog easier...it's so cute!!!

Lilly is very happy to be back at kindy with her friends and is the cheeky little monkey as always, and she now says "Emma" instead of "Memma" which she's very proud about :)

This LO is of Lilly at one day old snuggling into mum (should I say nana)

This one is about how Miss Emma has to be the centre of attention for photos, unless I actually want her beautiful smiling face in the photo then she refuses to do it!

THis one was a play around with paint. I'm suposed to be doing an online 4wk course through Big Picture scrapbooking with Emily falconbridge and this is as far as I've gotten...lol.

I'm trying to scrap my older photos before taking too many new ones and this was a great little moment to scrap. It's Emma when she was about 14mths climbing away

This one is using the lovely new Basic Grey Two Scoops range which I picked up from Love 2 Scrap in Booval, photo of Lilly and her obsession with the bottle and dummy.

that's it for me until next time!!!

Seeya :)

Some recent creations

'That Look' is a LO I did the other week when I got Emma's kinder photos back. It was a quicky 20 min creation (very rare for me), and I've rediscovered the Basic Grey plain papers and am in love! I think they're replacing Bazzill for me at the moment for backgrounds. They just seem to have a real grungy feel which I'm also loving at the moment.



I made the canvas 'Adison' using the Oh Baby Girl range from Basic Grey - an oldy but a fave! The photo is of my sweet baby neice Adison, who I'm yet to meet...bring on Christmas!






Family update: Meg is happily rolling about the place, and today took her first backward crawl....she suprised herself too lol.



Emma and Lilly are fighting like cats and dogs every half hour but it's ok because the other half hour they're best friends and playing beautifully together ...kids hey!

Kevin is busy working and is just getting back into doing a bit of research into his family history which is MUCH BETTER than wasting hours playing GTA in my opinion...lol

And me, well what a crazy mix of emotions it is closing down the shop section of my website and changing it all over to the new format. I'm finding it quite sad seeing all the products disappear from the shelves now that Ihave my clearance sale on. It's going to be great though - I'm already finding that I have heaps more time and a lot less pressure.

Until next time

Daddy's home!!

Yay, Kevin's been home for six days now so we're all very happy!!! Well apart from Lilly who hasn't been all that well. She had a high temp on Thursday and has been very grizly ever since. She was slightly better today and by the look of her sopping wet shirt tonight I'm guessing it is the dreaded teeth coming through! She doesn't usually get SO out of sorts but they must be sore ones.

We've had a very lazy weekend here, it's been too hot to do much except sit in the nice airconditioning :)

Emma and Lilly have been having lots of fun with all their toys (in other words totally destroying the place), Meg is also teething so has been a bit grumpy. Thank got the Homeopathic teething tablets work for her!

We were very excited the other day when I picked up Emma's Prep uniform for next year....she looks sooooo cute and grown up in it!!! I can't believe she's only a couple of months off starting school WOW!

The big news for me is that I've decided to sell EMM. The decision was extremely hard but I really feel it's time as I'm really struggling to keep up with everything. Now to find a new home for my OTHER baby!

A great day

Well starting off with a nice little sleep in till 8:45 - I was VERY happy with that after Meg's 5:30-6:00am wake up cries all week.

We had Poached and Boiled eggs for breaky then headed down to the Nature Centre at Queen's Park to see the animals. It was really nice weather - hot but a nice cool breeze. I forgot the camera so no piccies of the Park *sorry* but then we came home and had a Picnic lunch in the backyard ..as you can see in the picture. Now you may ask why are we having the picnic on the concrete instead of the grass? Well our backyard is infested with green ants and they HURT when they bite so at least on the concrete we can relax without the worry of ants getting us!

The other pictures are from this last week. Emma and Lilly making lunch wearing the cute little Aprons Lynette made up with leftover material from my Craft Fair aprons. All three girls just seem to be growing up so fast at the moment...it's scary!!!