2 more leaving the nest.

Today Sam and Madeline have gone to Adelaide to look at houses to rent. They are hoping to get a house with Daniel so the three of them will be living together. The plan is to move down there in 3 weeks.

Sam is planing to work at Hungry Jacks still and Madeline is too. She is also going to be studying  fashion design part time at TAFE.  Sam says he wants to do some study but he isn't sure what he wants to do yet.

Over the years our family has changed so many times. Each time has brought challenges and blessings. Our last big change was Daniel moving out and Joseph being born. Joseph was born a week before Daniel moved to Whyalla. I missed Daniel when he first moved but I am very proud of the great young man he has become. I am sure I will miss Sam and Madeline too but I am confident they are going to grow and mature in the same way Daniel has.

Life will be a little bit quieter around here. I think we will  notice Sam and Madeline absence more so than when Daniel moved since there is two of them going. Looking forward to the change and having things a bit quieter though.

Campion College.

Tomorrow, Sam is going to fly to Sydney for Campion College summer camp.

This is a camp for students going into year 12 this year.

We have heard a lot of good things about Campion College and are really happy that Sam has the opportunity to go and meet other teens that will be doing year 12 also.

At home, I am sure everyone will miss him terribly (especially when they need to do his job).

Sam's birthday cake.

Sam had trick candles on his birthday cake. He kept trying to blow them out and they kept relighting.

Therese.

Sammy Joe.

17 years ago today I gave birth to Sam, our second child.

You can read about Sam's
14th Birthday,
15th birthday and
16 birthday.

Here is Sam on his 14th birthday.


Here he is today, 17 years old.

Happy Birthday Sam.

Baby sling.

Christopher with sling

Tom with the sling

Amelia with the sling

Sam with the sling. (being Mr. cool).

I got some new rings for our baby sling today so finished of the green check sling today. I still haven't done the muslin one. If baby doesn't come, I will sew it over the weekend.

Happy Birthday Sam.

16 years ago today I had our second child. Another son. I wanted Daniel to have a brother since my brother had been the only boy. I know that Daniel appreciates having a brother close in age to him. I am sure Sam does too.

Sam was born 4 weeks early. It was a big surprise to us since Daniel had been late.

Now nearly 16 years later, he has grown to be a wonderful son. We love you a lot Sam and are glad you are a part of our family. Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday Sam.

15 Years ago today we had our second child. Sam was our second son and I was very glad that Daniel had a brother to grow up with. Daniel was 22 months at the time.

Sam was 4 weeks prem but still weighed 6 # 10 oz. (2990 grams). We were told he would probably have trouble feeding but he feed like a champ. We were also told he would probably need to go under the lights for jaundice but didn't need that either.

Happy Birthday Sam. I cannot believe 15 years has gone by since you have joined our family. We feel very blessed by God to have you as a part of our family. Thank you for being you.

God bless
Mum and Dad.

Everything back to normal.

Today we started back with our usual routine.

Sam is doing home school for the rest of the year as well as Tom and Amelia. Steve went back to work and Daniel, Madeline and Brigette all went back to school too.

It is good to have a routine up and running again. It will also be good to have Sam at home with the younger children. He will be reading the History of the World to the younger children and reading some novels to them as well.

Steve is doing most of Sam's curriculum and I am still just concentrating on Amelia's and Tom's.

Our week in review.

It has been a busy week with the trip to Adelaide midweek. We have had a lot of sucess with changing Tom's pump to the sillhouette inserter and yesterday we changed the insertion site into his bottom. He is going the full three days now with one set and we are getting a pretty good idea of what base rate he needs. Sugars are staying more consistent and I am noticing that he works well when his sugars are like that.

On Sunday Madeline was in her Musical Theatre play. She was a Island girl and mermaid. I wasn't able to get to the play because I needed to cook and get organised for the trip to Adelaide. Steve took Tom, Amelia and Christopher.

Monday we got our paper work for our taxation. We are getting a big refund this year. The cheque should arrive in about two weeks.

Tuesday I headed of to Adelaide with Tom and Christopher.

Sam started working this week. He has a job at Hungry Jacks. Last Thursday was his first day on the job. Daniel has been working there for three years now and enjoys it. He said that Sam went well.

We had family night at Madeline's school on Thursday too. They started with a bbq and then each class did a dance. Madeline's class danced to Crazy Frog. It is one of my favourite songs.

Because of the late night Thursday night only Daniel and Sam went to school on Friday. I must admit I am ready for the holidays now and don't feel too motivated to get them ready. The children have two weeks of school left and then they have 6 weeks off over Christmas. Next year Tom and Amelia will do homeschool, Madeline will go to our local public school and Daniel, Sam and Brigette will be at Caritas.

Yersterday was Daniels last day of school. He won the leadership award for year 10's and was presented with a certificate and cheque for $100.00 at the closing asembly. We are very proud of him and all that he has achieved this year.

This weekend is going to be busy. Steve is weeding the garden and doing lots of little jobs out the front.

I am hoping to get snacks for the week made and start the girls curtains.

It is the first week of advent and I thought I would change my blog colour to purple for the 4 weeks.

Have a great weekend.
Therese

Happy Birthday Sam.

14 years ago I gave birth to our second child. Another Son who we called Sam.

Sam was born 4 weeks prem but was a nice healthy 2.9 kg. That is 6 pounds 6 oz for you non metric people. He was a champion feeder and we really couldn't tell that he was prem at all.

I hope you have a great day Sam and thank God for the blessing that you are to our family.

Maybe we will give him a hair cut for his birthday lol.

Today the Cross arrives.

The WYD cross is coming to Port Augusta today. Yesterday Daniel and Sam were in the local paper and last night Daniel was on television talking about the cross. He spoke really well (even though it was only for 30 seconds).

This afternoon we will go to the church and there will be a procession with the cross around Port Augusta and over to Caritas College. There will be entertainment and tea over there. We are looking forward to taking part in the festivities. I will take some photo's to share with you all.

World Youth Day

Next week the cross from World Youth Day is coming to Port Augusta. My two older son's have been on the planning committee that organises the festivities why they are here.

Daniel is holding the banner and Sam is standing next to him.

Just saying Hi.

So I am in a mood for writing. (Well actually I am just sick of housework so wanted to do something different) but I cannot think of anything to blog about. LIfe is just plodding along. We are preparing for Brigette's First communion and having visitors. Steve's parents and my mother is coming to stay for the weekend and so are Brigette's Godparents with their youngest child. I am also getting a new mothers rule of life routine worked out because Tom's insulin regime is about to change and he will be needing injections every lunch time and I will have to go and give them to him which will mean a trip to school every lunch time.

This weekend is a long weekend. We will have Monday of to celebrate the Queens birthday. I am going to take the girls out for a girls day in Whyalla. We will do some shopping and have lunch on the Saturday.

I have a couple of photos to share too. Sam borrowed a mask from a friend of his to take on his school camp and do a play. The children all had fun having photos taken with it on. Here is Tom and Sam with it on.

And here is Christopher. Can you see the family resemblence? Three out of four boys all have read eyes and purple hair lol.

Anyway for a girl that cannot think of anything to say I seem to have got a fairly long post. So HI and bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!