First day of the month.

Since it is the first day of the month I am putting my list together for my oamc.

I am trying a couple of new dishes this month.

King Ranch Chicken from Kalona

Cheese stuffed Italian Meatloaf

Easy Pantry Pasties.

I am really looking forward to tasting the King Ranch Chicken and the Italian Meatloaf. The pasties will be for Amelia's birthday which we will celebrate next Thursday. I will make some sausage rolls as well.

9000 visitor's.

Sometime yesterday I got my 9000 visitor to my site.

I thought we would have a competition again.

Can you guess when the 10000 visitor will come to my blog? I am going to give away two prizes. First the person that can guess the closest date and time. Second if the 10000 visitor comes from your blog, you will win something too.

My sitemeter is at the bottom of my blog. You are welcome to look and see all the stats before making your guess.

Mothers rule and flylady.

As all you regular visitors here know, I have been working on a Mother's rule and Flylady to help me make our house a bit less cluttered and the house work more manageable.

I started putting together a control journal. In my journal, I have written up my morning routine, our home school program, afternoon routine, my zone cleaning routines, a how to do oamc, a one page calender for the month that has all our bills written in their due date, what we will eat for tea that night and any unusual appointments that we don't do regularly. I have taken on Lynn's and Sarah's idea and I am planing on decluttering, beautifying and deep cleaning a room each month. The plan is written up in the control journal and I am also using Flylady's monthly inspection idea to help me write a list for each room.

The other thing I want to put in the control journal is a write up of each area that Holly speaks about in her Mother's rule book. For those of you that are not familiar with Holly's writings, she speaks about the five area's we need to look after as a mother.

The five area's are:

1. Person
2. Partner
3. Parent
4. Provider
5. Prayer.

So far, I have prayed and talked with Steve about the person and partner.

1. Person: I am trying to eat a better diet and drink less coke (one of my all time favourites). I am drinking more water because I am not drinking so much coke. Our meals are much better since I am doing the oamc so that has become a bit part of our routines. I am also making an effort to spend more time in personal prayer and getting to daily mass.

2. Partner. Having young children and teenage children in the house makes it hard for Steve and I to get time alone. We also haven't been praying together as much as we should. We have started to make an effort to go out for a coffee or a meal at least once a fortnight. During the holiday's we went out twice. Once out for tea and on the weekend we went out for coffee. We are also making a bit more of an effort to pray 5 decades of the rosary together each day.

Any other people out there put together any control journal or mothers rule? I would love to hear your ideas in the comment box.

Therese

Last day of the holidays.

Today is the last day of school holidays. Tomorrow it will be back to the grindstone for all of us. I have looked at my mothers rule today and changed a few things that will hopefully make our days run a bit smoother. I am increasing Tom and Amelia's religion lessons and I am going to try and take them more to daily mass.

Today at mass we were really happy to see some friends from Millicent. We lived there for a couple of years when Steve started teaching. After mass they came back and had a coffee with us and we caught up on all their news and news from other families down there. It was great to catch up with them.

Just for fun.

Thanks to Leah and her lovely fiance for this silly nonsense.


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Friday Funnies.

I got this joke from Leah at Lowdenclear

The Perfect Husband.

Several men are in the locker room of a golf club.

A cell phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands free speaker-function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen.

MAN: "Hello"

WOMAN: "Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?"

MAN: "Yes"

WOMAN: "I'm at the mall now and found this beautiful leather coat. It's only $1,000. Is it OK if I buy it?"

MAN: "Sure, ..go ahead if you like it that much."

WOMAN: "I also stopped by the Mercedes dealership and saw the new 2008 models. I saw one I really liked."

MAN: "How much?"

WOMAN: "$60,000"

MAN: "OK, but for that price I want it with all the options."

WOMAN: "Great! Oh, and one more thing .... The house we wanted last year is back on the market. They're asking $950,000."

MAN: "Well, then go ahead and give them an offer, but just offer $900,000."

WOMAN: "OK. I'll see you later! I love you!"

MAN: "Bye, I love you, too."

The man hangs up. The other men in the locker room look at him in astonishment.

Then he asks: "Anyone know who this phone belongs to?"

Anzac Day.

Today is a public holiday for Anzac Day. Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

The 25th marks the landing of the Anzac's at Gallipoli.

Read more about it here

Tagged.

It must be the season.


Leah from Lowdenclear tagged me for this meme.

1. The rules of the game get posted on the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about himself.
3. At the end of the post, the player tags five people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they’ve been tagged and asking them to read their blog.

What was I doing 10 years ago?
Brigette was just about to celebrate her 1st birthday. Daniel would have been at school most days, Sam at kindy 4 afternoons a week and I had Madeline and Brigette home full time. Steve was studying teaching full time. Life was pretty busy all around with the 4 children. It seems unbelievable to me to think that Tom, Amelia and Christopher weren't a part of our family yet. It is hard to remember sometimes what it was like.

Five things on my To-Do list today:
This will be tomorrow since it is nearly 9pm here.
1. Cook some muffins
2. Continue going through the children's clothes.
3. Go to Mass.
4. Cut out a pattern for Amelia's birthday dress.
5. Start preparing Tom and Amelia's school work for next term.

Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Pay off all debts.
2. throw a party.
3. Travel to meet all my online friends.
4. Give to a charity like Children with Diabetes.
5. renovate our end room and build an extension on our house.

Three bad habits and qualities.
1. I procrastinate all the time.
2. I judge on appearances.
3. spending way too much time on computer.


Five places I’ve lived
1. Rostrevor (suburb of Adelaide)
2. Holden Hill (another suburb of Adelaide)
3. Millicent (country SA).
4. Port Augusta (Country SA) and I don't have a fifth place but we did live in two different houses in Millicent and two different houses in Port Augusta.


Five jobs I’ve had:
1. Shop Assistant at a handbag shop.
2. Cafeteria assistant at a university.
3. Shop Assistant at a fish shop.
4. Office worker at Philips.
5. SAHM. I definitely like this one the best.

five books I recently read.
1. My visit to Hell.
2. Harry Potter at the Chamber of secrets. (we are still reading this one).
3. The Bible.
4. Devotion to the Sacred Heart.
5. designing your own classical curriculum.

5 People to tag.
1. Adrienne from Adreinne's Catholic Corner
2. Lisa from Episcopollyanna
3. Cathy from The Daily Grotto
4. Fr. John Speekman from Homilies and Reflections from Australia
5. Marco from Third Blog from the Right

All you want to know and more.

I have enjoyed reading many blogs that have had the 7 facts meme so I thought I would have a questions post.

If you have anything you want to know about me, my family and the Australian way of life, now is your chance to ask away.

Pass out the word.

HT to Totus Tuus Family





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Girls Day Out.

Today I took the girls to Port Pirie to buy our winter shoes and underwear. We had a great day out. We left home around 11. Port Pirie is just under a hour away from us so we got there just before 12.00. I don't know the town very well but I thought I would be able to get us to KMart but I drove around and couldn't find it so we drove into town and asked at the Tourist Information. They gave us a map and showed us the way. They also had a photo gallery open so we went in to take a look. I didn't realize that we weren't suppose to take photos and I started clicking photo's of the girls looking at the pictures. This girl came out and said to me, excuse me can you please not take some photo's in here, these pictures are under copyright. :::oops::: I did delete those photos.

After the Art Gallery we decided to go and get lunch. McDonalds was just around the corner from the Tourist Info so we went there. It was packed. I have never seen a place with so many people lined up to be served. We changed our minds and decided to head over to KMart and go to KFC which was next door for lunch. We had lunch did our shopping and came home. We got back around 3.30 or so. It was good to spend sometime with the girls.

Mothers rule on Mondays.

Today has been a very productive day in clearing out the children's clothes. I have started with Tom's and Christopher's. These two always seem to have difficulty finding clothes that are clean and matching so I didn't think they would have too much to give away. I think I am wrong. I was shocked to see that Tom has 4 good shirts. I didn't realize I had bought that many for him. He only has one good pair of shorts that would be suitable for wearing out but since summer clothes are just about at an end, I will wait till next summer to buy or make him another good pair.

I will need to either make them or buy them a couple of pairs of jeans for winter but everything else is in good supply. We have an excess of jumpers and just the right amount of skivvies. They will both need some new socks.

Yesterday I was reading at Sarah's blog this post about decreasing laundry. I like her idea about having all the same pairs of socks for each person and a different colour for each person. We are going to do this too. Tomorrow I am taking the girls to Port Pirie because KMart have 40% of underwear this week. We are going to get everyone their own colour sock and make sure all their pairs are exactly the same.

I am also hoping to finish of going through Tom's and Christopher's clothes and then I will move onto the girls on Wednesday. I think their clothes will take me quite a few days to go through. They have probably twice as many as the boys. They also have a lot of extra toys and things in their room and I really need to clear them all out.

7 facts about me.

Well everyone seems to want to know 7 things about me. I was tagged for this by Muddy Mama Thanks MM for the tag.

1. I am excessive in everything. I am seeing just how much as I declutter our house. It isn't only in material things that I am excessive, it is also in cooking. I never cook small amounts. I cook large quantities.

2. We live about three and a half hours away from the town both Steve and I grew up in.

3. I did ballet as a child and really loved it.

4. I hate anything that requires lots of stamina like running or working out.

5. I walk twice a week with some girlfriends. We walk nearly 5 km in 50 minutes.

6. One day I would love to go to a Latin mass.

7. my favourite genre for reading is Mystery.

I tag:


Melissa from Almost Catholic Momma

Karen from Gem of the Ocean

Mary Ellen from Grandma's Musings

Rachi from Just another day

Marty from Marty's

JoAnn from The Creamer Chronicles

And Lynn from Signs and Wonders

Just too tired.

I have had a long day. I have baked and washed and cleaned. It has all made me too tired to post tonight. I was going to do Muddy Mama's tag tonight but it will have to wait till tomorrow.

If you want to do this meme, leave a comment in the comment box and I will tag you.

Therese

Friday Funnies.

I have looked and searched. I cannot find a funny joke that makes me want to laugh a good belly laugh.

Many blogs I visit have lots of good jokes so post them in the comment box. Give everyone a good laugh if you can think of one.

Tonight.

Steve and I went on a date.

We went out to tea and then came home and watched a suspense thriller movie called visitation. If any of you know the book by Frank Paretti, that is the book that the movie is based on. It was a bit scary at parts and had lots of false beliefs about God and demons.

It was good though to have a night to ourselves and talk.

Therese

Melissa Hackney.

The latest from Kathy at The Daily Grotto

FROM KIM BURKE IN SENECA FALLS:

Melissa has been moved to ICU. They have put her on a ventilator. It is confirmed that she has a brain infection.

She is having seizures every 2- 3 minutes. Doctors have said that if she makes it through this, she will most likely have some type of brain damage.

Right now there is no decision on what they will do about the bone marrow transplant. They will first have to get her through this and go from there.

Ask everyone to pray for God's will and strength for the family. God Bless!"

PLEASE JOIN ME IN SAYING A CHAPLET OF DIVINE MERCY FOR MELISSA.


Thank you for your prayers, and posts on your blogs for Melissa and family.

Something to make you smile.

I received this picture in an email. It is soooooo funny I had to share.

Thank you everyone.

Thank you everyone for your prayers. Tom is now home and has no ketone's. We will be checking his pump and site every night now and making sure it is in. We will also need to look into getting some adhesive to put over the site and make it a bit more secure.

Tom.

During the night sometime Tom's pump came out. We don't know what time it came out, we just know that he went without insulin for a very long time and has become very dehydrated. He is now at the hospital getting rehydrated.

I would appreciate any prayers you can offer for him.

Thanks
Therese