I think it was in this area that I mentioned my son was getting married. I don't know why I felt a special sense of pride that day - more than I have in a very long time. Michael and I (as you no doubt know) have been estranged for a few years and it was Mother's day this year that he finally came back into my life and I am so happy about that.
Why is it that I felt so proud of him on his wedding day? I remember the feelings I had for my daughter on her wedding day and they weren't the same. Don't get me wrong, I love my daughter just as much as my son but I don't remember feeling as much pride in her as I did for Michael - is that strange or what?
I've got a couple of photos to post which I pinched from Mikey's facebook LOL. He has promised me a copy of the disc of photos when they are ready......

Here is my son and daughter-in-law:


and my 3 beautiful grandchildren.....the boy at the back is my grandson Jacob, he looks like he's been into the booze LOL.
And of course my girls, Jessica and Mikayla, Mikayla is the smaller of the 2.
The little boy in front is not one of mine, although he is a cutie - he was a jr groom with Jacob.
Nanna's pride is showing....sorry!

lovely photo's, , i'm still here in uk , why you may ask or not lol, my sis took a turn for the worse so couldn't leave without knowing she wil be ok, we have been up down the hossie like yoyo's, so many tests and still no answers everything the doc's think it could be come back negative, she is a mystery at the mo.
had to cancel my flight and now booked for the 28thoct so i pray by then we will have answers i will have to go on the date. have commitments over there to get sorted.

will try to get back again ,but who knows !!!!!

gosh misty! No wonder you can't concentrate on anything, there is so much in the air for you! I hope all turns out for the best though

Where has every one gone????????????

Sending Healing to your sister misty

I have just come back from a development weekend what a blast on the last day I actually got the full name of someones dad that had passed

My dad has been poorly so has been taking up a lot of our time of late but he appears to be on the mend a bit

I was wondering the same thing JJ - popped in last night as hadn't checked in for a couple days & it was like time had stood still lol but I guess everyone's had other things in life going on. I've been really busy with work & so on ... so not much mental energy left in the tank at night this past week & a bit. The project at work is interesting so at least it's a 'good' busy but I know it's only short term & then will probably be back to the same old .... but while doing some general reflecting earlier this evening, it hit me just how routine life has become of late & how nice it would be to pack up & go bush for a while lol - different environment, different routine, different experiences - just something new .....


Sending healing to your sister misty & to your dad JJ

Development weekend sounds like it was exciting JJ

Hope everyone comes back soon :-)

So sorry.... when the owner of a site goes missing for a while the whole forum tends to stop, I am so sorry for this.
As you know I've been working my butt off for the past few months...well it all came to a head this week and I ended up quitting the job at the school. I took a sickie on Tueday afternoon and that seemed to be the beginning of the end.

I have been extremely busy this week, I had 2 house clients, Tuesday and Thursday, and the mental health place I clean booked me in for Monday, Wednesday and today to clean units. Now these units are usually 3 bedrooms, each with it's own ensuite, a lounge/dining room, kitchen, laundry and hallway. The residents there are really grotty, most being young men, and sorry, I am not typecasting but it seems the young men just do not know how to clean anything!! Anyhow, they had a big re-shuffle there and were moving residents from one unit to another to make room for more coming in so they asked me to clean certain areas as they moved one into another area and then clean the area they moved out of - so all in all, a very busy week.
I had an appointment on Monday afternoon with my upline Avon rep (incase I didn't mention it, I am now an Avon lady too), the appt was for 2.15...I remember sitting on the lounge at 2pm knowing I couldn't go to sleep because of this person coming...well the next thing I know it was 2.45 and my phone was ringing. It was hubby but there had also been a message, both on the landline and on my mobile. When I finally got through to her she said she was knocking on my front door, ringing the doorbell and tapping on the window, and then thinking I must have been out, left. I was asleep in the lounge room which is at the front of my house, I should have heard her knock on the window at the very least, geeze I must have died for 3/4 of an hour I think! Anyway I composed myself and went off at 3.30 to do the school. All the while I was there I was 'dragging my feet' so to speak and everything seemed much harder than normal, I couldn't wait to finish and found myself cutting corners to get done and get home. I usually work to a high standard so this was not normal for me.

On Tuesday I got home from doing my house client about 1.30pm and thinking that I had enough time for a nap I parked myself on the lounge once again to grab 40 winks. The TV seemed so loud that day and it was hard for me to drift off but I guess I was panicking in a way because I knew this was the last chance I had to nap and if I didn't get it now I was going to be too tired to work this afternoon...well I finally slept but I woke at about 3.50pm, I usually leave here at 3.30 so I was running late to begin with. As I opened my eyes I looked at the clock and shock, horror... look at the time! So I lept up quickly and got a really big head-rush, so I sat down again just as quick. Composed myself and then got up again to get organised to go to work, knowing I would be late anyway.
My legs felt like ton weights and I felt as if I was trying to run through waist-high water...I sat again saying to myself, "I just can't keep this up!"
So feeling bad, feeling tired and like a zombie I made the decision....."f... it" I'm not going in tonight. So I stayed at home. I didn't actually compose myself properly until about 7.30pm or so. I didn't ring my supervisor which I know was very naughty of me, but they wouldn't have been able to do anything at that late hour anyway so I never bothered. Also knowing that the supervisor would chew my ears off and I was in no mood for this.

Wednesday I was back down at the mental health facility and was ready to move on to the next stage of unit cleaning when I decided that I was going to take tonight off as well, I was just so exhausted that I felt I couldn't keep going like this. So I rang my supervisor to tell her that I wouldn't be in, she should have enough time to get someone to cover me today. She was not impressed at all, and I got a telling off because I wanted to take the night off...in 4 months there I have only had 1 night off when I was really sick, and that night no one had covered me so I had extra to do the next night. Well, when I told her that I hadn't been in the night before she really had a fit and chewed my ears back to the bare bones. I deserved it because I hadn't told her the night before so I took it from her but I wasn't about to take nonsense because I had asked for a night off. So I said to her that I have another clanger for her, that I am resigning and she can have my notice. I asked how much notice do I need to give and she told me to finish up now, so I said done!
In the next breath she said she didn't want to lose me....well...hello?

So for the rest of this week, between cleaning and sleeping, I haven't had a lot of time to do much at all. I have spent most of it trying to recapture my sleep, and believe me, I have done a whole lot of that!
I really think this has turned out for the best. I believe my body was telling me that I needed to slow down so this I have done. I went to work this morning with a very different attitude that I have had of late. And I actually enjoyed cleaning, something I haven't enjoyed for a very long time.
Now I have to somehow recoup the lost $'s which isn't that much really.

well thats always the way when we don't listen to what we shoudl be doing we get shoved, take it easy my friend

Sadie - please listen to your body!! Easier said than done I know. Unfortunately we don't do it enough & often don't take notice until it really hits us. Hope you can get some much needed rest now.

gosh sadie your life is always so full on! You need to take a step back but you know that (apart from us telling you), life will make you!

Have not been here lately and I apoligise for that people. Life gets very busy at times.
have moved the kids to a new school this term and they are loving it. My son came out first day sprouting about friends (which he still plays with 3wks later), took him 5yrs at old school to get a friend. We now have school concert to get ready for, excursions, class xmas parties, school disco. Not to mention my daughters dancing concert.
had sons 10th birthday yesterday, he had a slumber party with 2 friends, which seemed to go well.
We are also looking at moving (that reminds me to update the reading with tha info), better to get out of this house which still holds bad memories no matter how much time passes.

Gosh Suzie, you have been busy! As soon as I read about your son's birthday I had a mental picture and also the taste of pink ice cream LOL..maybe I'm fancying

LOL no pink ice cream here! yellow pokemon cake

I saw a picture of an ice-cream maker machine in a mag and it was this I was seeing....fancying? Definately! LOL...I have to get me one of those!! LOL

things are moving along really quickly in selling our house! From okay lets move to signing agents contracts on monday and the agent has already done drive by's. Wants to take photos tomorrow and list next week! I feel like I'm running a race BUT normally I would fight against things, this time i'm letting the life take us along. If things are supposed to go this fast then let it!
Just hope the preapprovals come through fast and we find another house just as quick!

Suzie is there a suburb beginning in "L" that you are looking at? Or perhaps a street? Oh it just occured to me that you live in Penrith, that's close to Liverpool isn't it?
Not saying that Liverpool is where you'll be moving but.....