Mothers Day Weekend.

 

Pink Sports Day fundraiser at the kids school Friday.

Best idea ever.

 Fullstop.

The Lads

Then off to watch Collingwood train Friday night.

Saturday after Auskick, Kell got an early birthday present from Nanny,

(can you tell he was pretty chuffed?)

Very early Sunday morning we started the round of Football games.

 3 in total.

Then the afternoon spent with Our Nanna Rose.

And my gorgeous Mum.

She delights me & inspires me & makes me laugh.

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Happy Mothers Day.

 my idea of the weekend off of housework, cooking & cleaning seemed like a great idea at the time

Today not so much.

Taking a step back. . .

The school holidays are nearly over, this holiday period was very relaxed & lots of time spent home with the kids. . . .

About 2 years ago Cj & I started the Fostering process, then we got cold feet & stopped.

Then I met a little boy,

Then I met his little brother,

Then I met their Nan raising them,

The rest as they say may be history.

Baby steps.

But will taking a step back from the blog for awhile & posting a lot less as the new term & new commitments starts.

Everything is a process.

Baby steps.

Fourteen. . . .

14 years ago today the little blonde kid on the left joined our family.

Fin has bought us so much happiness & taught us more than any school has ever done.

 

They way Fin approaches life & has dealt with his struggles, obstacles & life hurdles is amazing.

He is a joy to parent & has been, despite dealing with some hardships, a shining light.

He has come through a bright, happy, healthy, friendly, knock about kid who loves skating, surfing & hanging with his mates.

Loyal to the core & unfaltering in his life choices.

We adore him.

Respect him.

And we learn so much from him.

Happy Birthday Finlay.

We are beyond proud of you.

You have 3 brothers that actually like you, who want to be around you & are always learning from you.

You have always given 100% to life & it shows.

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More of the good stuff.

 About an hour up the coast from our front door is a little sleepy fishing village.

( selfie of my gorgeous friend Lisa & I )

 & about 20 minutes further than that is a wonderful surf beach that dogs are welcome.

 So we decided quite last minute to do a 3 day getaway with a couple of other families.

 My mate Sarah.

A kindred spirit.

 The beaches are quite deserted and the kids run free.

 Like really wild.

Our mate Steve.

 Cj & Dave

 Maggie-May was in heaven.

I didn't get a pic of big Mike,

Sarah's dog, he must of been running through the sand dunes loving life

 Gotta love it.

 We packed 6 kids, 3 Mums, 2 dogs, 5 scooters, 3 skateboards

&

all the beach gear into the Delica

&

 arrived at the beach to meet the guys.

I chucked it into 4wd and fanged up the beach to meet them.

Let's just say the girls were pretttttty dang impressed with my 4wheel driving skills.

 On the last day on the way home we called into a favourite picnic spot for lunch.

 Which is a bit more popular with the tourists,

but it is such a pretty place & worth spending a day there.

 We packed all the left over food & picked a BBQ spot,

only to realise we had absolutely no BBQ tools, plates or paper towel,

 or anything really.

 But we had a 1st aid kit-will travel.

 Who knew how handy tweezers could be.

 Happy boys.

 Well my legs were jelly.

 Lisa is alot fitter than me,

but we got it done & after a bit of confusion we got it cranking.

(E is hiding behind me)

 Skipper.

 If I could bottle these boy's energy,

I would be the richest person in the world.

Last visit to the beach before calling in for ice-creams & heading home.

The little town where we stayed is my happy place.

I love it.

I look forward to many more happy days there.

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Trip Highlights:

4wding up the beach packed the rafters in the Delica.

Sitting on the balcony with a drink enjoying the 180 ocean view & the company.

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Trip Lowlights:

Pizza farts courtesy of the dog all the way home.

Sarah's family being a bit under the weather.

 

Can't wait to do it again, guys.

 Oh and I left the . . .
"Mum, its a couple of weeks until I turn 17 & you have got to let me have some responsibility year old" in charge at home.
refer to the above to see how I feel about that.
 

Hello. . . .

So back with some randomness.
Been awhile.
Face book took over for awhile,
as I reconnected with my primary school besties, my much loved hometown & organised a little seaside get away for Me, Court & the younger boys with our lovely friends.
Then I decided I needed some new winter clothes,
 after not spending a cent on Summer clothes this year.
I saw this red coat on Birdsnest.
It was love at first sight.
But its $350 odd bucks.
So really don't know about that.

Then I saw this Mandarin cardi.
Hello there.

Then this gorgeous feather vest.
Want them all.

My gorgeous sister, Mel with her best friend, KK.
Plus, 
I finally got the disc with our Bali trip '40th' snaps.
From 2 years ago.
Very Funny.
Bought back lots of great memories & made me miss the girls,

Let's just say we had fun.

What we lacked in make-up we made up for in good times.

These girls made me laugh.

10 of us.

Good times.

We are probably a little 'merry' in most of these shots.

But also very, very happy.

 

Well, footy has restarted,

so that means all my weekends are now taken up again.

Plus work has really cranked up.

Hope you are all well.

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