If it's Thursday, it must be Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends who are celebrating today!

I am giving thanks, that hopefully after more chemotherapy today and tomorrow, my lovely Dad will be in remission again ... and I am so very thankful for that.

Then little E (and the rest of us) can have more of this ... that makes me thankful AND very happy too.

Up dog ...

The other night while I was busily working away on the computer (i.e. blog reading), Big B came into the study ...

B: "It smells like up dog in here"

Me: "What?"

B: "It smells like up dog in here"

Me: "I can't smell anything"

B: "It really smells like up dog in here Mum"

Me: "I don't understand what you're saying. Talk English. What's up dog?"

B: (in her best Gangster voice) "NO! Wassup wiv YOU dawg!"

Blessings

My Aunt recently wrote me a lovely letter, and gave me this beautiful Willow Tree figurine called "Blessings." When Big B saw it, she said it looked like my friend Em ...

Blessings?

Em?

How appropriate.

oh ... and growing!

So where did that weekend (month, year ...) go??

Randomness:

Little E is very excited about her birthday/Christmas. Her favourite Christmas colour is "Silba" and every day she tells me "Guess what? Soon it's Mimi's birsday!"

Middle C has just got her first job, and starts as a check-out chick at Coles this week.

Listening to Paul Weller "22 Dreams"

and Duffy "Rockferry"

Big B performed an original song "Queen B" at a concert last night.

and I'm reading "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho and eating Pumpkin, lentil & coconut soup.

(un) Anniversary 20.11.04 - 22.5.08

Confucius say "girl who smile like cat that got the cream, soon have taste of sour milk!"

However, Grandad used to say that "this too shall pass" ... and it does ... and it will.

Birthday Boxing Day

9.24pm, nearing the end of Birthday Boxing Day, and a big case of post "very-nice-birthday-indeed" blues.
Had our first veggie crop today! (have previously used some parsley to make a yum tabouli, and a few odd lettuce leaves) but this was the first batch big enough to make a meal! I made broccoli and potato soup, and we ate it with a loaf of turkish bread from the freezer. Very yum (I did worry that I may have missed a bright green caterpillar somewhere in the tight head of broccoli - being a no spray garden means lots of happy bugs!) but I'm sure no-one ever died from eating 1/5th of a caterpillar??!!
Met my lovely Dad for a coffee at Mindarie today with Big Kid and Middle Kid. Dad gave me a fantastic fruit and veggie growing book from the Diggers Club, got very enthused reading through it. Am desperate to grow some berries (blueberries won't work) but perhaps some yum blackberries??
Hubby out tonight listening to a band that could make your ears bleed. I'm off for a bit more tidying, chucking stuff in dryer and then a cup of tea and the last of my birthday Lindt choc .. and hopefully 1/2 hour of craft before I crash! Let's hope Baby kid sleeps all night .. and there you have it, my first ever blog .. didn't hurt a bit!