Smart Martha Monday.

From my list last week. 

Sew boys new shirts and shorts: Shorts done. Shirts all cut out and waiting still.

Christmas shopping for our children. Done.

Go to mass each day. Done except for Friday.

This week:

I want to go to mass every day.

I want to finish the boys shirts.

I also want to work out a menu plan for oamc again.

I hope you all have a great week.
Therese.

Nearly Wordless Wednesday.

Today has been really productive. I have made a pair of shorts for Tom, Christopher and Joseph. Here are Tom and Christopher. Joseph would not stand with them to have a photo  taken.

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National Evangelisation Team

Our son Daniel wants to work for the National Evangelisation Team for a year. This is a volunteer position and he needs to raise $5500 to support himself for the year. I have added a paypal button on the right hand side to give him a hand.

If you can help at all, I am sure he will appreciate it very much.

Thanks
Therese.

I hope you all have a beautiful holiday!!! I'll be back blogging after the new year and the shop will re-open later in January. With lots of new goodies!

Smart Martha Monday.

I had a pretty good week last week and did most of what I had on my list. I have 90% of Christopher's curriculum worked out and we have done all our Christmas shopping for everyone except our children. We really need to do that last minute though. Our children tend to snoop around looking for gifts and want to know what they have.

This week:

Sew boys new shirts and shorts.

Christmas shopping for our children.

Go to mass each day.

I hope you all have a good week too.

7 Quick Takes.

=1-

Today was the last day of school for everyone. We have 6 weeks summer holidays now. I am going to spend a lot of time sewing over the next few weeks. 

-2-

It is a while since I have done a big monthly cook. I am going to get back into it these holidays. 

-3-

Joseph will be going to Adelaide soon to have a MRI. He needs to be put under a general anaesthetic for this so they are going to take bloods for some other tests. I asked the Doctor that is in charge of the MRI if they could also take blood to test for type one diabetes since Tom and Christopher both have it. I really hope he isn't positive but if he is, it is better for us to know that it is coming. 

-4-

Joseph has had an AFO for about 4 weeks now. We are noticing a difference but he still has a long way to go with it. When he first had it, he hated having it on so much that he was hiding it from us. We also had a big fight with him to get it on his leg. Now he doesn't mind it being on and cooperates when we need to put it on. 

-5-

Tom has been on daily injections for a couple of weeks now. His pump malfunctioned and because he has had it for 4 years, it isn't under warranty any longer. Every 4 years, our health insurance pays for one so as soon as we can get everything organised for it, Tom will be back on the pump. 

-6-

This weekend we will be going to Carols by candlelight in Gladstone Square. We haven't been for the last couple of years and I am really looking forward to it. 

-7-

I cannot think of anything else so for number 7, I am just going to remind you to pop over to Jennifer's for more 7 quick takes. 

Working, Working.

I've been frantically working the past couple of weeks to get everything finished before Christmas, including our Christmas cards. Which, surprisingly, I started early this year (yay!). However, and not surprising, I might have bit off a tiny bit more than I can chew. Stay tuned. Hopefully they'll be done by the end of the week.

Smart Martha Monday.

I didn't really have much on my list last week except to stay calm and collected through all the end of year/Christmas shows.

We made it through the week without too much trouble. On Wednesday, I intended to go to mass on my own but woke up with a temperature of 39.6. I felt pretty rotten to say the least so spent the day in bed. Madeline took care of Christopher and Joseph for me. After 24 hours of taking panadol and resting, I felt much much better. I was even able to go to Tom and Amelia's school's family night and not feel too exhausted from it.

This week I am going to write my curriculum for Christopher for 1st term next year. I want to get it done before Christmas so that I can have a full month of nothing to do from Christmas to school starting next year.

I am also going to finish of Christmas shopping.

I hope you all have a great week.

Therese.

Jane Elizabeth.

Jane Elizabeth was the name Steve and I choose for Joseph just in case the ultrasound tech had his sex wrong.

It is also the name I haven given to this doll. I won her on The Handmaden's blog.

She is just gorgeous. Amelia asked me if she could have her and I said no. Jane is going to sit right on my sewing table and keep me company while I sit sewing.

Thanks so much Kelly for this lovely doll and your blog giveaway.

Pop over and see Kelly and all her beautiful home made goods. Also visit her Etsy Shop.

Therese

Ellie Fun Day!

Ellie Fun Day (founded/created by my incredibly talented friend Sarah and her husband Elton) designs baby blankets that change the lives of marginalized women in India. Their vision is to design beautiful baby blankets made by Untouchable-caste women, in hopes of providing a fair wage and dignified living for many who are susceptible to human trafficking. Please read more about them and their mission on their website and follow along on their blog (they just returned from a trip to India). They also are raising funds on Indiegogo. Go check in out!

And this week, they are hosting a really amazing giveaway!

FOR BABY

#1 One Ellie Fun Day blanket of your choice (Ellie or Sharkie) Retail $95

#2 Chewbeads: some might argue this is for mommy as well! Retail $29.50

FOR MOMMY

#3 Deep Steep Organic Bubble Bath in Lavendar Retail $10.95

#4 EOS Organic Lip Balm in Sweet Mint Retail $3.29

#5 Emerson Made Silver Dollar Indian Tunic Retail $168.00

Please go to their website to see how to enter!!!

Smart Martha Monday.

My list from last week was big. I wanted to reorganise our kitchen. I have done just about all our pantries at this stage. Still have to go through all my cupboards to see what is lurking in the back. We had a super cheap weekly shop this week because I based our meals around what we had in the cupboard.

This week, I was going to still go through the kitchen but we have lots of different Christmas  and school break ups to go to. I need to make food to take along to these places and stay up with all my other general household duties.

My plan is to stay calm and controlled through the week and not try and do too many things.

I hope you all have a great week.

Therese.

Advent Calendar!

Since Emilia is at an age where she's starting to really get into the whole holiday thing (and because she's already asked me "When is Christmas Mommy?" way too many times), I've been on the hunt for a great advent calendar idea.

Enter Amanda Jane Jones (via the always brilliant Jordan Ferney) and her gorgeous typeface based advent calendar download (free!!! And there's one for boxes too).

I had so much fun picking out little goodies for Emilia. Fun candies, little toys (that kid loves anything little), stickers, notepads (the dollar section at Target was great for this, as was Diddams). I also included a number of little activity cards of things that she and I could do together, or that the 3 of us can do as a family.

I love it. She loves it. And she's already checked with me twice today to see if just maybe she can open them all at once. Um...nope.






It's a tiny penguin!!!

An inspiring video.

A friend posted this on the Catholic Type One Yahoo Group.



I have always believed that if you look for something good in your situation, you will find something good. If you look for something bad, you will find something bad. This video just confirms it for me.