Liffey Falls

Well here is a place that I fell in love with

Sunday.....

Picture this...my georgeous little Addison..looking so cute shirt and tie, his almost to long hair brushed VERY neatly carrying my scriptures in his little hands he really is enough to melt my heart on a daily basis. We are heading down to "big boy" primary and, so far so good but he baulks on the landing of the stairs I was still walking down and turn aroung to smile encouragingly( is that a word?) when he yells at the top of his lungs ( which is..sadly for me VERY loud) "I LOVE JESUS..." and I smile at him I think to myself cute.. but keep it down a bit.. Then even louder (if that is at all possible??) "I HATE THIS PLACE" I am guessing you can figure out how the rest of the morning went.

A Wise Friend

Tonight I was talking to someone that I would consider a wise friend, she made the comment that I don't blog enough and that I really should, as it is a great way to remember the day to day happenings..You know what she is right. So here are this weeks happenings.( Before I black them out because they may be to traumatic to remember!!! It takes a couple of minuets but I can usually laugh a short while after the events..usually!)
Monday night was literally the worst night in our parenting career. Around 11.30 ( I was still up stalking peoples blogs..Adam was asleep in our room) I hear the bathroom door slam shut with all together to much force and noise more importantly for that time of night. I actually think to myself.."does Adam want the children awake now??" The noise continues on, shower door crashing shut then the water turns on..at this point I am curious enough to move from my comfy position to investigate.. There is Bitsy standing in the shower bay "Hiya Momma" I pick him up, change him into dry clothes. I then go into our room(that we share with Bitsy) wake the sleeping Adam and tell him that if he wants me to sort Spencer out...Don't send him roaming around the house in the hope that he will go straight to me. Well I made a mistake (as Adam knows that rarely happens... :)) Adam denied getting him out of the cot and telling him to go and find mummy, then crawling back into the bed to resume uninterrupted sleep. Odd, I thought. So popped him back into the cot, then to our absolute horror over he climbed... We weren't ready for this little turn! We evacuated the room and commenced operation put child back into cot. With out a word of a lie it was 4.40 in the morning when he stopped jumping out and finaly gave into sleep. During the course of the night all sorts of ways to stop him came to our minds and we were actually laughing and enjoying that time together. Adam and I were topping and tailing on our couch for the two hours sleep we got during the night .. I was woken up to Addisons face really close to mine (I forgot to mention that I had a little cut on my face) and he was running his hands through my hair and said to me "momma did a tiger scratch your face?" "I hungry now I need my weetbix"...big pause "PLEEESE???" It made me laugh out loud that the most rational reason for a scratch on my face to my 3 year old was of course that I had been scratched by a tiger! What else would you think right..To make it even funnier to my slightly overtired self..I hear Lillie say "don't be dumb Addy is was probably the cat" We don't have a cat!

I love my life

Sacrament Meeting

For the past two weeks, we have had children down with one thing or another. The first week, I took Ethan to the movies and he ate almost his entire body weight in popcorn, starbursts and fizzy drink in the space of 40 minuets and then spent the next hour and a bit telling me he was "going to hurl" (direct quote) and it wasn't the food he had eaten there He told me it was the nectarine I had made him eat before we left. Around midnight I got the call from the bathroom from him "mum you gotta come and see this" Thanks E really charming..So all cleaned up back in bed sleeping. However it was Sunday and although I knew he didn't have anything contagious I didn't want him going to church (or any of the others for that matter) telling people he was throwing up the night before.. So for the first time in 11 years I found myself in sacrament meeting sitting on my lonesome. It was the strangest feeling to not be on the verge of an anxiety attack for the hour and a bit that Sacrament goes for. But the really silly thing was...I sat there and missed my little family. I did totally enjoy watching other families sort out their little "reverant issues"

I guess that them being away and me having the chance to be there by myself, really made me thankful for the fact that I have a family that I absolutley adore. Some times I will be sitting in sacrament meeting Adam and I will look at each other and silently decide who is going to take Addison and Spencer out, in my head I might be thinking "why do I bother??" Then I will make the effort to look over at my big boys..and the answer is there...That is why I bother, it really dosen't seem that long ago I was hauling them out to sit in the mothers room. In my heart I know there is light at the end of the tunnel. Through consistancy my children have learnt(are learning) what is important to us. I love this photo because it almost sums up how sacrament meeting goes for us!

 

 

Our Latest Adventure

As a family we love to jump in the car and go for long drives. Sometimes we will let the kids choose where we are going, as in they will take it in turns choosing straight, left or right at intersections... This trip was planned though, we went to Tarraleigha. For us the most important part is the music..if we have good music we can deal with any thing else. Lucky for me the kids all love The Killers, Greenday and classic Live selected Beatles classics ..Sadly for me the boys don't like Taylor Swift, (Lillie and I only got to sing to her songs a couple of times)Tim Mcgraw ...who dosen't love "I need you??" We are still working out the happy medium

Anyway it was a beautiful day..(Speaking of Beautiful days..for me today was perfect I got to spent time with my little Addison doing one of my absolute favourite things laying down this time on the trampoline looking at shapes in the clouds..He snuggled up to me and we found dragons,planes and dinosaurs. I felt like I defrosted for the first time since winter) Here are the photos