Adelaide.

Sage and I went to Adelaide a couple of weeks ago and caught up with our family.
I have been waiting on some photos so I could post them altogether.
We both had a really good time but unfortunately weren't there long enough.
It seemed by the time we got there and caught up with eveyone it was time to come home again, but I'm glad we got a chance to see everyone.
I have one very affectionate little girl, giving a cuddle to everyone willing.
Especially Grandpa , wherever he was so was Sage!


Sage was spoilt by everyone , she got lots of new clothes from Auntie Nessa and a gorgeous little red trench coat from Auntie Ang ( which I just love!) and Rosemary made Sage a beautiful sun catcher for her room. One of the highlights of Sages trip was Rosemary and Rob's turtle, which Sage hasn't stopped talking about since!

The photo of Sage in the ball pit with nothing but her undies on, was taken when we were getting ready to go home. She took off in between changes of clothes.
Ness had to run in there after her and ply her fingers off the net. Sage thought it was hysterical, so did I.

1.Sage and Grandpa
2.Sage and Uncle Adrian
3. Sage and Uncle Rob
4. Sage and Auntie Angelina
5. Sage and Grandma
7-10. Sage and Nanna
11. Sage and Rosemary
12. Sage and Kara
13. Sage and Auntie Nessa

Poem for Mums.

This was an email sent to me, I'm posting it for all the Mums!


Before I was a Mum:I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.I never thought about immunisations.Before I was a Mum - I had never been puked on, pooped on,chewed on & peed on.I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.I slept all night.Before I was a Mum:I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests.Or give shots.I never looked into teary eyes and cried.I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.Before I was a Mum:I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put them down.I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.I never knew that I could love someone so much.I never knew I would love being a Mum.Before I was a Mum:I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.Before I was a Mum:I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, theamazement or the satisfaction of being a Mum.I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a Mum.

FEAR

Fear can be so painful that we will do almost anything to avoid it.
Much of our lives are spent avoiding our fears and paying for the price of avoidance.
To avoid these fears/emotions we sometimes change or distract our states with all sorts of unhealthy habits, thoughts and emotions.
What we are unwilling to experience can run our lives, for example if we fear flying we stay out of planes , if we fear love we try and live without it.
Unfortunately we often wait and allow ourselves to be faced with more pain than we can tolerate, before deciding to take action and make change happen, and so we continue doing what we are doing.

example:
He associates pain with love. In his last relationship he found himself left alone and lonely. So what does he do?
He avoids love, and stays alone because of the fear of being left alone (its a contradiction).
he is living his fear anyway!

We will live our fears if we do not face them!
Confronting our fears sets us free from them.
Confronting our emotions (fear , anger etc.) is one of life’s biggest challenges, learning to neither suppress or indulge in these emotions and just learning from them I think is the key to being free of them.
I believe that with persistence, the right focus's to help change our negative associations and faith ( be it in ourselves ,our creator , universe, whatever our beleifs are that we find comfort in) we can all head towards obtaining this freedom for ourselves...............


I think I think waaaay too much. Sometimes I have these moments of clarity and
eveything comes together, a light bulb moment that just makes so much sense , so I will write it all down (above ,written a while ago). I'll read over it and think, yep thats great now all I have to do is live by it.
Then the following week I get so caught up in the ego world again (so to speak) and its all out the window. How can we grasp something so well one minute and then it be completely alien to us the next????
I know that our focus's are what drive us , but sometimes it can be a real challange not letting outside influences control our focus's! I suppose that's when I need to refer back to the first part of this post and get me some persistance to focus correctly and some extra faith!!

I also think that after reading back over this I might need a panadol and bed :-) xx nite

New Species

I woke up at 7.00am the other morning to my youngest two arguing about something (surprise , surprise). I could hear Zak saying ' Its a cockroach' and Sage was saying 'No its not , its a cricket!'...
as she squealed with excitement and fear.
This went on for a good two minutes as I lay there thinking .....its 7.00am it can be the
Lock Ness Monster for all I care. Sage then comes running in and says 'Mummy, Mummy, Mummy , there is a crocket in the house!!!' This must be the cross breed of the two I suppose. :-)

Today as we searched high and low for one of Sages toys, with no luck, she comes out with , 'I know , I know, the bloody crockets got it!'.


ps. by the way it was a cricket.

My Faries

There is another little girl in my life, her name is Lara.
Lara is the daughter of my very special friend Kim ( can't put her nickname on my blog LOL).Lara is one of a kind, she has the most adorable little nature and is one of the happiest little girls around!! Always looking for how she can help or make you feel special, she regularly melts my heart.I just Love her!

Over the holidays we took the girls to a fairy shop where they did craft and listened to fairy stories, don't know about the girls, but I was in awe of all the glitter and girlieness.

Ahhhhhhhh so good to be a girl!

Little Darlings!

My cousin Kerri has recently arrived back from a work trip in Thailand.

After dressing Sage in a little Thai silk dress that she had given to her, Kerri and I started arranging my lounge room with some beautiful Thai silk cushions she had brought back for me (love em!). Mean while, our little cherubs Damon and Sage were going through my handbag and putting mascara everywhere but where mascara goes!

School Holidays

Its school holidays at the moment yeahhhhhhh! (not)

What were they thinking when they invented them!
Oh I know.... Lets see how long it takes to drive parents insane!

With their constant whining and demands ...

'I'm bored, he hit me, I'm hungry, I had it first, can I, can you, can we, she's annoying me and blah blah blah blah blah. (and that's just after day 2!)

Had we not been punished enough after 8 looooooooong weeks at Christmas time??

We were given just enough time to recuperate and then they say 'hear you go, have another two' :-)

But in all seriousness, I was speaking with my cousin the other day , she is working full time and doesn't have the option to spend the holiday's with her kids and she said to me ' I would just love to be able to be with mine'. Sometimes its just a simple statement like that that really puts things into perspective for you ( so I thought... well maybe I could take her job. No I didn't , just kidding.)

I took the kids to the Dandenong Ranges today with Pam ( Jasmine's Mum) and her girls. We all had a great day. I even got a photo of my four kids all looking in the same direction!

Miracles do happen!

Wow! they are all mine!

Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing

Mine and Sage's Boogie song!

NINA SIMONE - Lilac Wine

I actually found this song through another blogger. I just love it. I have heard other versions but Nina sings it with so much feeling.

Zaks Skating ordeal........

Zak attended a school friends birthday party at a roller skating place the other day.
He has only been skating a couple of times and was finding it quite difficult to keep his balance let alone skate!! Although, its not an easy task for a little tacker!! Poor Zak :(
But being the mean mother that I am, I found this highly amusing, of course I wasn't letting Zak know that, and encouraged him with each visit to the ground.
I just happened to have my camera and started snapping away with his 21st in mind.
Zak then has another fall, by this stage even he starts to see the funny side of this ridiculous activity and starts laughing. Giving up on trying to get back up and skate his way back to the barrier, he decides to crawl there instead.
Meanwhile , I'm crying with laughter cause my son is crawling along the floor laughing.
As I'm snapping away and walking backwards to try and get that special shot, I trip over one of Zak's dear little class mates (a little girl) she was fine, but I ended up falling straight into the barrier,( and I didn't even have skates on. Karma??) and what's the first stupid thing to come out of my mouth??? yep....####!!
To which Zak's school friends respond with ( in unison )..".Zak's mum swooore!"
I was really embarrassed and hoping that none of the other Mothers had heard (it was bad enough that the kids had). But the first person that I make eye contact with, as I'm brushing myself off, just happens to be one of the Mothers who skipped the line when senses of humor were being handed out, and she just glares at me.
I was trying so hard to think of an excuse to justify myself , but the best thing I could come up with in a dumb budgie sounding voice was... 'sorry'.
With that, she rolls her eyes and walks away mumbling something, I'm still hoping they may have been words of forgiveness :)

So after all that, Zak returns his skates and swaps them for a scooter, which he did so much better on, and I sat right down the back of the cafeteria and hid behind one of those gossip mags.

Never underestimate their abilities...........

While I was over in Adelaide spending some time with family (which I will post some pics of later) Mum showed me a website of an amazingly talented little girl 'Akiane'.

Akiane is a 12 year old child prodigy and they are calling her the only known child binary genius.

Not only does this little girl produce the most amazing art but she writes the most articulate poetry to go with it, and it all started at age 4!!
I don't think anyone could view her site and not think twice about certain things.

Take a look for yourself, it will blow you away!!

http://www.artakiane.com/

And whilst on the subject of child geniuses, look at what our little genius produced today he,he :)
Sage. up until these drawings, could do a circle, a strange looking little fish and a rectangle, but then out of the blue produces these little guys.
Not too bad for 2 years old!

Watch out Akiane!!

At the Park....

We had a really nice day at the park today, I can't believe
how big Zak is getting and how much older he is looking
it seems to have happened overnight, he is sooooo
gorgeous !!!

More of the Girls........

Sage and Kara

Sage and Mummy

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Auntie Nessa

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