Where's my social life?!?

You know, it's a really sad thing when my 7 year old, AF has a more hectic social life than me... I have hardly seen her in the past couple of days. She's had 2 sleep-overs & 3 play dates & more to come next week.

But really, if it were a choice between a social life & extra sleep, hmmmmmm ~ what to pick??? OKAY ~I know that extra sleep would win out every time. Especially if you include a few boxes of chocolates, a TV with remote & a few bottles of bubbles next to that bed & I would be one v. happy mummy!!!

Boys like to feel special too...

We have only 1 male in this family of girls (girls rule dontcha know!) & sometimes he gets a bit left out amongst all the pink stuff in our house.... Okay, that's not strictly true, we do have a male dog which Wayne recruits to his voting side from time to time. But Maximillions Aloyious Heriot Carlson is currently staying in his doggy penthouse with Rusty in Australia whereas we are in NZ & therefore I think his vote doesn't count.

Anyway, on reading my new blog, he happened to mention that he (Wayne, not the dog that is) doesn't really feature much at all, if any. Now it could have been a pouting moment, but no, he manfully charged ahead after reading & moved onwards....

So this blog is dedicated to my hubby Wayne who without him, my life would be v. v. different! He is cute, funny, kind, patient, caring, crazy, grumpy, adventurous, loving & sometimes I think he is a 15 year old boy trapped in a man's body the way he goes nuts playing with our gorgeous kids & nieces & nephews. It's his birthday on Saturday ~ so hip, hip hooray for my poss.

AF had dubbed him "King of the Family", which I guess, being the only boy is about right. He was big enough to pay for my 2009 Boys are Stupid calender & put up with the taunts after AF memorized each month's statements. So from hereon he shall be referred to as KOTF.

2009 - A New Years Resolution (or is Resolution a naughty word?!)

Well folks, this is it, 2009 has begun & it's time for me to try something new ~ which is where the New Years Resolution comes in! I've spent some time looking at other blogs & being amazed at how clever & creative some bloggers are & wondering whether I could do it too........ I am in particular awe of the craftsmanship shown in them (& secretly wishing that I had one thimbleful of talent in any craft area). There are some gorgeous blogs out in netspace & hopefully mine will work itself out somewhere along the way.

This blog is my attempt to keep family & friends up to date with our happenings as we are living far away from our immediate family. I can tell already that it's gonna be a slow start as summer school holidays are stil going strong & scraps of spare time to try to unleash some creativity are few & far between, so please bear with me! Oh the dilema of a mum -> wanting to spend quality time with the kids & then also counting down the sleeps til school goes back..... aagh, I now have true appreciation for mum's & dad's everywhere.

I just have to say that I love the colour red ~ I can't promise not to use it all the time as a font, I know it makes for hard reading & fingers crossed that someone will actually read this, but it's the first post & well, I'm just excited (thanks Big Kev!)

We have an OOOOOPS situation already. Angelface is out on a playdate (YAY!) & Fairygirl has snuck into her room to help herself to her stuff. Big sister stuff is always better than your stuff (I know this from experience ~ sorry Sam!) But boy, is it hard to keep FG outta that room! Okay, this means the Little People Farm is coming out to play, my talented animal noises always cracks FG up, i'm not sure whether to take that as a compliment or not........