New Layout

So I have done a little bit of scrapping this week, not much. I should really sit down & work out some page kits to take to scrap camp. I'ver got a lot of layouts made up just needing photos, journalling etc, so I really need to take my photo albums & see what matches up.

This layout is going to possibly annoy Brent in future years but he just looked so cute all dressed up as a bride.

Journalling reads:

7 October 2004

Another fun day at kindy. This time you dressed up as a bride. Aren't you just beautiful!

Update

Really it has been a very long time since I haver truely updated the blog. I have loaded layouts because that is how I was keeping my mind of the stuff that's happening in my life. Phyllis then brought me the Cross Stitch series of books by Diana Gabaldon & that is an even better way to plunge out of reality & into fantasy for a while. So here is what has been happening in my world.

In December Scott complained of a sore stomach & feeling bloated. The doctor didn't think anything much of it but Scott pushed & went in for a colonoscopy in January. The colonoscopy found nothing wrong & Scott still has the same problem.

Also in December my mum developed a lump on her neck. After Christmas she had it looked at & then biopsied. By the beginning of February it was discovered it was cancer. Later in February it was found to be colon cancer that had already moved to her lymph nodes. Mum will be starting chemo on April 10.

I have been to the doctor several times myself this month. My mole from my arm was removed & luckily it was a compound nevis, a mole that hasn't changed to melanoma yet. That cost me $150. I can't berlieve it can cost that much just to get a mole removed & checked out. I still have bruising around the area but it seems to be healing well.

Also this term we have had Brent's swimming sports. He loves his swimming & once he has worked out the breathing part of freestlye I think he will be quite good. He just seems to skim across the water & although his arm action looks slow he must have power in it because he came first in his race. He is also very good at backstroke. He started with his arm going out the side a bit but soon fixed it & came 3rd in that race.

James didn't have swimming sports because his class have not had much swimming practice with the school, due to Jellie Park being closed for redevelopment. So now his swimming sports are going to be fitted into the very busy 4th term of this year.

On Sunday it was the junior school service at church & Brent said a prayer.

This week we have had parent/teacher interviews. As you can probably guess with boys that are chalk & cheese the interviews were that too.

It started off with James'. What a bad interview that was. He was put under the bell that day because he spat at someone, not a very good start to the interview & the news got no better. James is a distraction in the class, he talks to everyone around him, distracting them & if he isn't being distracting, he's being distracted. His reading still hasn't caught up to where he was at the end of last year, he can't count to 20 let alone write all the numbers out correctly. He gets his d,b,p,q all muddled up & then his teacher told me he can't spell his name. He can actually but I really think he is lazy & doesn't give a toss. I am at my wits end with him because, as his teacher said, nothing fazes him. He gets punished but is smiling the whole time as if he doesn't care. I went for a run this morning & I think I have come up with a plan. I am going to pick him up from school, give him a chance to tell me how his day went & then go back, while waitinmg for Brent to finish, & ask his teacher how he went. Each day he is good he will get a star & after accumulating x number of stars he can get something he really wants (my guess is it will be sweets). I am going to have to hope bribery will work for him now although I have to say it never worked before. The problem is I don't know what makes him tick, I don't know what he really desires, I'm not sure he knows either.

Brent's interview on the other hand was pleasant. His teacher has been doing all sorts of testing & Brent is doing all right. The wonderful news is that after starting school not knowing what hand to write with & then needing to learn to write with it, he is now up there with the rest of his class for handwriting. Yay last year's effort of bringing writing cards home has finally paid off. He is reading at an 11 year old level. He is middling for maths & needs to learn his basic facts (surprise, surprise). Socially he falls into the controversial character. He seems to be a person that people either like or don't, but they respect him. He is liked for the same characteristics that other people don't like him for, namely his organisational skills. He has to learn that not everybody likes to be bossed around!

So that in a nutshell is what has been happening in my house for the last 3 months. We are staying at home for easter, hopefully we will get some sleep ins & get the garden cleaned up for winter. Maybe we can also make a start on wallpapering our spare bedroom, it would be nice to get it finished before mum starts chemo.

I hope you all have a wonderful easter.

Kindy layout

I've just finished this paper layout for the Club scrap competition.

New Layouts

Another Layout

I went to a crop yesterday & managed to get a lot of layouts to the partially finished stage. This is not actaully a layout I worked on at the crop yesterday but I did manage to get it finished & posted in time to enter the weeks PSL 2 point challenge.

The journalling in the small square on the right hand page reads:

One of the fun things to do every autumn is to go to the Botannic Gardens and play in the leaves.

More Layouts

I've been creating more layouts over the last few weeks, it really helps to keep my mind of other matters, of which I have a few.

Last week's challenge for the PSL was to use the study in red kit from Club Scrap to create layouts.

This weeks challenge is to create layouts about your home city or country.

I have a crop this weekend so hopefully I'll have some more layouts to show you next week.

Pro Scrapbooking League

I have been doing a bit of scrapbooking lately. I am now in the PINK team for the Club Scrap Pro Scrapbooking League. It is just a fun competition to do as many layouts using Club Scrap paper as you can until May. Each week challenges are made & if you do a layout completing the challenge you get double the points of just a normal layout that doesn't fall under the challenge requirements.


Last week the challenge was to use 75% of my team's colour on the layouts. Well I can't say that it is easy to use pink on my layouts but I did manage to get 2 pink layouts done.

This one is christmas 2002.

Journalling reads
Christmas 2002
We had Christmas day in Invercargill. James was young enough to sit in the old high chair that was used by Scott when he was little. Christmas dinner was at midday & included cauliflower cheese, roast lamb, potatoes, kumara, pumpkin, peas & tomato courgette bake. Dessert was pavlova. After dinner it was time to sit back with full tummies with Robin.
We did put up a Christmas tree at home just to keep a Christmassy feeling in the house.

This layout is about are daytrip to Springfield.

Journalling reads:

On 15 July 2007 we drove over to Springfield for the promotion of the new Simpsons movie. It had a giant pink donut set up so we could have photos taken by it as well as the recreation of the living room in the Simpsons House.

This week's challenge is to use the January Study in Red kit.