My sunsets :-)

Sunset from home 2/2/2010

                 

Sunset at Foxton Beach 17/1/2010

            

Full Moon 4/9/2009

From our backyard 27/5/2009

         

What's happening at our place # 1

Soooo .. I have nothing to blog

.. so I'll do a bit of sharing and hiding my head to how bad my house cleaning has got ..

.. Miss did a bit of baby sitting .. and swinging ..

 

Cam decided a swim was the order of the day ..

 

Mike decided he was cleaning out the book shelf and his room and everywhere else he could find books .. and then putting them in piles .. and then trying to cram them all back in to the shelves

.. apparently I'm doing the last part "with him" .. read .. I'm doing the last part ..

 

.. oh and he's also making his bed .. and hanging out the washing for me ... :-)

Miss is walking her bike .. and singing to herself .. and the flowers ..

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.. I'm weeding ..

Miss is swinging ..

Mike is still struggling with the books ..

 

Miss is still swinging but now without her gumboots on

.. thank goodness .. coz it is seriously hot .. and why the heck would you wear gumboots when bare-feet is soooo much cooler ?????

I'm mowing the lawns .. vacuuming ..

.. trying to find my floor under all that washing to fold ..

 

.. looking at the boys room .. shaking my head

.. but walking away as it's their attempt to make their beds and clean up ..

.. Miss decided to "unpack" all her baby stuff .. WTF!!!!

 

.. and rumble through the DVD's and videos ..

.. I tidied the lounge .. and found the floor .. hah

.. but the washing still stayed there and became Mt Wash-a-lot .. Mt Washmore .. and Mt-Fall-on-the-floor-coz-there-is-just-so-much

.. then caught some of the sunset ..

... oh and how could I forget the boys devising and then writing out the rules for their new hut .. now on a big piece of "water-proof" card-board .. with about 2 rolls of sello-tape over it so the felt-tip pen doesn't run in the rain !!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. You have to run around the house 2 times ..

2.You have to run down the drive-way and back ..

3. You have to pay us $1 and we give you $2 back ..

(I said to them that they might be losing money on that.. but they disagreed - but later came back and changed it to the other way around)

Boys are allowed ..

Girls are allowed ..

.. and on the BAD front ..

Cam decided to wake up puffy .. and with a bit of a black eye from tripping and finding the coffee table - YOUUUCH!!!

.. he was very brave .. (but understandably howled his head off when it happened) .. and was lucky to miss his eye .. and it finally went down after a couple of days

.. the thing he was "sad" about was not being able to wear his goggles swimming .. but he found some in the play-room that were quite wide .. and missing out on finishing the "duck dance" with his sister .. but now he's happy :-)

A different perspective .. a blog to read

One of the mum's in the American support group I'm in called Hope for Children with HLHS mentioned that she has a blog and personally I found it quite interesting to read .. www.henrytheblog.com .. a different perspective to what you normally would read on a heart kids blog ..

This is the blurb from the blog the Mum has written .. (I found her straight forward approach quite refreshing in a different kind of way to my own child's blog ) ..

What is Henry (the Blog)?

I could have written a blog about my kid – the one born with a funky heart. But Henry (the blog) is more than just sharing Henry’s story. Sure, it chronicles our lives during Henry’s years in and out of hospitals, multiple surgeries and terminal maternal hysteria. Good times, indeed!

But I put this site up because I think there needs to be more resources for moms of “heart kids.” There are oodles of great websites to learn more about congenital hearts defects (CHD) and you can find several here. I don’t dispense medical advice, I share coping advice. Rather said, I’ll tell you what I went through so that you can breathe a sigh of relief and say, “Well, at least I am not as crazy as that lady…”

Face it, as hard as this is on your kid, it is also hard on you. When Henry was in the hospital the first, seventh, nineteenth time, I really craved the insight of another CHD mom. That’s what I am trying to do here -- telling my story, scars and all. Every CHD mom experiences their child’s suffering differently. I did it in the most selfish way. As much as I obsessed about my son’s health, I also fixated on how devastating this was to me.

Henry’s particular defect is Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome or HLHS. I also refer to HLHS as “Henry’s Little Heart Sucks.” My son underwent numerous cardiac surgeries and then a heart transplant in February 2008.

This blog is primarily for CHD families to find some common ground, solace and a few laughs. Turns out staph infections, snotty doctors and g-tubes can produce some giggles. I’ve added some resources so that you can find “doctor approved” information about CHD as well as articles about the impact on families caring for chronically ill children.

Anyway thought I'd share for others who might like a read ..