from stressed to blessed

Lately life in our little world on the corner of town has been stressful to say the least.

Its been affecting me in any ways but one of them is eczema and geez its painful.

This makes it a bit easier tho

LOVE the time they have for each other to share at the end of the day

Putting all that aside tho. 

The last couple of days have really proved how blessed we are to have some amazing ppl around us . When our water heater blew up, Hubby sort of went into a little bit of a meltdown he does this by pacing the bajeesus out of the floorboards and then trying to make his magic on said broken thing in hope of fixing it and when that fails he resides to his computer and then begins searching for a new one, searching for options, getting lost in his little geeky world, lashing out at me and then getting lost in his world again. That's cool, that's how he copes, there was nothing we could do it happened at 6pm Easter Sunday.

We survived Easter Monday much to hubby disbelief of how well I was coping. 

I was surprised by that. 

Its only hot water. 

I have a stove. 

I boiled cold water on the stove. 

I made hot water. 

I'm a magician.

All this unawares to our little one. We dont like to let 'stressful things' out into the family air. Somethings we cant help, others we try to discuss when he is not around.

He actually thought it a bit of a novelty that Mumma told him to stand at the end of the hallway while she carried the over sized, extremely heavy, and just as hot pot of water from the stove to the bath room to have a wash. 

I'm here for his entertainment.

Husband made a phone call to a tradie friend. 

That phone call went from why didn't you ring me earlier, to ill be there soon to have a look.

He came and had a look. 

It was stuffed
He got us a good deal on a new water heater. 

He organised a plumber.

The plumber was here 0730 yesterday and it was in and working by 1pm.

I enjoyed the almighty out of a hot shower.

I sent hubby a text

That was AMAZEBALLS!
was it good, was all I got back, man of many words my Husby
and I replied You know how we go on hols or someones else's house and we are like wow their shower is amazeballs. WELL THAT'S OUR SHOWER NOW!!!

We are truly blessed to have ppl who will help us in a random time of need.
It wasn't an issue. It was just done. 
We now have hot water.
Hubby has stopped pacing.

Thank you friend.

PL... the catch up

With everything going on around here life has been cRaZy to say the least. 

BUT

I did get a chance to do a bit of catching up of my PL 365 album HOORAY!

sooo with out further adieu.... 

Week 19th-25th March

Left side
I tried a few different things this week. Im glad I tried them but im not to sure I like the way it turned out overall.
The 'L' is our for our last name and its stuck to a filler card form the Cobalt Core Kit.
The Polka Dot ribbon pulls out from the last weeks page {you may be able to see the arrow} and it tells a story of Ronan at the library.
I LOVE the look of the bottom left and the way it captures them playing. Also love the way it came together.

Back side of insert
I got my camera back from repair and these are some of the shots I took with it that day. The 6x4 top right has also been done as a traditional layout for his album. LOVE

Right side
This side is to higgledypiggly for me.
I got a delivery from Polka Dot Creative and Had fun that night making a few scrap pages top left and I added the beautiful note from Jodie, with a not from myself behind that.

This is the top side of the insert.
RJ and I went to the playschool concert with a friend and her son. They LOVED it, it was fun watching them have so much fun.

 I don't know what the story is with blogger and putting my photos in a mixed up order. So while I work that our please excuse the crazy story line of the next weeks lot of photos.

Week 26th March - April 1st

Left side.
Lots of collages
a quote on a photo
A pull out story of me
writing straight onto a photo!

Insert 1 {the second insert is not included here}
Its a insert full of all my instagram photos for the photo a day challenge that I took in March.

Right side
I love the pic of Ronan in the sand and I wanted it bigger but didnt want it as an insert as I already had two so I cut it and  put it in the three pockets.

I used a flip up pocket to show the extra photos of my mums birthday dinner.

 Week 2nd-8th April

Left side.
some QR code fun.
and instagram shot that I loved so I thought that I'd try something diff and play around with sizes. I printed it as a 4x4 and cut it so that it went into 2 3x4 slots and wrote the caption down the side that I wrote on IG.

The Right Side
Its not completed so I will show you what Ive done so far
Top, Having some fun with friends I printed a 3x4 and add it to a Turquoise kit Bi-Fold Journaler.
The middle, Talks about RJ's independence and Inside my wallet
The Bottom. I realised the dogs were not making much of a show in this album . Tessah's {Collie} shots ARE the same dog they are just before and afters {isn't she BEAUTIFUL} And I LOVE Duke's {Dudu} happy face

This is another insert -ish type thing.
I cut a page protector that had already been cut and used the right size pocket to match. I used the washi tape because my sewing machine has decided that she doesn't like sewing plastic {fair enough I say that just means I get to use the beautiful washi} Stuck the Photo on cut the photo down the middle-ish and voila. Love the way it looks

Phew that was a lot. Hope you enjoyed having a squiz

Any question about anything at all please comment below.
{Would love a comment or two}

Thanks muchly x

it comes in threes right?

okay so, normally I take blows fairly well. 

I walked off a broken nose when I was punched at school. 

{dont ask} 

BUT SERIOUSLY

how much more of this 'testing' does the world feel like dishing out.

the second thing just broke, that's right... two in twelve hours. JOY.

Husby has gone to hide in his shed. 

In the cold. 

Hope he took a jacket.

It's not so major to some but to me its important. 

The monitor just broke, that's right the monitor.

Yes we still use it.

Its a necessity.

The way our house is set up and were our bedrooms are compared to the living areas are, its a necessity.

also

Our monitor literally saved my sons life.

It gave me piece of mind, when my mind was heading for pieces.

It has been on every holiday we have been on including the camping ones in the bush.

{all because it literally saved his life.}

Its an Angel Care Baby Monitor with the sensor pad. Its fab. Its been on everyday of my sons life and I think we have just worn it out. 

I'd been warned off this happening. Most of our friends have said you'll get two to three year out of it, us- 2.10years.

Sigh

But as always in the house of three. 

Its perfectly the wrong timing as always.

You know what world! Test away. I'm ready!!! Number 3??? Bring it on!!!!

Perfectly the wrong timing as always

The tears are wet and hot as they run down my face.

Tears for many reasons really.

>The baby subject {AGAIN} it hurts every time

EVERY TIME

>Photos, not one photo of me has been taken this whole weekend. Unless its a selfie that I took with my son. It has been the same for the every day of significance for as long as I can remember, Christmas, birthdays, Easter sigh. This subject isn't as big of a deal for some, some ppl dont get it. 

BUT for this rockin body, as the memory keeper and photo taker of the family and basically photos are kind of my thing. I have a lot of them just over 27000 at last back up in the middle march and that's not including all the professional ones that have been taken and the couple of thousand I have taken since last back up. Like I said, its kind of my thing.

>Friends - I have issues in this department. Some of them have not been... I have issues in this department.

>Family... have been family you know how that subject goes, its good, its bad, its ugly.

AAAAND the water heater broke today.

Broke.

As in Caput, Dead, No Workies, On indefinite strike, Stuffed. The freaking bugger of a thing.

It is perfectly the wrong time. As always.

Do these things happen to test us?

I'm sick of being tested now DO YOU HEAR ME WORLD?

Whats tested you lately?

What cheers you up when your feeling a bit low?

time to strap them in...

Okay so today I did a new gym class, same trainer different program, it was a step class -OMG! I think I nearly died.

I also think I laughed at myself the whole way thru. I had a slight amount of co-ordination, but what put me off the most was my boozies! When I jumped they jumped with me but when I landed they were still jumping. It was so off putting all I could do was stop take a breath and laugh. I have a sports bra on but clearly it wasn't made for all kinds of jumping. 

No wonder all the girlies in the class were loving it, there boozie amount would be a third of what I have and clearly were not an issue to them...

Think its time to buy a better sports bra and really strap them in. SIGH...

Please tell me I'm not the only one with this issue.

Is there a sports bra you recommend?

hahahahaha I'm still laughing

my weakest link - organisation

Im not the most organised person, ESPECIALLY when I was working (a paid job) I am the queen of double and triple booking but my best talent is LOOSING things.

Im so good at it I deserve a medal, a big fat GOLD one.

So you can imagine my excitement when my husband came to me last night and said I just found these...

Did you still need them?

I nearly spat out my Milo!

Where were they I hear you ask? Why under the computer desk of course.

 I have been looking for these since like the third of Jan. YEP I said I wasn't good at this stuff. 

It was slowly eating me inside that I had lost them I had all these great intentions of putting them in my PL and it never happened. 

 

My son drew Santa just before Xmas and we did the 'interview/where hes at' on the 2nd of Jan and have intentions of doing the interview every six months. He is a June Baby so it works well. 

I love the drawings especially the one of himself in the interview.

Ill talk more about how Im trying to get organised later right now Im off to the gym.

Any questions please post below x

The greater good

So normally I wouldn't want an energy drink, I don't drink them I don't like them. Usually its the fear that I'd run faster home then driving if I had one. They send me a bit loopy PLUS I don't like the taste.

But when I received a text from one of our friends to get my husband and he a energy drink while I was down the street I fought with everything I had to not buy one for myself. SERIOUSLY! I stood there and weighed the options and thought

 'what about me' 

You can all sing with your best Shannon Noll voice now...

This is ALL because I couldn't/shouldn't have one. Any other day I wouldn't have thought twice, about not having one but because I have set myself a tall order of loosing a fair amount of weight in a short amount of time and I feel the eyes of everyone around me are waiting for me to fail. The urges to have things that I wouldn't normally have are enormous and they are the worst part of the battle.

I just keep telling myself its for the greater good... 

THE GREATER GOOD...

You can do this Tarz

Have you gone thru anything similar?

How do you handle the situation?