My favourite things.....hurt!!

I have so many crochet projects on the go at the moment.  Another hat, a scarf and I'm still continuing on my babette blanket although this progress has slowed a little.  My eyes hurt.  I went to have my eyes tested last week, I felt it was time to as it might have been contributing to my achy head that I have had for a long time.  Little did I know it had been exactly two years since my last eye test and update of lenses for my glasses.  

My long distance vision is the same as two years ago, but my short distance vision has deteriorated, particularly in my right eye (it's the one that gives me the most trouble).  So I now need reading glasses.  Hopefully it will help the pain above my eyes to go away when I crochet, read and use the computer.  Sometimes it's hard to know what type of headache I have, I have lots of different ones, but the one above my eyebrows seems to be related to using the computer and crocheting.

This week has been a long wait.  My glasses have not come in yet and it's a wet, cosy, rainy day today.  After a few hours at the park in the rain and cold wind it's the kind of afternoon to stay in and crochet, but it hurts.  Both Sam and Ethan have been begging me to teach them to crochet, and so we do.  After a nap snuggled on the floor in the lounge with my boys around me, to rest my eyes, we have been working on crochet lessons. 

Now I'm blogging about it and it hurts.  Maybe tomorrow my glasses will be ready and I will be switching between my seeing glasses and my crochet glasses....and wandering round the house with them on my head saying "Has anyone seen my glasses?".

Working in the garden...??

First day of the holidays and I have already set my boys to work.  I have a long list of things that need doing.  Aren't I a mean mother.  The boys are so desperate to play nintendo that they will do anything to earn nintendo time.  Today was the first easy job, sweeping and raking the garden.

Although I'm not sure how much work got done, some worked while the other played.

I think there is a little leaf mulch on the garden beds now to keep those spring bulbs toasty warm until it's time for them to pop up.

And we did manage to keep the noisy Miner birds from bothering a homeless little Ringtail possum who was trying to have a nap.

Oh how I want to build him a little home for his own, so the Miners and the Currawongs stop bothering him.

Our walking collections

Nippy mornings

This morning our car thermometer read -0.05°C at 7.30am.  Needless to say it was chilly and frosty.....especially in the house as our wall heater stopped working.  It has decided to work again tonight...thank goodness.  Our house is an ice box, but if the heater is on, the lounge and dining area gets toasty warm.

Even though it is cold, I do love frost.  It's the closest thing we're going to get to snow here in Sydney, so no matter how cold it is I will be out there snapping photo's.

Every little blade of grass is magical with it's little icicle crystals.

The weeds are looking pretty good in the garden at the moment too :+)

Things that make me happy this morning

My altar to the flower fairies

Rain, rain and more rain

I have so loved the rain this past week, in fact I have always loved it.  I think I've been the only one with a smile on my face as I walk down to school in the pouring rain.  Toby and I finally purchased a new umbrella each, the others were falling apart and we are the one's that use them the most.  So now in the pouring rain Toby and I are feeling happy and dry, splashing in our boots and covered by umbrella's.  It's quite an exhilarating feeling enjoying the elements that nature has to offer.

The Crossover

There is a fine line between Autumn and Spring.  That line is Winter.  Where the leaves may have fallen off some trees, there is still a greenness that surrounds us.  The air may be cold and damp, but there is a warmth growing from within.  Where some Autumn leaves may still be hanging, new Spring growth is budding and appearing.  The Crossover.  There is never a dull moment in nature and I love the surprises she brings forth.

Under Attack

Whilst on our family walk around the neighbourhood the other day we came across many things, mostly of the nature kind, beautiful flowers, 

seed pods for floating down the creek and a few Autumn leaves still clinging on for dear life.

Little did we know that just around the corner......

......around the very corner from where we live was something rather unexpected.

It just popped out at us and tried to do it's thing, you know.......Exterminate us!!

But we ran....

and ran.....some didn't make it.....

...and others were just unlucky to have their faces sucked off...

...or brains sucked out!!  Those Daleks are a menace!!

We tried running for the tardis.....but it was too small!! 

Letter box sized in fact!!

And the Doctor was nowhere to be seen!!

We are just loving the latest Dr Who series, it still manages to freak me out after all these years.

Kids Day

Well it has come around again, for those of you not in the know about Kids Day go here to see what it's all about.  We had a few plans and idea's that the boys wanted to do or things I wanted to do for the boys.  It just was a really lovely family day that doesn't happen that often, the weather was great and gave us a chance to get outdoors.

Sam and Ethan were woken up extra early Monday morning by Donald to watch the Socceroo's verse Germany at 4.30am.  I could hear their disappointed groans from my warm, snugly bed...I could tell the game didn't go well.  Then they sadly all went back to bed.   I don't think Sam and Ethan slept though, but read in bed for a while.  A little later I was up preparing a breakfast of fruit crepes with syrup and melted butter and little gifts of lollies and magazines laid out on the table for the boys. 

Some wrestling in the lounge room for an after breakfast activity was also participated in.

We went for a lovely family walk around our neighbourhood streets and bushland area.

Saw lots of amazing flowers springing up... 

....and the last of the Autumn leaves. 

We found these seed pods on a tree which I haven't seen since my childhood.  They brought back many memories, we used to float them in Moggil Creek down the road from where we lived in Kenmore.

So we collected as many seed pods as we could carry and went boating at the creek.

We did a few more fun things for Kids Day but we ended it with some Nintendo (always a compulsory activity on Kids Day) and their choice for dinner was to go to an unnamed fast food restaurant with a play area.

Sunny Saturday

I spy my gum boots....

....and a new hat!!

Four games of soccer...

but I only made three!!