Just a quick post

Well we are finally on broadband thanks to TelstraClear. Everything seems a lot faster!
Unfortunately our puppy Tank needs surgery for his eye. He has what they term as Scrolling Eye. It basically means his third eyelid is pushing his brown bit of eye up higher so we can see more white underneath it. I'm not sure how they fix it but surgery is the only option.
Our fridge broke down as well. Thanks to friends we have one now but for a few days we've had our milk sitting in the sink in cold water and our cheese etc in a chilly. Our lovely neighbors have had our excess milk in thier fridge. We're not sure how much it's going to cost to fix. Hopefully not much. The fridge we just got last night has had to go in the garage and we have to unlock the garage to get stuff out!
Well they say things come in three's, we have had some misunderstandings with the council regarding our rates so now we owe quite a large sum!! Like Emily's speech last year - we wish money grew on tree's!
We've just had Sarah-Jane's 8th birthday! So grown up, although she is still very much a young girly girl. She loves playing with her Polly Pockets and dolls. Emily is turning 10 on St Patricks Day. She's going through that awkward stage where she's not into dolls etc, but not quite a teen. She tends to play alone quite a bit at home, but the girls all love playing schools. She starts netball in a week or two. She's very excited, as we are, it's good to see her involved in something outside of school. Terry has tried to 'coach' her but I reminded him of when he tried coaching me at golf, it's not good to coach family at times - this is one of those times!
The girls have today off school due to parent-teacher conferences, they get half day tomorrow too. It's rather annoying in the way that my routine is a bit mixed up now and I have to go talk to the teachers about 'dreams, goals and achievements'. They've only just started school and we have no idea what their achievements are so far. Never mind we'll see what happens.
Well it's gone lunchtime and we're hungry. Love to all.

School's back!!!

It's now February 12th, time is flying by and soon it will be Easter. The girls are settled at school and getting to know their teacher's. Em was a bit timid (understandable with having her first male teacher), Sarah-Jane was absolutely fine and just didn't have a care. Aimee was a lot more timid, she only had 6mths last year so it was like her first day at school again. She was extremely clingy. They all have nice teachers and apart from Emily the teachers are new to the school.

I am enjoying the break, even if it was only 2 days then Waitangi Day. We took the girls and Margaret to Ferrymead. It started off with Aimee grizzling and crying, which frustrated us to heck! Otherwise we had a nice day out. I think the model trains were my favourite. It was amazing how they make up the towns etc. I took some photo's of course.

There were a couple of fun mirrors that we had a few laughs with. Emily goes on and on about having a cell phone so I couldn't resist the phone booth! The next one is of one of the villages with the model trains. I took a few photo's of the planes to send to Dad as he is into them. The notice caught my attention because our government are 'encouraging' women to go out and work at the same time as going on about the need for stronger family ties. It reads "This council is of the opinion that in all cases where men and women are engaged in the same employment of Government or private individuals, equal wage should be paid for equal work" Christina Henderson, 1902. The girls got to help the tram driver change the direction of the tram.

Terry has been busy staining our archatraves on our lounge sliding door. We think the rimu stain looks great against the colour (spanish white) of the alluminium.

He's going to stain the bedroom windows and we're painting the rest. We've discovered our roof leaks in our bedroom. We've had some really heavy rain and it's obviously been too much. Not sure what we're going to do with that.

I have finally sent in my 9th assignment and am over half way. I'm also making a banner for the Cancer fundraising event that is held at QE11. A team of about 10 take turns to run/walk around the track, this is over 24 hrs. At least 1 member has to be on the track at all times. Terry is a part of one out of three of our church teams. It's going to be fun I think. I'm hoping to be out there at some point even though I'm not going on the track.

We are getting to know Aimee's best mate's family, Charlotte is in the same class as Aimee and the two of them are very cute together. Racheal is a lovely woman with a lot in common with me. Her husband Deon is quiet but is also very nice (even if he does support his home country-South Africa-in sports!).

Well I better go and do something constructive and I'm sure your getting a bit tired of reading this entry! Hope everyone is well, blessings to you all.