End of one....beginning of another...

Goodness me....where did this year go.... this time last year we were at Brad and Catherine's in Brisbane and saw Val (their special friend and neighbour) for the last time. It was a lovely lovely New Year's eve, lots of fun (people ended up in the pool!) and will always remember Val looking so elegant and telling us how to cook everything the RIGHT way. She passed away in February...it was nice to know her for even that short amount of time and still see Graham and the boys whenever we're at Brads.

Same time last year.... Benjamin spent New Year's Eve at his best mates house (happens to be called Ben also. So they are often called B1 and B2...by me anyway). A few other mates were there (Ben's Mum and Dad away!) and evidence of quite a large amount of drinking is found in photos I've seen. Fortunately, for me anyway, Benjamin was the one 'cleaning up' his friends AND the house and didn't drink too much that night . As he is working from 8 am - 4 pm tomorrow I'm thinking he won't be having a huge night tonight either, so am happy with that....

Darren and I are heading to Noosa in the morning after we drop Benjamin to work -looking forward to it. Back Saturday and then Anthony and Liam (Benjamin's cousins) are arriving on Sunday for a few days. I will MAKE sure Liam lets me give him a hug this time!! He probably thinks 'oh, who cares... I won't see her for ages...she aint! kissin me' :-)

The end of this year also means I will turn 40 in March. The end of the 30's and a new decade begins. Maturity starts then I'm told! Darren finishes with the 40's in September and.... well....we know what decade comes after that.... Dad's anniversary once again comes shortly after my birthday and it's hard to believe it will be 4 years without him in April. I'm sure where he and my Mum are they will be wishing their little girl a really 'happy birthday'....

Happy end of 2008 everyone..... and bring on 2009!!

Fonts/Colour drama!!

... that's what you get when you change your template too much :)

So here goes....let's see how this goes.

Please stay tuned.....

editors note!!! done it... got rid of the white writing. Because it was white on a white background I couldn't see it (really???!!!!) but just sorted. woo hoo!!!!

2 days to go

Second day of my new 'blog' and I am slowly starting to work out what the 'go' is, although I really am quite 'un-co' and it's not as simple as I thought it would be.... I haven't worked out how to insert photos, but hey that's for another day. (More importantly - Noosa here we come!)

It's almost 5 am and I woke up half an hour ago as it was drizzling rain (the best sound in the world) and thought I'd get up and see how many emails for the start of the day...... 15 (not bad)....although 12 of those were notifying me of 'facebook' happenings! So really they don't count....

Darren and I are heading off to see friends at the coast on Thursday - staying at Noosa (with Carmen and her little girl Lili) for two nights which will be nice. I've only stayed at Noosa once, for Michelle's wedding earlier this year, so will be nice to get back and check it all out. Usually it's Mooloolaba or thereabouts, so a bit further North will be nice for a change.

I'm thinking it's about time to hit 'publish now' and see what happens....then back to bed for another hour or so. Benjamin has today off work, so don't have to worry about psyching myself up to TRY and get him out of t easier to get up than on a school morning..... 'Der, I'm getting paid Mum!')

First Post

hmmmm..... my first post.... just learning, so this is it unfortunately (or fortunately!)