So, we have started our Christmas advent a day early! The kids want to have a late night tonight and Jie has his birthday hour tomorrow so I thought why not take the stress out of tomorrow and do it after school today! Oh, how I LOVE Christmas!! Joyful Joyful Lord we adore thee..
Full list of our Family Advent Calender {Click Here}
Full view of our Christmas Tree {Click Her...
Friday, 30 November 2012
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Surprise!
Jiedyn is experiencing a birthday like none he has ever had before. He is spending it with people he spends most of his days with, people who love being around him, who give him gifts almost every other day, who makehim feel special and most of all treasured . Jie is spending his 7th birthday at school with his besties Jess and Kaitlyn.
Jess has been a big part of Jiedyn's first year of school experience. They have been best friends...
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Jiedyn's School Report
Today is Jie's last day of being six, and what better way to spend it than to show me around his classroom at all the hard work he'd been doing this year. Being a student at Bacchus Marsh Primary, Victoria's oldest school, Jie has made countless friends, learnt to be brave with the bigger personalities in his class and has repeatedly shown great work ethic. On Jie's report he is at the top end of grade prep level in all of his...
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
My Seventh Heaven
Let this be a time to reflect on the last 7 years of Jiedyn Karl
Jiedyn was born in 2005, he shares his birthday with little Miss Mia Hewitt.
Jiedyn's first word was "yeah"
Jiedyn's best friend until he was two was our pet dog Nig.
Jiedyn went to Circus Royale for his 2nd birthday.
A couple of weeks later he went with friends to see The Wiggles.
Jie's favorite sayings when he was three were "Wanna fight Mikey?"...
Saturday, 24 November 2012
A [Mum] and [Son] day..
Milkshakes made the best late breakfast!
Reading and playing is how we roll..
Maccas made the best dinner..
before Jie was out-of-control.
But one thing we do knowthis Mum and her son..Chocolate, Skittles and Merlinare things that will make our Saturday night fun...
Friday, 23 November 2012
Jiedyn's last Friday of being 6ix.
The Kazoos on play..
Board games 'til bed..
Fish 'n Chips for tea..
and Pepsi Max too..
..and best of all one-on-one time with Mum!
...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
One Picture of yourself.
Me, Me, Me-Me-Me!
So I hope you have enjoyed the journey with me doing the
with me! I'd highly recommend you try it yourselves! ...
Our Family Advent 2012
This is what Our Family Advent Calender looks like for 2012 including bible verses, Family Activities, Craft and Hymns to do and listen to every day! I did this all in a matter of an hour so it's not too late to get yours done too.. I'm now that extra bit excited about December knowing that every day I will be spending time with my kids in learning a celebrating our wonderful King of Kings. Bring on the Holidays I say..
Last...
Two Songs.
Two songs I can't get out of my head ever are..
Have a little faith in me by John Hiatt
and
Where I belong by Building 429
Click on the titles and watch them at your own risk..
...
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Three Films.
The last three movies I downloaded were..
The Grace Card
Courageous
and
The Last Starfighter
Out of the three I highly recommend you see The Grace Card!
...
Monday, 19 November 2012
From the bowls of Bacchus Marsh
A yummy banana split with fresh local picked Strawberries!
...
Four Books.
Okay so this one is easy! Four books. Let me split these up though. Two of my most favorite books and the last two books I brought. Books are big in our home, I read daily to the kids and Jie reads daily to me. We don't have a big book collection but the few books we have are in Nevaeh's room because she is our little book worm.
the two books I love are..
Redeeming Love
by Francine Rivers
Water For Elephants
by Sara Gruen
And the last...
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Best Friends Day 2012
Today our Church {Enjoy Church West} celebrated Best Friends Day!
After a dreadful week of the flue and asthma taking over our home it was exactly what we needed.
Jiedyn and Nevaeh love Kidmania and that they can enjoy it every week with friends - best friends!
I love our snr Pastor Shane Baxter's way of delivering his message and most of all the worship!
Today's message was on Marriage with a guest panel.
It was...
Five Foods.
So lets not just say "five foods", lets say five essential foods. Foods on my shopping list every week. Foods that the kids and I eat reguarly. Let say these..
Pasta
Fruit
Saladas
Nutri Grain
Chicken Breast
I know, not so exciting on they're own but there they are!
This post has been part of the
What are the first five foods you put on your weekly shopping list apart from the obviou...
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Six Places.
So for this one I thought I wouldn't bore you with just any 'ol places, but with places that mean something to me. Places I love and would love to show my kids one day. All these places are in Australia as I have never left this amazing country, in no particular order we have..
Glass House Mountains National Park, Queensland
Mutton Bird Island - Coffs Harbour, New South Whales
Jackson's View - Drouin, Victoria.
Little...
Friday, 16 November 2012
Seven Wants.
As a mother it's strange that your wants are generally matched with your needs. What you need is usually what we want. We're selfless like that. Most of my most precious wants are under the Check List heading above, but aside from those..
I want..
A world without poverty, a world that we can all stand proud in together.
Fresh water for all, it's still so hard to believe that there are still people in the world without...
Eight Fears.
Living alone had its advantages, but my fears far outweigh them..I Fear..That while putting the bin out someone can walk into my home.Suffocation. It used to haunt me a lot more while my kids were younger.My kids not having good wholesome role models and family.The unpredictability of life and death.Driving, but mainly being responsible for two other lives.That I'm not good at being a Mum and sometimes resemble my...
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Nine Loves.
I really am a simple girl. I look at how the world promotes girls my age on billboards and in movies and it sickens me how much is fake. Even music videos and lyrics have gotten outrageous. Whatever happen to wearing what you like and not being judged? Or pulling out those really old second hand pair of overalls at the back of your wardrobe? I don't know about you but I just love being me. Sometimes it's hard to live up...
Ten Secrets.
One thing you might or might not know about me already is that I don't hold back with my life situations. I post a lot of my thoughts and feelings on my twitter and so everyone can get to know me and gets a feel for the real me. I don't have any dark secrets, I have dealt with certain areas in my life I kept from people in my adolescents and will be flashing back on Fridays here on my blog to times and places which had an...
Monday, 12 November 2012
She makes my heart sing..
Today was like no other I have spent with my sweet little girl.
Nevaeh wanted to talk about Jesus - All day.
It started with her seeing my bible and her wanting me to read it.
So I did..
Then she didn't want to watch a movie (odd for her) instead wanting to worship
So we did..
Tonight she said a prayer that left me speechless :
Dear God, Thank you for dinner and please help me to be a good girl because I don't want to...
Saturday, 10 November 2012
10.11.12 Family Fun!
Today Jie and I had a wonderful time at the family fun day in Deer Park with the Shilling Family! The day was amazingly put together by the Living Springs Baptist Church in Deer Park. The kids running free all day in the fresh air was almost as good as the pure hearted christian families we shared it with!! And best of all, it was totally FREE! I don't know about you, but I love free.....
The real Machine Gun Preacher..
Was at Enjoy Church in Australia!
And I cannot believe I was there..
If you have not heard about this man click here..
He is inspirational and admirable!!
Numbers 6:24 May the lord bless you and keep you....
Friday, 9 November 2012
Too little for a backpack!
She is too small for a sleeping bag and too little for a backpack, but my little treasure is on her way to her Daddies place for a sleepover. She has never been away from home without her brother or me, ever, so this is yet another first for her.
A month after Matt left, I made an effort to arrange for her to visit her Dad. We agreed on every Tuesday for four hours and every second weekend, Friday until Sunday. I wanted...
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
The Melbourne Cup 2012
Jie watched the race from the confort of the back room with his paper in front of him.
<-- My horse
<-- My back up
<-- Jie's pick
<-- Dad and Nevaeh's pick
None of us even got close to winning this year...
But there is always next year, next year...
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