Love this song

Oh how I love this song....and I am not usually a "poster" of music but this song makes me happy (and sad at the same time as its on a TV ad here about a young man having a baby abd then reaches out to his own father he has not seen in years)

OK I am even going to post the words!!! Sing along if you know the tune. Loud and proud is how we sing in our house!


Absence make her heart grow fonder
While I'm conquering the last frontier
Lately I've found myself wonderin' out loud
Wonderin' what I was doin' here

[Chorus]
One day you'll understand how much you have me
One day you'll realise we have it easy
I can't offer you the future - I don't know it myself
All I can offer you is me
I'm all I can offer you right now

Patience make her heart grow stronger
Reassure her she's where I want to be
Never was the grass ever greener
I'm about ready as I'll ever be

And one day you'll understand how much you have me
One day you'll realise we have it easy
If an expression of love is what you need to believe
All I can offer you is me
I'm all I can offer you right now

[Music]

I'm all I am
All I am, yeah

One day you'll understand how much you have me
One day you'll realise we have it easy
I can't offer you the future - I don't know it myself
All I can offer you is me

One day you'll understand how much you have me
One day you'll realise we have it easy
If an expression of love is what you need to believe
All I can offer you is me
I'm all I can offer you right now

[Pause]

Absence make her heart grow fonder
While I'm conquering the last frontier

Amalie is nearly 4!

I just can't believe that my baby girl will be 4 on Saturday!! The time has flown by....she is growing so quickly!
While she is dreaming of pickles and yams for her birthday party food (her choice - not mine) I am busy sorting her birthday cake which is one of those giant cupcakes. Hope it turns out well.
Saturday has turned into a crazy day for us with so many things on so her party is 3-5pm. She is so excited!
I love these little pics of her!! I can't even think what she was laughing about but she thought it was so funny.
Time flys when your having fun.....................

Tuesdays around the world

So a few months ago I found a great website for little girls hair styles. I fell in love with it and decided that Amalie would have amazing hair do's everyday. I actually did it!! And then we had the "incident" read about that here http://thecrazynessthatisme.blogspot.com/2010/06/she-cut-her-hair.html


So I lost interest in new designs and stuck with a few favs - trying to cover up the mess as I went along.

Last week I took her to have her hair cut by an actual hairdresser - I tried to cut it a few times and mucked up badly.

so today we tried a new hair style. The plaits on the side are to keep the short bits stuck down - like a comb over to hide the shortys!!!

She loves me doing her hair and will sit happily for ages while I do it.

So today we are doing hair styles.

What are you doing today?

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Hmmmmmm

70's Girls!!!

So we had a Quiz night for the school and my sister and I ran the bar. I have little to no experience with alcohol. I am not a drinker but have family, hubby and friends who drink but was clueless!! It was a great night and we raised a ton of money for the school. Check out the pic of me and my sister. She is 11 months older than me!!

excuse the photo - I asked a friend to take it (thank you friend - but its a little blurry) so i ran PW's seventies action over it!

Dear So and So....

Dear Marmalade
Sorry I picked such a crazy day to be making you. Please set and taste yummy like you always do.
Love the crazy Marmalade lady


Dear Me
Forgive and forget.
Love Me


Dear Blog followers
Sorry I have been so down at the moment. Life is crazy at times and this seems to be one of them. Thank you for taking the time to comment. I do appreciate it.
Regards Angela

Dear Husband of mine
With all that is going on in our lives right now, and all that we have been through together, I am so thankful we found each other. i could not have coped with any of this with out you by my side. I love you so much.
Love angela

Dear children of mine
You two have been amazing these last few weeks. Mummy has been so busy and you both have been sick but have soldiered on. I am so thankful that you belong to Mummy and daddy. My heart breaks if I think of the lives you may have had had your birthmums decided to keep you. I love you. I love love love you so much I could pop!! You are ours and even though you didn't grow in my tummy (or a sharks tummy like Amalie believes!)
Love Mummy

Dear Soon to be summer vege patch, fruit trees and chickens
Thanks for feeding us through the winter. We promise to give back with some great compost and yummy worm wees so we will have a great summer.
love Angela


Edited to say:

Dear Marmalade
I am sorry that I was doing my Dear So an So's and I forgot about you. Your not that burnt! Still yummy just a deeper colour!!
Regards crazy Marmalade lady who promises to watch you closer next time!

Who leaves their camera behind...ME!!

Yes, we went away for the weekend and half way home I realised I had left my camera at the place we were staying! I can't believe it and I miss it already!!

Holy crap my pants!!!

A lady at our school approached me yesterday to ask if I would be interested in photographing the birth of her baby.
Did you hear me??? THE BIRTH OF HER BABY Which (so she tells me) will actually involve me being inside the room where a baby is being born.
So here goes

1. there will be blood
2. there will be other stuff I don't care to mention
3. there will be lots of people there
4. I really wont be able to say "Hang on a tick I will just change lens (note to self not to mention a wide angle lens)
5. I have never been in a delivery room in my life - and that scares and excites me.

I am excited to do this - I was once given the opportunity to be at the birth of my friends third child. I turned it down. That was 8 years ago. I actually got right to the night before convincing myself I could do it but I knew that I wasn't actually worried about the birth bit it was the fact that at the end she would have a baby in her arms - and I didn't. I do regret not going as little did we know I would be holding my baby only a few months later (through adoption)
I am older and wiser now (ha ha) and have my 2 children so that feeling is long gone.
I hope it all works out that I can do this...will have to wait and see.

Checked out this amazing site for beautiful birth photos

http://pinkletoesblogstalker.com/birth.html

Well they say it happens in threes....

A New Zealand solider was killed today in Afghanistan. the first one since 2003 when our NZ troupes entered Afghanistan. And here is the third blow to our already devastated town...he was from Feilding and my husband knows him.
Our small town has been hit so hard in the last few months....

• firstly my computer tech goes and murders his friend
• then our friend Scott was also murdered
• last week two small air crafts crashed above our town resulting in two deaths
• and now this solider

Its hard to crawl out of such a deep hole....

I LOVE THIS!!!

Sarah’s hosting a fabulous Giveaway over at Dolls And Daydreams for her Eco Friendly Doll House PDF pattern!
Let your children’s imaginations grow whilst learning about recycling at the same time!
I’ve entered, how about you? Fingers crossed!! Good luck everyone!!

Dont you just love this little house????

Sarah is doing a really cool giveaway and I am so crossing my fingers that I win. Wish me luck!!!