With a desk like this

No wonder there hasn't been much scrapbooking happening in this house with my scrapbooking desk looking like this. Today I got in and cleaned it up so that I can get a bit done in the next few days before my holidays end.

t is nice to have the week at home - got lots of little jobs done, been to the optomerist and had my eyes tested, managed to fit in a massage, lunch with friends, out to dinner with the girls, and today I was spoilt, my wonderful husband, spoilt both Chloe and I by cooking us a wonderful breakfast and bought it into us in bed. I had a very lazy day and spent most of the day reading a novel. I can't remember the last day I have had like this - totally veged out until I finished it this afternoon.

On Tuesday we went to Gladstone for the day for Chloe to have a dress fitting for her formal dress. She looks beautiful in it - just wish I could share it with you. Won't be long now - her formal is next weekend and then all will be revealed.

We went to dinner together at the Coffee Club - great meal great company. I don't know this week seems to be all about food. Steve has had a really bad back this week - could hardly walk for the first couple of days and has been having treatments. It has been really hard for him because it has limited what he has been able to achieve this week, as sitting for amy length of time has been really painful. Hopefully it is on the mend now.

Both Pete and Chloe have job interviews in the next few days - so a few prayers for them both would be much appreciated. Thought I would share a few photos from my week.

Hopefully will have a few layouts to share next week now that my desk looks like this.

Just another one of those emails that arrive in your inbox. Definately thought this one was worth thinking about and sharing.

Now if you’re like me you may well find many of these mailings unfunny and useless time-wasters; but every now and then one comes along that’s inspirational, or at the very least thought provoking. I believe this is one of those and I hope you agree.
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain?" the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There’s a mousetrap in the house! There’s a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There’s a mousetrap in the house! There’s a mousetrap in the house!"
The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said, "There’s a mousetrap in the house! There’s a mousetrap in the house!"
The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I’m sorry for you, but it’s no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s mousetrap…alone; and that very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey.
The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.
Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. But his wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbours came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer’s wife did not get well; she died. A great many people came for her funeral, so the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and you think it doesn’t concern you remember that when one of us is threatened, we’re all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.