WET and MISERABLE

Wet and Miserable - that pretty much sums up our weekend. Not that we really minded the wet, except Steve would have loved to have finished the retaining wall as we have very few free weekends between now and the end of the year. On the other hand we were happy to see the rain, and to see the lawn and neighbourhood slowing showing signs of greenery again.
Miserable - we were both miserable, I spent the weekend over a bowl and the toilet. It seems the gastro bug is everywhere here at the moment. Steve has come down with a good dose of the flu... fevers, aches, pains, cough and has spent the day in bed.... We thought that he did well not to catch it off me a month ago when I had it, but he hasn't missed it this time round. Therefore not a lot of photo taking or things to report this week.

Thought I would share this insteasd

Outside my Window..... Too dark to see, and no moon to light the night sky..
I am thinking...... about all the things I need to do this week before we head off to go catch up with family and celebrate my dad's 80th Birthday.
I am thankful for..... soooooooooooo much, My God, my husband, my family, my home, my friends.... I AM BLESSED.
From my Kitchen..... this
Beef Stroganoff and Vegetables for dinner tonight
I am wearing..... Skirt, top and my comfy havaiana thongs.
I am creating..... cards for a 100th and 80th birthday..
I am going..... to have a shower and get ready for bed
I am reading...Son of Hamas, Leaving, and my Bible.
I am hoping..... that we all get well real soon
I am hearing.... my poor husband sniffling and coughing.
Around the house..... I feel love.
One of my favourite things..... these
A lovely gift from my husband yesterday...
A few plans for the rest of the week.... Meetings at work, Afternoon tea with the girls, attending my neighbours 100th Birthday Party, housework, heading to the Sunshine Coast, celebrating my dad's 80th Birthday, getting a haircut, catching up with my kids and the rest of my family...

We are still crazy busy at work trying to move into our new library. I am also back on class this week so that is slowing the process a little also...

Love being on Facebook with you kids.... a good way to catch up on photos and what they have been up too, especially getting photos of Pete.... he is definately photoshy around me.... have to steal photos of others to get any decent photos of him.

Chloe has been having a bit of fun with her camera and her editing program this week. Just a few of the photos she has played with that I really like.


A couple of quotes I have read this week that have impressed me

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us Helen Keller

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. Henrik Ibsen.

Your life is a message to the world, make it inspiring..... Anon

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.. Scott Adams ( this one is one of my favourites.)

It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe... Author Unkown.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 3:3

"Each time he said, 'My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.' So now I am glad to boast about my weakness, so that the power of Christ can work through me"
2 Corinthians 12:9

We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us. C.S. Lewis.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know who soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Until next week.....