POD 21/02/08

Lucas bashed his chin on the floor over the weekend (again, it was already cut). He was doing nothing naughty, just crawling. I think he is too old to still be crawling (15 months) and that is probably why he gets excited and tumbles. No stitches, which worries me, but the doctor didn't want to put him to sleep to do it. Anyway, I am rambling, all this to tell you: Isn't he still so very cute even with the bandaid on his face? :)

POD 20/02/08

Caught Lucas all by himself in the bathroom, trying to comb his hair and brush his teeth! Oh, so darling!

Photo a day (POD)

There is this 365 thing going on... I don't think I have enough time in my life to participate on something like that, but sure is interesting. So I decided to join in with Heidi Knight and the girls at Designer Digitals do a photo a day for as long as I am able to, hopefully at least a month!

I'll start tomorrow (because I just NEED to procrastinate some! LOL)

Growing up fast

Happy Valentines Day.... I certainly didn’t celebrate it though, which is a pity, but I had a busy day and actually got into the PA Fundrasing Comittee for Mateus’ Pre School. We had a meeting tonight... can you believe it? LOL I guess we are boring people that live for their kids, seriously!!!

Anyway, let’s talk about something more interesting, shall we? Mateus first day of school today... WOW, my baby went to Pre school! And he wanted to go. And he was fine when I said I would go and come pick him up later. And he said “bye mom” with a big smile. And when I came back, he saw me outside and escaped the teachers to run and give me a huuuuge hug and tell me everything they have done. I felt like crying! Another page in our lives, a new chapter begins. I think this is just crazy! I am overwhelmed by the whole thing... and so proud of him... oh... my little boy :)

at the entrance

with mommy

telling me I could go to the car pick up his water bottle because he would wait there LOL Loved that!

goodbye :)

Why do I suck at blogging?

Well well well, I think the REAL question is: Why do I have to procrastinate all the time. Even I am tired of this... why do something now if it can be done 2 min later? LOL That is just crazy. I have had lots of post ideas, and things I wanted to share, even if just scrapbook pages, but I never sit down and WRITE... why? I have other projects too, some are sooooo cool, but instead I go browsing the internet or spend ages doing something else I just came up with. It is hard to understand, if I hate this attitude in others, why do I do it? Today I finished up some forms one hour before Mateus’ interview at school... I have had them for 4 months. Letters, I have a list of people I want to write to... one of them is on my list for almost 2 years. Why Why why :( I just wanted to be more proactive, and I know I have wanted to do it for a long time. Hopefully, getting back to work next month will do it for me. I guess I work better under *more* pressure.

Tada

New Toys

Forgot to post here that I now have a very happy man:




with a very happy wife:

Detail: photos taken by Mateus... so much talent at 4, don't you think?

I went to the beach on the Australia Day holiday. We had fun and I have loads of gorgeous pictures to scrap... but where is the time for it? :)

A little better + some pages

I got a place at a good childcare close to my suburb. It is a new place, it is pretty, it looks organised, and they gave me a place... now I just need to get to know them and find out if they are good people, and if they are going to take care of Lucas. They gave me only two days to start with, but Matty is going to pre-school only two days anyway, so it works.
I called my boss and explained the situation, but I still have no idea on what to do with Mateus during school breaks, and I also heard horrid things about after school care around here, so I might have to work only half day. I’ll just wait and see how it goes, I know I am doing my best, I should stop stressing about it... On that note:

Here is an AAM page I did for The Digichick Creative Team:

And a page with Jofia’s Designs (also for The Digichick):

I think this one was one of my favorite photos of 2007, the second I saw it I knew the page title and what I wanted to do with it :)
((Click on images for credits))

So close...

...but never there...
My initial title for this post was “almost there”. House almost clean and organized, but noooooo, I noticed things are not quite like that.

I spent the first day after I got back sleeping, it is hard to cope with the time difference.

The next day was cleaning, I was very proud of myself. I was lucky I did do some cleaning because that same day my uncle and aunty called, they were coming to spend the weekend.

I had completely forgot that they came all the way from Brazil to pick up my cousin after her studies here and obviously were coming to visit me! We had a great time, stupid me didn’t take many pics though :(

Monday I tried to tidy up again, but went to catch up with a friend instead.
Tuesday spent the day looking for childcares, with no success. I started getting pretty stressed out.

Wednesday I called my boss and asked to talk about my return to work later, because I had not decided what to do yet. I might HAVE to stay home with the kids if I can’t find somene to look after them :( I finally scrapped again after so long :) and I was all caught up with e-mails (whew). In the meantime, luggage s still living in the middle of the living room!

Thursday Alex bought a freaking car!!!! I just told him go and buy it because I don’t want to talk about it anymore (I didn’t think we really needed it and could save the money) now we have two cars (well, when the other one get here we will). I FINALLY finished doing all the loads of laundry I had to do (I think they were 8 in total).

Friday, got my driver’s license done (lost my previous one) and caught up with a friend.

Yesterday we went shopping for storage system for inside the kids wardrobe. I finally started unpacking.

Today we went shopping for storage again, plastic containers for the kids’ toys that were ALL over the place.

As I was typing this, I thought I was *almost done* getting everything done and having time to relax. The reality hit me that even though I did all this big stuff, there’s still a lot of work to be done, there always will be. By now the house needs cleaning again (obviously) and the laundry basket is already full.

/end rant

SMJ's Valentines

This month I have the honour of being a guest for the very talented Shabby Miss Jenn(for the third time – YAY). You just HAVE to see her new valentines stuff released today, it is just gorgeous :) Here is a peek:

And here is a page I did with it:

I also wanted to share two LOs showing my printed stuff done with her designs. My mom's ABC album created with Flea Market Baskets kit (this album originated the quickpage album that SMJ gave for free at her store's birthday, remember the freebie?)
and the pages from her CD Calendar quickpages... gosh, I loooooove how they turned out. I gave one for mom, one for dad, and one for my MIL. Here it is:


Thanks for looking :)

DSM toot

As I have mentioned before, I got a layout into the February/March issue of Digital Scrapbooking Magazine. Well, I got the hardcopy today and I just loooooooove it. Page 23! It was such a thrill to see my LO there. Here is how it looks published:

I just love the reflection under the LO, can you see it? Clever!
and let me tell you, there will be another LO on the April/May issue and TWO LOs on the June July issue (these two I bet will not be full page, but I am still over the moon for it)