Sharing a card

I made this thank you card. I've also been working on a few bits and pieces for SENZ. Feel like the mojo is slowly thawing. The other 'bird and flower' I did for a journal. Not much else to report - calving doing ok - only about 200 odd left to go - thats 800 down!! Sports all finish this weekend so that will be it for our Saturday mornings and weekday practices.

I made something!

I made this today - its only a thank you tag but hey its a start on my mojo!

Yeah still haven't

Yeah I still haven't done any thing to show you but I will share with you some more of the kids work.

This is a canvas that Rebecca did in the school holidays.

I've been sick the last few days - had Callum off school for 4 days and he kindly passed his bot on to me. Cough, cough, cough. I have been very blessed in the last week to have some folk from the Church we have been going to (calving makes it very hard to get there so haven't been for a number of weeks) - these folk made some meals for us and they turned up just when we needed them most. Thank you so much!

Very Sorry

I'm very sorry folks but I tried to get the book running in order but it just didn't happen! I have put the page numbers beside so that you can get the gist of the way it goes!
Nicki

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I wish I didn't have dyslexia, that would be really cool. But having dyslexia makes me special and lets me think in ways that other people can't.

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James wrote this book as part of Term One 2008 - I hope it gave you an insight into what it is like to have dyslexia. I don't have it but as his mum I learnt a lot from his book.

My best subject at school out of reading, writing and spelling, is reading.
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I see pictures easily and that is cool because I cans ee my plans in my head before I do them.
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Dyslexia is not cool to have most of the time. Some people think that you are using it asn an excuse for your writing.
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People have two halves in their brain, the left side controls the right side and the right controls the left. There is a bridge to connect the brain but in dyslexic people the bridge does not work as well as people without it.

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What i c is not what u c. By James - Page 1

Its hard having dyslexia. I have it and I hate it! Page 2

I want to improve how I handle my dyslexia before I go to High School. I only have 1 year to do that because I am in year 8. Page 3

People have expectations of me. It's annoying! Page 4

I thought I would share some of the kids work with you as I haven't done any scrapping or crafty stuff for a long while!

Hope you enjoy!

Shadows

By Callum Vallance age 11

Huge shadow creeping up

Trying to reach the top

Soon there will be no white snow

Because of MR SHADOW

Blistering Winds

By Rebecca Vallance age 9

In blistering winds

I lie beside my fears

They keep scaring me as my bones chatter

The dark closes in on me

The grass chatters and whispers to me

I've got a book that James wrote and I am trying to get it into a format that I can load on here. Still trying to work it out lol

Banana Chocolate Muffins

I made these this morning at 6am for the kids school lunch - aren't I just the bestest mum LOLING
- really it was cos we got nothing in the cupboard!











I love this - as I walked past I could hear the captain of the team giving them a pep talk. Unfortunately they didn't win but they sure gave it a good crack - it was a tough team and they played hard.


Callums team before their curtain raiser game on Saturday afternoon. Callum is number 3.

Woo Hoot Wednesday

My woo hoots today

1. My SENZ ticket arriving last week.
2. Getting into 3 SENZ classes - may do one more!
3. Booking our accommodation for SENZ
4. Just the whole excitement of SENZ and all the emails back and forth to Heather lol.
   
5. My friend Heather for telling me to just leave the housework and do some scrapping - I love that woman!
6. The anticipation of going for a ride in the new car on Friday and go shopping (I know sad aye but we are trying not to have unnecessary trips to town - I have gone from driving to town just about everyday to going nowhere lol)

WOOOO HOOOOO

Grocery Shopping

Well Phil and I went to town to do the grocery shopping in this - our trusty Hoady Holden












And came home in this - and we didn't even get the groceries - we had to go and pick the kids up and they had no idea we had brought a new car and the look of surprise on their faces was priceless when we picked them up from the bus. We had left poor Hoady Holden in the supermarket car park and went back to get the groceries and Hoady.

James is taller than Me!

Ha Ha Mum I'm taller than you!












Humppp so you are!

Saturday Morning Again

And I have to stay at home to feed the calves!!!!!
Phil has the day off so is taking Bec to netball - Callum is very excited because his rugby game is a curtain raiser for the senior team so they are playing later in the day.

Why do they call it a curtain raiser?

Oh and my SENZ ticket arrived on Thursday - all I have to do is book a couple of classes then WOOO HOOOO can't wait!

Hope y'all have a good day.

The weirdest thing

The strangest thing happened this morning.
We were moving calves to a new paddock - these are calves that are three weeks old and going from the calf shed to grass.
So here we all are chasing them out of the pen and down the race.
Max, our American Intern was down the end of the race holding them back while Atu moves into a strategic place.
This calf goes running towards Max. Stops. Looks at him and drops down dead! What is up with that - Phil said he hadn't seen it before.
Was it a heart attack? Or was it Max. Lol