AWOL

What a week it's been!!!! Actually going back to two weekends ago (whilst I'm trying to remember what I've been up to!). Colin and I went to see Nights in Rodanthe. I've read the book of it some time ago and really enjoyed it so we went to see the movie. It's so lovely and romantic and emotional. Boy was it emotional!!!!! In fact one of the characters who is really only referred to throughout the movie had the same experience I did in having an allergic reaction to an anaesthetic drug...she died however. But it just really had a big impact on me and afterwards in the carpark I just broke down and had this massive sobbing session, whilst trying to laugh at myself at the same time. Very exhausting!!!!
On Sunday last weekend 6 of our grandchildren were participating in a childrens program at Church so we went to Cranbourne Chapel for Sacrament Meeting. It is so beautiful hearing the children speak their parts and sing the songs. India loves being on show, McKenzie decided not to participate at all. Isaac looked like he'd rather have been surfing or something, Blakey sang his heart out and really got in to it, Monty sang a bit but yawned a lot more and Orson......was to shy and just dropped to the floor. Such fun!!
I've bumped in to a few 'old friends' this past week, friends I knew from my Scraptacular days. Glenda and Nicole it was so lovely to see you and have a chat for a while.
I've been really busy, trying to get organised for Christmas. I've so far made 24 Christmas Cards. I bought the Wassail (Basic Grey) Christmas Card Kit and enjoyed kicking off with making them. Then I made 8 each of two different designs using up all my really old Christmas paper scraps. They all look the same but different because I've used different papers and different card colours. Will post some photos later.
Then of course we had the horrible house fire across the road. Workmen have been taking all the tiles off the roof and you can see how black it all is inside the roof throughout the house. It's a lot of damage.
And...the morning this all happened I saw and fed our two kittens Bizkit and Balou. However as the day progressed only Balou showed up now and then. By evening and especially the next morning we couldn't find Bizkit anywhere. We went looking all over the place and I was getting really worried because the weather was hot, and hot again on Thursday, then storms and rain on Friday and still no Bizkit. We really thought we would never see her again which was really sad because we are really attached to both of our kittens.
I printed off some flyers with her picture on it and put them in letterboxes in our street.
Come Sunday morning about 6am we hear this constant wailing meowing at the front door and
there is Bizkit. She rushed inside with heaps of loud meowing...we fed her and she wanted to eat but at the same time she was so excited to be home that she wanted to purr, meow and eat at the same time.
She didn't show any signs of trauma, or looked bedraggled from the weather at all. We think someone may have seen her and decided she would make a nice pet....then got our flyer and let her go.
Whatever....she found her way back home and is happy and content. The funny thing is that Balou was quite happy that she was gone! She was way more affectionate and loving...and now that Bizkit is back she seems very put out. Typical girl!!!

Still no new baby grandchild. This is the first time that Carolina has gone past 38 weeks. She has an appointment on Thursday and if she makes it to that they will make another one for the following week and possibly induce her that day.....if she makes it to then.
I've been ready for so long I've kind of forgotten about being ready...if that makes sense!!!!
We went to Lazy Moe's for dinner on Saturday with a large group of friends. I didn't like it much at all. The meals were obscenely huge and not great quality. Fun to socialise with friends though.

Have a very few busy weeks coming up. Babysitting and activities...some more work to do for a friend. I've just completed my second lot of 'creations' for her and she loves them....it's nice to dabble in my favourite hobby and earn a dollar or two.

Little Sahn has now officially been diagnosed as Autistic. She is now under a paediatrician in Frankston who has a downs syndrome child of his own, so he knows the difficulties and the best sources of help.
Sahnie is being referred to a speech therapist and a physiotherapist and again on the waiting list for other intervention programs.
She is such a beautiful, loving and gentle girl. Except when she gets frustrated because she can't communicate. There are things we know for sure though....she hates loud noises, she hates birthday cakes and singing happy birthday, she hates shopping.......she tucks herself in to bed if it all gets to be too much. And...we all love her to pieces. She is so adored by our entire family and although she will only be really comfortable to spend time with some of us, she at least gets forced to socialise a bit when we all get together.

This week.....another busy week. Grandparents day at Rileys kinder and babysitting ...surprise!!!