missed it by that much

Well it turns out that I did miss something big yesterday on parade.

Moments before I got there to watch, the principal of the school made a special mention of Kt and how she has been well behaved all year and he congratulated her and asked her to come up and get a CUDDLE from Kippa canine the school mascot.

Not just a piece of paper but a real live CUDDLE!

All by herself, the only one up on stage .... and I missed it due to being frazzled and dithering about.

Very unhappy!

I am NEVER going to miss another parade again!!!!!

arrrrrkkkk hectic morning

This morning I was suppposed to leave some paperwork out in the letterbox for arthur to collect.

I was going to do it on the way to school, but he arrived at 7.30am.

I was in the toilet and didn't catch him. I sent him a text immediately and went outside in pj's to put the papers in the mailbox.

He came back about 15 minutes later.

Then Kt complained that her blister covered in a bandage was too painful to walk in wearing her current shoes, so we dashed off to Kmart to buy her the next size up.

We had only just gone shoe shopping a week ago but the ones she liked were way too big ... like clown shoes and she kept tripping and falling every time she wore them.

We have kept those for next year and now she has a good pair for now that hopefully will not aggravate her blister too much.

I don't think I've done so much by 9am before in the last 6 years!!!!!

I dropped Kt off at school and decided not to stay for parade, drove home and then thought "what if she gets her kippa paw today or gets an award for her great word wall performances".

So I quickly put on sunscreen and walked back to school just in time to see some kids being given awards.

Kt saw me straight away and waved and blew kisses. Once again they only drew out a tiny number of Kippa paws from the box and her name wasn't one of them ... but at least I went!

Yesterday Arthur dropped in twice to catch up with us in the morning while Kt was at school and then again in the afternoon to chat with Kt after school.

He has the windows version as us (Vista) and I showed him how to do a couple of things on it.

He asked me if I knew how to resize photos so they would be easy to email and I told him that was something I was still struggling with ... but after he left I had a go and found three different ways to do it.

I think with all the recent time and effort I have devoted to learning the new programs and recording all the steps i take, I am in a much better position to get things done.

I wrote him some instructions step by step and am feeling very pleased with myself.

My next blog will include those instructions so I have another record of them!

rain and play doh

I have just returned from the markets and the rain held off until I came home.

It has rained very little in the last 3 months and it is lovely to watch the grey sky and gentle rain and listen to it in the background.

My plants really need it ... and it gives me an excuse not to start painting the fence this morning.

Yestereday KT and I made pink play doh.

We haven't made play doh much this year ... we were doing some once a month last year when she was at kindy but usually we have only made it in the holidays this year.

I had pink food colouring from the cake supplies we bought for this years birthday. She was pleasantly surprised when she asked if we could make pink play doh and I said yes!

We started early and Kt did most of the mixing and pouring in of ingredients. I only helped with the stirring when it started to get hard to stir.

We had perfect playdough in no time and it was a fabulous colour!!!

Making your own playdough is definitely a money saving way to go ... it costs about $10-15 initially to get your materials and they should make at least a years worth (12 batches, 1 a month) of playdough instead of buying playdough at $10 for 4 small tubs.

If you only make one colour at a time you also avoid the inevitable mixing of all colours to make one brown lump!!!!!

I felt like baking today ... something about the weather ... but i did not have enough butter .... hmmm might have to go shopping but not really in the mood

On friday I had a fairly hectic day ...

Went to visit nanna in the morning and had planned to miss that day's school parade but when I told Kt my plan she said she thought I might miss out on seeing her receive a kippa paw. She had been caught doing something good in the playground fairly recently and thought it would be close to the top of the box.

I ummed and aahhhed for a bit and decided I could delay my visit to nanna.

On our way out the door I made sure I had my handbag and a shirt that I needed to return to nanna, since I intended to go straight from the school to her house.

I also thought I had better make a last minute toilet visit. Once i got in there I flushed it to clear it and was horrified to see the contents of the toilet rise up towards the surface.

After a moan of annoyance ... as i was now running late ... I unblocked the toilet, finished my own contribution and held my breath as it flushed normally.

Then we ran out the door and headed off for school. I got out of the car, got my handbag, looked for Kt's school bag and couldn't find it. Of course it had been left behind at home ... i usually only carry one bag to school and since I had my handbag over my shoulder I completely forgot about Kt's bag.

Back in the car we headed back home through unbelieveable school traffic, got home, got the bag and returned again to school.

We managed to park a bit closer and I got out of the car only to discover that Kt had wound down her window for the 2 minute drive to school. I put her out of the car with both bags, started the car and closed the electric window ... in the meantime the car in front of me had moved out of the way so I drove further forward and even closer to the school. Kt followed on foot carrying the bags!

Then we rushed up past the parade area and I tacked Kt onto the end of her class line just as they were heading to their spot.

I couldn't put her brain break or drink bottle in the classroom because it had been locked, so I decided to let Mrs Sands know where it was once I left the parade.

I was hoping they would do the kippa paws early and I could leave before the end of parade.

No such luck though, as it was a whole school parade, the first one of the term and of course there was plenty the principal wanted to discuss.

After a quick text to nanna I found a spot standing up at the back so I could make a quick getaway.

I made eye contact with Kt and waited.

They started handing out kippa paws at the end of parade at about 9.30. When there didn't seem to be any more I prepared to leave, but then they brought out the playground boxes. You should have seen Kt's excitement, so I waited, hoping her name would be called out.

Unfortunately they only picked two names from the P-3 box and two names from the 4-7 box and neither of them was hers.

Then parade was over!!!

HMMMfff

I waved goodbye to Kt, found Mrs sands and then headed to nanna's house.

I stayed there for about 1 hour before heading back home to go out with uni to look for a new fridge and freezer for downstairs.

We had a look at the goodguys and as usual, discovered that the price we wanted to pay was not going to get us the product we wanted.

We want the new fridge and freezer before Xmas so we can store our Xmas food in it .. so we will have to keep an eye out between now and then.