Well Australia day was celebrated at Byron Bay this year and a wonderful day was had by all. Shopping in the morning and beach in the afternoon photo's below. Schools back yeah and my darling boy went into grade 9 with ease and my beautiful Annika started school, why do they have to grow up so fast and she was sooo cute. Something exciting is happening for me tomorrow, that will change my life..again, in a good way though and will update with more detail on Saturday. Until than I hope everyone is enjoying there week.

Take Care

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Happy Birthday

To all you Australians out there, Happy Birthday, Hope your day is filled with family and friends, lots of BBQ'S and a few drinks to celebrate. Whatever you are doing today, have a great one

Happy Birthday Australia and Happy Birthday to me........................... (photo courtesy of the Miss Deb)

In the wee hours of the morning

It just came to me,can you believe it, my morning usually starts at 5.40am with the sound of the alarm, this morning was different, I woke before the alarm by the sound of one word. That one word just rang out in my head and woke me up, my eyes popped open.........that's it, that's my word, I couldn't believe it my word woke me up, so without any further ado my word for 2009 is...... Courage. It baffled me all morning, and as I drove to work trying to work out why this word came to me. For every meaning I came up with I couldn't make it suit what I wanted it to,that is until I got to work and looked up the meaning and here it is

Courage(noun)

Quality of being brave

the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action

That's Perfect exactly what I wanted, I was so excited. This year I am going to have the courage to change my ways, I am always the softie, always giving in (even if I don't want to) and feeling guilty afterwards..........not this year, nope If I can't do or I'm not free, than that's it.......no guilt's, no, well, maybe because you want to.......So its the courage I need to pull this off. (wish me luck) So welcome 2009 and welcome Courage.

Blog..Blog...What Blog??

OK girls I hear you..............Promise to myself this year.............Blog more often!!(think I can do it) So as you may or may not have read, Briohny filled you all in about how I have been on the Greek Isles with my lovely Pete feeding me grapes and wine, Oh and naked of course (lol), Where is that bloody lotto win anyway surely it must be my turn. (dreams are free) Oh and thanks for the tip because seriously I think November and December had fallen off my calendar because they are just gone, no, really, I can't find them anywhere, however we are still in January so I'm safe there. OK,OK for those that I have not caught up with for a while I will go back a little, November and December were both whirlwind months as I am sure everyone felt a little the same way. In November my beautiful Girl turned 18, had her formal and graduated from year 12, extremely proud mum, She is a very talented and inspirational person, love her enormously.

December, well with Christmas parties, shopping and a little more shopping a wonderful day spent with Heidi Swapp thrown in there, catch ups with work and than Christmas...........Christmas was to be a little different for us this year and by no means our traditional year, It was the first Christmas ever I spent away from Zoe and Annika as they went to Melbourne, so we had our family Christmas day at Narrell's on the 21st Dec, a wonderful BBQ feast, we than headed for Port Macquarie, in the wee hours of Christmas eve morning arriving there around lunch time. set up camp (as we camped in Pete's mums back yard) once all done we relaxed for a while, popped over to see my mum and sister as she drove down from Brissie as well, than on to Karen's and back home to a reasonably early evening, woke Christmas morning to open the pressies, bacon and eggs for breakfast, relaxed a little more, went to Pete's aunty's for lunch with all the family, home again for a little afternoon nap.mmmm love naps, than on to mums and the beach for Christmas dinner, chicken, champagne and prawns on the beach whilst watching the kids swim and play was a superb and totally relaxing way to top the day off, absolutely loved it. The next couple of days were filled with a little shopping but mostly the beach, I got to stay a great night at Karen's and yes we drank a little tooo much and there were lots of Christmas cheer that evening. We went on to Cessnock for the next couple of days staying with our old neighbours and visiting wonderful friends. Justin Makes mean homemade pizza's...........yummmo. Than back to Port, packed up the tent and car, beach and headed home for a relatively quiet New Years Eve, which was spent at home with family and friends.

The rest of our holidays were spent cleaning out cupboards, cleaning windows, painting and catching up on all the things you just don't have time to do the rest of the year, we did however put in some little day trips to the beach at Southport, the Botanic gardens and we went to underwater world. It was a great feeling to have everything back in some sort of order and to feel a sense of clean and fresh to start out the new year.

12th of January marked my first day back at work for 2009, and yes I struggled with the concept. I love being at home, I loved the idea of cleaning and throwing (and still needed a little more time) I loved the sound of no alarm, I loved my house always clean and tidy.......oh and the list could go on. If only I could stay at home and still get paid the same.........wouldn't that be great, although I couldn't do it all the time as it would send my around the twist, I like getting out. I like the stimulation, I like the friendships that you make and I like the thought of learning.
So after a week of settling back in (and yes it took a week) I am ready for another year.

Oh and I almost forgot to share my news, my gorgeous daughter got an OP 8 and got accepted and got her first choice at Griffith university to a double degree, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business.

And yep I am the proudest mum in the whole wide world.

I am still deciding on my word for this year, I will have it in the next couple of days, so I will share than. So until then, stay safe, stay beautiful and stay tuned.

Looking forward to a wonderful 2009


Lorna
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