Frazzy Dazzles

I know that I’m supposed to visit around here a little bit more often than I have been….but I have an excuse. I actually have a lot of them.

Firstly I had surgery for my wisdom teeth to be taken out. Then I had to have surgery within that fortnight because I had another gall stone emergency. How you can have a gall stone emergency when you no longer have a gall bladder had me flumoxed…but there you go.

Enter school production and living under the stage of the local theatre with a kindy class for a week. Stressful, enlightening, eye opening and rewarding. A rich tapestry!

Then I was forced to realise that life can be cruel and good people can be taken from those who love them before their time as I witnessed the pain and sadness of losing a mother and wonderful wife wash over our family friends. Seeing a gorgeous and magical woman lose her life made me wonder what on earth I’ve been doing with my own. I look at how she lived, loved and was loved…it’s made me think that I need to start living the life that’s mine a bit better.

Now I have my hands full with children and school holidays. Keeping little people busy and happy while the winter weather takes that challenge up a notch.

…..there are lots of reasons why I haven’t been here. Some of them good, some of them not so good but all of them have played a part in my absence.

So now I feel like I’m standing at a crossroad. In a week my kids go back to school and I will be on ‘my own’ again. I feel like I’ve learnt a lot since I was here last.

I just need to decide what I’m going to do with all that valuable time.

Paint and draw?

Sew?

Design?

What ever it is I need to do something. The time for treading water needs to be in the past.

I think I need to make a list….or seven!

No excuses.

I know I haven’t been around here much lately. Things have been busy and hectic to say the least. Scott’s been away a lot for work leaving me busy with the kids. Then last week The Little Bush Princess had to spend three days in hospital with the effects of a virus. Scott was away for work and I had to rely on a truly wonderful, kind and generous friend to care for The Golden Child and be there for TLBP and I.

It was stressful, upsetting and hard for everyone…but it’s over now!

Another time consuming activity has also been completed. I’ve finished my contribution to the school concert…stitching up eighteen little dresses and pairs of pants. The last week has been smoother and apart from having to have four wisdom teeth out tomorrow….urgh….hopefully things will be back on a more even keel now.

Out on the farm things have been bubbling along whether we’re there or not. Our goat herd has increased again. Taking our numbers from the original eight adults to eight adults and four babies.  We spent our day out there yesterday with friends. It was lovely.

My baby with our new twins, Titus and Lucky.

All of our goat babies together. May is quite a bit bigger than the others. She’s grown so quickly! She’s half the size of her mother already.

This little lady is our newest addition. Her name is June. She’s the softest creature in the world!

She’s blessed with the most attentive mother in our herd. Soft and gentle, kind and concerned.

Hopefully things will be back to being a bit more normal once my teeth are taken care of and I’ll get back to posting more regularly.

‘Mum…if I take photos of my things can we put them on our blog?’

I guess this blog has become more a part of their little worlds than I’d realised.

I like it that it’s ‘our blog’. So much of what lives here belongs to them.

photographs courtesy of The Golden Child and The Little Bush Princess

If you light a campfire everyone will poke it!

 An enterprising Bush Princess doesn’t let a lack of cutlery come between her and her sausage.

No cutlery? Well there’s always two sticks.

Scott described this day as seeing our children at their best.

Now if only my makeshift bbq skills could improve!

The roughs for a new venture I’m dipping my toes into.

I think that I’ve jumped in with both feet and forgotten to hold my nose.

I’ve been paddling around in circles for what seems like a very long time. If I stop and think, it’s been over a year since I’ve felt really passionately about sewing and making. Certainly since The Little Bush Princess went to school I’ve floundered and just filled in the gaps of time with mush. Nothing of any consequence.

I’ll let you know what I’m up to when I have a bit more of an idea myself.

Hopefully it will help to stop my brain from turning to compost!