Whirlwind of Activity

It's been all go here for the last few days and frankly my head is spinning. On Saturday we sold the twins cots.. it hit me hard to think that's it for us..no more babies. G says we can always buy a new cot for another one but I don't think he believes there will be anymore babies for us either, still I can hold it over his head a while right? The two high chairs are leaving later this week too...my heart feels heavy about it all.
On Saturday night G went to his friends place so they could jam on their guitars a while. I was looking forward to a nice cosy evening on the PC doing scrap stuff....but the neighbours directly across from us decided to have a party with blaring music going on until 1am and teens/ young adults running up and down the street and banging car doors as they left and arrived. They also decided to pull up one of our trees from our front yard..yeah thanks for that!!!
So Sunday I was exhausted after very little sleep but we had lined up a babysitter already so went up to Toys R Us and started some shopping for the birthdays/Xmas seasons ahead. I usually get manic about the Toy Sales when they start at this time of year but nothing really impressed me with the catalogues this year and I didn't bother with the Kmart sale and won't be bothering with the Target one when it starts on Thursday, even Toys R Us was not that inspiring. Looks like the kids won't be getting much at all this year the way we are going!
We then headed off to the cinemas and saw Pirates of the Carribean 2, a good laugh and lots of fun and I think it was quite different from the first. Afterwards we headed out for dinner and still got home in time to put the kidlets to bed.
Monday was another busy one, Ab had a party to go to in the middle of the day so my Mum came and watched the twins so I could take Ab out. While she was at the party I went shopping (but came back empty handed!) and then that evening I went to dinner with my Mum and a bunch of her mates. We have a Girls Night Out every 2 months or so and I just make it as I can depending on G's work schedule. It was great night, we went to a place we hadn't been to before and I have to say the food was fab..though a little exxy...and it was nice and quiet so easy to chat and to have a bit of fun on the pokies after dinner.
Anyhow that leads us into today..which was quite a mixed bag. Joe hadn't been quite right yesterday, he kept getting a temp, going pale, looking flushed etc etc and then being completely fine. G said he ate all his dinner and went to bed fine last night and this morning he looked normal when he got up. He seemed more anxious for his morning cup of milk than normal but I didn't think much of it. Gave the kids their normal weetbix for breakfast and Joe wouldn't eat. I told him after a while that if he was done he could get down so he did, then he started to cough, (SPOILER WARNING: IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH NOW IS THE TIME TO STOP READING!) put his hand to his mouth, started gagging and next thing I knew he had thrown up everywhere. Now you would think that having dealt with a very reflux baby for the first 9 months of her life I would be pretty used to vomit but wow I had forgotten just how bad milky puke is! Joe just stood there transfixed and staring in shock at what had happened while his twin sister helpfully squealed "Oh look at da mess!!" She was actually quite distressed by the whole situation but wanted it to be very known that she had not contributed to making that mess in anyway "Doey make a mess!"
I then had the pleasure of rounding out the day with treating Ab's hair for nits, learning that a friend of ours has terminal cancer and comforting Scar after she whacked her head on the floor.

Anyway..I did have good news today (coz frankly I would be in my white coat with the long sleeves on by now otherwise) firstly I won a scrap competition!! I won 100 eyelets, yep very helpful for a digi-chick like me...oh and do I have to confess I was the only person that entered the comp!?!? Ah well..a win is a win right??

Secondly and most importantly there is a new full service scrap site, based in Australia coming very very soon, and I am thrilled to bits to announce that I will be on their design team with a bunch of highly talented and very creative girls and also an inspiring Creative Team as well. There will be a gallery, forums, chats , a shop and tutorials and even more excitingly there will be an amazing megakit for FREE when we open. It's going to be massive!