Hi there Saturday 17th May

How is it that the year has gone so fast...... I keep on looking and I swear the weeks are getting shorter as I age! Once weeks slowly trudged by and now they fly! Not fair!!!

I have had so much on lately that I haven't updated this as often as I would hope - I am aiming for once a week - sometimes I make it nad sometimes I just don't! Sorry!

I had a great time in Cairns and loved catching up with the wonderful friends at Scrap Therapy...... true to form I have also spread teh word and now the manager of the B&B we stayed at also wants to become involved with her daughter..... so I left a few goodies with her and of course a contact detail or two.

Here are some pics of the retreat.... I will add a few more when I get them

All the girls


The Cairns Colonial Club Resort


The pond outside my room


Me, Sonya and Relsi


Relsi on the phone!

So am I going next year - absolutely!!!! It was wonderful fun and I met heaps of new people and laughed and played - it was great!

I cant believe Matt, my son, is going overseas in 2 days time - I love the fact that he is doing that - and he will have a wonderful time..... though I will miss him heaps.... He will have great adventures and meet lots of new people he has a travel blog: matts blog

Jessica and Jason are going great, Jess is doing some travel for work and is emjoying her job more than the old one. Jason has assisted us and is hosting the scribbly gums website - I will let you know about it when I do more work on it.

Scribbly Gums is waiting for us - we are just finalising the finance..... can't wait to spend a few weekends out there!! Especially as work is pretty crazy at present - great but crazy!

Mum and Dad are great and looked really well when I saw them today. They will be visiting Ross and Sonya from the 13th June ...... and Phil and I will be up there the long weekend in June - they might have to have a holiday to relax after all the visits from the 'rellies'

I better go and help Phil with dinner.......

I like this one even though I didn't get it in for Mothers Day (rather long sorry!!)......

Somebody said that a mother is an unskilled laborer.. (Somebody never gave a squirmy infant a bath)

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby..(Somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, "NORMAL" is history)

Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct..(Somebody never took a 3-year-old shopping)

Somebody said being a mother is boring..(Somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit)

Somebody said teacher's, psychologists and pediatricians know more about children than their mothers..(Somebody hasn't invested her heart in another human being)

Somebody said if you're a "GOOD" mother, your child will "TURN OUT".. (Somebody thinks a child is like a bag of plaster of paris that comes with directions, a mold and a guarantee)

Somebody said being a mother is what you do in your spare time..(Somebody doesn't know that when you're a mother, "SPARE TIME" doesn't exist anymore)

Somebody said "GOOD" mothers never raise their voices..(Somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child wind up and hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window)

Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother..(Somebody never helped a 4th grader with his math)

Somebody said you can't love the fifth child as much as you love the first..(Somebody doesn't have 5 children)

Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in the books..(Somebody never had a child stuff a bean up his nose)

Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery.. (Somebody never watched her child get on the bus for the first time on the first day of kindergarten)

Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back..(Somebody never organized seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies)

Somebody said that a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married.. (Somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings)

Somebody said that a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home.. (Somebody never had grandchildren)

Happy belated mothers day to all the Mums that read this blog, and to all those women who may not be mothers but who care for others as if they were your own.....

love Carol