15 Marbles

I started doing arts and crafts with MsA from a very young age, but somehow sitting down quietly and doing some cutting pasting or art and craft with MsAn hasn’t happened. She is either too restless or I am too run down to plan anything. But, she surprised me with this a couple of weeks back. 

 
Our local shopping centre was offering an hour of childminding for an hour, so parents could go shopping and a gf and I decided to try it out. We dropped MsAn n her little friend MsM there and went window shopping.  They were there for all of 30 minutes, as MsM was upset, but MsAn handed me this cute bookmark that she made for me . ❤️

So, we came home and I pulled out the kiddie craft supplies, and we have been having a few craft sessions on our day off!  MsAn calls her day away from daycare, her day off and is super excited about spending special time with mummy on that day. 

I’ll share some pics of her artwork after our next art session.

Love,

Trish!

…a cup of low-cal hot chocolate with my name on it! Mmmm…love Jarrah hot chocolate!

SP conspired with a friend to order this mug for me for Mother’s Day! I Absolutely love it!!! It’s got my name on one side and an owl on the other side!!! Yes the ‘owl’ craze continues!
  
Isn’t she pretty?? 

…spotting a new shoot.

A friend gave me this plant, almost 4 years back. It was growing well and then suddenly it stopped growing, much to my dismay. I tried planting it and cutting offshoots to start a new one, but it just doesn’t grow. This time, again, I tried something different. I trimmed the creeper, gave the cutting to my friend, Shaz and guess what, her plant is thriving. I replanted mine in a $2 tea-pot from the Op-shop that Shaz got for me, when I was in my tea-pot obsessed phase and I waited for mine to grow crazy, too. But, it didn’t happen. On the contrary, all I had left was this one leaf and it was starting to die too. And then, I spotted this little spunk, totally made my day 🙂
 

Ms.An is my energizer bunny. She is my loud-voiced super-excited child. SP and I joke that she doesn’t come with a lower volume mode. The highlight of her life at the moment is ‘going to the toilet’. Yes, you read that right. Well, she has just recently been toilet trained and I showered her with lots and lots of praise, to keep encouraging her to use the toilet.
So, now, anyone that she catches going to the toilet, receives the same praise! She follows Ms.A in to the toilet (the sisters have no concept of privacy and have absolutely no qualms about following each other in the toilet) and cheers her on..” WOW!! A, you going to the toilet!! Mumma is going to be so happy with you” then she yells out to me.. “Mumma, you are so proud of A, she went to the toilet!” She caught SP, coming out of the toilet the other day and congratulated him on his effort, in her loudest voice and her eyes brimming with love – “Well done, Papa!! Mumma is so proud of you!” And then to me, ” Aren’t you, Mumma? ” I replied,” Yes, baby, I am!” The look that SP gave us, questioned my sanity, but I chose to ignore it, for its not every day, a mum gets called ” Goodgirl Mumma” for going to the toilet!!
Gosh! Love my noisy girl, so much!