Close in age

Good morning everyone, I am up and writing at 6.55am again this morning, doubt I will get it finished though as Summer will be here any time now. 

Anyway onto today's topic, age, well closeness in age and how even though a couple of people can be close in age there can look to be an wider gap between them than there is. 

In my family we have had at different times a number of babies all born around the same time and are pretty close in age, such as in 2010 when we had Temika, Liarna and Sydney-May born all in January. Look at them now even though there are only 16 days between the oldest and the youngest of the girls when you see them sometimes it seems like there is a larger gap and at other times the gap doesn't seem that large at all. 

Then we have my nieces, Hayley and Denni also born in the same month and year but the gap between them to me looks bigger than it is. 

Which one is oldest.............can you guess..................and by how much.............

Sometimes the gap between to children is greater like a year between them but still people will think that they are the same age I remember when Sandra & David were toddlers and I would take the out I would often get asked if they were twins.

There is roughly 2 years between each of my girls born in 85, 87 & 89 because I always thought it was good to have the kids close in age so they would have each other as playmates when they were little and each other as pals as they got older.

The gap between my sisters Jeannie and Sue isn't that big either, what do you think do they look close in age.

I don't have an up to date photo of Liarna, how annoying is that.

Good Morning how do you feel about personalised stuff.......................tell me tell me do

Good morning everyone, yes I am up and dressed and ready to face the day at a decent hour 7am it is as I sit and write this, this morning. 

Now what to write about, of course last night as I laid in bed trying to go to sleep I composed a whole post in my head and this morning I don't remember it.................doesn't that just suck.

Anyway, yesterday I mentioned that I had created personalised calendars and Christmas cards, so now I am asking are you a big card giver, you know until a few years ago I thought cards to be a waste of money and couldn't see the point in giving or receiving them. Now I have 8 birthday cards and 1 Christmas card hanging on my wall above my computer desk. I love to give and receive cards and spend time picking out nice ones. I also like to do personalised ones at Christmas for not only me to send out but I do them now for my sister Sandra and my parents and this year I did them for Kathy as well. 

I have also done a personalised calendar for Kathy and my parents and myself, but the do take a lot of time adding all the birthdays and photos and such. As time consuming as they are I do enjoy doing them, if I didn't I wouldn't bother right. 

Would you like to receive a personalised card from a love one and how about a calendar do you think you would like a calendar with photos of your family and loved ones and the birthdays all ready added so you can see what ones are coming up during the month. 

I have become known in the family as the one who does personalised gifts and I think I like that. 

Feeling Tired and So Many Different Time Zones

Damn I am tired today; I woke up tired and have been struggling all day.

I have although manage to create 2 calendars and some Christmas cards for my parents and myself.

How many different time zones does the county you live in have, here in Australia we have 3 most of the time but when we have daylight savings it is more like 5, as the maps show.

Australian Eastern Standard Time, covers the eastern states of Queensland, New South Wales (with the exception of the town of Broken Hill), Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. AEST is equal to Coordinated Universal Time plus 10 hours (UTC +10). 

Australian Central Standard Time , covers the state of South Australia, the town of Broken Hill in western New South Wales and the Northern Territory. ACST is equal to Coordinated Universal Time plus 9.5 hours (UTC +9.5).

Australian Western Standard Time, covers Western Australia.  AWST is equal to Coordinated Universal Time plus 8 hours (UTC +8).

Thank You

I want to start off by saying a big THANK YOU to all those who wished me Happy Birthday yesterday, I had a bloody great day, a really yummy lunch at my parents place with my family with the exception of my sister Sue who for some reason didn't come, no idea she hasn't bother to reply to text messages or anything so don't know why she didn't come.  

It was a full house with a lot of noise and fun, the boys Blain & Leo had a great time playing on the trampoline and even Dawson was out on the trampoline with the boys and of course all the girls. Although they did get a bit rough at times and Leo managed to hurt Dawson he didn't mean to hurt Dawson, I talked to him about it later in the afternoon and he said that Dawson is so big he didn't think he could hurt him.....................lol 

Also yesterday afternoon I had a scare, I couldn't find Leo, yeah he was watching tv in the lounge room I went to the toilet and when I returned he wasn't here. So I called him and he didn't answer so I walked around the villas calling him and he didn't answer and even Bear next door walked around calling him. Just as I rang his mum he came out of a neighbours house were he was playing with her grandchildren. 

Tonight I will have Blain here as his mum's car is out of rego and I will have to drive him to school on Monday morning. 

This morning I was awake up at 6.30am but that was ok that meat Leo slept for 12 hours last night, I was expecting him to be awake earlier.  

Tim took the car to work again today because he had to go to work at 12.30am, so Jessica will have to come and get Leo this morning I will try and ring her around 10ish. 

I am now 51 years old.............how cool is that..............

Well today I turn 51, yeah can you believe that I am just over half a century old how cool is that. Yesterday I wore this new dress which was given to by my niece Kelli for my birthday along with the brownie pan which I really wanted.

Last night Tim gave me this card and a $100 gift card for Big W, he wanted to make sure I know he loves me no matter how big I am or how much I eat and that he can't imagine his life without me in it. 

Today I am going over to my parents place for lunch, mum will pick me and Blain up around 10ish as Tim took the car to work and Jessica will bring me back again along with Leo as we will have Leo for the night. I told Jessica that he will have to be quiet as Tim will be in bed not long after he gets home from work as he has to get up at midnight  to go back to work. 

This is what Jessica got me for my birthday and have to say I love it, the hand matches hers but is a bit bigger she said it is the mumma hand and I added Leo because well he is her son. 

Home Again, Home Again, Baby Crying at my feet.........................

Yesterday I just never got around to posting I was busy, Jessica took me out to get my birthday present she prefers to have me with her so she knows what she is getting me is something I really want. I promised not to show what she got me till Saturday which is my birthday.

Yesterday we didn't go and see nan as mum wanted to stay home till after Dawson got picked up for work experience, Dawson gets a bit antsy if mum isn't there, he worries if the guy is late and finds it hard to just sit and wait. 

Not sure if we are going today either as mum is having a great deal of pain with her heel, I think I mentioned before that mum has a couple of spurs on her heal and there seems to be nothing they can or will do to help and the pain is just so bad some days making it painful to walk. Mum said she will see how she is this morning if the pain isn't too bad she will ring me and we will go and see nan, otherwise we will give it a miss and may go on Saturday instead. 

As you may have gathered we are home now, we arrived home Tuesday afternoon and it was good to get home and have a nice hot bath and go to bed in my own bed. I was in bed early too but I just felt worn out. 

Jessica and Leo turned up around an hour after we got home and stayed for a few hours, Leo misses us if he doesn't see us each week and of course Jessica misses her mummy & daddy. It goes without saying that we miss them as well.

Today I am hoping to manage to answer some of my mail and I have to get the Christmas decorations out and look at what I have so I can buy more of what I don't have, if that makes any sense. 

Not much to do while travelling

This is a post I wrote on Sunday and you are getting it this morning, Tuesday aren't you lucky.

I wish I had my digital recorder with me, as while we are driving with nothing much to do I keep thinking of things I would like to write about but of course by the time we stop those thoughts are gone. So I found a note pad and paper and will try jotting down the topic that springs to mind and hopefully I will be able to take that and turn it into a post.

While we have been driving I have been reading a bit, but I can only read for 30 minutes max before I begin to get car sick and many times after only 10 minutes I have had to stop and take a break for 5 minutes.

We don’t have a TV in the motor home, ok that is not 100% right we have a TV lying flat at the foot of the bed but we do not set it up for one main reason there is no TV reception, my parents watch a lot of DVD’s while they are travelling.

Tim has been watching the old Moonlighting series which he has downloaded onto his computer and I have been writing things on the computer and in my diary and reading. This is fine with me I love to read, mum says they get a lot of reading done while they are travelling as well.

The morning I am writing this I was up and dressed by 5.45am, Tim is still in bed asleep and I have little to do but either write or read.