My Little Cousin

Out of the blue last Sunday, Lacey gave little Anthony a gorgeous hug.........ahhh the innocent and beauty of little children it FILLS my heart with exquisite JOY !!!

Who am I?

Spiderman Spiderman......I can do about anything.... I climb and jump and run and hide....

Oh it's Manly....Thank goodness I could hardly recognise him......Apparently since his Grandma Holder bought it for him he lives in it and just LOVES it.......it's so fun to be a kid......I wonder if they will have to bribe him out of it when they go to Church this Sunday!!

Stored Dry Dog Food or WHAT !!!

I could hardly believe what I was looking at...I thought I would get some dry dog food to store..it had been in my cupboard only 10 months and look at what it is now!!!!!!....a Home for THE Most persistant PANTRY MOTH......it was only about 6 months ago where every container and every lid even cans were wiped and cleaned...we thought we had got rid of them !!!! but alas I did not check the contents of this container of dry dog food.

I threw everything..... container and all...... wrapped it in plastic bags and in the rubbish bin it went...I didn't even want to empty it in case some escaped.......We are still in disbelief !!!! I don't think I will ever get rid of them as I also found them in a opened milo tin...you think that they just would not get into it with the lid being so sealed......I have re-checked everything.....and will keep my beady eyes on things...well try to.  We hold out little hope...for a Moth free Kitchen....

OUR NAOMI

Our last Baby's Birthday tomorrow and we are missing her......I would love to hug her and give her a big Mummy Kiss...I will just have to give it to her Skype Style...xxx

Here Naomi played the role of the Little Red Hen....which only she could do....would it be rude to say she really did sound like a chook !!!

No it's not Manly of course wrong colour hair !!!..but her namesake.....  little Naomi

Very rare to see her made up like this....I just had to put it in...

Now this is so typical......and we all love it about her....there is no pretense within her...if yer socks fall down ye pull them up...doesn't matter where or who is looking.......she is a delight a blessing and all that any parent could ever want.
When I found out I was pregnant again I went straight to Honor my friends house, knocked on her door and stood there crying and blurted out I'm Pregnant again.....wo is me !!!! I was 39 had had 6 children the last three in 4 years plus a miscarriage in between and I didn't really want to go through that again....
I had my cry to a kind listening ear....left her house and got on with my life. Didn't stay in the doldrums for long I was pregnant and so be it....I do remember being very hesitant in telling both My Mum and Tony's Mum....I think both were hoping...that we would cope and that my health would stand up to all the rigours etc...plus people today just didn't have so many children.
The pregnancy went well....except for the usual sickness and all the normal things that can be a little annoying. But we felt blessed after getting over the shock....I thought that I was protected as I was fully breast feeding.....You think I would know better !!!
Tony was doing a job 400 k's away...he was putting up Towers for a T.V Station...
and I was getting really close to my due date....of course the inevitable happened, my waters broke and there was no way of contacting Tony...no mobile phone and he was out in the never never in regards to Country Towns....
.A Missionary Couple came over and they took me to the Hospital and if we remember right Honor came over to take care of the children.......The labour was really intense......but I had made previous arrangements to have an epidural...it was the only thing that kept me sane...when thinking about giving birth....I felt that I could not go through that again.
Of course it took some time for the Dr to come...much longer then I would have liked, but the needle went in and I expected immediate relief.....it did but only on one side so back the Dr had to come again.... seemed like I had to wait forever again but this time it worked well...only enough anaesthetic was given so that it would wear off at the end so you had all your feeling back to do what needed to be done to give birth.....but it wore off way before I was ready and they were reluctant to give me anymore as I was so close...aghhhhh
after having 6 children you would think that this might have been the easiest....but alas it was one of the hardest....it was because she was my heaviest and she was stuck in the birth canal.
Now Tony being so far away started to get a feeling that he needed to go home even though the job was not done...the feeling became so intense that he left....and to my utter delight and surprise and in a pretty yucky time...... in walked Tony still in his work cloths.... but who cared..... Thank You Heavenly Father for giving him those feelings..... I could tell that he was already celebrating the birth all the way home...but he soon fully sobered up when he saw the pretty full on scene that was happening in that little room. The same room her Sisters had been born in except for Katie and Nic who was born in the next room.
After a lot of drama ..... Na was extracted with forceps.... SHE was here and sosooo beautiful....golden hair and golden complexion.......here she was child number 7 and I was in awe of her presence...I looked down at her and my heart filled with love .... I felt rather hesitant to pick her up, I felt such a reverence being next to her and being her Mother.....Her intelligence I felt far exceeded mine.
I will come back to this...I need to go and have a little cry !!!!!! wonderful memories
I'm back it's now a proven thing about her intelligence !!!!!!
She was vivacious, very cheeky, full of adventure and a bit of a challenge.....Nothing escaped her attention I remember trying to sneak out to go and do some shopping....of course Dad was home and so was Opa and as I drove out the driveway there she was looking out her window....did I go back ....of course...I did not !!!
The moment she could climb out of her cot...that is exactly what she did..we would put her in her bed and we no sooner would get to the lounge area and she was right behind us...we would have a quiet little giggle...until it would get too much...we had never experienced anything like this with the others...
It was impossible for her to sit still and each Family Home Evening ...almost as part of each lesson someone would have to say NAOMI !!!!!!!
Would we have it any other way...would we ever regret having this marvelous child    NEVER    NEVER NEVER.....It has been our privilege, honour and delight......
The Sun still shines out of her Countenance.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLING  XXX
By the way I would not leave the Hospital until my tubes were tied and I checked with the Dr...that they were cut and tied far apart from each other....

First Burn Offs

From our house we could see the Fire Brigade doing there burn offs in the Hills preparing for the Summer Months and the problems with bush Fires.......
When I was a child I lived in Forrestfield ....which then was considered the bush, the street we lived on only had about 8 houses on it.... no electricity and no running water..( now called Berkshire rd ) except a creek that ran along our property...which we loved to play in...hated the leeches that we would have to pick of our bodies after each dip.........but all the time we lived there amongst the trees and shubbery not one bush fire nor did we ever hear about it in the surrounding areas.

Two seperate sites we saw on the same day.....I have it from good authority that todays bush fires are mainly caused by humans...sad hey !!!

Darlington Walk

Oh that lovely water this is a little stream that is in Darlington....it will be gone in the Summer so we enjoy each moment.

A little bit of Paradise

Moss growing from an underground stream

One of the many varieties of flowers

My Girls

This all started when Naomi sent me a Statue that represented her ...it is called Spirited Child....I thought that I would get a Statue that represented each of my Girls...the larger one at the Back holding the Heart is me...as that is where I hold them is in my heart....
Spirited Child which is so apt for her it is the one with her arms over crossed legs....the one sitting next to her which is so apt as well, as they are like twins all there lives is Nic and she is called Joyful..........then the Statue with the flute is Rebecca and she is called Harmony...which she is...the Statue with the book is Vanessa and she is called Love of Learning.....so true she is always continually feeding her mind with marvelous knowledge the Statue holding the apron of flowers is Katie and she is called Sunshine...well thats how I see My Girls...and of course in many other ways as well....but it is a sacred little place in my house really.

The Pamphlett

So Silly isn't it.....but since seeing the Pamphlett I have fallen more in love with the Reserve....apparently the part closest to us has only just been set apart as a Reserve....so now that it is all legal etc. it can't be touched...thank goodness as there are two of the biggest trees on that patch.
The Cemetary is the white L section on the left ....it's quite tiny really...we live right opposite the little black stick figure on the middle of the bottom of this page.

The Lady who I spoke to who is the Spokesperson for the Reserve told me that there are wildflowers and little animals in their that aren't anywhere else in W.A.....it's because of the type of soil that is there.
OK Enough of the Reserve Already .....anyone for a stroll through the beauty ?

First Spring Flowers in OUR RESERVE

A favourite....a Kangaroo Paw

Bacon and eggs won't bore you with the correct name of them but that is what the locals call them there are hundreds of different varieties

Oh I could spend a big part of my life next door taking pictures...it's very boring walking with me as I deviate and find all sorts of little treasures and I'm slow ...just in case I miss that special one....Tony and I plan to go for a long and deep walk into OUR RESERVE (we have now claimed it as ours).. this weekend........can't wait to go in with my macro lens......I'm hoping one day to buy a wide angle lens...then I will be complete. Camera Wise that is.

A beautiful Lechenaultia
I can remember when I was a young girl and I joined the Girl Guides and the troop I was put in was called Lechenaultia  gosh is that even spelt right, anyway I though what an ugly name..never having seen the flower...I wished so hard to be on another team just because of the name.....But now like my name Lajla !! I love it.....just look at the blue colour.

Nature Reserve

Went for a walk across the road and was thrilled with all the flowers and shrubbery....We received a wonderful Pamphlet on Talbot Reserve Park ......and was delighted that we life right next to it....we always talk about the Cemetary....but actually that is such a little part of it.........so from now on I will refer to it as the Reserve....the Pamphlet detailed the different areas of trees and that there are Nature Walks on in the evening listening to all the different frogs....We are going on that tour and we will take the kids with us...there are other walks as well....... So guess what...we are thrilled, never really realized that we life next door to such a treasure....decided not to move ...but just make our place safer.
Also Greenmount Library had free booklets on wildflowers in Darlington and surrounds....wonderful and so detailed....Rebecca was kind enough to get one for me.....am loving this time of year.

Father's Day

It was a mixture of things really.........Poor little Pene was so very ill Nic had taken her to the Dr. twice. Nic hadn't slept for three nights.....So I offered to have Pene Saturday night and that poor little thing was awake all of the night except for about two hours between 4.30 till 6.30am  ...she would drop off and not even 20 secs. later her coughing would wake her up again.......
So we all were quite worried about her she seems to be a little better today but she hasn't eaten for 5 days luckily she can drink but Nic said this morning she weighed her and she has lost 1.7. kilos....I was thinking that years ago she would be in Hospital   ....but today some of these viruses are so terrible and kids are kept at home.
Anyway most of the Family came over and that was so wonderful ...so good to see Jord as well, as he leaves next Tuesday, he is off again to Finland.
Come back to this later...am looking after My Jac today...his not well either....pleasure really although don't want to see him ill......
Ok I'm back but not for long as I have someone visiting in a minute. We had so much food and it was all very yummy.....of course ate to much of the sweet stuff....am feeling really tired today ...to much of the good life and not enough sleep.......but am so happy to be able to help....I just praying all night please bless Nic to sleep tonight.....so she can cope with the tomorrows......your child being sick is one of the yucky memories I have from rearing our own........I found it the hardest thing.
Naomi wrote her Dad a wonderful email as the girls who all remembered him in a special way....That really pleases me...as he deserves all the great stuff.
We went and saw The Help on Friday night.....Fantastic Movie can recommend it to everyone

THE MEN IN MY LIFE

Each one have made my life the richer and each one holds a special place in our heart that nobody or anything can take their place.