What to do...

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Early (about 5.20am) the other morning I was awoken by a noise downstairs...often I wake at night as I am a light sleeper and think that I hear someone downstairs only to find it is the house creaking away...this time was different!!

I just knew there was someone down there...I went to my bedroom door cracked it open and there...creeping up the stairs...was a tall hunched over figure with a bulky jacket on!!

What to do....

I stood there for a moment...not so much scared but more disbelief that there actually was someone creeping up our stairs...

What to do...

So I yelled at the top of my voice....HEY!

Looking back I'm not sure why I did this??? I guess I was hoping to scare the figure into turning around and running out of our house!

Anyway...HEY!! I called out.

My hubby, asleep until then, sat bolt upright in bed and sort of went..."wha??..wha???...what's going on??????"

BUT the figure jumped out of their skin and this little voice said "Mum...it's just me!"

Lauren...my 16yo...couldn't sleep decided to roam the house...in the dark...but God love her...she was creeping slowly because she didn't want the stairs to creak and wake us up!

The next night I almost slept with the light on....

Cruise...

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Time has gotten away from me and I apologise for not keeping up with my blog...

We went on our 10 night cruise to North Queensland at the end of November and had an awesome time...I didn't know what to expect with cruising but we all loved it and would definitely go again. Here we are on the deck for the Sailaway out of Sydney...and on Island Night!!




As I write this Queensland is cleaning up after the terrible flooding that has occured and as we have been watching the news we remark how it was only 6 weeks ago that the cruise ship sailed under the twin bridges and down the Brisbane River to the port in Brisbane.

We climbed aboard a FerryCat and went to see the city sights including the man made beach at South Bank which was shown the other day underwater on the news!!
The Great Barrier Reef is a highlight of the trip and we all snorkeled at the Knuckle Reef Pontoon which was a fabulous experience!

There were so many great experiences and so I have already started my travel album and am probably more than half way through - Go ME!! I have been scrapping every opportunity I get so that I can get if finished for the new monthly travel class that Creatively Inspired are having this year.

Of course, just after we returned from the cruise Christmas snuck up and bit us on the bum...we had Chrissy this year at my parents in the Hunter Valley!

Both my brothers made it and it is the first time in about 20 years that we have all been together..what made it especially special was that the five granddaughters (my parents granddaughters that is) were together for the first time ever!!

I managed to get the five girls in a photo together but completely forgot the family shot...oh well...what can I say...next time??

The thing I enjoyed most about this Christmas...the joy that it brought my parents to have their whole family with them!

Hunter Valley and extras...

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I wonder where the time has gone...it seems like not that long ago that Steve and I went to the Hunter Valley on our trip away.

We've been pretty busy with work etc and the kids seem to be getting more and more social the older they get...well alot more social than us!!

Madi got her braces on her top teeth (bottom teeth are still to come) and Lozzie has now got a learners drivers license - that's been a bit frightening especially when she first started to drive...





We have booked a trip away with friends on a cruise up to North Queensland and I am getting very excited about that. I have always wanted to go to Cairns and the Whitsundays and now it's only 3 months away...Yay!!

I have put myself on an exercise regime to get myself trim for the trip..,.the first week consisted of me telling myself that I should start exercising to get into shape for the trip - that week went really well. The second week I told my hubby about my excersice plans and he thought they sounded good and so I am on my way...

The third week which was last week both my kids have cooked yummy deserts on several occassions so I decided to take a break seeing my plan was on track!!

So far... I am doing quite well although I'm not sure how trim I am going to be when we set sail!!