Wow, where did the time go!

Hope the New Year has started out well for you all!

Well, our house is finally up for sale. It's been up for a week now. We've had a lot of lookers, but sadly, no offers yet. We have our second open house tomorrow, so I hope it goes well. We had 9 groups through last Saturday, and a few during the week. I really pray we get an offer soon.

And, we move in about a week and a half to go back to Tasmania. YES! And Bob finally found a new job, so will start next month sometime. He was supposed to start on Feb. 1st, but the company has been slow at getting Bob all the paperwork to sign, so he hasn't been able to put hin his 4 week job resignation yet. So that's been holding things up a little.

Also, we can't take our sweet kitty with us, and I have not been able to find anyone, or any place to take her. I don't know what we'll do. I don't want to take her to some cat place, only to find they put her to sleep because they can't find anyone to adopt her. The whole thing is so upsetting and stressful. No one can take her, and all the places seem to be too full with animals to adopt out. Basically I have a week to find a new home for her, and it's not looking promising. :-(

Happy December

Ok, so I am 8 days late saying Happy December, but that's ok. Hope the month has started out well for you!

About 2 weeks ago, Matt came down with some weird rash on his face. It seemed to spread daily, and caused his face to swell up a LOT! YOu wouldn't even have recognized him. And the rash spread throughout his body. We took him to a doctor 2 Fridays ago and they said it was a skin allergy. To what, we don't know though. So they put him on some Prednisone, which Matt says tastes really foul. He didn't improve over the next few days, and his face was swelling up more, so we took him back to the doctor the next Monday. They said it was a skin allergy as well. But I just didn't seem convinced. So that doctor prescribed Phenergan, to try and help stop the itching from the rash.

Matt still wasn't improving, so we took him to the hospital last Wednesday. They did a full checkup, blood tests, chest x-ray, etc. They said possible skin allergy or an infection, so prescribed him Erythromicyn, and for Matt to see a pediatrician on Friday.

So we did that, and that doctor thinks Matt has a skin allergy too, as well as a possible infection. So he4 up'ed the doses on the medications he's been taking, and I am happy to say that Matt is improving. His face is back down to normal, but the rash has continued to spread. He scratches himself like crazy, and I feel bad for him. He is finally back to school after having missed 1 1/2 weeks. And this is the last week of school.

Still cleaning

Last weekend we did a lot of yard work in the back yard. I've been so sore ever since. We did accomplish a lot, but still have so much more to do. I hope we can get a lot done over the next few weeks, as Bob is hoping to get our house on the market at the end of the month, or around there.

So much to do, it's kind of overwhelming.

More about us moving

I am really excited that we will be moving back to Tasmania. It really is an answer to prayer.

But, with good news, there is always bad news.

Bob had the most worst day at work yesterday (every day is a bad day there for him though). He came home very depressed. Apparently after we move, Bob will be working for his company for only 3 months and then he will be fired. That was the newer boss's plan the whole time. And there isn't anything Bob can do about it.

AND, once Bob goes, then a friend who works with Bobwill be fired too (since he is a friend of Bob), and some other guy will be fired too that works with him.

I just don't get any of this. Bob has done nothing wrong, is always a very hard worker, has done so much for the company. This newer boss, who has been with the company for a year now, just doesn't like Bob at all, and has really made Bob a target. I don't know what the boss has against him.

The whole thing is disgusting and sounds so very illegal. Bob can't do anything about it, because the main boss likes the newer boss (who has gotten away with so much it isn't funny. Bob couldn't even eat dinner last night, he was so upset.

Bad news, and good news

Ok, bad news first. My Dad is in the hospital again. Same reason as last time, but thankfully not as severe. It started up last night. He has been passing blood again. But the doctors don't think they will have to do any blood transfusions. I just hope that somehow they can help him so this doesn't keep reoccuring. It still scares me though, and I hope that God will heal him quickly. Not sure how long my Dad will be in the hospital for. :-(

Now for the good news. We are going to be moving around the end of January, and we have a LOT to do between now and then. We need to get one of the side fences fixed, fly screens put in on all windows (I think that is what hubby said), the roof fixed because there are some cracked tiles and it causes the ceiling to leak in a few places, fix a few holes in the ceilings from where it leaks, insulation put up in the roof, a new a/c put in, LOTS of yardwork to do, and not sure what else. And we need to do as much of that as we can before we put our house up for sale. And hubby wants to try and do that in a months time. Eeek! So we are going to be pretty busy.

We're excited though. We are going to move back down to Tasmania, which is where we lived before moving here to Queensland in 2006. It's really an answer to prayer!

2 months ago

WOW! It's hard to believe that my folks arrived here today 2 months ago. Kind of hard to believe. And it was 3 weeks ago that they left. I really miss my folks alot, and it's hard not to keep thinking these things. I wish they were still here. But I am glad that they were able to stay as long as they did.

Just a photo

I meant to post this a few weeks ago. It was taken the night before my folks left to go back home. It's hard to believe that they left just a little over 2 weeks ago. I still get sad about them not being here anymore. Every now and then I keep expecting to hear them upstairs, or down here, but I know they aren't. But I sure do treasure the time we did get to spend with each other.

The week before my folks left, we had been out sight seeing. My Mom had gotten up in a tree to have her photo taken, and she somehow fell out backwards. I never saw it happen, and had turned around and saw her laying face down on the ground. I ran over to her, my Dad had just come around the tree to her, and she was just covered in leaves. Her glasses were bent up, and she eventually got up and we cleaned her off. She was quite sore.

Anyway, after they got back home, my Mom went to the doctor to find out why she was still so sore, and it turns out she broke a few ribs from the fall. I was so shocked, and of course felt really bad for her. She is still quite sore to this day, and needs to get back to the doctor about it. Last time he gave her some shots to help with the pain. I hope she will heal quickly and be over all the pain. :-(

Dust storm a few days ago

On Wednesday, down in Sydney they had a really bad dust storm. Well that day, we had strong winds here in Queensland, and the dust storm came up this way. It was amazing how it all happened so quickly. I took a few photos of it until the batteries in my camera died. But here are a few I did take as happened.


This was taking kind of near the start of it all, although the dust storm was worse down in the city which is south of us.


This I took standing in our driveway looking down the street. Starting to look orangey now.


This is looking out our bedroom window. The hill in the background is just starting to slowly disappear from view.


Taken out the same window just a while later. You can certainly see the change between the 2.


I took this photo a moment ago so you could see what the view is supposed to look like.

They say we are supposed to have another dust storm over the weekend, so we'll see.

Just started a primitive craft blog

I started a new primitive craft blog a few days ago, since I had closed my old one earlier in the year. Starting fresh and new and very happy with a new start!

Roundabout Primitives

Starting the potty training

I've been wanting to start seriously potty training Katie. I've tried in the past, but she just has never been interested. (She is very stubborn!) I have even bribed her with chocolates (who could refuse chocolates??). Well, Katie couldn't be bribed with them. So I moved on to lollipops because I know she really likes them. It didn't work at the time, so I decided to wait until after my folks left before I got serious about potty training. So the past couple of days Katie has been wearing training pants during the day. We've had LOTS of accidents, and she doesn't like it. Understandable!

Well, last night she decided to use her potty chair!!!! YAY! And she ended up getting a lollipop, which she thought was great. And we all thought it was great she used the potty chair.

We haven't tried going anywhere with Katie wearing training pants. I don't think it's a good idea yet to do that. So if we go anywhere, she will have a diaper, and she wears a diaper at night.

It's about time she got out of diapers because she is almost 3 1/2. But like I said before, she is one stubborn girl! LOL!