Yep I have been slipping up.....

Where does the time go, one minute its the 5th of July the next its the 25th.  I am sure someone keeps messing with my calender.  So in the last twenty days, gosh that sounds bad, has it really been that long.  See B you are doing way better than me with your postings.
Anyway Nick and Abbey turned 11 and it seems like this year they had a perpetual birthday, just kept on going.  It started on their actual birthday when I  put on lunch and invited my Mum and sister.  That evening they had a friend each stay for dinner and a sleepover.  Dave took the boys to work with him for the day as thats what Nick wanted to do.  Dave works in the Hunua Ranges monitoring and maintaining the dams that feed water to Auckland City.  So its in the middle of nowhere in acres and acres of native bush.  The most beautiful natural place one could ever hope to work in.  They found a giant Kauri tree and bought home gum and bark.  They found a knife and whittled spears which they almost caught eels with.  Went hundreds of steps down into the dam and found stalactites and giant wetas with their headlamps.  The perfect day for a couple of 11 year old boys. 

This is one of the Dams in the Hunua Ranges

The following thursday Nick had 4 friends over after school for afternoon tea and an afternoon of talking the most amazing rubbish you could imagine coming from 5 boys.  This was rounded up by Abbey having not 4 but 7 friends for afternnon tea on Saturday and by request my lounge became a salon and I gave the girls a mini facial and my sister did all their nails.  A perfect afternoon for a bunch of 11 year old girls by all accounts.
Now we are on school holidays and we were supposed to go away this week but things just didn'r pan out so we are just doing things like going to the movies having friends over and if the weather holds maybe a round of mini golf.
In between all this I have done a little crafting.  I have been making, well altering notebooks.  I did some a while back but have just made one for a swap and I made a couple more. A great way of using up scraps.   There is one winging its way across the water to a certain reporter I know and until she gets it all I can say is that elephants and hippos are both large grey animals....... when it is received I will reveal what I mean by saying that.

Oh and I am thrilled to see I have a few more followers than when I last checked in - thanks ladies for following my ramblings.