Lucky us - birthdays, school prep, flowers and freebies!

Another busy busy week flies by, a busy but productive week.  We got some rain early in the week which was desperately needed but is always a bit of a pain, especially with little people who love going outside!

 We celebrated Michael's 7th Birthday.  Wow seven years has gone very fast.  He got some great presents and had a lovely day at school.  I made him a chocolate cake to take to school, which all the kids loved.  Happy Birthday Michael.  We love you a lot xxx

Over the past few months I have been working, along with lots of other people/practitioners, to get Rhys and Ben into the Early Intervention School Preparation class at one of the schools in the area.  This is a really, really difficult programme to get into and I really thought the boys would benefit from the class.  Lifestart isn't running a programme that goes over the year any more (which is a real shame but that is a whole other story) so this was my other option.  This is the only school in our general area that runs it so I was quite desperate to get in.  

Well all that hard work from everyone paid off and both the boys were accepted into the programme for next year!!!  Wahoo!!! I am deeply indebted to all the people who supported and helped us in getting reports and information that assisted us in being successful in our application.  Seriously, I am so lucky to have all these people around me and my boys.  

We went to our Orientation Day this week and the boys had a lovely time.  Their teacher will definitely whip them into shape - she is very strict!  But, my goal is for both the boys to be at school together and I think this will increase our chances of this happening.  I am very excited for next year.  It will be busy but I think great progress will be made.

I had to pop up to the shop and saw these flowers on massive markdown.  I bought the three bunches and turned them into one big bunch.  We don't usually buy flowers because they are so expensive and then die, but for $6 I got a HUGE bunch and the look beautiful.  It brightened my days a lot looking at them and they are still going strong at the moment.  I love the little butterflies.

Here are some little freebie gifts I got this week.

I dye my hair but only buy it on super duper special for $10 a box (usually up to $18 a box at other places).  Usually, the type I buy is on special online, and if I spend over $100 then I get free shipping and can also get free samples.  So, here are my free samples that I received and I have hair colour for the next 12 months or so (all done from the comfort of home - got to love internet shopping for bargains).  Not too shabby!

Greg was my hero this week.

I had a flat tyre on Monday morning, found just as I was leaving for work.  He came home and fixed it for me which was great and thank goodness I was on late shift for work and leaving early because after it was all over, I was right on time for work!!

On Friday we went up to Mum and Dad's place to give it a bit of a tidy up as they are returning from their long trip away next week.  It was Greg's RDO and he did the lawns etc to get it ready.  Then Dad's car battery was dead so we had to get that going as well!!!  Good thing was that it all got done and we got Dad's car back to our place, ready for me to go into the city to pick them up next Friday.  Can't wait to see them after such a long time (nearly 4 months away).

I made some ANZAC slice as I had a friend coming over for a coffee and wanted to have something yummy to go with it.

Another week flies by and it is work for me tomorrow.

Have a lovely week and a thought for the week
(I'm getting better at this one)