New Blog Header

Grannysaurus has been at me for AGES to update the header on the blog. Yes, the nearly two year old Butterfly wasn't even thought of yet didn't even feature in it. Yes, the nearly five year old was only five months old when the photos were taken. So FINALLY, now that I am trying to blog a bit more I decided that I would do my best to take/find photos of all four kids that could be used for a new header... because a photo of them all together is just not going to happen... ever. So, here it is.

Lion, 9yrs 3mths; Dragon, 7yrs 3mths; Monkey, 4yrs 9mths; Butterfly, 1yr 11mths.

Now I've got another 4 years before I need to do anything about updating this one... right?

The tape I used is by Hummie of Hummies World

Sweet little terror.

Things have been a bit quiet around here. Around the blog, that is. Around our home things are NEVER quiet. We've had Wolf's parents visit, a couple of birthdays (Wolf's and Grannysaurus'), Mothers' Day, school sports day for Lion and a whole bunch of craziness.  But you see, just as I got my photoshop problem sorted out, I got a bit of a picasa storage problem... so this is just a test to see if I am allowed to post photos again.

Monkey

I think it's a pretty sweet little test subject that I picked.  This is him, grubby face, shaggy hair, innocent look, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth... well, that last part might be a lie, the kid can SCREAM.  He squeals like a girl actually.  But, he's slowly learning new words and with each new (useful) word a little tiny bit of the squealing stops.

This looks like it is going to work... so you may see me back here again!





Where in the world is Mummy McTavish?

Things have been a little quiet on here of late.  Sorry.

I am still taking photos.  I am still collecting cute stories in the form of short notes that hopefully I will remember what they mean later.  I am just not feeling well enough to do anything with them right now.

I've been feeling unwell for 4 weeks, I went down suddenly then picked back up for a few days to deal with the cyclone and then back down HARD.  I've been taking various antibiotics for 3 weeks but thankfully on Thursday my diagnosis went from "Mystery virus that we'll keep throwing different antibiotics at until it goes away" to Pneumonia.  At least they know what to treat that with.

I am spending my days moving between the couch and my bed.  I feel totally useless.  Every little thing makes me start coughing like I'm going to choke.  My brain can't concentrate on anything long enough to blog about it so the blog has taken a back seat for now.

Back to the doctors on Monday for her to decide if the antibiotics are working or if I need to get IV antibiotics in hospital... that's not on my plan.

So, that is where this little blog is right now.

I will come back.

I am even planning a little bloggy clean up to make sure all the links work and stuff so that should be fun.

For now though, you can find me on the couch.  Dreaming of eating crunchy things without my throat hurting.... mmmmm, potato chips.....

400

WOW, this is the 400th post here on Samster.com

So... I thought I would share 400 incredibly boring things about myself. Hold on to your seats, this will be one fun post!!!!

Um, maybe not.

400 most used words in the english language with their roots and pronunciation... nope (oh those were some of THE most exciting lessons in all of my schooling... unfortunately it actually did come in handy one day just like they said it would, I hate it when they were right about those things).

400 famous photos that have been edited and then sent around in emails that you have all seen 400 times before... nope.

A recording of me counting to 400... no, but boy would that one be fun!

400 hoax emails that are so incredibly unbelievable but people keep sending them to me anyway... nope.

400 facts about my kids that they will be embarassed to hear about at their 21st parties... nope.

I'm at a loss.

perhaps I should just post the first day of our holiday... nah, still don't have the photos propper.

so... 400... ummmm.

400 random things you probably didn’t want to know about me... well, make that random things you didn’t want to know in 400 words.

1. I don’t like using the loo in the dark... or semi-dark. I find the brightest lit stall in public restrooms, it has taken me ages to get to the point where I don’t turn the light on (except on really dark nights) to go to the loo at night.

2. I ALWAYS eat my sausage in a blanket the same way. I didn’t know I did this until we started having Sausage Sizzle Sunday. I bite off one end of the sausage with a bit of the bread, then same on the other end, then the corners of the bread that are pointing up then I pull off the rest of the crust to eat and then I eat it equally from either end. I don’t know why, I don’t know I am doing it. I just do it every time.

3. I am an over. Are you an over or an under? Do you know what I am talking about? How do you like your loo paper coming off the roll? It’s gotta go over... really. I will change the date-roll in public loos, at friends houses, at church, I do it without thinking, it’s gotta go over.

4. I get abnormally excited about having avocado on toast for breakfast. REALLY abnormally excited... if I know it’s waiting for me in the morning I have trouble falling asleep because I just want to get up and have it then and there.

5. Wolf likes to get to work and have his cup of coffee. If he doesn’t get it he gets grumpy. He likes to follow it up with 2 cups of tea throughout the day. His work day is not right if this does not happen.

6. I don’t like scrambled eggs but I think I make the best scrambled eggs around. Except they almost always stick to the pan and that makes me really cranky.

7. I am crazy obsessive about stacking the dishwasher right. By “right” I mean “my way”. I’d rather put a couple of dishes through twice because they sat too close to each other than leave gaps and half the dishes still in the sink. That said, I NEVER stop my sweetie if he loads the dishwasher... well, I think I did once when I was really cranky at something and I took it out on his dishwasher loading skills... Sorry Wolf...

There you have it... 400 words of randomness... it happened to form 7 points which is totally not related to anything... I got one in from Wolf but he is apparently totally normal and has no obscure little bits of information to share on himself... that left it up to me to share all the juiciest little bits of information on myself... I’m not very juicy it turns out. Still.. 400 seemed like it needed to be marked in some way... perhaps not this way but there’s always 500 posts to celebreate!

Maybe I should have just asked if anyone wants to know anything about the McTavish family... you know, bank details for large deposits, how many rooms we would like in the house you want to build for us, stuff that you have been wondering and it’s gnawing away at you day and night but we just haven’t given you the opportunity to ask. So here is you opportunity... ask.

Whinge, whinge, whinge.

Whinge, complain, gripe, crank, whinge (yes, I know I’ve said that already) whinge, whinge, whinge! I did a great big post but it had a zillion spelling and grammar errors so I went to copy and past it into Word to fix them the lazy way. I highlighted it all, and then instead of ctrl+c I hit ctrl+v and pasted in the last thing I had copied and lost everything I had done. I realised straight away what had happened but as soon as I went to retrieve the auto save copy it did another auto save and saved the mistake and lost the one I really wanted saved. Anyway, now I have to get to writing it all again, this time I’ll start in Word. Whinge, crank, complain…. so much for the lazy way...