Mom vs. the Sickies

The whole family has been sick for the past 3 weeks. It all started with Roo coming home with a coldthat got quite bad. Lot's of sleepless nights due to her cough. The next week she had just gotten back to school and she came home on the Friday with pink eye! Yuck... This wound up being spread to both Aussie and Hubby. Niiiiiice.... Week 3 brought us the joy of gastro intestinal issues. Ruari was flu like for 3 days and the boys also wound up with it. Finally everyone was all b etter and life getting back to normal..

Or so I thought!

Roo wound up with the cold all over again, so we are back to dealing with that now.

I have a weakened immune system from having cancer and going through radiation, and oddly I didn't get ANY of it. AWESOME!!!

What will next week bring? I'm almost scared to ask!

Roo turns 2

Next week miss Roo turns 2. I don't know where the time went but I need to start thinking about making her yearly slideshow. I made one last year to put in her keepsake box, photos of her first year put to song. I love it, but it makes me cry. She not a baby anymore she a little girl, and compared to her friends she looks so much older. I am not ready for her to grow up.

Next week I'll post more about her birthday and the festivities but for now I'll leave you with the slideshow from last year feel free to watch if you like that sort of thing.

Sidenote: I love my kids more than I ever could have understood before before entering mommyhood almost 13 years ago.

My secret side

Many of my readers know that I disapeared for a wile and whil I have eluded to the fact I have had some health issues I have up to now, chosen not to elaborate. However since I have had a few long term reader ask what's going on I thought I would just share this other side of my life. I have had a private blog going from the begining of my issues and have just made it public.

If you want to know more please visit otherwise feel free to continue one with reading THIS more happy blog!

http://itsnotthegoodkind.blogspot.com/

The Lovely Bones...

Normally I don't blog much about movies I've seen, but this one warranted it. I saw The Lovely Bones based on Alice Sebold's beautiful novel. The novel was one of my favorite books. It invoked many feelings in me and I found myself in the book sharing the feelings of Susie's family. I felt hatred, sadness, anger, outrage, pain, longing and so many other feelings as the family, along with susie, worked toward finding the "skeevy" neighbour who heinously drained her body of it's joyful life.

The movie was quite another affair. Peter Jackson took the helm, and left the story without much of the deep feeling I describe about the novel. He has a brilliant mind in terms of otherworldly realms and fantastic story lines, however that mind was not made for THIS story. He spent too much time on his version of "the in between" where Susie has transitioned to soon after her murder. Granted, this visualization brought by Jackson is surreal and quite breathtaking, even perhaps a bit thought prevoking but leans towards confusing. It caused irreparable damage to the subtle nuances the story has. With him in charge the human element is nearly drained from the story line. The only thing that gave this film any weight at all was the beautiful selection of actors chosen to create this cast. They were almost perfect in my mind. For me Stanley Tucci was non existent and all I could see and feel was the creep factor his brilliance loaned to his character ( murderer, George Harvey).

My final comment is that while George Harvey may have slowly and painfully sucked the joie de vivre out of Susie Salmon, Peter Jackson did brought the same tragic fate to the story and subsequently this moive.

More DYI Party Projects

I have to admit that when I first decided to do everything myself (in terms of decor etc) I had no idea how much work would be involved. That being said I have really loved working on Ruari party. It's filled a lot of spare time, and occupied a brain that needs distraction. Having had a blow of bad news in my life recently it's nice to havethe party to look forward to and the planning to keep me from dwelling on the bad.

So far the invites are made and mailed, you can see them here. Over the past week I made 2 birthday banners, a party hat prototype, wrapped the cuterly and added homemade/coordinating napkin rings and a few other things I haven't taken photos of yet. All while either watching But for now here are a few of the finished items.