Lavender

My wonderful friend Robyn called round with a beautiful gift to pack in my hospital bag. I just love Lavender (would you have guessed?).

My Tree

When I look out my back door..this is what I see...isn't it beautiful!

Today is Good Friday, in Australia that means we are celbrating it ahead of our friends in the US. For me it means that I will spend the day simply, with family. We will enjoy a lunch of seafood and salad, then off to an afternoon Mass. Home for a hot cross bun, but basically a quiet day of reflection.
My beautiful tree that I see from my back door as I sit here at the computer shows a stillness and peace that reflects the promise of this day.

Happy Easter

I want to wish you all a happy and Holy Easter! I am waiting for my family to arrive home and the anticipation is wonderful.

I had a lovely surprise a few days ago when a blogger asked for my address to send me a card for Easter that she had made, well it arrived yesterday and I was just so blown away by the kindness and the friendliness shown to me. What an absolutely beautiful card.

It arrived with little butterflies on the envelope and boy, was I excited.

Inside, a lovely little tissue wrapped parcel with an easter egg sticker.

As I opened it lots of little cutouts fell out, they were so cute.. all sorts of easter cutouts.. fish, bunnies, eggs etc.


A beautiful standup card that had a very meaningfull message inside, (bought a tear to my eye) and another little card lovingly made that I can hang. Thank you so much Jules, from Whimsical Notions. You certainly bought great joy by that kind act.

I recieved this lovely award from my friend Sandi at http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com/. Sandi is a lovely lady and has a great blog. It is called the Uber Blog Award.

HISTORY OF THE UBER AWARD

Uber {synonym of super} Amazing Blog Award is a blog award given to sites that inspire you, make you smile and laugh, gives amazing information, a great read, have an amazing design, and any other reasons you can think of that makes them Uber amazing!

Like Sandi, I am flattered to think that anyone would want to pass me this particular award because I still consider myself fairly new to blogging and I really didn't think my blog was anything special!

I used to look at all the lovely blogs on here and want to be part of the blogging community, but was not sure that I would have enough to contribute. I often struggle to think of things to blog about that would be of interest to anyone but me..lol. But I'm so glad I took the plunge! I have made so many wonderful blogging friends. So thank you Sandi for this award!

There are rules to go along with receiving this award.

1. Copy the badge and put the logo on your blog sidebar or post.

2. Nominate at least 5 blogs {or more} that for you are amazing.

3. Share the love and link to this post and to the person you received your award from.

4. Come back here and comment so that your link could be added to the master list of awardees.

The Uber Blog Award goes to: All my good friends on here! Too hard to narrow it down, so I would like to offer this to anyone that would like it.

Marilyn

I have not posted for a while, but I wanted you all to know that I have put my home invasion behind me and have moved on from it. I have been able to resurect my car though it was damaged, and its driving well.

My daughter that lives on the other side of town, Heidi (kookaburracottage) is moving. Its been so nice having her and Matt and my grandson Liam living close by, but, with the recession, Matt has lost his job and they are forced to move so that Matt can take up a new position in a town around 4 hours (each way) drive from me. While I will miss them dreadfully, I feel that the move will be good for them. They will get to see more of the world then just our country town, and Matt will get to finish his apprenticeship as an aircraft engineer. Heidi is a primary school teacher so we are hoping that she will find work in her new surroundings too. Liam will begin school there next term and he will be challenged with the move, plus he has never been this far away from his Nanna before :).


My other news is that my daughter Lauren and her husband Brendan will be visiting us from there home in Pensylvania. They will arrive here on July 1st and stay for 6 weeks.... its been over a year since I have seen my daughter and I am really looking forward to this. They were married in June last year and are not supposed to leave the country (conditions for bringing in a spouse from another country) for 3 years but she requested they be allowed as I will be having an operation before that and have been unwell, so they have been granted approval for the visit. I have been having problems with kidney stones and all that will be sorted with the op :) )


I am looking forward to having my granddaughter come stay with me for the school holidays and during that time we will have our local show (or fair, for my US friends). The children love to exhibit flower arrangements and produce for this and they have already started to plan their harvest :) . Last year they did well with some first and second places. One year Liam got grandchampion for a pumpkin that he and I grew together. He was so proud.

Well thats my news for the moment...sorry its so long between posts but for the moment thats how it has to be. Thank you all so much for the well wishes that I have recieved, I can't begin to tell you all how much they have meant to me.
Marilyn

Giveaway

Just found this supercute giveaway from Retro Cafe Art Gallery. Go there and take a peek..bye..I am off to work. Be back soon.

I Won! I Won!

Well this super exciting blog was to be a highlight before the unfortunate turn of events that my last two posts covered. I can't tell you how excited I was to hear that I had won this beautiful collection of gifts from Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage and Inspirations. Sandi is a beautiful lady with a wonderful blog showcasing her heart and home from a Christian perspective. Do pay her a visit, if you havn't already, you will be pleasantly rewarded.