Chick chat with 3 Baby B Chicks

Today I am delighted to be one of the participants in Chick Chat. Along with me, you can hear 4 other bloggers all talking about: Confessions of a mother - true life funny or embarrassing stories.


I made a great movie, I had such high hopes that this will be great, then found out that HDD camcorders are not Youtube friendly, then tried a million ways to reduce the file size, and failed! I hope this do!

Have a listen and pop over to the other participants to hear their stories. And please comment - we all love those comments.

They are:

Thuy and Kacey from the Three Bay B Chicks (True confessions, these)
Cari from Beauty and the Little Beast (Escaping the kids in her van!)
Elisabeth from Blog Baby (Seriously funny)
Juls from Everyday is a Crazee Day(Those kids rock)

And yes, my accent is funny and no, English is not my first language. And sorry about the quality of the video - believe me I have struggled with the quality to no end in attempting to get my file small enough to post.

Just a bit of news.

My mom came through fine with the surgery and is currently in the high care unit. Thanks for all your prayers and kind thoughts.

Edit to add: High care is one step down from Intensive care - a nursing sister monitors two patients each permanently for the first 24 hours after surgery to ensure all goes well while the patients are permanently connected to observation machines and oxygen. They do this standard after this type of surgery here for elderly patients. It is normal procedure.

Debi's Baby Picture Sundays

I don't often get to participate in this one just because our weekends are really crazy, but I am glad to be able to join today on the theme of Mothers day. Why don't you join in too?

Here's me, my mom and The Little Miss on Mothersday 2007. She was 2 years old and I was about 4 months pregnant with the twins.

My mom is going in to hospital this afternoon for her long awaited knee replacement and will be operated on tomorrow. Your prayers will be much appreciated.

Just a quick hallo!

It is a miserable and cold, cloudy day here, but our hearts sing. Our friend Stefaan is home for the weekend (and his daughter's birth on Monday) after which he will return the rehab hospital later on Monday.

He is making excellent progress and can move all 5 the toes on his foot. Thanks again for your prayers.

If you are new here and want to know what this is about, click my tag "friends" and read back to easter weekend.

The secret is out

And in BIG news and much discussed previously by all and sunder this blog is not a secret any more. I have last night showed the blog to Hunter. The opportunity just seemed right. So my dear, if you are reading here, a formal welcome.

It is on daddy's request that I have added The Little Miss' baby picture to the side bar. I just haven't thought about it earlier. Thanks love.

And if you wondered, will I be less open about things, no, I will most certainly not be. My hubby understands me. ;)

Friday photo finish fiesta

The best day to visit Carrie is on a Friday, when there are heaps happening over there.

My favorites of my kids from the last month:

My Princess

My Monkey

My Bear

Thanksgiving Thursday

I love that Thursdays are set aside to play along with Nicole at What a trip :

Today, I am thankful for:

1. The great amount raised in Tuesday's blog party.
2. Sunny warm late autumn days.
3. Great staff that I really appreciate.
4. That my mom will at last be having her knee replacement on Monday. It's been a long time coming!
5. And for my daughter's excellent ;) dress sense - she might even become a famous fashion designer someday (I am letting her dress herself these days as long as it is weather appropriate).

And we have the winners!

The idea was to have each of the kids do one draw. So I wrote the names of the bidders on little bit s of paper - blue for the Zulu love letter, green for the Angel keyring and yellow for the necklaces and bracelets. But I overestimated the 19 month old mind and late afternoon tiredness. So I popped all in a pretty bag, and the first one of each colour that was drawn by The Little Miss are the winners:

This:

Was won by

Which is off course Debi of Who says 8 is enough? who organized this whole event. Debi, I believe this was chosen as a tiny thank you by Our Heavenly Father as it was the very first name to be drawn.
This:

Was won by: (The first green name to be drawn)

Teri of Irish Eyes are smiling. Teri and I are old friends in the blogging world and I am delighted that she won.

These: (the first yellow name to be drawn)

Were won by:

Angela of Stalked by the stork who is brand new to my blog. Great to meet you girl and I am so glad a mom with daughters won this.

Off course, I would have loved everybody to win! If you girls could all email me your address details to rinagous@gmail.com so that I can get your tiny little artworks over to you.

And I just realised now that all 3 the winners have big families!

Tuesday Blog Party - and huge new items!

Thanks to all who have donated for this very good cause. We will do the draw tonight as I had one kid still asleep this morning.

Now for some great news, Debi who has gone to so much trouble to organize this all (thanks again girl), has put up two great items for auction - you have to take a look! Go do your bid for a great getaway, or two.

Way back and wordful Whensday

My mom knits a blanket (we call it the granny-blanky) for all her grandchildren and last Sunday she handed over The Boys'. Below The Little Miss is showing off her brother's. On the left, Little man C's - blocks in turquoise and green and crocheted into a blanket. On the right, Little man L's - knitted in strips with blues and beige and crochet into a blanket with light blue wool.

Little man C and granny ( that is his tired face)

Little man L and gran.

And way back in 2006, The Little Miss ( 16 months old) got hers from granny - purple blocks with a white embroidered flower and white and pink knitted hearts. It is still her comfort blanket when she is sick or cold, tired or upset.


Thanks Grammy!For some more blasts from the past, head over to Cheryl's and play along and if like me, and Angie at 7 Clown circus's Wordful Wednesday you have to "talk" about your photographs, head over there to have a look as well.