I haven’t been very creative lately with everything going on in my life but I am starting on some little projects this week to get me in the groove. I have almost set up my new room to be creative in. So watch this space.

We had a wedding in the weekend and we had the loveliest time. We all got dressed up in our glad rags and jumped in our carriage and we were off. My 3 darling sons got all dressed up and looked so grown up! I had a secret little cry in my bedroom before we left because they are growing up so quickly right in front of my eyes and I want them to slow down just a little! Make the most of every day eh!

So purchased a house and it is wonderful!!! I haven’t been very creative tho, but almost finished setting up my little space. It has been busy getting everything into it’s rightful place and there are still boxes to unpack.

The garden is amazing but am having to study up on a few things and the kids are loving having a flat section to zoom around on!…..

We took the kids to the Westpac Stadium for the first time! They loved it but it was so cold and the game wasn’t the most exciting…to me! It was an NPC game between Tasman and Wellington….Wellington won of course!

I had to get reading glasses today! I was working on the computer last night and I was finding it hard to see! I have to say it now! “I am getting OLDER!!! “I have been putting this off for a while and have been subconsciously in denial! Oh well into the next phase of my life!!

With Anzac Day just gone I have been thinking about my Grandparents alot and how the War must of affected their lives! My fathers father did not go to war, but his father was in the Boer War. My mothers father, Matthew Vintiner, was in the Navy and was injured when a Japanese submarine blew up is ship that he was on! He was one of the few to be found alive floating in the Pacific ocean.

I tried to explain to my 5 year old twins about what ANZAC meant and about their Grandfathers and they were so intrigued! To them a War is on the TV or in a book and to think someone that they knew or close to them was involved, went way over their heads. I didn’t want to say too much to them about the wars, as I was afraid that they might start worrying about it all. But I did say that we are very lucky living in a country that doesn’t have any fighting and that some children live it every day. I went onto say that fighting and violence isn’t the way to solve anything and that there are much better ways of solving the problems of the world.

Our Grandads were brave men and for that I thank them from the bottom of my heart. You were courageous and strong and I am so thankfull that you came home to us and feel sadness for those that never got to see there Grandads again. May Peace triumph in the end.