We're all okay!

A quick update to let everyone know we are all fine here.  We were completely cut off, and Dinnerdad didn't make it back to us on Tuesday, so has been staying with his brother.  He made it home when Kholo Creek went down, and drove across  yesterday afternoon. 

The kids are fine, they were at their Mum's in the same area.  Snail had run out of Epilim and it didn't get shipped in until yesterday, so has had some seizures today.  Hopefully she will improve with the meds.

We were without power until Friday night, I was cheering when it came back on!  :D  Our phone is working again too.  Mobile reception is improving, our ADSL is down, we are networking via the mobile now.

We are all so lucky, it was hard here without DinnerDad, but we knew he was safe, we are very high up on Mr Crosby, so knew we wouldn't flood.  We have food and our water is fine, and even have power now.  So lucky.

I have some amazing shots of the weir and kholo creek, Lolly and I went exploring on Wednesday and took some shots. we were very well looked after by the lovely Chelsee and her husband, who had power, and rescued all our freezer stuff, gave us lots of company, lunch and dinner!  and their lovely 2 year old and Lolly play together so well (they both were getting a bit bored!).  Made us feel very lucky and supported, I can't thank them, or my lovely brother and sister in law and their family enough, who looked after Dinnerdad so well.

My mum and dad are fine, they were cut off but have a generator.  So many of our family and friends have come through this all well and okay. 

Thanks for your thoughts, and I'll post more soon.  Thinking of you all, xxx

Shameful non-posting!

Okay, so I've been a MIA blogger for aaaggggeees!  I dunno what happened there, got busy, tired, and a bit over the online world for a while.  I spent most of my time online feeling like reading instead of writing.

So here we are in a new year, filled with new resolutions :D  So a quick entry to say hi and that there will definitely be more from me soon. 

My camera has been having an unscheduled holiday at my B and SIL's, I left it there after our Boxing Day lunch, so there are lots of photos to catch up with when I get it back Friday.  Trampoline building and bouncing, Christmas fun, renovating madness, gardening!  So...more soon :D

In other news, I'm sorry, but 2011 is just too far in the future for me! lol  We're living in the future, people!  I was born in the 70's for Christ sake!  Makes me feel old, and also wonder where are our flying cars?  I'm sure we were promised flying cars....

More adventures with the wheelchair

I haven't posted in forever, and found this in my draft folder!  So here 'tis and more coming, I promise! :D  I'm doing a post a day in December as a record of our advent calendar adventures, and will post a bit next week while Lolly and I are on holiday!

Here are some more snapshots of our lives with the wheelchair.
Lolly says "it's my chair!"

Two cool sister wheelies.

Snail is funded by the government for trips to and from our place to her special school, so we get a special taxi which is like her school bus.  She shares her trip with four or five other kids, including another boy in a chair (the cab takes two chairs).  Here she is getting loaded up!  The bus comes round 8am and gets her home just after 3pm.  I can't tell you how wonderful it is to have this transport to and from school, it was a sanity saver when Lolly was first born!  It also saves us a lot of lifting and carrying.

Yikes, lost the photo!  Will edit back in tomorrow :D

Snail does have some independent mobility when not in the chair, she has a super huge walking frame that we keep at school, and at home she gets around by bum-sliding.  Here she is on the floor having a dance! 

Interestingly, Lolly never crawled, she only got around by bumsliding, too!  I think she learned it from her sister!  Here they are when Lolly is little, bum-shuffling up the corridor to get into mischief!

I love this photo, it's me on the mower and Snail looks like she's racing me :p

One thing about a wheelchair, is that it needs a good clean!  Here is the underneath the seat part after we'd taken it apart for a clean.  Complicated!

A question...

So, when you're 2 and a half year old is flouncing around the dining room table looking extremely pleased with herself, brandishing a toy mop and shouting "Shucking Hell!!  Shucking Hell, Mummy!!" - for fun, not being insulting or anything - do you try to stop laughing long enough to correct her pronunciation?

Who, me?

I fell off the Blogtoberfest wagon!

So, as you might have noticed, I fell of said wagon a few days ago.  I've been swamped, tired, and suffering from a lack of things to say.  We're off to Snail's school concert tonight, so hopefully I'll have some nice photos to share tomorrow.  I'm going to post out the rest of the month, even though I've missed a few :D

Here are some amusing and interesting links in lieu of my own personal genius.

What NOT to do in email - @ the Oatmeal.  Click through to read them all, tis made of funny.

Cool Star Wars stuff I wantz real bad - here at zazzle. 

On keeping a calendar (I sent this one to DinnerDad) - from Off the Hoof.

Meetings may be toxic, but calendars are the superfund sites that allow that toxicity to thrive. All calendars suck. And they all suck in the same way. Calendars are a record of interruptions. And quite often they’re a battlefield over who owns whose time.

In my experience, most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening. In the case of a business like ours, what clients pay us to make and do happens in the cracks between meetings, or worse, after business hours.  [...] 
“I’m adding a meeting” should really be “I’m subtracting an hour from your life.”

 And finally, the hilarious Hyperbole and a Half - the God of Cake.

 

Image - Allie Brosh / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

More photos of cute

I'm still not back to my posting best, so here are some shots of Lolly at the last few days of the festival.

Here she is wearing the awesome dino-roar tail, and doing her latest cute thing, bowing and saying "your majesty!".

Found a seed pod at the Botanic Gardens!

Looking at Mummy - just beautiful!

Playing ball with Didda.

 The cute!!  It burns!!!!11!!!

Oh no! Blogtoberfest!

And I was doing so well, too :D

I helped to organise a festival for a community group I'm involved in, the fabulous Joyous Birth, and was flat out all weekend, and with friends staying until this morning, blogging didn't get a look in, I'm afraid!  Wow, what an amazing time we all had, I'm still just buzzing.

Here's a shot of Lolly and her new dinosaur tail :D