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for all your kind words of support. 

It certainly has been a very hard month for me, and not a whole lot of crafting has been going on around here.  Grief is a funny thing, it’s like a barage of emotions hitting you all at once.  You feel like you won’t get through and then surprisingly you do, for that moment, anyway!  I really wouldn’t wish this upon anyone.  It has been so very hard and awful.

The flowers are dying now, and I really should get on with packing up the house – we move on July 25th – it’s good to be busy.  And I am, really busy, the school holidays are upon us.  I’m shifting house.  My autistic daughter is not coping well with any of what has happened and what is happening ie. the shift.  I think I need a holiday – any offers?! ;)

It has been fab seeing all the family, especially my sister Paula, who I hadn’t seen in 12 years!  Funny how it takes something terrible happening to bring people together.  My sister lives in the UK and its ever so expensive to travel between NZ and the UK.  We’ve both been super busy having kids and raising them.  I guess one day I’ll get to travel, when they’re all done being raised. :)

Anyway, I’m not sure how active the blog will be while I pack up the house.  So much to do, so little time and all that jazz!

Thank you so much for all your prayers for my family during this most awful time.  I feel truly blessed to be a part of this community of crafty bloggers.  Your’re a great bunch – you know!

D.

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My Mum passed away on Thursday afternoon at around 4pm. I was lucky to be there when she passed away, and she will be missed terribly by me. How hard to imagine life without her.

She was a follower of Jesus, and I know that there’s a party going on in heaven right now, but I miss her. Alot. Her death was a shock, unexpected, even though she was ill.

Yesterday morning, I woke up with this old hymn in my head. I didn’t know any of the words, except for the title – Blessed Assurance.


From wikipedia;

vs.1
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

Refrain:
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.

vs.2
Perfect submission, perfect delight!
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
(Refrain)

vs.3
Perfect submission, all is at rest!
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with his goodness, lost in His love.
(Refrain)

Thank you for your ongoing prayers and support.

D.

Postscript;
It would have been my mothers 58th birthday today. Not sure how to handle anything. Just living moment to moment.

I know that I will have another one in the new house, but… it’s still sad to see most of it packed away!  You can see a peek of my sewing machine that’s still out, but that too will be packed away. :(

I am going to need to do something crafty over the next month, just for sanity, and I’m thinking of knitting some socks. :)

We still haven’t found a house to move into, which is stressful.  The house we wanted last week fell through at the last minute and so we are back to square one on the search.  I do have some news though, and that is we are looking to move to Pukekohe!  YAY!  It will be so good to be living close to some good schools that the girls will be able to walk to! :)  We will be looking at a couple more houses there tomorrow, so wish us luck.

D.

Yep, that image represents the last few weeks I’ve had.

Lot’s has been going on around here, but the gist of it all, is that we are shifting house, getting a new car, and possibly the girls will be starting new schools. Also, my mother, who just came back from Pakistan has been in a perilous health condition in hospital. Aaaargh!

And this is why the blog has been so quiet. Life totally got away from me, and still will for at least another month. We still have to find a new house to live in, and I totally want to move somewhere nice. :) Ideally, it would be at least 4 bedrooms (think space for a craftroom!) and would have a yard for the girls to run around in.

I appreciate any prayers that you may make on behalf of me and my family at the moment – it’s totally what is keeping my head glued together!

Missing you all heaps!

D.

1. In need of some rest or sleep.
2. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.

   I’m tired of this

3. Overused, cliché.

   a tired song

I am just so “all of the above”, it’s not funny!

We are in the process of buying/finding a new car, and that’s so tiring!  We have a budget and a type of car in mind.  I want a hatchback car, that’s economical and fairly good looking.  We currently have a Mitsubishi Chariot, but with 7 seats it’s big, cumbersome, and un-economical.  So we had a look around some car yards this afternoon and I remembered what I HATE about buying cars.  The car dealers, the sheer cost difference between yards, all the decisions and feeling rushed at every point.  I think that we are wiser this time around, but it’s still hard for me not to want to buy the first thing I see that I like.  I get so sick of the crap!

And, we are also trying to organise some respite care for Aimee.  It has taken since May last year to get to the interview stage with the social worker yesterday.  Then I had to fill out screeds of forms that just took the stuffing out of me.  Having to remember and put into words what her behaviour is like on a daily basis was very difficult.  It will be good to be able to have a break from her, especially so that we can focus a little more on her sisters for a couple of nights a month.  We all need it! 

She is a wonderful kid, who comes up with amazing thoughts and “wisdom”, but her constant behavioural needs are getting us all down.  She said the other day, out of the blue, as usual, that the car indicator’s were speaking to her.  When I asked what they were saying she said, they say – food dis-order, food dis-order, food dis-order…  Listen to them next time you’re in the car and you may just find yourself agreeing with her… ;)

Then there’s my almost 9 year old’s birthday sleepover I have to prepare for on Saturday night.  Four little girls giggling into the night…  the things we do for our kids!  I am hoping to do a little craft maybe make some softies and have mini makeovers think pink fingernails and lips.  It should be fun, especially if I can farm my other two girls out…

Hope you are all faring better than I. 

Well, maybe not so mysterious, and yet…

I finally received my Christmas present from Mr Sew-Funky and it’s a goodie, even if it is over a month late! :D

try to ignore the fact that you can see up my nose!

I am loving this book, and can’t wait to try out some of the recipes! It’s collated by colour, which I find very intriguing. If you haven’t seen it before, get it out from your local library that’s what I did, and I so liked it that I asked for it for Christmas!.

In other mysterious going on’s, we discovered that the female kitten we brought home is not very female and in fact is a male! So we’ve had to go through a name changing ceremony. Sophia is just too girly a name. This time I opted for a “sex-less” name and he now goes by the name of Pickle! :)

Oh well, we probably do need a little more testosterone in our house, especially since it’s so estrogen filled. We have 4 female human’s, 2 female cats, 1 female dog and 3 female chickens compared with 1 male human and 2 male cats! Yep, we can be glad he’s a boy! :D

Not much crafting going on here, just spending lots of time with the girls before they’re all back at school next week!

If you want to know more about the giveaway or want to enter some more take a look at the gypsy caravan! At the time of writing this post, there are 660 giveaway’s going on. It’s huge!!

It’s almost back to normal in our crazy household, and hard to remember that we had 2 weeks without kids now! Back to chaotic happiness I guess…

Today was a holiday because it was Auckland Anniversary Day. Usually we spend the weekend hot, tired and with ringing ears but this time we opted for picking the girls up and spending the rest of the weekend at home. Must be getting old! Hehehe!

We got very productive in the garden and hopefully in a month or so we’ll be eating fresh vege’s straight out of the earth! It’s all rather exciting, and great seeing Mr. Sew-Funky doing manly things outside. If you knew/know him, you’ll understand what I mean! ;)

I only hope our vegetables don’t die because I am probably the only one in my family without green fingers or thumbs… Where is my sister Erica when I need her??