My Winning Moment!!!

Didn't the full moon bring the crazies out in my house, wow! Taylah biting Felicity, Felicity pinching Taylah, hair pulling, name calling, the lot!!! My freaking goodness, it was on! We separated them to cool down, Flick did just that, she cooled down and was aloud back out to watch tv shortly after, Taylah however carried on and on and on, back chatting and screaming, slamming doors, holy moly, I am seriously scared of what is to come in the teenage years, eeeeeek!!! Eventually Taylah calmed down and I was able to speak to her, but that couldn't be it, I needed to think quick on some kind of discipline that would teach them something at the same time ... I walked out of Taylah's room, towards the lounge where Felicity was (where we were headed so both girls could apologize first) and I spotted the mess in Flick's room (where they had both been playing earlier), bingo, after they had apologized to each other I sent them in to help each other clean Flick's room, but they had to speak to each other nicely or they would be straight into time out. It worked! For the rest of the night and today (with a couple of reminders) I have had TWO daughters willingly getting along, and I have TWO clean bedrooms ... Let's hope this is the beginning of a new chapter in their (and our) lives.

Life can be so Cruel!

Having a bad year! Yes, that's right, 2 car accidents, 2 expensive phones broken, countless breakdowns, still no job in sight, and nearly losing my furry best friend to a sewing needle, my year has been crap! But, I always try to remind myself that there is always someone who has it worse, ALWAYS!!!

My wake up call arrived, here I am complaining about financial worries and all things that can essentially be fixed, while a close friends battle with cancer has taken a wrong turn. Even though we knew the floods had washed away her means of treatment that had been working so well, for some reason I just thought everything will be ok and they will be able to get it from somewhere else, I don't understand why I didn't prepare myself for this, apparently everyone else had been preparing for it, I just thought it would be ok! She was so healthy still when I saw her last, she was in good spirits and she trusted this more than anything. All she has now is a last minute trip to China, she has invested so much faith into Mother Nature, it seems so unjust that Mother Nature would be the one to take it all away from her in the end!

Astounded Beyond Measure!

Opening my Facebook page is (sadly) a daily occurrence for me, I often check my newsfeed, I check notifications, if there is an inbox message I check that also. I have never checked my 'others' inbox, in fact, I don't even think I had ever heard of it until scrolling through my news feed and I saw someone else talking about it, this particular folder had even managed to cause a little bit of controversy! So, curiosity caught the better of me and I decided to have a look, right there at the top of the screen a familiar name jumped out at me!!! It wasn't a familiar name as in someone I have seen recently, or keep in contact with regularly, but familiar from 20 years ago, familiar as in I have wondered how she and her family have been doing all these years, familiar as in my childhood best friend from 20 years ago. I suddenly remembered the moment we had to wave goodbye as she and her family set off to start a new life in New Zealand, it brought back the same feelings I had the last time I had seen her, I just wanted to cry ... No, more like sob, uncontrollably! Oh, what am I thinking! This is happy, so happy I still wanted to cry! So many memories flooded my mind, and by the next morning we had officially taken a step back into each others lives! It's almost as if we had never left!

We got talking, and haven't stopped!!! We both moved to Rockhampton around the same time as each other, we are positive we have brushed shoulders with each other a number of times. We are pretty sure I took her sons Santa photos! We have photos of mothers days and fathers days where we are eating breakfast at the same restaurants! We even lived in Gracemere at the same times! How did we not recognise each other? How did we not click? Either way, I am still astounded by these unveilings! I have been back in contact with friends from my past through Facebook a number of times before, that's what Facebook is all about after all, but this time I am left speechless!

Meeting her again in a couple of weeks, such an exciting time, I wonder if I will cry again ... What a sook! Lol