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Creations on holidays

Much to Anthony's dismay (because he's horrified that I can't live without my scrap stuff for 3 weeks) ... I bought my Crop in Style bag with me to Kiama. It's a good thing for Scrap Room kits so that I can easily scrap on the go.

All I needed to do was grab the November and December kits, a few photos, some basic things like trimmer and adhesive and I was all ready to go.

First I created this LO which celebrates DS coming home from hospital in 2008. He was in for 3 weeks on and off with stomach problems - which may or may not have been related to his CF. Anyway, it was great to have him home and we wanted to buy him something to celebrate ... a Thomas Table was perfect ... we'd taken some Thomas track and trains into hospital for him to play with but this table gave him a much better place to play.

Then I created this LO about the difficulty of taking a dog for a walk and convincing a then 5 year old boy that he had to come along. Conor thought it would be fine for me to leave him at home while I walked Belle!!

And finally a couple of cards which I'll post tomorrow!

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I'm a boy, not a vegetarian!

For an 8 year old, Conor certainly has a way with words - and really, always has, ever since he started talking.

Last weekend I was making soup for dinner. Although I used a chicken stock base, it was vegetable soup. When Conor asked me what was for dinner and I said "soup" his words were "for crying out loud mum give me something more filling. I'm a boy not a vegetarian!"

I had to ring Anthony to tell him that his son had spoken words close to Anthony's heart - having grown up in the country a meal isn't a meal to him if it doesn't contain meat.

I guess growing boys need something more substantial in their tummies, especially sports mad ones like mine!

Happy Birthday Conor

My baby boy is 8! It was his birthday yesterday. It doesn't feel like I've been a mother for 8 years. Usually when you've done a job for 8 years you should feel like you know what you're doing! But sometimes I really don't! I love being a mum, but it is sometimes challenging. But looking at my gorgeous boy and how proud I am of him all I can say is that I can't wait for what the future brings.

He had his birthday party on Sunday at mPowerdome, which is a local indoor sports centre. There were 16 of his friends and 2 party hosts ... the party hosts wore the kids out playing European handball, indoor soccer and dodgeball. He wanted an ice cream cake which was eaten up very quickly.

Then yesterday for his actual birthday we had a family bbq - mum and dad came over too. He requested vanilla cupcakes.

Anthony came up with a great idea: he asked me to get some photos from all of Conor's birthdays and we put them on the digital photo frame. So we've been playing that all week. I think I'll do the same for Christmas too!

Happy birthday cutie pie! I love you!