Zachary’s turn to unwrap a book today – it turned out to be the one Brandon’s school class are performing in the end-of-year concert!
December Daily – Day 2
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December Daily – inside cover & Day 1
Here’s the inside cover. The envelope has a photo of Murray and my thoughts about the days immediately leading up to December first; in an envelope because they are very personal, but as Maureen pointed out, this is part of my December and I need to document it, as hard as it is. I used an obvious quote but still one that means a lot to me: some people come into our lives and quickly go. some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. we are never, ever, the same 
And Day one – the text reads ” Before Daddy flew back to CHC, we started our new tradition – reading a Christmas story together. Eventually I want 24 stories but 14 isn’t a bad start. Bran chose A Kiwi Jingle Bells.”
December Daily cover
I’m trying to catch up on all the pages (yes, I know it’s supposed to be done daily!) and I’ve done 5 of the nine, and am waiting on day nine’s photo to dry out. Mass image posting tomorrow!
I must admit it’s fun, and keeping to a limited pool of stuff means I’m not fussing too much – four pages done yesterday, and one was just the text written on the back of the premiere ticket. That I’m not spending forever angsting over the content and look is helping too…
a few things…
I haven’t written in a while – life has been quite busy! Simon came back to Auckland to spend last weekend with the kids and we ran around like mad things for three days solid. I even managed to (probably, according to the physio) detatch part of my tendon from my hip. OUCH! Sitting, walking and driving are all a little uncomfortable right now. I’m just glad the second car is an automatic.
Speaking of cars, I still haven’t heard from the insurance company as to if they have found my car as yet. Yes, my poor little Legnum that was damaged in June, then finally taken away in October. I rang for an update a fortnight ago and was told that the file had been closed off. So I asked what the resolution was. Sorry miss, can’t tell you. Pardon? Sorry miss, there’s nothing written down. So, can I speak to a supervisor? No miss, but I’ll speak to one for you. Ten or so minutes of stewing later, she came back online with the same answer. I rang the ASB customer helpline and vented. I have the email of one of the reps in Wellington but keep getting fobbed. I am seriously pi$$ed and once this is over, taking my business and the MIL’s away from IAG. It’s bad enough that I had to argue for several months that I had full cover insurance, to finding out that the agreed value (my bad, I never looked at the papers fully) was about four times the resale value – they tell me that I’m not important enough to warrant a loan car or repayment of any associated costs. If anyone can recommend a company please do let me know. I would really appreciate it!
I finished the cover and major interior pages of my December Daily – I’ll try to remember to post some pics. Thanks for reading!
Jessica Sprague – free course!
Hi – in my regular update from Jessica Sprague (digital scrapbooker) she is offering a free course. You don’t need to be a scrapbooker or to use Photoshop to do this one – it’s all about the stories in you and how to find your voice.
See here for Jessica’s blog entry: http://spraguelab.squarespace.com/blog/2008/10/10/new-class-stories-in-hand.html
And here for her website to register: http://www.jessicasprague.com/
I’m loving the quote that’s on her blog. “Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like real life.” Brian Andreas.
dare 53
well I posted to the Flikr site and hope that it’s traceable, but here is is just in case! I’m such a nana…tag is “nzdare53”
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Giving Bran the camera, I expected a range of action shots from Zac’s game against Northcote Tigers. Mostly, that’s what I got. But this one? Stood out.
My kids are weird.
Dare 52
Well, here it is, very quickly done last night amid realising that I still have at least half my tools, papers and so on packed in the garage. Along with the scanner, printer and some of my sanity – so it’s a lot simpler page than I intended. Couldn’t find the brads that reminded me of stipper’s pasties so that portion is drawn on…for now.
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