I always keep promises

In our family if you say “I PROMISE” that means you have done something, or you will do something and it can never, ever be a lie ! EVER ! It’s a family rule. If I asked my kids “you promise?” they could never ever not tell the truth. It was a great tool to have in my arsenal of motherhood.

So ! I promised to return to my blog after a very short break and here I am. I am thinking all FA-LA-LA Christmas thoughts and ideas, but many of my friends are so damn organised and they say things like “I just wrapped my last Christmas present”  WHAT ????  I  SCREAM….I haven’t even written a list yet.

So the thing is, I love Christmas. I don’t mean this like I love pink… or I love blue… I mean I L-O-V-E buying and wrapping and deciding and procrastinating and thinking of the things I know so-and-so would love.

Thing is though that dear daughter (as in dd) has decided SHE is the mama of the household and she just sent out a list to all of us. No conferring, no “MOM when you gonna do a list” nothing. We used to have a Christmas wish list every year stuck on the fridge by moi, now it came per email. All boring and business like, so I prettied it up with some Father Christmas’s and some presents and resent. Can’t help myself sometimes you know. She just took the reins and went. Man I hate that !

So the same stuff gets put on the list every year. Ian wants an aeroplane. Dust ALWAYS needs work and play clothes, Leigh-Anne and my requests are long and interesting. Big and small items. Fun and practical. Like courses and useful things. Socks and equipment. We offer it all !

Steve plucked up the courage this year to put a NEW plasma TV on the list. Ok so, he has officially arrived as member #5 of this family ! When you start adding GREAT ideas on the list you are in !

So, despite the fact that this HAS to be the busiest time of my year ( it ALWAYS is ! ) with function photography and then all the families that want my pound of flesh before so and so leaves town, I have booked myself on a writing course next week and I can’t wait.

Maybe then I won’t leave my blog alone, not even for ONE day ! I think it is simply time to put my feet UP ! Anyone wanna join me ?

I PROMISE

to return to sender shortly. Just having a bit of a break for a day or 2 ( bwahhhhaaaaa like the 3 shoots I have for this week/weekend constitues a break ?)

 

But in the meantime I saw this on someones blog today and I thought I should share this.

PS..I can read it perfectly can you ???

 

 fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can siltl raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

 

SPAEK TO YUO SOON FLOKS

XXX SAM

I see the light

It is RIGHT at the end of a LONG tunnel but it is there. ( I hope it isn’t a train )

I am say, 1/2 way there. This project’s deadline is this weekend. I am REALLY looking forward to next week. Where I can do things like go and buy food without a mad dash. Where I can maybe start to think of Christmas. Where my only break from hard work is my well-timed gym session. Where I can start to scrap ( or think about it) I have LOADS of wedding pics I wanna scrap and a new family puppy and and and …

I am seriously considering doing a writers course which is at the beginnng of December. I haven’t quite put my name down, but every year they run a Dec one, which is intense as it is 5 days, and you get asssignments as well…. But at least it isn’t a 12 week drive there twice a week etc etc. I am ALMOST at the point where I am flicking the return booking form. Think it will be fun.

Other than that not a lot. Ok scooting off now and I can’t wait to start blogging and adding some pics and  a whole load of things.

I haven’t drowned or…

been evacuated by the aliens or been picked up by the CIA.

It’s simple

 

this is me at the top of all the photos I have taken over the last few weeks and now I have to proof them and put them into relevant folders and soon I will be done.  It’s  quite a job to do all this you know