Gardening Mums

A friend gave me this years ago, after Miss 8, who was then Miss 4 and her friend picked every daffadil, freesia, tulip. and every petal from just about every plant in the backyard...I think its cute:

PRAYER FOR A GARDENING MOTHER by Debbbie Farmer

Dear God, give me the strength to grow a garden.

Give me the perseverance to find a portion of dirt in my backyard that's free from

old ice block sticks and sand pit toys, and not being used as a tricycle parking lot or a soccer field.

Bestow on me the ability to say names like "Acacia melanoxlon" and "Zanthoxylum braclayacanthum", since I am stuck living in a high -maintance planting zone that seems to be conducive only to unpronoucable flowers.

Give me the courage to face the fact that the crate of bulbs that took six weeks to be delivered and three hours of back breaking labour to plant , can be dug up in five minutes by a two year old with a toy shovel.

Guide me through the garden over plastic toys, irrigation systems, and wire mesh to untangle the dog from the watering hose for the fifteenth time.

Help me to accept that everyting in my garden is either expensive, high maintence, or unpronoucable, and the only thing that looks the same as it did in the mail order catalogue is the dirt.

Grant me patience when my daughter waters the bulbs with apple juice because "they looked thirsty".

Give me the strengthto remain silent when my husband puts saucers of beer around the backyard to get rid of the snails.

Comfort me when all the saucers are empty and the dog is staggering around the backyard trying to do the limbo under the low brances of the apple tree.

And when it rains (and you know it will ,God) give me the strength to spend all afternoon on my knees in the mud blowing the moisture off the new shoots with my hair dryer so they don't catch 'a fatal fungal disease'.

In your infinite wisdom, show me how to turn off the automatic drip irrigation system that has been on since sometime in mid November.

Grant me serenity when my son presents me with a bouquet of freshly ripped out daffadils crammed into an old plastic sand bucket-and the ability to smile when he tries to replant them.

And if I ask too much God, just give me the foresight to know that, no matter what I do, by the end of summer the flowers will be run over by rollerskates or sat on by the dog, the garden stakes will be used for goal posts, and the fertile soil will, once again, be filled with old ice block sticks and sand toys- and it won't bother me one bit.

Debbie Farmer

Five Things..............Bang...You've been tagged.....

I've been tagged by Caz mumontherun.blogspot.com, so here goes....................
A Lifetime is like a blink in eternity
5Years Ago, I had a baby boy who would not sleep and I gave up working
1Year Ago, we were trying to sell our house and changed agents
Yesterday, was the past and that's that
Today, can only be better than the day before because I am still here
Tomorrow, who knows? Its tomorrow don't wish the days away wondering what it will bring
5 Snacks I Enjoy:chocolate, fruit, potato chips, chocolate and Chocolate
5 Songs I Know all the Words to Even Without the Music: Two Outta Three Ain't Bad: Meatloaf(?) Why do Birds...:Carpenters, To Sir With Love: dunno who did original, cover by Kate Cerbrano, Angels: Robbie Williams, Cold Hard Bitch: Jett
5 Things I Would Do With $100,000,000: Pay off the house, do what we want to the house, pay off my friends mortgages (x5), buy hubby the car he wants (Astra Convertible but with that much cash he's gonna want a BMW or such maybe), set up school funds for my kids and all my friends kid for tertiary/vocational education.
5 Locations I`d Like to Run Away To: Daylesford, Ireland, Carribeannan,Tasmania, UK
5 Bad Habits I Have: eating chocolate, drinking Coke, yelling, leaving washing till the last minute, answering the mobile just because it rings
5 Things I like Doing: sleeping, reading, reading in the bath, playing outside with the kids, writing
5 Things I Would Never Wear: high heels, miniskirt, bikini, g string, designer label gear ($10 top with $100 name to it)
5 T.V. Shows I Like: ER, Last Man Standing, desperate Housewives,CSI (any and all),Cold Case
5 Movies I Like: Sweetest Thing, An Officer And a Gentleman, Oceans 11 and 12, any Star Trek movie, any Monty Python movie
5 Famous People I'd like to Meet: John Cleese, Richard Gere, Mr. Bean, Paris Hilton (to slap her silly ) Nelson Mandela
5 Biggest Joys at the Moment: my boy coping at kinder, my girl excelling at school, my baby's hugs and kisses, my hubby's cuddles, and chocolate
5 Favorite Toys: PC, bath bombs, mobile phone, Tamagotchi (bought it for the kids, honest)Dymocks bookshop
5 people to pass this tag on to : Guruann, More Australian Ramblings, Jen, Jenz, and whoever else reads this and may be interested

ENJOY!!!!

JOIIS : What it REALLY means....

Several bloggers and Internet junkies in Sunbury refer to a local, well mediaed, elected official as JOIIS (Jack Or Is It Steve) refering to his duality of names used in his two lines of public life. I have received information that JOIIS actually stands for The Joint Operations Intelligence Information System!!!!!!! Which is something to do with goodness knows what..I don't have time to look it up right now ...anyone else care to check. Sound like an oxymoron that the Defence Department or the US Military would use, don't it?

Too much, too little time

Have been busy,busy,busy...Mr. 5 has had to have a hearing test for the Program For Student With Disabilities(PSD) criteria...Nothing wrong there..So waste of time and resources. Mr 2 nearly 3 had croup and needed steroid mix (Predimix?) for 3 days, getting medicine into some kids is like getting expecting Donald Trump to be humble..Never gonna happen. So despite the fact that it had to be after food (directly) I had to mix it into juice (he usually has water with meals so he suss from the start)and then he tasted it and spat out the juice!!!! So out came the syringe and I just blasted the dose down...Sounds bad but not really, he is sooooo like his sister who will not take medicine either. Mr 5 will take all medicines and wants it even if not ill and someone else has it...Something to watch out for, believe me.

Have been floating about a new community forum http://sunburycommunit.10.forumer.com/ it is interesting even to the uninitiated of the Sunbury community and will get bigger and better with more following. It TRULY allows for comment not libel, on an equal footing for all users. Not sure who started it but have heard whispers (people talk on buses and others listen and tell )SAY NO MORE!!!

I have been a bit desolate lately as Mr 5's kinder teacher is away and he seems ok but asks about her a lot, I'm reluctant to tell him what I know as it was told in confidence, but he needs to move on and accept what's what..Maybe over the holidays.....I miss her as she was the rainbow to Denise's(asst teacher) sunshine and I'm sure the kids miss her more than the parents realise.

Hubby returned from OS with yet another supply of DVD's, Blade Trilogy (his thing not mine) Madagascar (for the kids) it's ok but nothing like Toystory or Shrek. We share the DVD's about friends and family, plus Miss 8's class gets to see it on Friday as a break up gift from the teacher. Speaking of which.. had parent teacher night last night and Miss 8 is a delight to have in the class, always helpful and caring and kind...was wondering if this was the same child who pinches. Hits and bite her brothers and takes their toys. She is very creative (gets that from her mum) and academically is advanced but it can't go on the report (but of course) Ohh well AIM assessments will occur in August and you get a report on your child's level in regards to expected level, State levels, school comparisons,. Etc so we will see then. Sometimes I wish I had looked at her IQ score when she was tested, but its a preconceived notion, bit like Briggs Meyers..If you know the expected score/grading, you r expectations change in regards to personality and achievement levels. Incidently, I am INTJ on Briggs Meyers scale and my IQ is........