Monday once again, and is the house quiet?? No its Ekka show day!!! And for those of yu not from Queensland, the EKKA is our show day, like the sydney easter show or the Melbourne Moomba festival..We have EKKA. nOW I TOOK THE KIDS THERE TWO YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS JUST PREGNANT WITH jACK, UNBEKNOWNS TO ME, LOL. Well you have to save your pennies to go dont you, or be rich, which im not..65.00 to get in, then food, say 50.00, then rides,(most rides 6-10 dollars) say 100.00that gives us all two rides each..then show bags. 100.00 then allow at least 100/00 dollars for miscellanious things like travel and side show ally and stupid purchases like big hats..lol..Oh and a very important purchase, the firemans calender,,,mmmm drool!!!! Lots of money hey for one day..But i do think every child should enjoy the show at least once in their lifetime..Take in the smells the sights. Luckily i was pregnant with Jack last time, That takes care of him, he just got in then didnt he..lol.
So as for scrapping this weekend, i managed three layouts over at embellished scrapbooking. Also completed one layout for the chookscraps DT.
This layout of my dad i found hard to do as the colours in the photo were hideous, i should have done it in b/w. But not like i can get another photo as he died the next christmas after that photo. He always loved to wear those gaudy cheap paper hats out of the bon bons and required everyone sitting at the dinner table to wear one also.. We all would take ours off after dinner, but not dad. He was happy to sit with it all day. King of his castle surveying his children and grandchildren. I laughed that christmas when i saw dad with a glass full of wine. He was told with his diabetes he was not allowed to drink alcohol. Now my dad was an alcoholic we all knew it so the doctor had told him only one small glass of wine at christmas, dad was dying of cancer so it was a small thing for him.So when i saw my dad this christams with another full glass of wine i said , "dad your only allowed one glass of wine all day,:
His reply was "This is the same wine glass i had my first wine with and the same wine glass i have had all day."
cheeky man!! i laughed.. Im glad he had that same glass full of wine all day, it turned out to be his last christmas..and he was oh so happy that day.