Welcome to Fun Monday - Funny stories

Monday 4th May, 2009

(Well its Monday down here already, and me being me, I am unorganized, as per usual.
What a surprise! I have had a rather busy weekend and also have a busy day in front of me, so I will put all the links up now and post my own stories a bit later on today!)

Well I thought I'd go out on a limb and have a go at hosting Fun Monday once again. And since we all need a good laugh now and then, I want some funny stories..........

Your task.........We all know our kids and pets are often a great source of amusement to us at the best of times. I want to hear a funny, silly or just downright cute story about your pets or your children. Have they ever done anything to totally embarrass you in public? Have they done something you thought was outrageous at the time, only to laugh at it later? Have they outwitted you in some devious way, only the way a kid can? Come on, out with it! Lets hear the juicy gossip!

For those of you who are too lazy to write, how about posting some funny pictures instead! (Must be of your pets or offspring though!) Have fun with it!

Sign up here today! Go on! I dare ya!

Update: It has come to my attention that not everyone is familiar with how Fun Monday works! If you want to join in, you simply write a post, post pictures or both on YOUR blog on Monday 4th May. I then post all the links to everyone else who played so that you can go and read theirs as well. For further information or to see what past Fun Monday Topics have already been covered you can pop over to Robins blog and have a look through the list.

If you would like to host the following week, please say so in your comment! Cheers!

Those who have taken the plunge already....

Sayre
Cazzie
Peter
Karmyn
FoxyMoron
Bobbie Leigh
Faye (Who will also be our host for May 11th, Thanx Faye)
Tiggerlane
Grace
Swampy
MommyWisdom
Gattina
Alta
Janis
Hootin'Anni
The Church Lady
Hoosiergirl
Pamela
Diane
TROLL Y2K

A Message For Teenagers Who Know It All

I went to visit my mum today and she gave me this little wall hanging that she picked up at an Opshop! Had to have a giggle.....It reads for those who can't see so well...

Teenagers, Tired of being harrassed by your stupid parents act now,
Move out, Get a Job, Pay your bills...
While you still know everything.....

I showed it to the kids, Cameragirl pulled a sad face (I said don't worry dear, you are not a teenager anymore!), TC rolled her eyes and then laughed, and the BOYS cracked up laughing! They afterall are NOT teenagers yet!

Fun Monday - Love and Marriage

Hello my lovely fun Monday friends, long time no see! LOL! Sorry about that, those of you who visit through the rest of the week know its nothing personal, I have been a bit remiss with my blogging in general. This week, Sayre begged so nicely for someone to stand up and the lovely Hoosier girl jumped in with this task..........

Love and Marriage. I have been married twice, once for 14 years, once for a year (long story, for those of you who don't know me). And now I am mid-40s, involved with a wonderful man, contemplating marriage for a third time. So what I want to know is: what do you consider important to a good marriage or relationship? Tell us a story of something endearing about your marriage or your parents' marriage. Include any wedding pictures or images of love that remind you of what a good relationship should be.

Wow Hoosier girl, hopefully it will be third time lucky for you! Well I have to say I don't think there is any perfect way to go about marriage, each couple is so different, but I do believe that aside from loving one another, you really need to "like" each other too! Communication is the key! Talk to each other, don't let things brew and explode. (Yeah sure, we all do that sometimes but really a lot of angst can be avoided if we don't!) For me I guess the most important thing between us is trust! I know that we can rely on each other no matter what and that as we pretty much have the same beliefs we can trust each other.

Well I'm not sure whats so endearing about us! LOL! We are just your average family, SB and I met when we were kids and pretty much married as soon as we were old enough. We went forth and created soon after and well, here we still are 20 years later, five kids and a menagarie in tow. I guess for us being so young, it was never going to be easy, so we went in expecting it to be hard and had no high expectations about things being perfect up front. What we have done right I guess is stick by each other all these years no matter how tough things got.

One thing I have noticed with a lot of marriages that have broken down is the amount of effort and money that they pour into the wedding! Im not saying thats a bad thing, IF you can afford it and it does not put any strain on you. But if only people could put that much time and energy into their marriage perhaps things would be better. I have seen so many people end up divorced after going into debt for a big showy event but when it comes to saving their relationship, they seem to have run out of energy! Oh well, I guess everyone to their own. (Now me, if I was getting married all over again, I would elope! Just me, SB and somewhere away from civilization! Oh and maybe that Winnebago we have been dreaming about so we can just travel around.)

Now I am far too lazy at the moment to find pictures OR write cute stories so I thought I would just link you to that other Fun Monday Post we did a while back about how we met our significant other. Click here to read it... I can't find the post with the wedding picture in it. I know I posted one once but as Im on a different computer its not saved here and I don't have time to redo it!

Live, Love, Laugh and be Happy! :-)

Now go on over to The Coffee Table and see what everyone else has to say!

A puppy post and a talent show!

Mama! I want to go for a walk pulllleeeeeessssssse...............

(Hehe! Don't I look like one of those big headed puppies here?)

Hey! Who is touching me?

M a m a aaaaaaaaa! , Daddy is tickling me.........

OMG! I can't take it anymore!

Make him STOP Mama.......
I'm gonna have to bite him....
Really I am..........

M a m m a a a a a a a a a a.............

SMILE MIKO! AND THE WORLD SMILES WITH YOU!!!

(How strange camera's are! Miko is much fatter than she looks in these pictures, she is actually built like a tank!)

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OK, Me the big TV hater, just had to watch the grand final of Australia's got Talent tonight. Having watched bits and pieces over the past few weeks, I could not help notice some of the singers! WOW!

I waited anxiously to see which child would win, both were so talented, but one was my favourite! I could not help it, I weighed up the talent, the ages and then I wanted one to win more than the other. But no way would I have actually voted (as a mama, I would have liked to see them both win!)

And the winner is Mark Vincent (age 15).........Yay.......He was my favourite, although little Giles Joshua was so adorable and had such a great voice too! Im a nerd, unlike little Giles who wished Mark luck and said "Good luck, but I don't like Opera! Bless his little heart! He is only 12!" Mark truly deserved to win, he has the voice of an angel and could even give England's, Paul Potts a run for his money. He was certainly quite chuffed to have Paul perform on the same show. Opera may not be to everyone's taste, but my god both of them make my blood tingle! Amazing voices!

Food for thought?

Is tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

Well in answer to Foxymorons comment yesterday on how we resolved this question.....Zak was actually right....... Tomato is in fact a fruit because it bears seeds.......

Botanically speaking, anything that bears seeds is a fruit. The fruit forms from the reproductive part of the plant, in this case the flower. The ovary of the flower becomes the fruit and inside the seeds form. So a tomato comes from a flower and produces its own seeds. Therefore, deeming it a fruit. A nut is a seed and the shell is the fruit.

Anything we eat from a part of the plant that is not the flower can be called a vegetable, because it does not reproduce. So leaves, stems and roots (such as spinach, lettuce, potatoes, tubers) are vegetables.

And pumpkin? Well, it turns out pumpkin is also a fruit!!! (I had never really thought about pumpkin being a fruit before, so there you go, you really do learn something everyday!)

Now we could have resolved this on the spot last night but seeds are for planting afterall and its always a fun way to learn for the kids to debate their own ideas and beliefs to see if they can come up with the right answer. It also gets them thinking a bit and not totally relying on the beliefs of others.

So this morning to top off this unplanned, random lesson, we will be heading out to the garden to take a look at some of those fruits and vegetables which are flowering right now!

Have a great day everyone!

Another week passes by......

I know its been another week already, my bad! I am trying really I am but I just can't seem to find the time to get on here and blog! I have been thinking a lot about different things I would like to blog about but keeping busy here at home and not really finding enough quality time. So I'm afraid its another update post.

First off this week we celebrated our babies 10th birthday! Wow time does fly by so quickly, it does not seem so long ago that he was born two weeks late, although in a rush, I might add despite the size of him! What a joy he has been to our lives, we did not plan to have a no- 5 but are truly blessed by having this annoying, smarty pants little human being bestow his ultimate wisdom upon us on a daily basis! His dimples seem to have come with him for a reason! The cute factor helps his cause a lot you know! He never fails with a come back , no matter what you say!



We ended up having some family and friends over for a bbq and some cake to celebrate the occasion. It rained so the poor kids were stuck inside and under the awning for most of the day. He then had two friends sleep over for the night and had lots of fun!

Officially it is school holidays time down here, and as TC is home from school, we pretend to have holidays too! We abstain from any bookwork but the natural learning goes on as per usual. Dinner tonight was a very interesting time discussing why tomatoes are a fruit rather than a vegetable. I sat back and listened to the boys and their friend try to work out why? Some interesting theories came up, one being that if there were seeds inside it was a fruit, I listened to that for a while and then burst that bubble with the fact that pumpkin had seeds and its a vegetable. So they dared me to think of a fruit without seeds, (ahem, well banana's, pineapple "Oh shut up mum!") So what was the answer? Well they plan to google it, the ultimate in homeschool education is to not trust mum, but consult the almighty google! (Geez I wonder where they get that from?)

On Friday we had a sewing day! Once upon a time this was a weekly event for the ladies around here, then it kind of dwindled off, so it was rather fun to give it a go once again. SIL was rather excited as for the first time she was childless, Mr Yakka now goes to daycare once a week to play with other kids his age. Cameragirl taught SIL how to make cushions and me thinks she created a cushion monster! Just check out these beauties........


She ended up making five all up and had so much fun with it she plans to make some more for her friends .....Great job SIL, you are so clever.......now don't forget to make me some too! Hehe!


I ended up cutting out the pattern for a skirt but did not get around to sewing it, I kind of got a little distracted, I did some cooking and fed everyone and I have been working on my cross stitch from the previous post in the hope of getting it finished this week. I have also been working on a crocheted blanket that I am making for The bookfairy who is away right now, it is like therapy you know. Keeping the child close while I make something for her. So everyday I do a little of each and it makes me feel better. The girls have been keeping a blog but they are not posting everyday. You can catch up with some of their antic's over here, B.A.M.M does Melbourne, the pictures are great!

Speaking of blogs, Barbie (TC's girlfriend) has started her own blog as well, she has started off with a poem (be still my heart!) just to get things going! It would be great if you could drop by and offer her some encouragement, she is a talented young writer and this is a good way for her to get feedback and learn some more. You can visit her over here, Barbie Says.......

Well I am off for now, it turns out the girls might just be on TV tonight. Good News Week was filmed while they were in the audience so I am off to see when it is on and get settled to watch it! Take care everyone, I will try to get my act together by next week. I stress the word TRY, not promising just yet!

Big hugs and smoochies, love to all, and don't forget to SMILE AT THE WORLD, SO IT SMILES BACK AT YOU!!!!!

Hello my friends,

It's been the normal busy week around here! LOL! Whats new!

Wednesday, I had a visit from a lovely blog friend (Peter) who is just as delightful in person as he appears on his blog! Sadly my house was its usual madhouse persona so we could not really relax and get to know each other so well, but hey thats life around here and I'm sure Peter noticed that without much fuss! LOL! (Seriously there were kids coming out of the woodwork! Nothing unusual in Karisma's house!)



This child filled day led to the inevitable theory that a sleep over was in order so, one extra lovable little lad joined the madhouse fray for the night! Here we see the aftermath of three boys crying and moaning as Karisma and the Bookfairy decide that the poor little lizard the boys have been torturing all day, needs to be set free in the garden! It tore them, really it did!!!!!



Zak milks it to the limit! Thats his job afterall!

Thursday, we went for a picnic at Long Jetty! There is a lovely park over there, a good 20 minute drive from here, but hey! The kids had fun! There is a fully fenced park for the littlies and a skate ramp, bike jump park as well as fully pathed footpaths all round (which come in handy for those stupid bloody ripsticks!). Needless to say the kids had a ball!

Then we had dinner at Nana's house as Blossom (My little sister) and TBF were heading off to Melbourne for the Comedy Festival for the next THREE WEEKS! Dinner was very nummy (I did NOT have to cook for once!) The girls left at some ungodly hour of the morning (like 3am) and arrived safely with some minor hiccups! (One can follow their journey over here at B.A.M.M. does Melbourne, yep Karisma co-erced them into blogging their adventures!) I will get them OFF facebook yet! Yes I will! hehe!

Friday, we went to one of the local picanic grounds for a chill out day! Yep we is lazy for sure! We camped our butts and ate and chilled all day! Poor Mr Yakka, lost his football up a tree, now it was not his fault at all, his daddy kicked it too high and lo and behold it got stuck at the top of a gum tree! Unfortunately, it was the ONE tree in the park that Zak was not able to climb to the apex of! Yep he was up the rest of them most of the day, but this one........well it had a stump higher than three stories give or take! Shite! Mama and daddy have to buy a new ball for the Yakky kid!

Check out Cameragirl and Ninjaboy, they were totally having a great day! Lazy bums!

Mind you, they did have a go at soccer, and football and a walk on the beach (as well as a big feed in between) Well, maybe one of them did, the other one was knitting while she sat on the blankie! hehe! Oh and while she was knitting, mama was tackling some of this.........


WOOHOO! So long since she had the chance to stitch a little! And then when she got home she managed to fit in a movie and a little crochet! MY god I know, Amazing! hey?

So today finds Karisma sitting here after spending the day out with SIL stalking the local markets! (ok hey are not really local but hey as close as we have! LOL about 20 minutes away) We had a little girl shopping time (well as much as one could expect from the shopping hating Karisma! LOL! We ran through there right quick! The kids had some food, a ride and Zak bought a jacket! La de dah off we ran! Home Home! Lets go Home! Karisma cooked some food and sent TC off to work!

Karisma misses her baby girl who is in Melbourne tonight! Man I know its silly, she is here every day but hides in her room, but somehow the knowing that she is so far away irks mama a little! Mama cannot reach her when she hurts or cries! (Which she did already via mobile phone! Gah!) Why is it so hard for a mama to have her babies so far away? One hour is about this mama's limit, that is doable when one needs to get them back! More than that is pushing ones luck! This time she is there for three whole weeks! Hopefully her mama will not go mad!)

This mama is never happy unless her babies are safe and well and in reach of her loving arms! BLOSSOM, look after MY baby! YOU HERE????? Oh hang on I might be worried about the Blossom too! And then there is the Princess, she is just a baby! Ye gods! Come home right now girls!!!! Girls.......Listen to the Mama! Behave yourselves already! And have fun too! hehe!

Dreaming for the better good....

Hmmm, I have been pondering all morning on last nights dreaming! In my dream I was an Angel in the shape of a child, surrounded by literally thousands of other children. For some reason, only I could fly. At first we were all walking and I felt the urge to lift myself up so I could see where I was going better. Everyone seemed a little confused and maybe even a little scared for some unknown reason. There was a lot of nervous energy about.

I thought myself floating and then I was, one boy was holding on to me so he floated with me. His face was radiating absolute joy! I looked at him and thought of how I lifted him without much effort at all. We both smiled. I put him down and began to pick up the other children, one by one, I kissed them on the forehead, looked them in the eye, nodded and pushed them forward and each and everyone one of them could fly all by themselves. The feeling of absolute joy surrounded us all.

There was so much happiness in this place although it was very very crowded. One could literally not find a place to sit on the ground. I remember laughing so much at the happiness of each child as they floated in the air, it was amazing! I did NOT want to wake up!

Only the first boy did not fly by himself, he stayed beside me through it all and laughed with happiness at everyone elses joy! I wonder why he chose NOT to fly by himself, he was no different from the others other than the fact that he did not leave my side for most of the dream. He even called to his mother to show me to her and lifted my hand to show her that our hands were joined. He seemed so proud to walk with me at his side. I wonder who he was? We did not speak at all through the whole dream, there was only eye contact and lots of feeling!

Now obviously that was not the whole dream, my dreams are far to busy and complex for that to be all of it. However, this is the part that I remembered most vividly this morning and this is what I am pondering on. What could it mean? And why did I see it right now? Is it a message for me regarding my life right now? It could mean many things for sure. Some words it brings to mind for me.....

New beginnings, independance, breaking free, letting things go, stability, following your dreams, knowing that there is always someone there supporting you no matter what, someone holding your hand. Security, adventure, following that dream, never giving up on anyone. Unconditional love. Just a few thoughts anyway. I have analysed this dream from a few different angles and come up with several different messages, all beneficial and worthy of thought and reflection in my life right now.

So what do you think you would make of such a dream? What message would it bring to you? I have a few dreams I would like to achieve in this lifetime, things that always get shoved on the back burner of my mind while life passes by in a blur. I think its about time for me to start reaching for them. I think the message for me may be exactly that, in order to reach for and achieve my own dreams I need to let go of some things that may be holding me back. I will have to keep watch for those things and start kissing some of them goodbye, therefore making room for more relevant adventures. I think its time that I start believing in myself and what I can do, not just as a mother, teacher, wife but as ME!

Im smiling, really I am........

Lifes been interesting lately, to say the least. You all know I seem to have lost the will to blog lately. I guess some things have been getting me a little down, I'm not feeling sorry for myself at all, just been trying to find a little niche to breathe in. I felt for a while there, like I had been doing so much that I somehow lost myself in the process. If that makes any sense at all.

It all started a few weeks ago when SB was feeling a bit down himself, its not unusual for me to take on the rest of the families moods but I tried to keep positive and then he made a comment to me about how much time I spent on my computer. It was not so much the fact that I was on the computer so much, it was the fact that he never saw me doing the other things I used to LOVE to do and I had to stop and think to myself! Hey, he is right. Whenever I feel like a break, I sit down at the computer with a cuppa.

I immediately decided to take that blog break and try and focus on the "real world" more. But guess what? I still did not find myself doing those things (well one day out of like six weeks I did finally pick up my cross stitch and one day I did go out into my garden and plant some new vegies, thats a start I suppose!) And then of course I started to feel guilty that I was not visiting all my friends in blogland. People in the real world complained that I did not answer them on "facebook". But come on, how do I try and stay off the computer if I turn it on in the first place and get roped in?

Now while I tried to take just one day at a time and enjoy the "real world" I found that I was often wishing to be in computer world, where life is far less complicated, no-one expects anything of you and you know, you can just hide away in happyland!

I have for the most of it tried to keep my blog a happy place, so I try to tell you good things and keep the other crap to myself. But you see there are those of you in blogland that can see right through me and have been asking questions, so I thought perhaps sometimes it would be okay to tell the normal, mundane and even sad things sometimes. So here goes, Im going to offload on you now with some of the less personal stuff and then I am going to start a week of positive uplifting thoughts. (If you are not one of my regular friends, please feel free to leave now, of course my friends may leave too if you are not in the mood for a rant!)

I awoke this morning after one of those pretty much sleepless, busy dreamy nights to TC yelling at us! The damn printer won't work and my assignment is due today, blah, blah, blah.....

Well, lucky her parents were not in a "grumpy" mood considering they were not quite awake yet! We turned and looked at each other as she stormed back out of our room and he yelled something back about how is that my fault and went upstairs to suss out the problem, I went after her and suggested she did not need to be so rude when she burst into tears and had a major meltdown! She is in year 11 at school and has so much homework that even though she worked all weekend and until 11pm last night she still had not been able to get it all done. She, like so many kids in school is feeling the pressure and getting depressed, she is a grade A student, topped most of her classes last year, so if she can't cope and is melting down, how the hell are the less studious kids supposed to deal with it all? What makes me really mad is the fact that they hardly get anything done in "school time" and the kids have to come home and do most of their work outside school hours. Half the crap they have to learn is going to be irrelevant to their life, so what the hell is the point of it all? And they wonder why so many kids are suicidal these days. Grrrrr! I could go on and on but I will shut up on this one. Cameragirl lasted about this long in year 11 and dropped out. TBF stayed the two years but gave up on her grades as she felt it was not worth the hassle. I wonder how many other bright kids out there do the same thing? TC's biggest gripe about school is the fact that so many kids stay on who don't want to be there and disrupt the classes all day so the others don't get a proper chance to learn anyway.

One of my kids has been having panic attacks, which was very scary. No more details on that one as its too personal.

Rupert (our rat) appears to be dying. He has been very sick the past few days and is not wanting to eat or drink very much. He keeps trying to escape from his cage with is very out of character, he normally loves his hidey hole and gets annoyed if removed. Now he is wanting lots of cuddles and is very sad.

Cameragirl had a car accident last week which is going to set us back quite a bit financially even though we are insured. Shit happens what can we do? Thankfully she did not get hurt and neither did anyone else. Just the cars involved got hurt! It just comes at a bad time when lots of other bills are due as well so a bit untimely.

The boys are being a bit of a hand full at the moment. I guess they are just being boys but they are really pushing some buttons lately. I have had to ban them from playing with certain kids in the neighbourhood who have a tendancy to be trouble makers. Yesterday Gamboy admitted to attacking one of them after he was pelting rocks at Zak. It was bound to happen one day but I have asked them so many times not to play with these kids as its never ending. This kid thinks he can hit, hurt and cause fights with all the other kids and then expect them to take it on the chin. Well this time Gameboy lost it and thumped him, Im surprised the parents did not come around and have a go (perhaps they are used to it!)

The dogs are also being a bit of a handful right now as they are not getting enough attention! Miko has been yapping as she wants me to play with her, Bella has been biting herself and managed to pull out quite a bit of hair on her back. I thought it was fleas but after bathing her and treating her skin which is a mess I found no fleas, so it must be the skin irritating her. I am trying herbal remedies and it seems to be healing, I think she is really missing her walks but at the moment no-one has time to take her. Hopefully soon. I am planning to take her and Miko on the camp with us, they should enjoy the all day playing with all the kids.

My sewing room is a MESS AGAIN!

OK thats enough, theres more but I feel like Im going to go off into Manic laughter! So some good news........

TBF is very excited she is off to Melbourne for 3 weeks on Friday, to go to the comedy festival with Blossom. They went a couple of years back and had a ball so they are really looking forward to the trip again.

I am looking forward to the camp in May. Getting out into nature is really what I need right now!

I actually feel really happy today. I am going to clean the house, do some lessons with the boys and attempt some cooking early so its ready for me to take the afternoon off! Now theres a plan, wonder if I can actually manage it. (Gameboy is currently fused to the playstation3 playing a game that he informs me he really must beat, I beg to differ as he has also just informed me he has been at it for 2 hours already!) On that note I guess I had better sign off and go and round him up! Take care everyone! Think happy thoughts.

Hugs and smoochies xxxoooxxx