Pocket money

Lately I have been getting my boys to do jobs around the house for pocket money. Every day before I go and pick Caleb up from school I write the jobs I want them to do on a white board. I pay them 50c for regular jobs and 20c for feeding each of their cats. They don't always get done so I leave them there for the next night.Yesterday I decided to write a little note to say thank you and when I got home from dropping them off this morning I saw this reply from Caleb. Gotta love em! Did cheer me up cos I was yelling heaps this morning. They wont do anything while I am in the shower. So most of the time we are running late.

Orthodontist, follow up visit

We went back to orthodontist for the verdict yesterday. Caleb will eventually need braces partly because of the missing adult tooth and his lower jaw sits to far back, but for the moment he is going to wear a bionator (plate) for about 12 - 18 mths. He still has 12 baby teeth to lose. In two weeks we will go on get the mould made then the following week pick it up. He has to wear for a couple of hours after school then gradually increase the length of time he wears it untill he wears it all the time except when eating, brushing teeth and playing sport.

Dress Up day at kinder

Jyes kinder have been doing olympic themed activities for the last 2 weeks. They made olympic biscuits they had their own games and yesterday they had to dress up in an aussie theme. He knew exactly how he wanted the gel in his hair and he wouldn't take the flag in because it was my idea to buy it not his!! Don't you just love a stubborn strong willed child.

This is what I woke up to this morning

Jye brought a bag home from kinder yesterday with a stuffed wombat and a book in it called The wombat stole my shoe. Don't you just love big brothers. I love it that caleb can read to him and it good practise for him aswell.

Looking for a bargain.

I bought theses Zig Writers the other day at Spotlight. They were $2 each there normal price was $5.99. I find alot of scrapbooking stuff on Ebay but you have to know your prices.

I'm not a huge bargain hunter but I very rarely but anything full price, my kids shoes are an exception. I bought Caleb shoes from Athletes Foot in January and he wears them everyday and he constantly playing one sport or another and they are still in pretty good nick just need a wash. I have recently bought Jye some casual shoes from Kmart and they didn't even last 2 weeks I took them back to see if I could get my money back and I was told shoes aren't covered by the kidurable guarantee. So I wont be going back there for shoes.

Here are a few sites worth looking at for some ideas to save money and the environment

Simple Savings

Saving Mum

Cheap Skates

uSwitch

More layouts

I just realised I have put up 3 layouts and they are all of Caleb, So I thought I'd find some recent ones of Jye.

New Layouts

These 2 LO are sketches from the sketch blog Creative Scrappers They have some great sketches over there. Check it out by clicking on the the link.

Orthodontist

Yes we are all out visit everybody lately. Went to a really nice orthodotist yesterday for Caleb. Not suprised he does need braces. Thats why we took out extras health insurance., it won't make it inexpensive but it will help. They took x-rays so they could see whats going on inside his gums. He is missing an adult tooth up there but she said it's not a bad thing because they sometimes have to remove teeth. He has 12 more teeth to lose. 1 is loose now. They also took heaps of photos. We will go back next week to find out the verdict and the price!!!!! So not looking forward to that bit. We also have to get a mouthguard made up to for when he plays footy.

Been doing lots of layouts lately trying to get through my photos but I don't seem to have made dent in them at all. Will upload some when i take some photos.

Optometrist

I took the boys to the optometrist this arvo. Caleb is long sighted and he said for me and his teacher to keep an eye out to see if he starts having trouble reading. He will only need get glasses if this happens otherwise we will go back in 2 yrs. He can read the letters on the board that is normal vision so he's fine. Jye did really well he said most of the letters and all of the numbers the guy said he was impressed.

Off to the dentist tomorrow to get a tooth pulled, hopefully I will be alright on Saturday we are having a scrap day at church with our mumsspace group. We have a lady from Kaszazz coming and Cheryl from the Kaiser outlet is coming too and has donated the prizes for the raffles.

I am working on the monocramatic challenge over at Chandon Craft. Might finish it tomorrow as long as I'm not in pain. Need to stay home as much as I can tomorrow in the warmth, I'm so over this cold weather.

CIS August Sketch Challenge

This my take on the CISters Stlylish sketches August sketch

I just thought

I'd do some bragging. Back on the 29th July Caleb had school sports. He had a really good day being the sports fanatic he is. At the end of the day he was choosen to run the relay for his house in the 9yr old section. They won. He was rapt. So was I of course. I'm so glad I made myself go and watch him participate. When they got back to school they annouce the winning house. Unforunately there house did not win but the came second.

I'm so new to this

This a new thing to me I'd thought i'd share with everyone. There's not much exciting happening in my life but I'd thought I'd share my LO with you all. Lets see how we go.