I wonder if my blog will ever be interesting enough...

For people to follow it??

Obviously I need more witty and sharp comments to attract them.

I'm not sensing much potential for those in what I have planned for today...filling the new drawers I bought yesterday with Rosie's clothes and then choosing appropriate attire and doing my hair ready for a new driver's licence photo.

DVD reviews

As mentioned in a previous entry, I watched some DVDs over the weekend. Here are my reviews.

The Time Traveller's Wife: Insipid and superficial compared to the book. Although I didn't enjoy the book hugely either, despite many positive reviews from friends. When I was talking about it with Chris wondering if I'd missed something, he told me it's because I don't cope with supernatural stuff very well. I think he might be right.

Blessed: Australian movie, full of the usual urban angst which seems to be emerging as one of the main Australian film genres (and incidentally, also seems to be the way to get positive reviews on The Movie Show). It was about relationships between mothers and their (for the most part) wayward children. Deeper than the other one, but I had trouble identifying with any of the multiple characters in it...there were so many I found it hard to keep track.

I don't watch movies very often, but when I do I like it to be worth the effort of staying awake (I have been known to fall asleep in cinemas, much to Chris' embarrassment...)

ANZAC Day

Today was the first ANZAC Day in a long time that I didn't go to a remembrance service. I woke up well after dawn services were over, and then had to play at church this morning so I stayed there with Rosie while Chris took the boys to march in the later parade with their school.

It felt like something was missing from the day. I like to go along each year, even more so since my Grandad died a couple of years ago (he served in PNG during WWII). I never heard him talk about the war at all, so I asked my Mum for some info and she loaned me some books to read about the Australians in PNG during the war. Apparently the battalion he served in(49th) gets a bit of a dodgy rap in most of the literature, perhaps somewhat unfairly given they seemed to have received very little training and support.

However, church was good too. I made a resolution to try to take notes during sermons (thanks to friends Kristy and Anna for the idea!) more often because it helps me take in more information and concentrate on the sermon rather than being distracted by whatever cute thing Rosie happens to be doing. I managed to take notes on about half of it before Rosie started whingeing so I figured that was OK for a first effort. And it was a good sermon.

Last night, I also took advantage of Chris being busy sorting out a glitch in the computer program that does the church accounts to borrow a couple of girly DVDs, which I'll review tomorrow.

Hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend.

Liam

Is taking up lots of my blog space at the moment. Oh well, I'm sure there will be plenty of time to include the other two.

Liam is going to have surgery in Brisbane sometime in the next couple of weeks to fix a muscle that the doctors think has become trapped from his recent scooter injury and eye socket fracture (blogged about here). Hopefully this will help him be able to look upwards again and he won't have the double vision anymore.

Please pray that it all goes well.

As promised...

The first picture is page 1 of the photo book. By the third picture, which is the last page of the book, Rosie seems to have disappeared from our family and been replaced by another hermit crab...

I decided that the other kids at his work table must a. only have one sibling and b. have pets that they were writing about on the last page. I suppose he didn't want to feel left out.

Liam's photo book

Liam had a relief teacher this week while his regular teacher was away. Yesterday the kids made little books about their families, strangely called "photo books" even though no photos were involved and the kids just drew their family members in them.

Liam really liked this activity. He showed everyone the book when he got home and also read it lots of times since it had lots of his sight words in it. What I thought was funny was that Strike the hermit crab scored more page space in the book than Rosie. Maybe Liam just likes drawing crabs more than he likes drawing babies...

I will make an attempt to get the picture of Strike and the rest of the family in here when I have time. We are off to see the doctors for the verdict on Liam's eye today.

My employer...

...is having a few problems paying its staff. You can read about it here. Fortunately all my maternity leave payments were made before the new system started up. I did get paid a couple of weeks ago through the new system when I wasn't expecting it and I thought it was wrong until I realised it was a public holiday pay that I actually was entitled to. The news isn't so good for those who haven't been paid for three whole pay periods though.

Closer to home, we are continuing our journey on the patient's side of the health system. Liam is still having a few problems with his eye, he is having some double vision and it looks like his upward eye movements are a bit limited since his scooter crash. So we're off to the specialist in Brisbane to see what to do next...and we're praying all will be well in the long term. Thanks to those who've been praying for him.