Winners; 16 year old; scrapping

Yesterday was College Sport finals. Our U15B team played Wellington College. Last time we played them in a bog and they beat us 5- 4. We went into the game as the underdogs and scored very quickly. Then they scored. Final score: 6 - 1 to us!! Oh the team was so excited and the coach said that in his 16 years of coaching he'd never had a team who'd won a medal. All was well in the football world last night

Then today we had Ross' 16th birthday party. It poured with rain and all our plans were for outside :-( I booked the gym (aka as the Recreation Centre) and 20 teenagers spent an hour there playing and having fun. Then we came home for a scavenger hunt/amazing race type activity. By the time they finished it was 6pm and loads of fish and chips arrived. They tucked in and then watched a movie. After the movie, it was ice-cream cake. I found a Pirate theme one - Ross complained - I told him he was lucky he didn't get the Barbie one!

As much as it was exhausting having all these loud teenager haring around, I'm so lucky that I have a teenager who wants FUN rather than the teenager across the road whose 16th had alcohol, gate-crashers, sex, and the police - all before 11pm

Then last week's SBO competition was "white space" ie clear space. I am getting through lots of old photos and I do like this one

And then tomorrow we have the day off! Yes, I will still have some teenagers here after a sleep over (boys only). Then I want to take my Mom grocery shopping and will possibly take my Mom and Dad out for lunch. My Dad has to see a vascular specialist on Wednesday as his right leg artery is very blocked. He also has the start of gangrene in his toes so has to have them amputated. Please spare some healing thoughts for him and especially my Mom who carries all the worry. I have taken the day off in order to be with them whatever happens.

22nd August

Eighteen years and 13 of them in NZ! Seems like a long time but actually it's gone very quickly. Happy anniversary to my hubby. I'm finishing off the crayfish that Irene gave me for my mom and I and the rest will have roast pork for lunch. We celebrated a few weeks ago by having dinner at Monsoon Poon and then going to the NZ Symphony Orchestra for a night of Rogers and Hammerstein

Then tomorrow I am the mother of a 16year old! How did that happen? Happy birthday to Ross. He wants tacos for dinner tomorrow night and is having a party next Sunday. He starts Trial exams tomorrow so he's not impressed!

The competition at SBO last week was to use wire on a l/o! Here's my entry: The bit of wire is some garden mesh like stuff that I found out side in the garden last weekend. This week is to use negative or white space ie leaving lots of blank space. I am getting through lots of old photos!

This week's news

Ross' girlfriend broke up with him! No, he wasn't heartbroken at all, in fact I don't think he thought too much about it at all. I did actually wonder how important they were to each other adn it seems that I was right ... not too important at all! More a case of, "I've got a girlfriend/boyfriend" for both of them.

We went to Camp Quality this weekend to do all the catering for 19 cancer kids and 9 adult helpers. It was great fun even though we worked really hard. The only downside is that we suspect that one of the kids stole Colin's PSP - he is very unhappy about it. We're hoping that the boy will have an attack of the guilts and return it somehow.

Some more l/os: this one is for the Scrappin' Patch Week 5 - Stacey Michaud's style. The photo is of Colin and was teken in early 1998 just after we got here


The next one is for Scrapbook Outlet and was for the Black & White challenge. I did wonder what photo I could use (it didn't have to be black & white) and this one was perfect. Our three cats together - the only photo we have of them all together and sadly two are now gone.

The next challenge at SBO is to use wire .... I managed and will post it next weekend. I have given up at SP as this week is so not my style that I wasn't even prepared to try!

Praise

On Friday I was talking to my Year 11 class about our plans for the rest of the academic year ... only 10.5 weeks left. Out of the blue, one of the girls put up her hand. She said to me, "Miss, you have prepared me better for my exams and tests than any other teacher I have ever had." Boy, was I humbled.

Today I was at school, supervising a couple of kids who were selling fund-raising lollies. A Dad came in and said hello to me. He then said, "I hear from the kids that you are the best teacher to have." Again, I was humbled

Gosh, I'm feeling good about what I do

Scrapping

I joined up at two competitions: at Scrappin' Patch where the competition is to scrap like a chosen star. Then the best three are chosen each week and the person with the most points will win a cricut. Now I know I'm NEVER going to be the best and having done three l/os (which I mostly like) I think I'm going to bow out gracefully as it does stress me a bit. This is the last one:

Then at Scrapbook Outlet there is a Kiwi - Ana competition ... also collecting points; however, one prize will be given to the highest score and the other two prizes will be a draw from those who get more than 100 points: 12 points for a l/o and one point for each Kiwi related question that is answered. So far I have entered one l/o (12 points) and answered five questions correctly (1 point each). Week 1 was to use Kiwi Icons and I have had these photos floating around for about a year. Another six weeks of l/os to go and possibly 26 questions

Week 2 is black and white and mine's completed and I'm very happy with it - I will add it next weekend.

In my opinion, it is much better to have a lucky draw competition as the playing field is even ... there are the designer people in NZ and honestly, I have NO hope of competing against them - it's like putting me against the Olympic 100m champion - no point really. Oh, and I have another small complaint but I'll keep quiet on that one for now!