Today is a Public Holiday for Australia Day and I'm taking tomorrow off work too - yay for loooong weekends. It's still summer school holidays here so I am taking extra time off to spend with Ryan before his return to school on February 12th. He'll be in Grade One.
I stayed up way too late last night downloading BookSmart software from Blurb.com and playing around with my blog entries to make a snazzy looking, professionally bound book. I tried the automatic option where every blog entry, every photograph and every comment is included but of course it was far too big and I got a message along the lines of 'whoa! that's some blog you have there!' I love the idea of making my blog into a book and I especially love the idea of having every one of my comments saved for eternity :)
Does anyone have any experience with Blurb.com? It looks like fun, easy too but probably quite expensive to ship to Australia, otherwise known as the End of the World. How are you saving/archiving your blog entries? ? Any suggestions welcome!
As I mentioned, we've been in holiday mode here with the occasional day of work thrown in. I think Ryan has been kept reasonably busy with a mix of vacation care, days at home with mummy and Amelie, weekends with all of us, visits with friends and a sleep-over at Nanny's house. I haven't overwhelmed him with scheduled activities; sometimes it's just fun to slob around and spend time at home just doing 'stuff'. He's outside right now helping daddy set up a new trampoline.
Amelie has also been going to Nanny's (not overnight though) and to her day carer when I've had to work. She's still very much a mummy's girl and loves to know where I am at all times. We've had some sleep issues with her daytime naps (i.e. she hasn't wanted to take them and I am going mad!) but still manages to get through the night without calling out. In the mornings I'll often bring her into bed and she'll last maybe 10 minutes before crawling out of bed, sliding down to the floor and flicking through a pile of magazines kept beside the bed. She barely looks at the pictures; it's just FLICK, FLICK, FLICK really quickly until one of the pages rips! I don't mind, it buys me another 10-15 minutes in bed.
Success - a daytime nap!
Practicing brushing (mostly chewing!)
Loving bathtime
Amelie and Ryan love playing under her couch, don't ask me why ;)
Sorry no experiece with blurb.com
But what a cute entry!
Today is our first full day back from vacation (Disney World), Ana is in the shower getting ready for school. I can not wait for summer break here.
Posted by: Raelyn | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 00:00
Gotta love Australia Day!!! I too relish that little bit of extra time in bed until Hugh tugs at my arm and tell me to get up cause it's brekky time.
Posted by: Hannah&boys | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 21:13
sorry, I don't have experience with Blurb, either. But since today was my 1,172nd blog post, I'm guessing mine wouldn't fit neatly into one book. LOL
I LOVE the picture of A brushing her teeth. What a cutie!
jen
Posted by: Jen_Jake'smom | Friday, February 01, 2008 at 13:59