Cinderella's Sundance

Oh yes Sir-ee it is! For me, 5 weeks without a cigarette, yay go me! After a hellish past 12 months I am back on track BIG TIME in so many ways. Life right now is pretty cool, I haven't felt this positive in my personal life in a long long time.... actually I've only felt like this for a total of about 17 months in the past 18 years. Life right now... could only be made better by my one wish. And fingers crossed in the next couple of weeks I get to find out if that could be possible.

I think one of the things is honesty. Brutal honesty, even if it's not what you or the other person wants to hear. In the end I've come to realise it releases me from feeling so weighed down. If I say it, I don't carry it anymore. And sometimes it changes things in a most dramatic way :)

Other things are going well atm. The business had a great Cloth Nappy Hunt month. Baby BeeHinds made their debut in my store. I've waited so long to get them in, deciding that to expand I needed to rethink my plan.. which I did, and that's where including Aussie brands made overseas came in. I've always had Aus owned & made. But to be realistic financially for me and customers I needed to rework my plan.

The Breast Cancer Auctions are this month. We've already opened our store selling Pink Ribbon merchandise and some funky "Boobs" by Kristie @ IssySnookles. Auctions preview & go live late on Monday 18th October for one week only.

I'm slowly making my way through listing the auctions, my concentration span isn't stretching as far as I wish it would atm. I seem to have alot of nothing on my mind... I'm thinking my mind is trying to get used to not stressing all the time worrying about the one thing it used to worry about all the time.... which I won't be sharing, sorry ;) Let's just say it's THE thing that has made the past 3 months or so the most awesomeness in a VERY long time :)

So with that I bid you Farewell :) I have alot of work to do, and I'd best get into it :)

Sweet Dreams, Sticky Vibes, Much Love & heaps of Happiness
Miss Cinders xxx

*ETA* OH!!! I forgot!!! We're getting a new car... okay so not new as in *New*, but new for us. It's 13 years newer than the L300 4wd we own now LOL My brother found it through his work - YAY BRO! - and decided he was going to do ALL repairs it needed.... getting it so cheap means it has quite abit of work needing to be done to it. But we are on the home stretch now. Fingers crossed we get her before my Sydney app on the 18th!! Oh and the best bit, it fits ALL of us with room for two more ;) AWESOME!

So I've started my distance ed course. And I am reluctant to say.... I severely suck!

Seriously!... I am atm doing my first assignment. Easy one too... BUT I am at a complete loss as how to answer the Q's. Well not a complete loss, I know the answers, but when I put them on paper they sound so stupid, and don't make sense.

And then you have touch typing *pfft!* Who the hell invented that! Oh my golly gosh that is something I COMPLETELY suck at! No joke lol For someone that uses they compueter every day you'd think I'd have something like that down pat. Nup. I completely suck at it.

And mix with that 5 children inhabiting the house every day atm for the last week, and a week still to go... and you have yourself lots of noise and no quiet corner to hide in.

And my tooth is aching :( I think that sucks the most.

Miss Cinders xxx

And so much to tell!!

Well I've been busy, busy lately. My last post left you all in the lurch, I am really sorry for that. It was a horrible week, that I am sooo massively happy to say has worked out awesomely :)

My neice came through her op fine :) They were delayed by quite afew hours, hence why I hadn't heard any news at that time. They repaired her neck, and she was in a neck brace for 6 weeks. Which I am happy to say is very much gone now, and she has even driven again! I nearly fell over when I found out she had been behind the wheel. But apparently she is doing fantastic. And the little womb dweller surprised us all by not being distressed at all through the whole ordeal, and is still happily inside his/her Mummies womb still :)

March was Nappy Hunt season. My goodness it's a busy time that one! We had a huge amount of traffic go through the site which was great, and very few hiccups along the way.

This month has been a busy one. My Mum turned 60 earlier in the month [YAY! Go Mum!] and she came down to visit my siblings and I for a week. Which was really nice. The kids had an awesome time seeing her, and getting to stay down in the city for afew days the weekend of her party.

B4 is now B5, and B14 is now B15! My gosh time has flown!! So my little boy certainly isn't a baby anymore, and my big boy is well into teenagerhood... with both having shocking attitudes atm lol. I guess it'll pass like it always does eventually. The other 3 are cruising along. T13 is going great at school, and is starting to be quite the little biscuits, slice & cake cook. I think my girl has talent! J11 seems to be enjoying school more now he is fully settled into the new one. I think being in Yr6 helps with that too, being one of the 'big kids' now :) And T7 is still my sweet little unique Miss. Still won't get her hair cut though lol. But has agreed for her birthday she'll get it 'trimmed', AND has asked for her ears to be peiced! Never seen that one coming! So time will tell if she goes through with it lol

Well I have work to do, so better get moving. Hope you are all well!

Miss Cinders xx

My apologies for a screwed up post that probably doesn't make much sense...

Today is a hard day that started last Thursday.

Last Thursday my beautiful niece Z rolled her car. She was alone in it.... and 23 weeks pregnant. Lucky for her, she has survived, and baby is doing really well in tum.

But since the accident Z has been flat on her back in a neck brace. She broke her neck and has a fracture in her back. The last week has been hell for Z.... and the most stressful week I think for all of us other family members in a very long time. Z is a fave to all of us... she has such a colourful personailty, and has a heart so big for someone her age.

Today she is having surgery on her neck to take bone from her hip, and put that, a plate & pins in her neck... while being 23 weeks pregnant. She was booked to have surgery at 8am... still no ph call on an update of how it all went [it's 1.13pm]... I'm petrified for her. I can't even put into words how I feel.... I wish it was tomorrow. I've been sitting here watching the damn clock all day, cruising the forums trying to get my mind on something else, and all I can think about is her.

I hope all is okay, no news is good new aye?

Finally! JA heard them too!

Many many times since we've lived here I have heard footsteps running down our hallway... they sound exactly the same as when B4 runs down the hallway [his room is at one end, ours is at the other]. So I have always put them down to B4 being up and running back to bed.... even though after checking on him [because I have 'heard him up'] he is tucked under his blanket sound asleep when I get to his room.

I heard them again last night, but JA got up just as I was about to, so I nodded back off to sleep... JA checked on B4, covered him up, then went to the loo. While in there he heard it again.. so leant back to see out the toilet door to tell him to go back to bed... but B4 didn't go past the doorway.. and when he went back in to check B4, he was sound asleep tucked under his blanket like JA had tucked it over him just before going into the loo....

JA had heard it before, and checked on B4 who was sound asleep every time, but had never said anything to me before today.

The last 2 months it has been happening alot more, every time B4 is asleep in bed. Always middle of the night, or early hours when the birds are waking up... So it appears we have a little person here in the house with us maybe. So now to find out more about our house! The house isn't that old, which is why we are curious now... we know of one bloke who lives here in town [he's our neighbour across the gully] who has lived in the district all his life and remembers when this house was built... so we're going to ask him if anybody has passed away here.

The only child we know of who has passed away in the general area, was a little bloke who was hit by a train on his way home from school one day. But the crossing is 1km down the main road...

So hmm we have a little ghost living with us, I wonder who he/she is?