I have somehow found myself at Wednesday today and the list seems to have already been thrown out the window.
Every time I look at the list I think of something else that I need to do before the Stitches and Craft Show extravaganza in May, and of course I am trying to do as much as possible in the two weeks holiday.
(Does anyone remember last year when I started a good 3 months beforehand... )
So today I finished off the hedgehog kits - Like totally finished , and packed in a box.
I dyed some extra delicious 100% wool flannel for elephants. I'm hoping some people want to make woolen versions of Parsley and Beet (but I have to admit that wools are hard on the hip pocket)and then... this afternoon I tool Edna, spirited filly that she is, off for a brisk trot
There are these crazy wild plants that have been planted along one of the main roads into Ballarat - and they really intrigue me....Their colours are weirdly tropical and bright and they seem to be shooting crazy furry squiggly brain shaped flowers...
So off we went to investigate and Monty and his dear wife Pearl joined us.
But mostly they seemed unimpressed !(and speaking of unimpressed : Just so you know, tonight when dinner was ready , I called the kids a few times with ever-increasing volume. In the end, I thought about storming down the hallway and kicking someones door in, but then I thought of all the "we didn't hear you" "we thought it was something else " endless argument palaver, and you know what ?
I rang them !
yep ! I wasted whatever-it-costs and I rang my children to come to dinner.
I rang and they came......must be the novelty value.
Judge me ...don't judge me, I don't care.....that's how it is on the front line these days and all I can say is thank god I can sew OK ...cause quite obviously the parenting gig is not my strong point!)
I rang them !
yep ! I wasted whatever-it-costs and I rang my children to come to dinner.
I rang and they came......must be the novelty value.
Judge me ...don't judge me, I don't care.....that's how it is on the front line these days and all I can say is thank god I can sew OK ...cause quite obviously the parenting gig is not my strong point!)
Hey, I get this. I rang my beloved (who was in the kitchen) on a recent Saturday morning, from bed, to request a cuppa, pronto! It worked too. Loving Mr & Mrs in the flower bed x
ReplyDeleteI have rung my husband from bed before. Actually.. maybe more than once. And texted too. It works! Whatever works WORKS!
ReplyDeleteHow cute are those crazy hedgehogs? Love the packaging, gorgeous. x
Love it! If you can't beat the crazy minds of techno kids then join them I say. Loving the hedgehog kits. Would love to buy one...can you spare one before the show? Hope all is well :)
ReplyDeleteI think I am living a deluded dream that parenting gets easier as they get older ;(
ReplyDeletePS: LOVE Pearl and Monty.
Hey, no-one gives us a manual when we have kids, so I reckon if it works, and it's not illegal, then go for it! I think you're a great mum for bothering to call them, I'd shout out a few times and then stop. They'd come when they were hungry and they could eat cold dinner, that would learn them, right? ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'd love to buy one of your hedgie kits, they're adorable! Will you be putting any in your shop?
Ha, ha, to "One Flew Over"! Haven't you heard that kids don't leave home anymore, they stay with you until you die and they can get the house! ;-)
My hubby rings me from the toilet if he's run out of toilet paper.
ReplyDeleteDid Edna fall and is she hurt ? I have a very classy way of calling out" RIGHTO " it sounds a bit like a drunken fishwife and the kids come so they don't have to hear it again because "you know " it's embaressing Mum ! Sometimes they don't hear either and then I really make them pay .
ReplyDeletehehehe...I am not a parent...but I can relate. Those hedgehogs look too cute. After I've tackled the Parsley and Beet pattern I might have to swing on by to acquire some little friends for them. I know elephants are afraid of mice...but I'm sure they get along swimmingly with hedgehogs...who wouldn't ?!
ReplyDeleteWe have a fancy-schmancy telephone system here and I've been known to page people for dinner...
ReplyDeleteThose hedgehog kits look fantastic. You are going to need some sort of a sweatshop get-up in order for there to be enough of those.
This post cracked me up...good on you for doing whatever works to get your children to dinner....
ReplyDeleteChris and I have been known to skype each other from different rooms. Love the hedgehogs.
ReplyDeleteMr. & Mrs. H-H are adorable. The cockscomb flowers are wonderful - so colorful!
ReplyDeleteit's beautiful here
ReplyDeletei'm gald i've found your blog
i hope to visit again
best wishes
Robyn ;)
lmao.... I know exactly where you're coming from!
ReplyDeleteWe call the flowers "Prince of Wales Feathers" here in the UK.
ReplyDeleteemailing my DH is the only way I can have a whole conversation...otherwise he goes wandering off into another room when he thinks I should be finished...and then I get "why are you following me around" or at least frowns and wrap it up signals. LOL I blame it on his mum who NEVER finishes a conversation.
Sandy in the UK
Ha ha... I used to ring the ex if he was out in the shed. I couldn't yell loud enough for him to hear!
ReplyDeleteWith kids and technology - if you can't beat 'em join 'em.
Monty and Pearl are precious. As for kids...I think today's generation is electronically wired...perhaps born with an technology gene? I say use whatever works. :o)
ReplyDeleteOur kids aren't quite that old but when they are I'd probably just start eating... they'll have to sort themselves out!
ReplyDeleteI think I'm with Mr Banshee - I'd eat and let them figure it our for themselves!
ReplyDeleteYou could try pulling out the fuse from the electricty meter (not your own)!! LOL
Everything is looking really classy - the boxes, the felt, and Mr and Mrs.
Love those hedgehogs. Maybe "after" the show I can purchase one from you. Don't want to put any pressure on you before and I probably wouldn't get to it just yet anyway. Have a fabulous time. I know you'll do well. Your stuff is amazing!
ReplyDeleteLMAO Jodie you dag! Totally classic! I had expected you to say you just stopped yelling and sat down to eat, so it was really funny to me when you said you phoned them. They'll remember that. It'll be one of their "my mum's crazy" stories :) So it's not bad parenting, it's memory making!!
ReplyDeleteOh my, my family calls or texts each other from different rooms for all kinds of silly reasons. I'm especially fond of calling hubby from the computer room to please come refill my wine glass :-) (And I'm going to have to remember Chicken Willow's tip about the toilet paper!) But our highest and best use of technology is in Costco or Wal-Mart. "Where are you? Are you done yet? Meet you up by the check-outs!" Those hedgehogs are so darned cute, by the way!
ReplyDeletecalling for dinner on the phone? Ridiculous! At our house, we IM. After all- they might not hear the ring if they have their headphones on :-)
ReplyDeleteI say use whatever works! My husband has called me from other rooms. Very cute, I think I am going to start trying that.
ReplyDeleteDot quite regularly texts me from her bedroom and I have been known to ring for a cup of tea from the sewing room in the garden! So you are in the best company!
ReplyDeleteLocket xx
P.S. did Edna mind being thrown on the ground like that - or did she fall?
Love the hedgehogs. You are gonna sell out quickly. Can't think of the name of those flowers, similar to cockscomb but not.
ReplyDeleteI frequently called my kids on their phones because the kitchen/dining room is downstairs and they were upstairs with the doors closed and music on and I didn't want to tramp upstairs. Technology rules.
It's the age we live in. I remember my dad had a belt - that used to work on us, but nowadays we have to use phones ;-D
ReplyDeleteMy kids have been known to ring me from their rooms to ask what time dinner will be ready!
ReplyDeleteRemeber back in the old days when phones used to be attached to the wall by curly string and to the universe by long skinny strings o/s the house? We had two phonelines on the same number and my aunt used to ring my cousin at the other end of the house and say to him 'This is the voice of GOD. Have you done your homework?'
ReplyDeleteMy aunty Ruth had one of those plants. It died.
ReplyDeleteJust in case you were still wondering they're celosias - the brain flowers. Of course, you may not have been wondering but at least I got to show off.
ReplyDeleteMust say, I'm admiring your modern parenting techniques. I was thinking mine were too young for mobile phones but it may prove a worthwhile investment. I mean, they seem to be able to concentrate on anything with a screen but ask them to listen to an actual human voice and deafness ensues.
So glad you only parked Edna for a closer look at the flora - I was getting very worried that you'd had a dreadful accident!!
Lovely hodger boxes, by the way :o)
xxx
You have been so productive - don't be so hard on yourself!
ReplyDeleteAs for the kids, I figure they are old enough that they can make an advance reservation for dinner, and come when they are called or their dinner gets cold. When our nephew stayed with us a few years ago, we made it a condition that he advise us by 8 that morning if he was going to be home for dinner, and if he was, dinner was on the table at 6.30. If he wasn't home by 6.30, his dinner became Scott's lunch the next day. No ifs, no buts. Ohh, nasty, nasty Aunty Michelle!
He only missed dinner once - and never again after that!
Sounds like I'll have to cave in and get my son a mobile so I can get with the 21st century and text him for dinner!
ReplyDeleteLove the hedgehogs by the way and I reckon they looked rather cute frolicking amongst the weird flowers!
Sounds like I'll have to cave in and get my son a mobile so I can get with the 21st century and text him for dinner!
ReplyDeleteLove the hedgehogs by the way and I reckon they looked rather cute frolicking amongst the weird flowers!
Glad you finished packing the hedgehogs. I was feeling a little guilty about not sitting there with you and packing them as we talked.
ReplyDeleteI am so looking forward to the Stitches and Craft show this year in Melbourne, I really hope i am well enough to go. All the best, i hope you sell out!
ReplyDeletePhoning - I love it! Perhaps SMS would be cheaper though. You could go on to the Text-At-Tea-Time plan. (I have Instant Messaged my husband asking him to get off the %$#^&@#% computer and come and eat dinner.)
ReplyDeleteThey are odd plants. The Punisher just asked me if Edna is laying on the ground trying to seduce him. These bikes are sick.
ReplyDeleteI tried to grow some of those plants once. I think their glory was short lived in my garden.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame your kids don't realise they've got the coolest mum in the business!
Love Monty, Pearl, Edna and your gorgeous hedgehog boxes. Looking forward to seeing you at the show.
Phones or email, either would do the trick! I think you're a very innovative parent actually....
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the organising!
I inherited my dad's dinner bell, and I LOVE it. As Tine said, I don't have to go yelling all over the house just to get the family to come to dinner. Monty and Pearl look charming among the flora.
ReplyDeleteI love the hedgehogs in the flower garden. My dad grows them so I will have to ask him what they are called! My kids never come when I call them for dinner, they are usually tucked away in their rooms doing something! Maybe we mums need a cowbell or something to alert them that food is on the table! I always thought kids could smell when the food was ready anyway. Have a great time at the crafty getaway too!
ReplyDeleteModern times Jodie. I can't sit in the same room as Jeff and tell him that we have something on. He sits on the lounge and tells me to email him!
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness, too cute! those kits, the box, the twine, the pictures! it's all too cute! honestly jodie, your middle name is cute!
ReplyDeleteare you going to come up to the sydney S&C in august??? I dont' think I'll wing a ticket down to melbourne but will be at the sydney one for all 5 days!!!
corrie:)
I hope you reversed the charges!! That would teach 'em. My mum would have sat down and ate... then put the rest away and let us come and ask when supper was!!!
ReplyDeleteThose flowers look fab - strange, but fab. And so long as they aren't triffids!
Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one who does that! (Although I do text instead of call because that won't cost me.) Sometimes it is not worth the effort to walk to the teenager's bedroom, knock on his door and wait for him to turn down the stereo so he can hear me.
ReplyDeleteOh wow Jodie... that's one I haven't tried yet in the war against icky teenagers. I wonder if it would have the same effect as a 'wake up' call in the morning. I get sick of repeatedly yelling 'WAKE UP' every school morning. Super excited - I'll let you know if I have any success.
ReplyDeleteJodie, you amaze me. Such motivation, brilliant ideas, talent & wit! I've only been following for a while but you always make me smile! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWill keep the phone tip up my sleeve as my 3 are under 8 and still phone free - although Mr 8 thinks an iphone would be "cool" ... not a chance!
That is one good reason in the pro side of getting phones for your kid. Mine are too young (well, in my mind anyway - not sure I'm ready to pay a mobile bill for my 5yr old, quite yet!). I'm sure it would work.
ReplyDeleteFor dinner tonight, I had to call, then call again. Then they came and sat at the table, and I had to ask them to clear it of their junk, and then ask them to set it (numerous times), then I had to ask all three of them to please put some clothes on for the dinner table. So nice having a 7, 5 + 3 yr old at dinner in their nothings.....
I love your packaging + hedgehogs are super cute. Amazing you are so organised - yah for you. I have a market at the end of this month, and have barely started.
I mean - why am I blogging, when I should be working.
ohh, love those little hedgehog boxes!
ReplyDeletewill definitely be visiting you at s&c.
mine are too little for phones, looking forward to when that happens..4 year old has a bit of attitude already!
OK, get this. When I was growing up we lived in a double storey house WITH AN INTERCOM. It's not like we lived in great style or anything but it has forever cracked me up that Mum called us for dinner via INTERCOM. Not that it ever worked when she used it to call us for the Sunday School bus...
ReplyDeleteI thought Edna had thrown a shoe or even chucked you off being a spirited filly or maybe she had colic? But looks like she was just enjoying a rest before another brisk trot home again ;-)
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh when I read this because I too have called my kids to get their attention.
ReplyDeleteI rang my mum from upstairs, cos she didn't hear me shouting over the kitchen noises she was making. It didn't quite work. She just came to the bottom of the stairs and yelled up "could you get the phone, my hands are wet"!!
ReplyDeleteGlad you and Edna (and friends) are getting some fresh air.
Parenting? At least you are still feeding them, they should be grateful!
Cheers,
AJ
So you're either living in a mansion so big you need an intercom for the children to be called for dinner or they have iPod headphones in?? I insist i stay alert to calls for help from my children at all times, why can't they stay alert for me, provider of food?? Cute hedghogs Jodie, love Posie
ReplyDeleteSo glad Monty and Pearl ventured out to check out the flora with you and Edna - Looks like they are admiring all the colour.
ReplyDeleteOh how I love your laugh-out-loud-funny blog! Amen sister, I sometimes think I live in a parallel universe with my teen sons in x-box land and me in crafty blogland! Your hedgehog kits are primo, love the button!
ReplyDeleteJust wait until they have left home...Yes, it will happen...eventually!
ReplyDeleteI now have to communicate via facebook!
totally NOT judging you! I have been known to text my kid from the front seat. it's the best way to get her attention!
ReplyDeleteGo Jodie
ReplyDeletewhatever works i reckon
yeah all this to look forward to..:)