4th Year Anniversary! It was four years today that my darling husband Steve achieved his boyhood dream of setting foot on Mt. Everest, ( base camp).

Many thought he wouldn't make this mammoth trek deemed to be one of the hardest in the world.....you see at the time Steve was 65 years old.

Back when Steve was just a lad of 14 years old.....1953.....Sir Edmund Hillary set foot on Mt. Everest.......that day Steve told his mother that one day he also would set foot on Mt. Everest. That day Steve's dream began..

51 years  later his dream came true....I have total admiration and am in awe of Steve's determination and willpower to make his dream come true.

I can never describe the gamut of emotions that this achievement has had on Steve but for those who have heard his story can see  visually and feel the enchanting power this mountain had on him.

Even though he brought back a horrible disease with him tp://www.minti.com/parenting-advice/6604/Guillian-Barre-Syndrome-GBS/    he wouldn't have traded the experience for anything. 

I know life can throw us some curve balls at times, that we find hard to deal with....but over all, life is wonderful and if you want something bad enough, "DARE to DREAM" anything is possible!

 

i have never really had alot of girlfriends through my life, was always the one to hang out playing power rangers and vidio games with the guys but recently i have found some wicked cool chickies that i would just love to send this message to. (these are only the ones i have meet... a bunch o other minti mums would fit in this thing too but i have to put the kids to bed in a bit so short on time)

Karen - regardless of anything involving poultry, i luvs ya because you is totally left of sideways. you speak to me and not at me and you have such a sweet character but are not afraid to beat me up hehehe total coolness factor there!!! i guess you remind me of what i was like when i first had Logan. And i just cant wait to see you get to the spot where you figure out that you are a wonderful parent and a fantastic friend. the best i have had in a long while. Thanks much nicest chickie!!

Liz - hope you get to read this... (apart from the fact that you like cool stuff) you are the light at the end of every dark tunnel, you are the inspiration to keep at it and never ever give up on anything. you have taught me that determination is all that is needed to make it. i just wanna thank you for being you from the bottom of my heart... ps: you somehow gives off spores of relax. which is kinda cool cause i am as high strung as they come for the most part. luvs ya much the grooviest chickie!!

GenGen - (known as Gennah when i am not pissed LOL) yet to have kidlets and a few years my junior Gen is one of my other bestest buddies. she is just plain cool, she has a cool job and does cool things and i just wanna be like her (cept for the Wendell thing cause he is creepy LOL!!!)... she is the funniest person on the planet and totally the high queen of random. although only the above two mentioned people know her (she is not imaginary!!) she would fit in well with the all the wackyfun people i hang with here i is sure.

thanks for a spot to put this ::)'s from becca!

The phone, is a constant companion at the moment, it goes from morning till night. I cannot, not answer as there are so many things to be done, arranged and sorted. I look at the phone with dread as it rings.

The phone rang this morning, I shifted my face into a smile, it might be good news after all, it might be Flora phoning. A strange voice using my real name, a man, my heart sinks, "what now, what is this man going to tell me has gone wrong now".

"Hello this is Steve from Australia, Janice's Husband".

My response "Oh my word". My heart did a flip and some, I was on the phone to Steve and Janice was in the background itching to talk. If you could have seen my face, it would have lit up the darkest corner of the planet.

In fact I am still grinning ear to ear. Janice came on and Oh my goodness, what a beautiful voice, full of care and compassion, understanding and love. That phone call did wonders to lift my spirits.

I will treasure that little act of love, and look back and think how a Woman and Man on the other side of the world, took a moment out of their life to show a lot of love, to a complete stranger in her lowest hours.

To Janice and Steve, my heartfelt thanks to you both.

To young Emmie, a hug and a thankyou too, for all the care and concern you have shown to this old windbag Winnie, as you struggle through your own fears and troubles, you have found moments to phone and prod me on to keep the wheels turning and the mind focused. A kind word, and a liitle joke to keep me smiling, as you know all I want to do is be at home in the North.

For Janice, Steve and Emmie a little song and a view of my homeland, and within the song, sung in my native tongue, there is a message of strength and love to you all.

Thankyou from the heart. Love Winnie.xxxx

 

I have a VERY  special friend . I love her very much. You all know her as Winnie so that i what i will call her in this blog. I feel a little sad right now ok alot but thatis beside  the point. Why do i fel sad. ?  Because my special friend is sad. I would love to call her and tell her i love her and everything will be ok. I want to get in the car and go and giveher a big hug. Her hugs are lovelyy so warm. Winies Dad is in a bad way right now so she is with him while her wonderful sister has a much deserved break . I so wih i could be there for her i know she is a strong person but it hurts me so much to know someone as special to me as what she is is hurting so much.

 I cant explain to you how much our phonecalls have meant overthe past months there have been tears and laughter but most of all she stuck by me . She listened to me she never judged me she has been honest with me about everything. I really dont know what i would do without her sometimes. When i am sad and upset and need someone to listen to my feeling and emotions she is ALWAYS  the other end of the phone. If i blog and she feels my sadness she will ring me up just to make sure im ok and to let me know she is there fo rme .

I have often told her my feeling through tears vice versa i love her so much. She means the world to me . My girls too . When i went ot meet her i didnt know what to expect but she was the modt loving person EVER we got on absolutly fantastic . From the first time we hugged i have never let go of that hug i remember it like it was yesterday. We had the most fantastic weekend together and since our friendship has just grew and grew.

Winnie I love you thanks so much for being such a wonderful friend. For always being there and aways listening and understanding through EVERYTHING  you dont understand how much it means to me THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU .

Here are some pictures just for you to remember what a special time we had together .

Helen (Nell-18 ) , Me , Winnie (Mrs Sanders)

I will forever treasureour friendship

Love Emz xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Just an angel to watch over all you beautiful friends.

Much Love Janicexxxx

P.S. If you have any friends that are not in this group and you feel that they would benefit from being among us...please feel free to invite them....the more the merrier.

 

I would be lost with out my man (as they say) he is the nicest person I have ever met. He does have his flaws like he talks to much. LOL hard to get a word in edgeways some days but I love him none the less.

Chris has done so much for me over this last 8 years and asked nothing but love and respect in return. (he dont ask for yummy food cause I cant cook to save my life)

He found me in a very dark place of self hurting and permiscuality (I was a art student) I had recently broken up from a dominating bf who was very mean and pushed me to do things I didnt want to do. When I finally had the guts to leave him I had to have some friends when he came to pick up his stuff in fear he would hit me.

It took awhile for Chris to ask me out and yep I am his first Girlfriend. He was brought up in a somewhat strick christian home so he believed in waiting for the right girl. I do feel honoured that he chose me.

It took him 2 and a bit months to realise he wanted me forever and woke me one morning at 3 am to ask me to marry him. sadly my resopnse was cool yeah, can I go back to sleep. LOL great response hey.

About 2 weeks later we were shopping in Midland and he runs off and then comes backa s I was talking to a old mate and he says babe can I borrow $79, I not thinking gave him my card and he bought my engagement ring. (never paid me back but I dont care) at that time he was living with me and my dad and I was getting a whole $180 a f/n to live on as my dad had his own place and I lived in the front house we just ate dinner together. It was good cause I didnt have rent just gas and electricity. after awhile Chris decided to get money too. LOL was funny cause he didnt really want to live with his mum and dad cause our realtionship had caused a prob with his dad at school due to us having sex and we werent married. so he put that he couldnt live with his parents due to religious reasons. At this time I was still a practicing Wiccan too. was hard for his parents as they copped a lot of crap about their kids being un wholy as Chris's brother was living with his GF too.

So it came to our year ann and I was so sick. we found out we were pregnant and got married a month later. 3 days before 9/11. was a sad time.

since then Chris has helped me with my 2 dealings with PND, several suicde attemps and now living with my personality disorder and having to guard me daily. It is very exhausting for him physically and emotionally and he has had to change his personality a bit to deal with me. This i am very sad about. But I am very thankful for him and thank God for sendig him as we both feel we were ment to be together as there are so many things that could of brought us together years before hand. Like our fathers used to be friends in high school and uni, they did the same uni class. I almost went to his school when I left home once to live with my dad.

So many things that we have in common, even his mum and I do. we had the same teacher in high school. even though Linda is 50 and I am only 26 Mr Woodly still taught us both. was so funny when we had a goodbye to Chris's Dad when he left the principal job and Mr Woodly was there and he was like Hello Liz, what are you doing here and I said Hiya Sir ummm Richard in my FIL and he looked at my belly and went WOW Liz your having a baby. good on you. Then he went off at me for not going into english after school as I was his best student he said. (wasnt hard as my year and class wernt to good, there were about 6 kids that were ok) Oh and I am a spitting personality image of my MIL so we clash a bit from time to time but she is the best MIL you can have. She is so supportive to me atm with my upcoming operation as she has had it too.

So yeah a bit of a ramble there, sorry.

I love and adore my hubby. He is the best Hubby ever, given up so much to look after me and I hope that one day I can repay it all to him.

 I mentioned to Janice that I had a best friend of 35 years, nearly our entire lives. I promised to write a blog. So here it is.....

My aunt and Roberta's aunt are best friends. When her cousin was having his 2nd birthday, everyone was invited. We were all dressed in our finest party clothes. My first memory of Roberta is seeing her in a pink party dress. I also had a pink party dress LOL We admired each others dresses then went off to play. We were 4 years old. As it turns out her cousin and mine are also best friends but anyway, that's another story.

On the first day of school, we hooked up again. Another of her cousins Angela was also starting that day. She happened to live in my street. Yes, you guessed it we were the three amigos. We spent all our school days together and all our spare time LOL We really were inseparable. We shared everything with other and there was nothing we didn't do together. This went all the way up through high school. There are to many stories to tell.

Oh the fun we had, hours and hours of laughing at the silliest things LOL We took turns having sleep-overs at each others places, we went everywhere together. We could all look at each other and know what we were thinking. We even dressed alike! We were all so close, like sisters. We were family. Roberta and Angela actually were but with all the other connections within each others family, there were no distinctions. There was a bigger group of friends that we hung around but we were the core. Tight as tight could be. We talked about the future as if we were always going to be there.

As we got older, Angela slipped away from us. Roberta and I are still to this day deeply saddened by this. Roberta will ring her aunt from time to time, especially to let her know when we've had a child. We've tried in the past to get in contact but it just hasn't happened.

So Roberta and I became the dynamic duo LOL 

She has always been there for me, through everything good and bad, through all the years. We can still just look at each other and know what we are thinking. We can remember the stupid things we did as teens and laugh until we cry. Let me tell you, there were heaps LOL. We have special code words and even sounds that only we know what they mean. Hahaha that sounds so funny but its true! 

We have laughed, cried, shared everything emotion a person has and she has been the only person I have no secrets from. We are an open book to each other. I love Roberta, my friend from the day we each wanted each others pink dress to now, when we share the joy of parenthood.WE BOTH HAVE TWINS! Amazing how that happened LOL I miss her so much at times. She's been over living in Perth now for a few years.  When we do get together, things are always the same as if we only saw each other yesterday.

This year we are celebrating 35 years as friends. I can still picture her as a little girl in that pink party dress.

I love you Roberta! 

Ps: I am hoping to catch up with Berta (as I call her) when I go to Perth in October. Boy am I going to have a huge amount of blogs when I get back home.

Thanks for reading, much love and hugs to everyone!

Cath xxxx

.........Janice,

Where better to show that love than in the group started to show love

Janice, Please don't cut yourself off, even though you are really hurting, come where there are so many that love you and want to help you feel better

Lets all Show Love to Janice ........

Thanks heaps for the add Janice. I"m sure i'll fit right in here in this group.

 

My best story of Love is my husband everyday. He put his life on hold to look after me. to me this is the biggest way of love i have.

            

  In my journey of life i have had the privilege  to make many friends.

Some have been fleeting......others have been casual........  others  are  dear friends......&  then there are those that I treasure dearly !   Then there are two that I have a true and deep connection with, that goes beyond friendship!

One is Annie my life long friend of 35 years!

And then there is Marg.....I am so vey honored to call her   "My Other Half".

Marg, knows what I am feeling....knows my thoughts......knows what I am about to say......excepts me for the person I am, ( warts & all  ! )......can feel when I need her & responds.......can enjoy each others company without a work being spoken......our loves are the same, for   family....friends.....animals......& mother earth !

I just wanted to say " I love you dearly Marg & miss you very so much.

WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR FRIENDSHIPS !

 

I just wanted to add my experience of my lovely visitors who graced our lives for two very short weeks. I loved having Steve and Janice with us. It seemed as it had always been and should continue to be so. It was really a shock when they left. Still trying to fathom why half of me left???? Janice needed to be home with her animals and life and mine seems to have an empty spot that is for her. It was a very special time and a very special event and I so thank Steve for making it all happen. Until next time dear Nature Buddy,until next time.

When I created the heavens and the earth, I spoke them into being. When I created man, I formed him and breathed life into his nostrils. But you woman, I fashioned after I breathed the breath of life into man because your nostrils are too delicate. I allowed a deep sleep to come over him so I could patiently and perfectly fashion you.

Man was put to sleep so that he could not interfere with the creativity. From one bone I fashioned you. I chose the bone that protects his heart and his lungs and supports him, as you are meant to do. Around this one bone I shaped you. I modeled you. I created you perfectly and beautifully.

Your characteristics are as the rib, strong yet delicate and fragile. You provide protection for the most delicate organ in man, his heart. His heart is the center of his being; his lungs hold the breath of life. The rib cage will allow itself to be broken before it will allow damage to the heart.

Support the man as the rib cage supports the body. You were not taken from his feet, to be under him, nor were you taken from his head, to be above him. You were taken from his side, to stand beside him and be held close to his side.

You are My perfect angel. You are My beautiful little girl. You have grown to be a splendid woman of excellence, and My eyes fill when I see the virtues in your heart. Your eyes - don't change them. Your lips - how lovely when they part in prayer. Your nose, so perfect in form, your hands so gentle in touch. I've caressed your face in your deepest sleep; I've held your heart close to mine.

Of all that lives and breathes, you are the most like Me. Adam walked with Me in the cool of the day and yet he was lonely. He could not see Me or touch Me. He could only feel Me.

So everything I wanted Adam to share and experience with Me,
I fashioned in you: My holiness, My strength, My purity, My love, My protection and support. You are special because you are the extension of Me.

Man represents My image, woman My emotions. Together you represent the totality of God. So man - treat woman well. Love her, respect her, for she is fragile. In hurting her, you hurt Me. What you do to her, you do to Me. In crushing her, you only damage your own heart, the heart of your Father, and the heart of her Father.

Woman, support man. In humility, show him the power of emotion I have given you. In gentle quietness show your strength. In love, show him that you are the rib that protects his inner self.

Written by: B.J.Morbitzer 2002

Come on in, sit down, put your feet up, relax....turn your speakers on & enjoy a jolt from the past...."Dont't Worry be Happy"  Click on play.....i so hope this works.

Love Janice

I was wondering if any one had any ideas, other than the tagging game that has been going on recently, to spread love around Minti?

I am throwing out all the junk today and i pick up my diary from the year 2000 i read it and i get to the date of 16th june 2000 and i says this.lol. going out on a date with jimmy! this is the first time we went out and from that day we have been together. you say to you self yeah well what so special about that?   must say i sat there and said to  myself that date i know.

Yes that is the date my first child Annaliese was born but 2004 lol........ hows that!!! Must tell jimmy when he gets home lol!

hugs Tee

thanks for the invite i will write something tomorrow. i cant think at the moment i went to beach house sat pm after work and arrived back today. i popped in the house for 5 minutes to put perishables in fridge and straight to work (4 to 8) i am unwinding just reading i think i relaxed too much!!!  cheers annie

Thanks for the invite to this lovely group.

When I first got together with my husband 'our song' was 'We've only just begun' by the Carpenters... a special and lovely song. Ruby was born early by emergency c-section. To my amazement, on the radio playing as she was born was 'We've only just begun'... as my beautiful daughter was sick and rushed straight off to special care, it gave me hope and belief that she was going to be ok. Now my lovely impish little daughter comes to lean and dance with me whenever I play it now... whenever her little beautiful body is pressed up against me as we listen to this wonderful song, I stil feel tears welling up inside me. The tears of remembering new love, and the special if traumatic way she was born. Just wanted to share that with you! Em x

Just joined this group and thanks for the invite,

Just wanted to share a funny quote (well it's kinda cute actually) that my partner and I some times say to each other.  In fact more often than not......

"I love you like a fat kid loves choclate cake"