I was sending a friend of mine a gift today on minti when I took a look at her popular show case and realised she had most of the gifts already sent. Upon doing this I thought to myself “wouldn’t it be great if there was more to choose from?” Then I got thinking of what kind of pictures and ideas we could use...

Such as Happy Easter! Chocolate egg gifts, easter bilby, easter bunny, chocolate coins

Cheer up flower and choccie range gifts

Merry Christmas range gifts such as present, candy cane, ginger bread man, tinsel, angel, star, bible, Christmas ham, christmas tree

A Happy birthday range of gifts such as happy birthday cake, candles, present, birthday card

Flower range gifts such as roses, lillies, sunflower, daisy ect

Gardening gifts ranging from seeds and different gardening tools.

What kind of gifts would you like to see invented on minti?

My personal contribution would be butterfly gifts! With different coloured and types of butterflies

Last night around 9pm I woke Raiden up to spend time with his dad before bed and he couldn't speak and starting breathing really loudly and it was really raspy. Ironically the last advice article I read on here before calling minti quits for the night was about Croup. What are the odds of that happening? lol So we took Raiden to the hospital because he has asthma I just wanted to rule out any chances of him having an asthma attack and to see whether it really was croup and not some kind of allergy. He was given some steroid meds which helped him SO MUCH! We saw improvements in as little as an hour. After the doctor was satisfied that Raiden reacted to the meds, he confirmed it was croup and wrote us out a prescription. We got home about 1:30am in the morning.

This morning when Rai woke up, you wouldn't have guessed he even had it but I rang the day care and told them Rai and I weren't coming in today just to be on the safe side.

Then this afternoon I was asked if I wanted to come in and cover a shift at another centre run by the same company not too far from here and I accepted. So getting paid for an 8:30am-5pm shift tomorrow. Then I remembered Raiden's normal day care is full on Thursdays so currently trying to find someone who will look after him. We tried his nanna, they can't, my parents are both working, his aunty is working and his parents wont answer the phone. So I might have to call them back and let them know that I can't find anyone to look after my son so I can't do it. I don't have any time to get my blue card and certificates signed by a JP either so it might be for the best I've been running around like a headless chook making phone calls so I could get the extra money to put on Christmas shopping.

Kadan and Rai have been following me around all day while I've been cleaning the house LOL it's cute but it's also like having 2 babies. Never knew it took longer than 30 mins just to do some dishes... "Kadan no, weeing on the newspaper not the floor!", "Raiden close the cupboard please you already have toys on the ground" ect Now they have both finally crashed out. Raiden is in bed and Kadan is sleeping at my feet.

I've gotta try and work out how I'm supposed to get 2 mystery shopping assignments done by Friday afternoon too. Argh, I need to stop trying to take on too much. Yes Arna... I know you told me so :-p but since when do I ever listen? LOL

*deep breath* I'll sort something out.... I know I will!! *puts on thinking cap*

Who would have thought we went out shopping for groceries and instead came back with 0 shopping and a new puppy LOL We went up the escalator and pointed at the pet store saying we should take Raiden to have a look at the puppies bouncing up and down. Well silly Brent went along with it and one special pup came straight up to me and we fell in love at first sight. Nawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. He's currently asleep on the kitchen floor. He absolutely LOVES Raiden. When Raiden runs around, he chases him in excitement and jumps up and licks him. They have been playing together all afternoon and crashed at the same time LOL So there goes Brent's work bonus LOL

He's a 6 week old Kelpie we called "Kadan" which is Japanese (?? some other website said it was Arabic as well) for "companion". Brent came up with it and I loved it so we went with it.

Wanna know the freaky part? Brent was wearing a white polo shirt today and when we got home and gave him a hug, I noticed there was a tiny stitched on dog bone on his shirt. Guess it was meant to be! Synchronicity!

Well today was my first day and I worked with the 15 month- 3 years group. My ears are still ringing LOL but it was fun! Other than when I had to go outside the laundry to find toys the kids had thrown over the fence, where I was stung by some kind of wasp like insect. It definitely wasn't a bee... it felt like someone had just put my finger in fire and the pain surged right up to my finger tip. So now my ring finger has swollen twice it's size and I can't bend it LOL Raiden got distracted, as when he saw me outside he kept going up to the window and banging on it trying to get my attention. The director has put me on 26 hours a week, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and paying me on a casual basis. She is going to to teach me to be an all rounder so I know how to do opens, closes and all the age groups. Which means I'm also becoming a relief teacher and an extra assistant through-out the holidays.

More good news, Brent just found out he got a pay bonus today, a one off 2.5% lump sum of whatever his salary totals. So I think I'll be going out soon to celebrate :-)