December 9 {Thankful # 9}

{ Blog 25 days of being Thankful..... this as a way of staying focused on the good , happy and pleasing moments....

it's a way of acknowledging all that we take for granted, all that we sometimes overlook as we let busyness take over.}

Today I am thankful for.....

Our two kids having a great finish ( well almost) to the end of the school year....

Today Fraser received a Principals Award for 

Excellent Attendance!!!

There were about six students in the whole school that managed a near perfect attendance record and he was one of them.......WooHoo we say although it wasn't something we have consciously thought about...isn't that what you are supposed to do when you are in Grade One? 

He was super proud when we explained what the award had been given for.....

Meg was also recognised as 1 of three Year seven students who were successful to gain entry into the Creative Arts -Dance Drama Specialist programme for Year eight next year...

Only 22 students in the surrounding local schools gained a place.....WooHoo we say again!

My afternoon was spent making a new Christmas stocking for Meg......

This is the sorry looking one she has had for 12 years ( sadly her first Christmas was a time where we had heaps going on with our eldest)

anyway she said she didn't mind but it was a talking point each year...

So now she has a brand new "mummy made" one.....

I used the template from here

Only a little quilting as a feature with some of my lovely doilies....

These are our stocking that belong to myself and the hubby....I made these for our first Christmas as a married couple...23 years ago!!!

And Fraser has  a lovely "not mummy made" one that grandparents brought for him on his first Christmas.....

and this one always hangs right next to the others .....

Growing up we just used a pillowcase from the linen cupboard that sat on the end of our bed...

Come Christmas Eve our stockings will "magically" have goodies land in them too.