Tonight I had what I thought a really good idea - to revisit this blog, upload some photos I took today of my garden and write a couple of sentences to remember the moment by. Sounded such a simple idea in my head, wouldn't take long, the kids were busy and I'd be done before they noticed. How wrong was I!

First of all I couldn't find my blog. Its been so long since I've been here I'd forgotten what website to go to and my password. When I finally got that sorted I couldn't figure out how to get to where I wanted to go, then I lost the photos I'd downloaded, the kids had stopped playing and the phone was ringing - ever so faintly. It was hidden under cushions and blankets on the coffee table and took a while to find.

Daniel has a friend over tonight and they are sleeping in the lounge and plan to watch a movie that's on TV at 8.30. I'm a bit nervous about this because last year, during winter, I let a group of kids sleep in the lounge and they tried to restart the fire while I was sleeping. I'm hoping this is not my last blog. Freaky stuff!

It was my daughter on the phone and while she tried telling me of her day, the butternut nuggets she planned to make tomorrow, and why the kids shouldn't watch the planned movie, everyone else was talking to me as well - Bailey needed sheets, Daniel wanted more blankets and Alexi was upset she didn't have a house with a horse paddock attached.  Do they think the black thing attached to my ear is an ornament?

While I was on the phone to Bailey's mother to see if he could watch the movie, Daniel was trying to pinch the blanket I have wrapped myself in ( moving couches and then jumping on them and over them had  scrambled his brain so much he actually thought I'd go for that), Alexi had walked off in a huff when it was obvious a horse paddock wasn't on my grocery list this week and Bailey was trying to get some-one else to make his bed up. He has a mum that does these things for them. Unlike my children who have one who prefers to write and read about motherhood more than she actually practises it.

So here  I am! At last! The beds are made, the movie's started, my photos uploaded (I think)  and I can once again revisited the feeling of satisfaction and peacefulness I felt in my garden this afternoon. I cleaned out the chicken coop, moved it to a garden bed I want fertilised and put up a makeshift fence to stop them eating the veges in another one.

 This autumn the days have just been gorgeous. The combination of colour, light, crispness and warmth just perfect and it was nice to be outside enjoying it.

It seems so long ago.