+++ Blogger has been having issues and removed all our posts from yesterday! Some seem to have them back but I don’t so I’m posting this again, because blogger seems to be back up (but my post is still missing)!
Well this week is running away from me yet again! Can’t believe it’s nearly Friday, not to mention that we’re already just about half way through May! Kristen and I have started counting down to ‘school’s out for Summer’ . . . . it’s only 3 weeks away :-)
So, what am I patiently waiting for, you’re wondering? Well, I got this on Monday . . .
Jason surprised me early for Mother’s Day and told me last week that he’d ordered the new Ipad2 for me :-) It was on back order from Apple for 2 weeks so he knew it wouldn’t get here in time, but he just couldn’t wait to tell me. I received the cover yesterday, and today they emailed Jason and said the Ipad has shipped :-) I am beyond excited!!!! It’s not often I want a new toy/gadget. Remember we got the new Nexus One phones last year (I bugged Jason cos I thought I wanted a smart phone) but neither one of us used them much at all. I really don’t call anyone during the day (sad to say), and I had to keep putting my reading glasses on to read and send texts! After 5mths we sold them (thankfully getting back nearly what we paid for them, via Ebay), and I just use a basic Verizon phone for emergencies!
But the Ipad! Now there’s something I can play with – all day, EVERY day! Kristen’s piano teacher has one and she’s been letting me play with it every week while Kristen does her lesson! I told Jason weeks ago that I’d made up my mind, I was getting an Ipad for Christmas (we’ve been really good with our spending lately and I couldn’t justify just going out and buying one, it had to be for a special occasion). A few weeks later I told him, it would actually be nicer for my birthday (cos that’s October and I wouldn’t have as long to wait – cos I really really couldn’t wait). Of course every time I saw the commercial for it on TV I would ooh and ahh over it. It was a few days after that, that Jason said he couldn’t keep a secret, he’d ordered the Ipad for me that day :-)
So, while I”m waiting, I’ll share the rest of my Mother’s Day pictures with you. Jason still wanted to give me something on Mother’s day, so he and Kristen went out shopping! I told him I didn’t need flowers, they will just wither and die, I’d rather have something that will last and we can plant in the garden . . . they came home with these:
We already have some grapes but we wanted more, and this one is actually a concord grape (hopefully it will ripen so we can eat the grapes), the others we have are all wine grapes – merlot, chardonnay and a pinot I think. We have yet to have ripe grapes off them!
This is a pretty Esperanza plant, I love these yellow flowers.
And, I didn’t take a full picture of this, but it’s a little fig tree :-) You know, I really don’t know what a fig tastes like. I’ve seen them in the store (not very often, they must be very seasonal), but never bought one. I’ve heard they’re an acquired taste, but I’d really like to have some and be able to put them on a cheese platter or something when they’re ripe.
And lastly, more girly girl pictures from Sunday :-) Next to my lovely new grapevine of course!
Kristen sure is getting tall!
I wrote something else after this picture, but I can’t remember what it was and it isn’t showing up in my saved copy on Windows Live Writer!
Never mind, It’s FRIDAY – that makes everything better!
Have a great weekend.
6 comments:
That is so exciting... you will love it! (As I am sure you know by playing with the piano teacher's!) Darling Mother's Day pictures :)
Super cool! I'm sure you'll love your new ipad :)
PS--I too have been having major blogger problems. One of my posts was completely gone for a day or two, but today sometime it reappeared. Weird.
A little while ago I did a a post (a blog giveaway) and it worked, so I'm hoping it stays that way.
I hope you have a great weekend!
Great photos and it sounds like a terrific Mother's Day! And you are going to love your iPad. I just got mine last month and I've had lots of fun with it.
Wohoo how exciting! I am busting for an iPad too, but they are so hard to get here. You have to prepay and wait forever, but I do plan on getting one as soon as we can track one down. Love the covers too, and I would like one in pink. So when do you expect to have your iPad since it's already been shipped?
I'm also thinking about maybe making myself some bed socks...brr...winter is coming way to fast so I thought bed socks would be good to have. Do you have any patterns for bedsocks or can you suggest where I might be able to get hold of a pattern? I pretty much want them as socks that come up the leg a bit, not just the little slipper type that won't keep me warm. So are you going to make hubs that jumper/sweater? I've made a few for Dave. The first one I ever made him was about 35 years ago. I made it out of Patons Bluebell which was only 5ply. Of course it took me forever and it turned out really well, however his mum washed it in hot water and it of course shrunk! After that I made him a nice cream cable jumper with polo neck and it still looks really good. I've done a couple of others as well...manly when I was confined to hospital during pregnancies and had to occupy myself when on bed rest. I like the pattern you've chosen for Jason though. It would be fun to surprise him, but not so easy to do if you want to be able to knit it anytime.
I'm keen to know what you think of your iPad when you have it...woohoo how sweet of hubs to do that ;)
I saved this post so I would remember to come back and comment..
Have you gotten the ipad yet?? How exciting. I'm not a big MAC fan but I could so see having an ipad..
Enjoy!
What FUN ... you'll love it, I'm sure and hope that it arrives soon !! Your garden is amazing !!
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