Storms and new furniture

Wild weather here in Perth!! The big storm over the weekend saw us without power for 21 hours. I couldn't even leave the house as my car was in the garage and the thing to pull it up manually was broken! So a very boring weekend without technology! We had wild wind and lost a couple of our patio chairs and the kids sandpit was ruined, other than that we didn't have much damage. When the power was back on Ruby's grandparents came over with some new furniture for us! Friends of theirs are moving to Canada and gave everything away! So we scored well. A new bed for Ruby (we've been wanting to downgrade her to a single for awhile to make more space in her room), table and chairs, 2 bedside tables and a cabinet. I do love new furniture!

Keeping warm on cold nights

Winter is definitely approaching and fast! It got down to 3 degrees last night and the same is predicted again for tonight. It's not even June yet! Anyway, Jonah has been coming into my bed with me in the wee hours of the morning. I assume because he's cold. I've been waking a couple of times a night feeling cold too, but I'm obviously capable of pulling my doona up and turning my electric blanket on! I already have Ruby sleeping in my bed at the moment (shes going through a phase of not wanting to sleep by herself) so being squashed between two starfish children all night makes one very cranky and sore mummy in the morning! I grabbed a couple of pairs of fleecy all in one PJ's for Jonah in the target 40% off sale a few days ago, and some long sleeved singlets. Didn't make a difference! So here is my last ditch effort before I think about putting some kind of heating in his room. A 2.5tog bubbaroo sleeping bag. $85 and he hates it! LOL! All I've heard today is "I don't like that and I'm NOT wearing it!" Wish us luck, we haven't had a heater in his room for the last two winters after we received a $600 power bill - so really don't want to have to go down that route!

Funny Autumn weather.

Woke up this morning to clear blue skies and it was pretty warm! Within minutes big black clouds started rolling in! There goes my few seconds of hope that I could get some washing dry today!! On one side of the house it's bright and sunny, and on the other side it's black and miserable! To the east:

And to the west!:

Just started pouring as I type!

More miserable weather and shopping.

With more on and off rain today, I met up with a friend and we headed off to storage heaven - Ikea! I actually only wanted one thing, a potato ricer. But I should know by now that I cant walk into Ikea without spending hundreds of dollars. Though I was pretty restrained today. I only bought the potato ricer, a new doona cover, and two bedside lamps. I saw many many things I wanted to buy though, so I stopped at the newsagent on the way home and bought a lotto ticket for tomorrow nights $70 million jackpot - haha! Hopefully I win! (I can dream, right?!) Sorry the pic is a bit blurry. I couldn't get a decent one. The lamps are quite nice, and were only $15 each.

Thunderstorms and dancing

Wow, we've had a good 24 hours of heavy rain now! This morning bought localised flooding, thunder and lightening. My back yard is under a good few inches of water. LOVING it! But it's definitely the sort of day you want to stay home in your PJ's, curled up in bed with a good book and listening to the rain on the roof. Alas, we have to be at dancing in an hour! Ruby does ballet and jazz on a Saturday morning. It's her second year of ballet and first year of jazz. She usually loves it but even she doesn't want to leave the house this morning! I should probably go and get dressed. Am currently sitting under the patio on my iPad, watching this glorious rain! I hope it's like this tomorrow when I don't have to go anywhere!

It's raining, it's pouring...

I woke up this morning to my favourite sound in the world - heavy rain on my tin roof. We don't get a whole lot of rain living in Perth, so it's always somewhat of a 'novelty' when it does rain. I love nothing more than a good storm! Bring on Winter!