Update on 'that kid' and mortgage

Thanks to all those who wrote to suggest what I needed to do with that kid at kinder. After watching him again the next day, and giving it much thought myself, I've come to a conclusion that the kid is just behaving badly because he has no sense of boundaries. And his parents have a huge part to play in this. He needs to know what boundaries are before he can learn not to cross them. I can see while I was there the next day, that the teachers do give him a hard time - taking him away from play time, separating him from other kids, and even empowering the other kids to stand firm and tell him to stop if R starts behaving badly. And in that short 1/2 hour I was there, the kid was told at least a dozen times, by different teachers and different kids, not to do this, not to do that, or "STOP because I don't like it" .... I think it will be a long and tedious journey for this child to learn the right things from the wrong. I just hope that his parents won't undo all the good he learns at kinder.

We are now going through paper work to officially apply for a mortgage loan from ANZ Bank. They have given us the verbal OK, but then again that's what our last bank did too. Pfftt!!!! After the last decline from our long-time bank, which I later found out from hubby, that he has actually been with them for over 20 years, we are only crossing our fingers that this official application will be successful.

I have scrapped two layouts this week! What an achievement!!!!! LOL... a layout for Blue Bazaar's portal (homepage) this week, and a Guest Designer layout for a Dare blog which I cannot reveal until they put it up. So for the time being, here's the layout I did for Blue Bazaar's portal. The theme was Flowers, Leaves and Nature.

The Beauty of Hand-picked flowers... it has YOU in them.



This was a photo swap with another lady from Blue Bazaar's forum, Toni. I had to pick this photo because I just thought it had so much spontaneity in it! It will be a photo that this kid will laugh about when he grows up.

Ride On

The following two layouts are published in For Keeps #54.

Always here for you


Close-up shot.


Hands Off!!

I'll post another entry when the Dare Blog is up.

Have a good week!