Long Weekend

Its been a bit quiet round here this weekend which is really nice for a change. Have had something on just about every weekend lately. In saying that though took Alexia out to Blue Skies yesterday where we had to put up tents for a guide camp on today. This was the last thing we had to do for the Jamboree fundraising. Now just have to pay for it by the end of the month.

Had done a supernanny on my kids yesterday. Am fed up with paying out pocket money for them doing nothing!!! So now they get a dollar a job (and it gets written down as my memory is terrible). Over the fortnight the girls have to do 20 (for $20 pocket money) and Aaron has to do 10 (for $5 pocket money and his Horrible Science magazine once a fortnight). Aaron freaked out and just saw the big picture and thought it was too much - he used much stronger language and earned a time out in his room (Supernanny would be proud of me). He calmed down once he saw that it wasn't as big a deal as he thought. So, as a result I now have some clean windows, some ironing done, washing bought in, baking and the showers and basins cleaned - all without me having to ask. Just had to lay down some ground rules as to what was going to earn them their money and also pointed out that once they hit their limit they were not allowed to go on strike. Also that there would still be their usual jobs that they had to do as well as things that they would be asked to do that would be done for love. LOL.

Still having problems downloading photos onto my blog. Any suggestions? It comes up with this:

Most likely causes:
You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.

Think I will try Xtra again as it seems to be more of a connection problem than a perhaps a blogger problem.