Santa maze - Thinking Cap Thursday

yes i know its friday ! Right click n save or print out this little game or make your own, there are lots of christmas stickers out in the cheapie shops at the moment then all you have to do is scribble a pathway or two and voila. Get those kiddies concentrating on christmas :) love sassy

versitile blog award - friday finds

The lovely lady, Renee over at Adventures at home with Mum , passed this great award over to Sassy's Sanity. I'm so thrilled, it is wonderful to know that people are reading and appreciating my little blog. Its also an inspiration to keep at it, especially since im finding it tricky to squeeze in the time to blog at the moment. So thank you Renee it was a fantastic gift x

Ok, so The award rules are:
Thank the person that nominated you with a link back to them.
Tell 7 things about yourself.
Pass this award on to 10 newly discovered blogs and let them know that they've received an award.

About me 7 things - very very random things

1. I am getting grey hairs in my eyebrows! at 30 how terrible, i pluck the little suckers out.
2. I am the exact same height as my husband, according to our drivers licences. (wearing heels is a rear treat for me)
3. I sing christmas songs while decorating my christmas tree
4. I really like making the gps recalculate, rebellious side of me
5. I have green eyes
6. I need coffee to start my day or im a zombie
7. I savour every comment left on my blog it makes me super happy.

These are my newly discovered blogs, they are little gems! Like Renee I'm new to blogging so all these blogs are kinda new to me.

1. The Iowa Farmer's Wife - this is a chocker block full of clever ideas blog ( i love the muffin tins.)
2. Lessons Learnt Journal, Pauline entertains her little ones with joy and creativity.
3. Toys in the Dryer loving the reindeer pops
4. At Home with Ali I adore this one, a very honest and imaginative blogger
5. Owlet new to me and Divine photographs, a good sense of fun
6. Alicias 365 Moments of Gratitude Project not new to me but very very dear to me x
7. Tropical Mum fantastic writing, can totally relate to many of the stories on this blog
8. Getting Sorted - Each Day as it Comes this ones for me, for domestic goddess moments
9. Make, Do & Friend wow, lots and lots of clever crafty things for kiddies
10. Mum to 2 Posh Lil Divas newish to me, if you have run out of play ideas, lil divas is the answer

I hope you like these blogs as much as i do, they keep me inspired everyday and they are the perfect boredom busters, reality checks and i respect the honesty and generosity of these wonderful women. thanks for blogging ladies you are all talented writers.

feling brighter - only human on humpday

Ok so whilst its still extremely hot things are looking up and heres why

1.  air con has been installed in 2 bedrooms. These are my new sanctuary if you are looking for me that's where ill be for the next 3 or 4 months. I put mt. washmore away in the cool air yesterday, wow ever horrid chores are great so long as they are in the cool.
2.  have had some lovely catch ups with good finds. hallelujah for adult conversation.
3.  have read 3 books in one week. yay. i love books and its the simplest ans best way to look after myself. As an added bonus its inspired Eli to look at books he is now obsessed with books, 2 weeks ago he couldn't be bothered with them now hes madly pointing at books and demanding to be read to. That makes me extremely happy.
4. its beginning to look a lot like Christmas at our place, i finally got our tree up! and a few other decorations
5. I've got almost all the Christmas shopping finished i just have one tricky great grandmother to organise! I think shes going to get a magazine subscription.
6. Andrew and i have decided on a new way to tackle our biggest sons emotional breakdowns about the computer. and so far so good the system is working and there are fewer tears. The screen time thing is always a difficult balancing act. I remember before we had flynn we didn't even own a tv (we had computers coz were nerds) people would walk into our place and know something was missing would take them about 10 mins then they'd ask where our tv was.
7. Lay by for Christmas was picked up and im looking forward to Christmas morning so much!! i love spoiling my boys. not something i can often afford to do.
8. I got some photos of the boys printed and popped them in frames they are on the walls, hiding my bessa brick walls is always fantastic.
9. I splurged a whole $30 on myself, some new cheap clothes, summer clothes. retail therapy.
10. Finally hubby isn't putting in so many after work hour jobs and favours and thats really a reason to smile.

Just need to finish christmas sewing and it will all be good. 

Hope your week is bright and happy too!!!

 I would love to hear what you have been doing this week

love sassy

Playing house - tuesday treasure and friday find combined

This week i watched a video from Made By Joel and thought, i can so make one of those a bit doggy in comparison but its not like my boy is going to play with a dolls house a lot. So out came the box we had picked up at the local hardware store, its a habit of flynns to choose a box at each visit. we go there a lot because, my husband is obsessed with the hardware shop, and because we have a house in need of major revamping, so box collecting is part of motivating flynn to enjoy the frequent trips. Anyway i put christmas paper up for wallpaper. Popped a paint chip up for a window (i collect paint chips im always daydreaming about painting this house) some napkin for curtains, bit of cardboard cut and rolled into a fancy lantern light. A bit of egg carton and fabric scraps made a bed, another fabric scrap made a carpet. some bottle cap and cardboard for chairs, peanut butter lid table. Cut one end off a water cracker box with cut in one side for doors made a great wardrobe. A tissue box and some cardboard made a garage, a must for any blokes house. Cut out some dvd adds for artworks on the wall. And randomly plonked a couple of tubes above the garage, rain water tanks??? or whatever.

very cosy

garage big enough for a fire engine

Now here's how he played with it, this was definitely not my idea of playing 'house', he hid people in various places, the wardrobe the rain tanks in the garage, they then yelled and shouted till a fireman arrived to rescue them. It then morphed into a hide and seek game where people were being jammed into the lantern, because its a cage mummy and ahh hes going to get him! Naughty boy hasn't gone to bed mum and hes hiding. What the? note to self don't put figurine of naughty Norman price from fire man sam into the play house. Another note to self, hes a blokey boy he was never going to act out a family scene....at least he played with it, that is when he wasn't yelling at his younger brother for nicking the milk bottle chairs and pulling them apart. Yet another note, it needs a skate ramp.
I would love to know how your kids play with toy houses.

ok so here's a few more inspiring house creations

made by joel

craft-project.com

dos family

moments

anyone for a cruise?

yay hes discovered books finally!!!!!

get out of that pot Zephee! and stop eating my fancy grass

Car Wash - thinking cap thursday

 How do you encourage a kid when its hot to play with water, when they don't want to?
My boys are no longer interested in playing in the paddle pool as we have been doing it so much at the moment that they need a little more encouragement to get wet. Its so hot they really need to play in the water lots! so we have discovered playing at washing cars.
 Flynns car wash is put together with 2 very large buckets of bubbley water different sponges floating in these buckets. The slip n'slide set up so he can roll the cars, bikes, wheelbarrow and so forth onto it and wash them. I also put the watering can nearby, he didn't use it today he went for the sponges but perhaps tomorrow he will.








Once finished he pushed them out into the sun to dry. I also had the paddle pool set up incase he wanted to submerge some things, his little brother was asleep so no submerging happened thats really eli's style. I think this activity is great because it gets my boy outside activly doing things even on a hot day, and it also encourages him to take care of his wheely toys, and he likes the role play aspect, he sees daddy washing the cars. He even told me he was polishing the dump truck!
i will have him washing my car next! love sassy

going tropo - only human on humpday

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Its hot, its too hot, its too humid...im going bonkers...oh no im going tropo. This is something we say about many a tourist when they hit the heat they go a little crazy, they go tropo. We even used to have a night club in cairns called tropo's, which many a local has an interesting story from there, the club is gone but the tropo madness remains. Im going crazy because its hot i have no patience, im sweaty and thats ick, i stick to the chairs when i get up, more ick, if i can't find my deoderant for the day(this happened on monday) i smell horrid and i resort to spraying my expensive perfume on my armpits instead. ick!!! my kids are sweaty and so they are getting heat rash, so every night its a lovely scented pinotarsil bath, mmm clinical smelling.
We have bought air con for the bedrooms but we have to wait till fingers crossed this saturday to get them all installed properly...i can't wait till then. Neither could my other half who purchased the loud fan, well he shopped again and this time we got a portable air con. It fits in the window of our bedroom, and our 1 year old is sleeping in our bed till he gets his own air con, my spine is way out of line as i sleep hunched up on the very side of the bed as Eli stretches out between us, we make spell the letter H in human form. Ahhh im not sleeping great but thank goodness little Eli is. Flynn has nick named the portable air con 'r2d2' like the star wars robot, and now the boys fight over turning it on during the day. Sanity only come in the form of hiding in here with a stack of kids books, the ipad. However once the books have run out or the ipad gets fought over one too many times i then become very interesting, i see the thought flash through their eyes, mummy is play equipment, and then im bounced on wrestled with bitten, jumped on tickled poked and squashed. And then its no longer bliss full to be in air con.

I am exhausting every idea i have to get them to play with water, we are doing very little in the middle of the day when its hottest, we are going out and about just to walk around in the shops air conditioned comfort, or the library's. And we are not alone, everyone is hunting coolness at this time of year.
My kids are driving me nuts, because i have no slither of patience left i am not coping with the begging from Flynn and the hundreds of questions or the constant need to be sitting on me. I am not dealing with Eli's constant demands at the fridge, i am happy to feed him, but he yells at me till the food hits his mouth, he has no time to let me prepare anything, he wants it NOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! I am not dealing with the longer time its taking me to get him to sleep for naps and at night, Its like having a hot water bottle on my lap, a wriggly one. But most of all i can not stand that the boys are being snippy with each other, they are also hot and grumpy just like me so they don't want to share nicely and they don't want the other to play with what they saw first.
I tell you i am going crazy. Thankfully my hubby caught me having a pity party for myself the other night when he came home from work and i do feel a lot better. Yesterday i had my mum help all day and evening. Im feeling a lot saner but as i type this i know im still grumpy than usual. Why is it everywhere we go at the moment there is pictures of people in the snow...it should be pictures of santa in budgie smugglers next to a swimming pool with a hat and sunnies and a very large tropical drink. think i might go make one of those right now for myself.....hope your weather isn't sending you batty like me.