Disney Live! Giveaway!

Well the time has finally come for the Disney Live! ticket giveaway! I have 4 tickets to the Newcastle Disney Live! show on Tuesday 17th January 2012 at 1pm, in my hot little hand to giveaway to a lucky person!

You could be watching Disney Live! soon...!

It’s easy peasy to enter. All you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post, (you’ll see the comment button at the end of the post) telling me who your or your kids favourite Disney character is. Then ‘Like’ Puff Pieces on Facebook. Just click the ‘Like’ button on the Facebook box to the right or head HERE to my Facebook page. Yep, it’s that simple!

You can only enter once, and the competition will be open for 2 weeks, closing on Monday 12th December 2011 at 7.30am. The winner will be chosen at random by www.random.org and will be announced here on Monday 12th December 2011 at about 9.30am, and also posted on Puff Pieces Facebook page and notified by email.

So what are you waiting for… start ‘Liking’ and commenting away! Good luck!

A whole new world…

Having kids is by far the greatest joy in the world. They make you laugh, cry, frustrated but so so happy. They also remind you of how it’s the simple things that can make you smile and take you back to your own childhood.

Abu the monkey!

Growing up, Aladdin was one of my absolute favourite movies. I thought Abu the monkey was the cutest thing I’d ever seen and Princess Jasmine the most beautiful. I wished that I could have a pet tiger and sing like she did. A Whole New World was my favourite song and I’d belt it out off tune all the time. Their adventures looked like so much fun. And who wouldn’t want their very own Genie and magic carpet!

The best thing now about having kids? It gives you the perfect excuse to relive these memories, watch the movies and introduce them to the wonderful world of Disney.

Watching Sophie bop around, wiggling her bum to the beat of any music, including ad’s on TV often has me in hysterics, so I can only imagine what she’ll be like when we go to the new Disney Live! show in January! The all dancing, all singing cast full of all our favourite Disney characters will no doubt have plenty of tiny little feet tapping and little bums wiggling to the beat of the music. I’m so excited and can’t wait. I mean Sophie’s so excited and can’t wait. Ok, so she doesn’t even realise she’s going yet, so I’m excited enough for the 2 of us!

Disney Live is coming to Newcastle Entertainment Centre on January 17-18. Tickets are already on sale through Ticketek. Follow the link HERE.

The whole Disney Live! gang

And don’t forget to stay tuned for a very exciting Disney giveaway next week! Yes I will have 4 tickets to give away to one of the Newcastle shows!

I’m sorry you’re not an authorised person…

This morning I began the mammoth task of tidying up our study. While I am organised person, (well I like to think so anyway), during the renovations and Sophie and I having to move out for 6 weeks, the paperwork, bills etc just got piled up in the study. The bills did get paid, but nothing got filed, hence the mess.

So when I finally got through all the sorting and filing this morning, I sat down to pay the latest round of bills. I had noticed something strange between our 2 water bills  (we own 2 properties in the same suburb) and had mentioned it to hubby and he asked me to call and suss it out. So that I just did.

The lady couldn’t give me any information because I wasn’t an authorised person on the account. You see all our bills are in hubby’s name. I moved in with him and of course everything was already set up, I never thought to have myself added to any of the accounts. Until today.

It got me thinking… What if something happened to hubby, God forbid, touch wood, and all that jazz, I NEVER want to be in that situation. But what if something did and suddenly I technically didn’t have access to any of this information. (Even though I’m the one who pays the bills!) I’m sure there are ways to handle situations like that, but knowing the shite we have been through with companies just for the simpliest things, like a new gas connection, (yes AGL I’m talking to you), I can only imagine what a shit fight it would be should something happen to hubby.

It is my job as Home Manager, Mum Extraordinaire, Domestic Goddess, whatever you’d like to call us super hero mum’s, to keep bills, household stuff in check. But to the outside world I have no technical right to any of these accounts or their information. And quite frankly for a few seconds it scared the beejesus outta me.

Of course this is all very easily fixed and hubby just has to call and have me added on as an authorised person. And this is exactly what we are going to do. Poor hubby doesn’t even know what nagging is about to hit him.

It made me realise that we need to get our butts into gear. It’s not just hubby and I anymore, it’s Sophie as well. After Sophie was born we finally got our life insurance sorted. After Sophie was born, hubby started wearing a life jacket when paddling out on the harbour. After Sophie was born we started writing our Wills. Unfortunately though they still aren’t finished.

It’s amazing what having a child can make you do in terms of organising your life and preparing for the future, and unfortunately preparing for the worst, even though it may and probably, hopefully will never happen.

Have you ever had an oh shit gotta get that sorted life moment?