deception . . . count the ways . . .

Greetings all,
Well i thought 'deception' might be an interesting title for this day - a federal election no less, quite suitable.  Just thinking how many forms of deception, good, bad & surprising there are.
Starting with this purple patchwork quilt i made from scratch after dinner last night for an early morning pick up.  The customer brief was 'lots of purple', keep it plain & to use a few childhood shots for a 6x6 patchwork quilt for a 21st today.  Done!!  The photo transfer paper worked quite well.  It's actually quite detailed, alas, smoke & mirrors people!!

So i was up at 6a.m. for the school BBQ & cake stall, selling snacks to voters.  Can i please point out - we were on high wind watch & snow alert, yet I still got out of bed to volunteer!!  After planning, shopping, organising & setting up, the day ran smoothly, we sold a zillion sausages & cup cakes, coffee & drinks.  What's the deception, well i see this as easy (even with a migraine, sleep deprivation & dragging 4 children along) but it's actually a lot of work, i just keep being told i make these events low stress & fun.  Yippee.  That is one of those 'perception is reality' deceptions, where i appear to have it all together. 
I'm quite good at making life look easy, but i can assure you, having a husband at war & hearing the news we lost 2 more soldiers, well it breaks my heart & worries me to my core.  In order to not worry the children, i keep how much it affects me, to myself.  I certainly talk to them about what happens, i've never hidden the news from them, they are proud of what their daddy does & are also realistic about the danger.  Alas, my husband is my whole world, these soldiers who were killed yesterday, they were someone's whole world too.   

Now for a sneaky 6y.o. deception . . . as you can imagine, my priority upon arriving home was to shower, get BBQ grease off my face & smoke out of my hair, so i let the children play the Wii.  My eldest daughter went home with another family today, so my son took this opportunity to log on as her Mii on the Wii & play some new games - terribly - in her name.  Then he logged on as himself, played brilliantly & beat all her scores??  He likes his name at the top of the highest score board.  I think that's kind of evil genius deception.  Thankfully, he puts this much competitive energy into his spelling, maths & sport too!!
So after being school-parent-of-the-year today, i glanced over at the reason i do all this P&C stuff, my children, only to find 2 sitting on the roof of my car, one sticking a cup cake to the inside of the windscreen & one completely missing.  I looked at one mother (whose child was leaning out of my car window throwing a ball) & yes, people were watching . . . i said "imagine being the mothers of those children".  I can't even bother to defend my children's actions!! 
Have less political Sundays everyone, love Posie