We were all set for a play-date this morning, but Alice had me tossing and turning a bit in the night and Charlotte sounded heavy with a cough first thing. I canned the play-date and proclaimed a ‘Pyjama Day’. We started with Disney Sing Star after breakfast: Made chocolate chip cookies for morning tea: Followed […]
Month: September 2010
Wardrobe Wednesday: Why?
ME TO CHARLOTTE: Can you take a quick photo for Wardrobe Wednesday? CHARLOTTE: What’s that? ME: Oh, it’s just a bit of fun I do on the blog each week. I post up a photo of myself and other Mums do the same on their blogs. CHARLOTTE: Why do parents do that? (With a tone […]
Day 2 of the hols – chilling out
Day 2 of the school hols was all about chilling out and embracing the p-jays. So nice not to have to rush out the door. The girls creativity is coming out in bounds and they’ve completely taken over the garage with cardboard boxes, glue, glitter, tissue paper… the car is officially parked on the drive-way […]
‘Dancing Feat’ to kickstart the school holidays
We danced into the first day of the school holidays with a visit to Capital E this morning. The creative team at Capital E always pull together a fabulous and reasonably priced array of entertainment for all ages over the school holidays. I’d booked tickets for us to see the 11am Dancing Feat Performance (there’s […]
Springing forward with Tulip Sunday
I woke up this morning and took a look at my iPhone, which read 7.30am. ‘Blimey!’ I thought, ‘Everyone’s still asleep apart from Alice and I!’ and so I crept downstairs and found Charlotte and Dan asleep in the living room (Charlotte had woken in the night feeling sick – thankfully it eventuated to nothing). […]
The bog’s dried up, time to play!
It seems like ages since we’ve simply ‘played’ in our garden. For months and months it’s been too cold, windy and wet. But, finally, there’s more finer days and the grass is actually drying out enough between drenches for us to give it a good mow. We can actually put down a picnic rug and […]
Ten reasons I LOVE my job
No one tells me what I should wear and in the summer I live in bare feet and have little people volunteer to paint my nails (usually multi-colored and badly). I love not feeling pressured to scrub up in the latest fashion. Being able to wear a bikini top instead of a bra in summer […]
The Rules – just so you know!
Charlotte has posted up some rules on her bedroom door… Her door is adorned with crafty goodness begging to be tugged and chewed at as soon as Alice is mobile! She asked me to video her spelling them out so she could share them. And Sophie wanted to share her bedtime white-board art with you, […]
What a difference
It’s been two weeks since I visited the doctor and sought help for mild-depression. The medication made me feel really tired and fuzzy headed at first and I haven’t been running as a result. On the up side I haven’t been weepy or felt tense and angry. And today, for the first time, I felt […]
Waiting for the holidays to start
Term 3 comes to a close tomorrow and the children break up for two weeks holiday. For me, it’s going to be all go in the catering, entertaining, mediating and facilitating department. I have got rather too used to ‘just Alice and me’ time in the morning whilst Sophie is out at Kindi and Charlotte […]
If trees could SMILE: The Gallery – Week 28
I like to think that this tree is smiling at me and my family. Its branches wave hello to us as we greet it with our eyes each day. The leaves wink green at us in the breeze and signal ‘go’ for brighter days to come. It’s been a rough week of weather around the […]
Wardrobe Wednesday
It’s Charlotte’s turn with the camera this week, as she’s at home with a cold that’s dragging her down and leaving her with a croaky voice and nasty cough. She took this photograph of me this morning (after I’d put on a load of washing, done the hoovering and cleaned up the kitchen after breakfast). […]
Charlotte the performer
Last week was a busy one for Charlotte with a school show, in which she was proud to be ‘a rock’! For the past few weeks the junior classes have been creating costumes out of various materials for their own version of the ‘World of Wearable Arts’ (WOW) show. Charlotte’s class had a marine theme […]
Alice: Miss 7 months
Alice, you are 7 months old already and so desperate to MOVE! You get onto your tummy, after unhooking your leg, and then grunt in frustration as the toy you so eagerly wish to mouth gets further and further away as you move… backwards! You are working so hard to get that lovely, tummy off […]