Not quite midnight and a half but a pretty decent effort for a 4 and a just turned 6 year old. Lani is still with us, at least in theory.

  10:00pm brought with it sparklers because we just couldn’t wait and we were getting sleepy and what better way to wake the body up than to hold fire on the end of a stick. Sabi has crashed and is snuggled up in her cot but if her sleep patterns tonight mirror how the rest [...]

  And this is how we are going at 9:00, do you think they’ll make it to midnight and a half?? Cute comments from tonight: Lillian: “I hope that tonight is going to be a one that is dark so that we can use the sprinklers” Elijah: (after Glenn had warned them that anyone who [...]

  I was going to put a photo up every hour till midnight because the children have assured me that they are all staying up till midnight and a half. But when I went to download them off the camera we realised we haven’t touched the thing since Christmas and had left the cord at [...]

Ever found yourself answering something like this "Um, yes of course I remembered the Christmas morning tea tomorrow and sure I’ll bring a plate of food." Then as you wave  goodbye with that fake smile plastered all over your face the internal you is having a heart attack. Ahh, how could I have forgotten, how [...]

We went carol singing at our church. We turned up late because I completely forgot it was on. I only realized when I got a call from my sister who lives at the other end of Aus and she started the conversation by saying, "oh, so your not going to the carols??" Firstly, how does [...]

Sorry about the quality of this photo but it was too cute not to mention(I didn’t even come close to getting a photo of the cat). Lani decided that the poor animals were being left out of the Christmas festivities so she sent them Christmas cards. The only problem was that we are yet to [...]

Glenn has always said that although this time in our lives with four hyperactive hypersensitive lunatics living under our roofs is a little stressful he is more worried about 10 years in the future. A future that contains three teenage girls. He’s so worried that every time we go to the hardware store he no [...]

Today was the last day of school before the long summer holidays and as we have decided to follow the ways of the wise old salmon fish and swim against the current today was our Leaving The School day. Next year we will be home schooling the three oldest, Alanah will be in year 2, [...]

My little water baby. She showed absolutely no fear whatsoever of the water, we are really going to have to watch this one. Every other time we have introduced one of the children to the water they have clung to us like a koala that suddenly woke to find the branch they were dosing on [...]