This is the little puppy I made for Talia in the softie swap. She arrived at her new home so I can show her to you now. Talia has a beautiful sooky faced doggie called Pepper so I had a pretty good idea of what animal would suit.   If you would like to see [...]

Well normally in my bed cuddled up with Glenn all snug and warm but Sabrina wouldn’t sleep at all last night. So that every one in the house could sleep without the disturbance of plaintive howling I kept Sabrina in the lounge room with me.  I can’t blame her her mouth is a mess and [...]

The kids have been curious about money lately. I have been peppered with questions about Daddy’s work, why he goes there every day, why we need money, why some people say they can’t afford things and others can. After answering their questions repetitively over and over again (purposeful use of an unnecessary clarifier just to [...]

(Still catching up on posts from before the week of sick) On the Monday night of the long weekend we went into Sydney to see Vivid. See this is what I love about homeschooling, no stress about them having to be up early the next day they could just sleep in (they didn’t thought) Vivid [...]

I Won a DRAGON!!!!!! Well it feels like winning isn’t this little guy just amazing! He was crocheted by the incredibly talented Kelly from Kelgell Creations He He He I can’t get over how cute he is. She even went to the bother of finding out a little about me before choosing what she was [...]

“Ahhh!! Daddy is being eaten by the dinosaur” –Alanah of course we had to have a peek at the dinosaurs even though we technically haven’t been studying them this term. But who can pass up the opportunity  to put your hands on something so tremendously larger that yourself. This was pretty cool. They had a [...]

  Me:”Hey Lani come and watch this on TV, we have a new Prime Minister” Lani:”Oh how come” Me:”Well this morning someone else got voted in” Lani:”Oh who by?” (we have been talking about democracies and how everyone gets to vote for the leader of the country) Me:” Well we didn’t get to vote only [...]

The last time I mentioned my close friends bubba Finn I told you how he had amazed all the hospital staff by recovering so quickly from his stem cell transplant. Well I have the best news. He has amazed us all again. Finn has just recently had a bunch of tests, urine, bone scan and [...]

Seeing as how we have been focusing quite a bit on Australia and it’s Indigenous inhabitants this term we thought it would be a good idea to check out the Australian Museum. I am so glad we did. I was a little unsure of how they would all go behaviour wise and also whether they [...]

I was better by Friday night and we thought the cause of the excruciating stomach pains and frequent toilet trips was food poisoning as I had found some mould on pumpkin seeds I had been eating. So we thought we would still have a go at doing all the things we had planed for the [...]