She’s very proud can you tell? She’s also slightly creepy like her mother and won’t give them up, not for any not real fairy thing (we have never done the Santa/Tooth fairy thing. In fact we have had to promise Lani that they weren’t real because she was so scared of them, freaky little things [...]

Yup sorry but mine are icky old hiking shoes. I have had them since year 9 and I adore them. When Lani saw what photo I was putting up she said  “Um, Mum some of the other people might put up photo’s of high heel shoes” Sorry Lani this might just be another one of [...]

I found the kids outside playing with off cuts of wood. Most of their play involved rolling and sliding things down planks of wood so I thought it a good opportunity to talk to them about the science behind their play. The discussion really held their interest. We talked about the effect that friction has [...]

There has been a lot of backyard culinary creativity going on around here. Lani, Eli and Lilly have all been totally hooked on MasterChef and Lani is thrilled that Adam her favourite since about half way through took out the honours last night. She would like to be a fan of Japanese food (which Adam [...]

We took the kids to see the Gary Ginivan musical production of Wombat Stew. It was written up as: A Brand New “Gooey, Brewy, Yummy, Chewy” Aussie Musical For Kids! It deserved the exclamation mark. Wombat Stew the Musical opens on a stage glowing with the vibrant colours of the Australian bush. The rich ochre [...]

This little guy is for our friends first ever little baby, I’m very excited. Glenn and I went to Uni with the Daddy (sorry didn’t check whether they minded their names being plastered all over the internet) so we have known them for a while and have been patiently wondering when they were going to [...]

Ok ya ready from top to bottom: Photo magnet of the Irwin family, it makes me sad whenever I get anything out of the fridge but Lani is loyal and won’t get rid of it. Yellow slip of paper holding the name and phone number of one of Lani’s friends obtained in the hope of [...]

We are calling today the first day of term 3 although all this really means is that we are back doing regular maths sheets. Learning didn’t stop through the holidays but it evolved a little to be more spontaneous and involved a lot more excursions than we usually fit into a week. The kids are [...]

We got to chat with the Fire Brigade and clamber all over a real fire engine. Oh how thrilling life can be at times. An engine and it’s crew visited a local shopping centre to raise fire safety awareness just like the police did the other day. Actually it was really interesting observing the outpouring [...]

Guess what we are studying at the moment?   The kids and I visited a police display at a local shopping centre. To be honest I found it a little disappointing and not really worthy of the massive add in the paper. The two police officers just stood there and expected the kids to just [...]