Just because random sudden holidays aren’t mad enough I decided to host Book Week at my house three days after we got home. Lilly as Lola from the book Charlie and Lola and Lani as Victoria the Violin Fairy from the Fairy series of books. Me (I know scary, the kids painted me I’m a [...]

As a child whenever Mum, Dad and I hoped into the car to drive home Mum would turn to Dad and say "Home James" which on reflection was a bit strange as his name is Malcolm. I thought this was just the done thing, like Dave commanding HAL to do his job in 2001, you [...]

  Here comes the sun! Day three was beach day we weren’t going to spend all day there really we weren’t, only the clouds cleared and after a long cold winter it was so nice to feel the warmth of the sun on our bare skin. so nice. Sabi was a little freaked by water [...]

Day two we walked out of our apartment, around the corner and into Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary The first thing we just absolutely had to do was ride the little red train. Everyone knows the most important thing about an animal sanctuary is the train of course.  we disembarked at Kangaroo crossing to mollycoddle macropods. Lani [...]

Ok so they may never forgive me for this but the first thing we did while away was maths. I just couldn’t get my head around the being away bit and we had been about to start maths up at the kitchen table before we stuffed everything we owned into green bags and dashed off [...]