We were on TV!!!! Well mostly Lilly. She has a solo, close up moment in My Kitchen Rules when they are discussing the Spaghetti and Meatball people. The camera captures our little Lilly Pilly’s cheese sprinkling expertise and then reuses the same footage when the Meatball people are being judged. The brown arms behind her [...]

May I introduce, after one mad hour of frantic costuming, Super Girl, Bat Girl, The Green Lantern and The Shadow. Go on say I did a good job, I need the encouragement. Yesterday afternoon was this lot’s church kid’s club Super Hero Dress Up Day. Being the organised and decisive family that we are (ha [...]

We are still stuck at home the chorus of phlegmy choughs preventing us from going near real people. And because my constant command of “no more coughing” is going totally unheeded (by myself included) we are missing out on church.  This makes me sad, I love going to church, I love the opportunity to sing [...]

I’m not even sure how we got to this but I guess this is what home Schooling is all about. We are putting on a play, maybe, if Eli wants to on the day. We have been looking at Aboriginal art and culture and as part of this unit I read Tales of My Grandmother’s [...]

This is a photo of our old, very narrow, constantly flooded and covered in rubble front path. It’s one of the things that has constantly bugged me about this house. When ever I pull up on the drive way a little sigh escapes me as I contemplate herding my gaggle of unruly children into the [...]