childrens activities

Blessingway…

I am going to be super lazy and tell you just to go look here on Sif’s blog for photos and details from my Blessingway yesterday. I can’t possibly do a better job than Sif has of explaining our ‘hippy-la-la’ baby shower (well it’s not much like your typical baby shower but that is the […]

The great band aid debate!

I feel the need to record this for posterity. Plus then when I send a packet of Band Aids (wiggles ones at that) to Andrew and Christine when their first baby is 3ish there will be recorded somewhere why I am being so mean!
So we have band aid issues.
It all started when we stopped over […]

New Grisborne Park

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New Grisborne Park, originally uploaded by katefb.
We had a quick visit to the new Adventure playground in Gisborne yesterday.. or gRisborne as the girls say.
The new park is pretty groovey I have say! […]

Snow…

The above happened a while ago now…
That yellow ’snow’ all over my living room was once a couch cushion. My poor, harrassed, neglected, wee’ed on couch.
And what was I doing when the snow storm hit? I was cooking dinner.
You see the problem is that our house is not set up to supervise children very easily. […]

My World Famouse Ginger Biscuits!

Ok so maybe not world famous (only famous to my family and a few of the north westers!) and I can’t take any of the credit since I got the original recipe from this awesome blog but for anyone who has asked here is the recipe. It’s pretty much what is on the blog with […]

Silence

Look what I can do when I have the whole house to myself!
credits - background from my After the Storm Kit, papers and elements (cut from papers) from Chris Turnbull’s Whimsical Summer kit

The Universe is preparing me…

I think the universe has taken it on it’s own head and decided it needs to prepare me for sleepless nights to come. Which is ever so nice of it, except that I have done the newborn thing once before, and had two of them at the same time, so I do remember what it […]

But we aren’t growing any grapes?

Man do my children know how to whine.
I wish I knew how to turn them off, or what causes it. I suspect they get it from me.. as horrid a thought as that is. I confess that I have been known to whine at them, so I am guessing they are just following my lead […]

Who are you calling a potato head??

All Hail Mr and Mrs Potato Head.
The rulers of the micro beasts…

Good Pepople, Bad Things.

I know that saying ‘why do bad things always happen to good people’ is pretty useless… but I can’t stop myself from thinking it right now.
I have several friends going through some horrible stuff at the moment, but none more horrible than a scrapping friend, Deb who lost her husband in a farming accident last […]

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