December 2008

Happy Birthday 2009.

December 31, 2008
Happy Birthday 2009.

“Who’s party is it Mamma?” “Will there be cake?” “It’s not a birthday party” I told them. “It’s a New Years Eve Party” “Why does the year need a party?” “Well because… well… it’s the last day of the year today, tomorrow will be a new year”. “So it’s the year’s birthday?” “Yep, I guess [...]

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A Camping Christmas

December 30, 2008
A Camping Christmas

As soon as kinder and work was done we packed up our gear and headed off to meet our Queensland friends for a camping Christmas and we had a great time! Our destination was at Hat Head, on the mid north coast of NSW. It took us two days of driving to get there but [...]

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Home.

December 28, 2008
Home.

Home. Dead tired. Quite a bit filthy. Photos still to be download. Mountains of washing to do. Sleeping in my own bed. More later. Related Posts:

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Bobo and the Butterfly.

December 27, 2008
Bobo and the Butterfly.

For their birthday, the Twinadoes got a lovely collection of crafty bits and pieces. Among them were felt cutouts ready to be made into finger puppets. This is what we created…. The one on the left is a butterfly, the one of the right is my Dad, the girls’ grandfather, who we all call Bobo. [...]

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Have a Very Crazy Christmas.

December 24, 2008
Have a Very Crazy Christmas.

I was inspired by miscellaneous Mum’s Christmas Card Challenge and this year have sent out animated email christmas cards to everyone instead of the paper version. Ok if I am 100% honest I have to admit that I just couldn’t get my act together to get printed cards happening, but I am ok with that. [...]

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Way Back in the Beginning…

December 22, 2008
Way Back in the Beginning...

I started blogging way back in November of 2005, not long after my father-in-law had his heart transplant. 2005 was one heck of a year for our little family… The words are too tiny to read on that lay-out but this is what they say – In 2005… The girls took their first steps. We [...]

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Things I want to do….

December 20, 2008
Things I want to do....

Despite the dismal rain and cold weather we’ve had this past week or two it is indeed summer here. Summer and the beginning of six weeks holidays. I have this idea that we’ll fill the next six weeks and beyond with all kinds of glorious things. From big outings to simply enjoying pottering around at [...]

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We’re Outa Here!

December 18, 2008
We're Outa Here!

We are getting up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to drive up the coast… a long way up the coast… to meet our very wonderful friends for a camping Christmas. The closest thing to technology we are taking is the car DVD player to entertain the Twinadoes during the two days of driving it [...]

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