childrens activities

Did she stay or did she go???

The Twinadoes have just discovered that there is a shop in town where you can pay some money and they let you borrow DVDs… to take home… to watch… and ooooooooooh there is sooooooo many to choose from. Previously this distraction had been limited to when they were really sick, so sick that they could […]

Sniffle, Snort, Cough, Cough….

We are such a caring and sharing family….
The girls shared their cold with their little brother, who in turn has shared it with me. We are all sniffle snorting our way through the days and snore-coughing our way through the nights. So far it hasn’t really kept us down, though I have slowed off […]

Three Things on Halloween

Tidying Up…
We have friends coming to stay tomorrow and it is just the boot up the bum I have needed to get our house back into some kind of order. Tomorrow I will do the every day boring house cleaning jobs, with helpers, and they are actually pretty helpful. Tonight I tackled the study…. it […]

Three Little Things From My Day…

Chasing my tail…
We’ve been almost late for everything today and it looks like dinner will be no different. I wonder if the rushing from thing to thing will ever end?
Worrying…
It looks our new rooster may be on his last legs. I’ve had a good read of Back Yard Poultry and I am pretty sure he […]

Happy Birthday Baldy Boy.

It is my darling husband’s birthday today.

We celebrated on Tuesday - his pretend birthday, because he had to work today and then, as he does almost every Friday night, he’s gone out to play cards with ‘the boys’ so we won’t see him at all today (we were all asleep when he left and […]

quiet

Spring is quiet….
It’s a warm night tonight, warm enough to sit here with the window open enjoying some fresh night air. The frogs are still buurrupping and I can hear the old windmill up the back creaking if I listen hard, but overall the night is still and quiet. There is no rain on the […]

Childproof?

I am all for childproofing your house, really I am. Why make it harder on both yourself and the kids? Get rid of all the little breakable things, lock away the stuff that is not safe or that is precious. I don’t want to make the areas of my house that my kids live in […]

Me Me Me Me Me… and other stuff…

The ever wonderful Planning Queen over at Planning With Kids tagged me for this me me…and since it’s been a long week and my brain is mush I figured now would be as good a time as any to blog my end of the bargain. It’s the A-Z of me.
Attached or single? Have been attached […]

Ma Pickle’s Home for Wayward Hens….

We have new chooks.
A week or so ago we went to the farmers market in search of the perfect pair - a Wyandotte hen and rooster. We didn’t find them, but the Twinadoes wanted to choose a chook each and since we only had four hens and room for about that many more we […]

Weekly Winners…

I keep planning on taking more photos. I add it to my ‘To Do List’, it just never quite gets done most days…. I am slack I know, no excuses… just slackness.
So this week’s weekly winners (thanks to Sarcastic Mom) are kind of from last week as well… last Saturday and um, today to […]

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