Stark contrast and Sammy and JoJo turn one.

Today we had Lily’s party. Her friends were well behaved, well mannered and lovely. Her party was completely opposite to Imogen and Madeline’s a fortnight ago.  It was a joy to have these girls in our home.The time went so quickly and I felt relaxed and happy. Lily had an absolute ball!
Twelve months ago […]


Everyone’s a critic and Ivy hates hats

Ok, I’m having a bad hair day…month..ok, ok I’m having a bad hair YEAR!
For the umpteenth time I am trying to grow my hair out from the short pixie cut style I have had forever. The kids are all encouraging me to do it. David is too. I want to grow my hair, I do…it’s […]


Blog withdrawal and croup shall set you free.

Yesterday my blog site was down and I couldn’t log on. I had all these witty things I wanted to say and lots of funny moments to help lighten the mood of the previous two posts but it was down. Now, due to a severe case of Mummy Brain, I have forgotten, so there will […]


Part two of the week in review…

Thought I might break it up a bit.
So Monday was stressful and all I wanted was for David to stay home for Lily’s birthday. We had an appointment with the ENT which I was reluctant to go to on my own. David had other plans though. After seeing Lily into her ninth birthday and watching […]


Happy Birthday Lily and the week in review.

Sorry.
This is going to be a long one but I promise I’ll pepper it with lots of photos.
First of all,
Happy Birthday Lily!  9 today! I can barely believe that my ‘bubba’ is nine.
Where do I start to tell you everything that we have been up to in the last week? To some it might not seem […]


‘Tis the season and my gorgeous covers.

Ivy is up down, up down. I am getting sick of it, she must be too. This morning she was good, still had a green nose and a bit of a cough but her ear has been looking better and she has been so much happier in herself. It was cold and windy today and […]


Canberra bound big kids and I think she’s getting better…

This morning I got out of my nice warm bed when it was still dark and it WASN’T to get up to Ivy! (She was asleep in my bed already). I got up so that I could see Immy, Maddy and AJ off to Canberra and the Snowy Mountains for four days. They have not […]


How many times can you find ‘No’ funny?

I put Noah to bed for his morning sleep. I said ‘time for sleep Noah’. He said ‘no’. I said ‘yes, have a good sleep’ and walked away. He called out ‘No!’ and giggled to himself (obviously pleased that he had had the last say). He then proceeded to laugh himself senseless for half an […]


Men CAN multi - task, it just goes by a different name

Ha Ha! Boys you have been caught out!
All these years women have been fooled into thinking that men cannot multi task. That they are capable of doing only one thing at a time to do anything at all well.
Tonight David has admitted that men CAN multi task, so long as you call it ‘time slicing’!!!!!!
Apparently […]


UGH! Never take a gaggle of 11 yr olds to the movies (you won’t survive)!

When I wrote yesterday that we were partying with a group of 11 year olds, I was foolish. What I SHOULD have written was the girls were going to party and David and I (and Tracey too - we conned her) were going to rock in a corner after pulling all of our hair out! AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Some […]