This week has been big and busy but also quiet and strangely lonely, with all of the kids going back to school and Noah and Ivy starting preschool.

Plus it’s been stinking hot

and we have been lying low with a cranky girl.

So, not many photos this week.

Shhh, I can hear that collective *phew*!

Go on over to Sarcastic Mom’s blog for heaps more.

First day jitters.

Seven lunchbox pileup.

Ready and waiting

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The preteen boy.

Highschool girls.

This is the ‘placate mum’ look.

Big preschoolers.

The Secret Seven.

It’s not a great photo but I love the emotion. Nervous, relaxed, apprehensive, happy, excited, ready and just doesn’t want to be there, really.

Ivy’s newest lurgy… self named “sticker pox”.

Love letters from my gorgeous Lily.

Made my day, it did.

Feathers and curls.