The weather cleared enough this morning to spend the day outside. Uncle Glenn arrived with his big boys, the C’s and a box of clays. Having had a little taste of shooting on the farm, the kids were keen to have a go. In previous years they were too small to be able to use the guns. This trip they …
Uncle Glenn Rocks…….
Uncle Glenn hasn’t really spent much time with the kids over their lives. We’ve always lived far apart. Today, however, he gained legendary status in the eyes of Grand Master D and Miss Gremlin…. After the BBQ he took them out in the back block and taught them how to drive. They won’t forget this trip any time soon 🙂 …
Today in Pictures
We did so much today but I’m going to use the old saying ……..A picture is worth a thousand words and give you a few thousand to peruse.
Electronic Free Zone
My kids spent an entire day, until late evening hours, playing outside at a friend’s home. Not once did they want for their iphone or ipod or tv or any type of electronic device until the train ride home. It was wonderful to see, they kicked balls and swam in the cold hottub, ran around with sticks, climbed trees……got really …
A Year Goes So Fast……..
Today, July 8th, marks the 1st Anniversary of the passing of my Dad. It still feels like yesterday I was rushing across the world to be with him. So much has changed, I’m not going to dwell on the sadness. Lord knows it’s there but today is just a date, it will come and go year upon year and …
To Cook or Not to Cook the Pet…….
My brother has a kangaroo, well my brother, his wife and their 5 kids and dog and puppies, have a kangaroo. They live in the country, luckily, because keeping a kangaroo in the city is frowned upon even in Australia. And before you ask, no they don’t jump down the main streets in Sydney and not everyone has one …
Things ‘Good’ Parents Never Say to their Kids………but secretly wish they could.
As we become parents, our lives are no longer our own. Our days of carefree, suiting yourself, doing whatever you want are over. Don’t kid yourself, it’s GONE. Once we have children, we have for at least 20 years, someone to think of and consider and provide for every moment. As children grow they become more self sufficient of course …
Never Say Never
The King spent many years convincing me that we were never going to get married or have children. He had been married before and after that ended, he felt that he’d done that and didn’t want to do it again. I resisted of course, wanting to have children, wanting to be married, arguing for my side, on many occasions until …
The proposed RV Trip
For some time now the King has been saying we should go on a road trip in an RV,(recreational vehicle) not unlike the Robin Williams movie RV. The Princess lives in trembling fear of this and we use it against her all the time. 🙂 Bad parents. Of course I think it would be totally crazy driving across the country …
Camping? The Beach? I don’t think so
We are not a camping family. We like our creature comforts, we’re never far from internet and enormous televisions. The kids just love to go to 5 star hotels. Since Grand Master D was little he was always the room checker, we’d let him go in first to see if it was acceptable. Now I know what you’re thinking..