My girls were playing snap the other night and I had the job of being the dealer. With eyes on the cards and hands posed to snap the game began. Claire (age 7) had the faster reflexes therefore seemed to win almost every match. Natalie (age 5) was getting frustrated with losing so with every [...]
While hanging clothes on the line the other morning I was listening to the beautiful bird calls of our local magpies. Then all of a sudden the air was pierced with a spine tingling noise not unlike nails on a chalkboard. I looked around to see my youngest daughter calling to the magpies, [...]
The other night the children were dancing around the room having a dance competition. Claire my oldest (age 7) was really getting the hips swiveling while my youngest Natalie (age 5) was clicking her fingers to the beat while doing what could only be described as “interpretive dance.” The song finished but [...]
Walking home from school last week I turned around to encourage Natalie (age 5) to hurry up. She half galloped/stumbled onwards in what could only be described as a Monty Python’s ministry of silly walks sketch segment. I looked at her trying to figure out why she seemed so awkward in her walking, then I [...]
They say (whoever “they” are) that kids grow up so fast and yesterday I discovered they are right. We had eaten dinner and I was doing the dishes when it occurred to me that I didn’t know what my oldest was doing. So I wiped my hands and headed down the hallway only to find [...]
We recently had parent teacher interviews for my prep aged child. She’s right on track which is nice to know, a “quiet achiever” in her teachers own words. She received above average for her socialisation skills which leads me to the point I want to make. For years I have heard the argument that children [...]
The other day I got a dynamo torch, you know the ones that don’t need batteries, just wind up and go. I have been wanting a dynamo torch for a long time and I have to say “I love my dynamo”. Perhaps it’s my thrifty nature but I just find free electricity fantastic, if only [...]
Luke and I went to the movies the other day so the kids spent an afternoon with Aunty Nikki. After throughly enjoying a romantic comedy it was time to pick the kids up and relieve my sister of her babysitting duties. The kids enjoyed them selves but it was obvious my youngest (age 5) was [...]
Today the two year old next door was crying and crying and you guessed it crying some more. Not crying out of need either, this was a very obviously a forced cry if I have ever heard one. That kid has a set of lungs on him that could put a deep sea free-diver to [...]
No I’m not an astral traveler and no I wasn’t abducted by aliens and given the full body prob treatment on Jupiter… my children dropped me off on their way to Pluto. It’s quite simple really, they turned our coffee table upside down added a few boxes with seat belts and before [...]