Our kitchen is a small kitchen, if the fridge door is open it will hit up against the bench and block the only entry and exit. It was in such a position last night when my husband who was doing the dishes announced “prepare yourself” and let out an all mighty fart. My five year [...]
The kids know that the reason we are renting and therefore moving house quite a bit is because we don’t have enough money to buy. Of course with the ridiculous housing prices we are not alone and since this blog post is not a rant about the housing crisis I will leave it at that. [...]
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I have just been introduced to the music of the Jimmy Castor Bunch. Luther the Anthropoid, Say Leroy (the creature from the black lagoon is your father), Space Age, Hey Leroy your mama’s calling you, King Kong, Dracula, The Return of Leroy, Bertha Butt [...]
My seven year old can burp like a trooper, she gets that skill from her Aunty Nikki. The other day she took her burping skill to a whole new level while she was singing Hendrix’s “Purple Haze”. Sweet innocent Claire came up to me and burped the words “purple haze” then continued on with the [...]
My seven year old just loves the school choir, she sings all the time. Sometimes I feel as if I’m in a musical because Claire will often sing her answer to me when I ask her a question. Then that triggers off my five year old to sing her conversational chit chat and before you [...]
I love movie nights in our house, the kids watch a movie in the bedroom and Luke and I watch a movie in the lounge room. No I’m not neglecting my kids, Saturday nights are family nights with popcorn and Andromeda. Movie nights are for the movies that the kids can’t watch for one reason [...]
My five year old surprised me a few weeks ago with her hidden stash. You see we had completely run out of sweets, no chocolate, no jelly beans, no licorice nothing! So while Luke and I were having our after lunch coffee (minus the sweets) Natalie trotted off to the play room and returned with [...]
We have been hunting around for a bed lately and on one of our fruitless outings there just happened to be a Lifeline store in the complex. Being avid bargain hunters we popped in for a look… not for bed’s though…I like my beds new thank you very much! Books and toys, that’s our second [...]
Ken the handyman came around to finally finish the job he started three months ago. It was a quick and nasty patch up job just like all the other little jobs the real estate have had him do in this house. While I watched him paint over mould in our toilet be [...]
Have you ever sent your husband out to get milk but he comes back with milk plus this and that and some other thing you don’t need? Well today I sent my husband out to buy a new cd/tape player that was on sale at The Warehouse but instead he came home with a new [...]