Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Friday, January 21, 2011

Q: Can you still eat a cupcake if a skink has run across it?


Or perhaps it ought to be should you still eat the cupcake...

The girls did a bit of make-up-our-own-recipe-as-we-go-along. Imogen’s version turned into ‘crumble slice’ [messy but yummy] and Alannah produced vanilla cupcakes.

A small member of the lizard family visited our warm kitchen on that rainy afternoon as they were cooling on the bench and I guess he thought a nice warm cupcake made a tolerable alternative to a sunwarmed pebble...

And so back to the original question - we did anyway and they were delicious!



p.s. That’s Ed’s hand in the back ground behind Alannah’s head threatening the classic dingo-family-patented ‘smell-the-cream-and-I’ll-push-your-head-into-it’ move... he didn't though - good daddy!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

red bridge cafe










We stopped off in Campbell Town yesterday on the way home from an overnighter to Coles Bay. LOVE this place! We'll defintely be back. And it's only half an hour from our house.

Monday, October 18, 2010

the state of the lounge


It seems I have not folded washing for several weeks...
It seems I would much rather take a photo and blog it than actually fold it...
It seems I may be procrastinating...

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Dear Blog...

Do you remember me? Sorry for neglecting you lately [i even missed your birthday :( ]

Lately I’ve been doing stuff other than looking at the computer screen.

More knitting, gardening, sewing, school holidaying, renovating, cleaning, crafting, but most importantly mothering and wife-ing...





I just love these four more than anything!


 
 
p.s. I do promise more regular updates... but only if I get around to it ;)

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

just the [un]usual

Yesterday was a pretty average Monday. The standard* rush-about-the-house-getting-ready-for-school-playgroup-work, playing [or not, whichever you prefer] at kinder playgroup, a couple of errands, fruit and veg shopping, then home in time for lunching and putting to bed of little man.


Mum was coming round, as she sometimes does on a Monday, especially if we haven’t seen her on the weekend [which we hadn’t]. We had just completed fresh underside covering of the small one as we saw oma arrive in the driveway. Subsequent dancing on bedroom window sill ensued while mama performed sheet wrangling in a particularly swift fashion and afterwards arranged chubby legs in sleepy-sack. In wanders oma for kisses and cuddles and then...



“OH SHIP!” [let’s just pretend it was that] I say in astonishment. It’s MANDY! My sister! From the other side of the country! A great deal of blubbering on shoulders results as well as soothing of small startled by great commotion.

Still recovering from that astounding surprise! SOOOOO good to have you here darling x

 *this one not so bad as some

Friday, July 16, 2010

We are loving knitting at our house...

From the smalls to mama [maybe not daddy... ;) ]









Tuesday, July 6, 2010

One of THOSE days...

Yesterday was one of THOSE days! You know the ones, when things happen.

Getting up at 7:15 instead of 7 on the dot; rushing about the house clothing children, assembling breakfasts, filling lunchboxes, searching for school books, packing bags, showering, chasing kittens, layering family members against the frozen outdoors, using a loud, impatient voice* at children, scooping in mouthfuls of muesli between all of the above; having the small attached semi-permanently to leg while helping middle kid express her creativity at playgroup; strapping in and unloading of children countless times while running errands; providing a continuous supply of mobile nourishment to ravenous kid; arriving home after 1 in the afternoon to the impenetrable fog; frantic relocation from carseat to cot of exhausted, irritable kid; opening the back of the car only to see my box of beautiful hilbarn vegies tumble onto the gravel and roll down the hill.



Then the sun came out [albeit for only an hour and ¼], my darling came home early and brought me a bunch of gorgeous flowers – just because.


At least THOSE days don't last forever...

 * aka yelling – bad mummy :(

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

yes i know i haven't blogged for ages and you all are hanging out to know what's been going on...


being helpful...

being unhelpful...

renovating...

checking out reno progress...

playing with new toys...

getting towed around...

mowing the front lawn...

picking apples...

planting mama some woods...

watering baby trees...

going for big kaboomies onto sweet faces...

firing up the oven in the bakehouse...

baking our first batch of bread...

admiring our first rustic loaves...

piano playing...

hanging out in the schoolhouse...

eating freshly picked apples in your undies...

making fairy gardens...

making more fairy gardens...

mooing at the cows...

looking out the front door...

growing huge pumpkins*...

eating brekkie in bed...

more piano playing...

admiring our gorgeous new view...

*note: our pumpkin is actually the little yellow one in the background.
the huge one was grown by my uncle chris and was the winner of our pumpkin growing contest.
check out more pumpkin news on our other blog pimp your pumpkin
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