Currently I am using a Google Nexus 7 and wireless keyboard to write this post, and did the other one yesterday. I am still ironing out kinks to make it…
Presents Galore
This Christmas my twins were so spoilt. The girls got a wonderful kaleidoscope from GG (Great Grandmother) and their Great Aunt and got many wonderful things from other relatives. The…
Are You on the Potato List?
The girls have been telling us that if you are naughty you will end up on the potato list. I asked the girls what happens if I get my name…
Christmas Tree Up
On Wednesday I put part of the Christmas Tree up but left most of it for the girls to help me with. We have a fake one that you need…
Pre-School Over for 2012
This past Wednesday was the girls last day at pre-school for 2012. Yes my babies have done a full year at school, I am so proud and amazed it has…
Chocolate Makes You Brainy
If you looked at the heading of this post, you would say “really does chocolate make you smarter?” Well according to “The New England Journal of Medicine in the October…
Not well and Hectic
I know this happens to everyone but why me at the moment! I am sick and flat out with final uni assignments, tidying and cleaning the house and of course…
Not 100 Per Cent
The last day or so Julia has had a bit of a cough and thought it was just something that would go away. It seems like it is a bit…
Future Dreaming
Lately I have been dreaming of what is in store for me next year. With university finished, well after January 2013 it will be completed. This still leaves the rest…
Tow Bars Are Evil
Today we took the kids to the pool for an afternoon swim. This was fine until we were leaving and in the car park Lilly flung one of the doors…
Surviving Summer School
Found out the other day that I recieved a credit for contracts which was my second last subject university. I am thilled as was so unsure about the exam, finishing…
No Backup No Job
I read with interest Clementine Ford’s article “When paying for child care is women’s work”. In Ms Ford’s article it shows that women don’t work due to not earning any…
Healthy Dad = Healthy Kids
In an article by Nicola Conville, ‘Dads determine child obesity’, on Body and Soul: “A recent Australian study has found having an overweight father quadruples a child’s chance of being…
Imagination an Essential Ingredient
Yesterday my girls decided to go on a hunt for a blue tongue lizard that talks. They were insistent that they would find one. I thought how amazing their creativity…
NO You Cannot!
Why is it that I have one child that as soon when I say “No” to she immediately sees this as an invitation to go off and get or do…
Cleaning and Stuff
The house is a mess due to it being too hot to do much and also kids wanting to play with everything. My aim is to tidy as much as…
Hot
Today is yet another hot day, we live in Katoomba and it is over 30 degrees here and expected to be 40 degrees in Penrith, so this would be 104…
Yikes Summer School Starts Next Week!
I have just realised that summer school starts next week. It was meant to be ages away but it is now only next week. In my brain I thought December…