Jigsaw Mania

 
We’ve finally done it!
A few months ago, Miss 10 bought a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle..  a beautiful Holland landsacpe shot, and we completed it without too much trouble.
But this… our second 500 piece jigsaw puzzle was a nightmare!  All the lilypads and pond areas just looked the same!  We started by doing the corner and [...]

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New blog header!

Don’t normally do a weekend blog post, but the girls are all asleep so I decided to do something I’ve been wanting to for ages – create a custom blog header!
I couldn’t decide between putting up one of the photos that I took myself, or putting up a family photo.  Since my blog is not [...]

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My first lasagne

Next experiment was something I love to eat, but have never ever cooked. Lasagne sounds hard to do.. I mean, it’s got so many layers!

When I went shopping for ingredients, one of my first dilemnas was what do I do about the lasagne sheets?  Do I make my own?  How good are the [...]

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How to get the kids to practise

One thing that makes parenting hard is getting your kids to do things that they should do but don’t want to do.
And practising their musical instruments falls right into that category for our 7yo. She just wasn’t motivated to practise her violin. She complained that practice is “boring”. The thing is that [...]

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Nothing like swimming

So we pulled the kids all over Sydney and Melbourne during the holidays.  We didn’t really plan much kid oriented activities – just shopping and some sight seeing.  And did they get bored.  I think there’s only so many Melbourne arcades a kid can look at.  And it’s hard to motivate kids to walk somewhere [...]

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What do I do?

What do I do?   Or really, can your child explain what you do?   I asked the kids this a few weeks ago what I did at work.
Our 7yo answers, “You check your emails and play on the computer.  You have meetings.”
Our 9yo answers, “You make computer programs.”
“What’s a program?” asks the younger one.
Hmmm…    good question.  [...]

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Ball fun in the bath

We have one of those fridges that is covered with photos, magnetic business cards, Merit/Honour certificates and Chinese takeaway menus.
However, this is the current stand out item on our fridge which makes me happy everytime I get out the milk – an old photo of our daughter having a bath with all the balls from [...]

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Scitech Slime

On the weekend, the kids were invited to a birthday party at Scitech, our local science discovery museum.
I love Scitech!  And the kids do too.  There are so many gadgets that kids can play with, and you don’t need to get stressed about them pressing any ol’ button like at home.   In fact, I, [...]

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Kid’s recording session!

Finally uploaded some files from our recording session last week.  These are so cute!  Great 18th birthday material
Wild Mountainside as sung and harmonised by our 9yo

I Whistle A Happy Tune as sung by our 7yo

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Jazz in the Theatre with kids

Through the Facebook network, I learnt about a concert on last week.   Jazz in the Theatre – Soundtracks was a showcase put on by the WA Academy of Performing Arts last week.  The poster says that various jazz and comtemporary ensembles would play a collection of hits of music from musicals.
I wanted to go, [...]

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