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Six For Saturday.
It has been a week peppered with The Miracle of One Less. Dance classes, play dates, swimming lessons, shopping trips… they have all altered the number of children in our house by one, or more, and I...
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Six for Saturday
The shun was shining here off and on this week. The wattle is in flower and the daffodil farm is selling flowers already. The blossoms are even trying to blossom! I am ignoring the gale force winds...
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Six For Saturday
Today I will plant cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchinis, and tomatoes. No, I am not insane (well ok I am, but not because of this), I know it is still freezing outside, I am planting them on my windowsill....
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Six for Saturday
I have a million things to do and I want to do anything and everything but those things I really need to do. I want to paint, and take photos and dig in the garden. I want to read and read and read. I...
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Six For Sat… er.. Sunday
Cough! Cough! Cough! If my kid doesn’t stop coughing I think I will lose my mind. Cough! Cough! Cough! I know I am supposed to be more caring but I ran out of compassion at about 2am last night after...
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Disconnected!
I apologise for the sudden silence around here, but we have no internet at home! Waaa! While I cry about it, and wait not so patiently for our new modem to arrive, here are some old picklebums posts to...
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This Week
This week I am letting go of lofty ideals…. The bread will be shop bought not homemade, all of it. In the long run, no one will remember if I made the bread or not, not even me, but I will be a better...
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This Week…
{The areal photograph above was taken by a friend and looks out across the town towards the blacked paddocks after the fire.} “What did you do on the weekend?” His swimming teacher asked him. “My...
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Stuff and Nonsense.
My husband is hopelessly addicted to buying more of these cool, but expensive, magnetic blocks and I am hopeless at sticking to themes on this blog. It always seems like a good idea when I start a...
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Stuff and Nonsense
Playing with colour makes me happy. Give me some pastels and some water colours and I am a happy woman. Thankfully this also makes my children happy, so for an hour or so there is creative, colourful,...
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My kids love listening to audiobooks. They listen in the car, on ipods while waiting at appointments, while they clean their rooms, and often while they fall asleep at night. When the kids were little...
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