Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The SNOW!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Conversations with the Captain...
Driving home after dropping his Father at work:
Captain: Can I have car lessons?
Me: What do you mean? (Distracted and concentrating on annoying Sydney peak hour traffic)
Captain: You know, to drive the car.
Me: Driving lessons? What! No, certainly not! Not until you are 16 and 9 months.
Captain: Why?
Me: Because the people that make the decisions about who drives cars and when have decided that that is the safest time to learn how to drive.
Captain: How many years until I am 16 and 9 months?
Me: Umm, a lot of them.
Captain: Can I have two birthdays this year?
Me: What? No!
Captain: But then I can go in the Tour de France sooner and learn to drive cars!
Project Organise (also known as Operation get son to school on time!)
And yes... that is a flatscreen stuck to my back deck window.... my husband is trialling sticky tapes for a project he is doing for a big fast-food chain. He figured if the sticky tape could survive the rigours of small children it would be fine in the drive through window!
Monday, August 16, 2010
Missing the daffodils and jonquils of cooler climates.
White irises are popping up everywhere and look like dainty little ballerinas amongst all the natives in our garden. I suspect that these are equally as hardy though!
We are just about to make a big investment in some Grass Trees, fingers and toes crossed that they transplant successfully! Anyone have any tips?
Friday, August 13, 2010
Lamingtons and the Garbage Truck
There is a reason why people do it in drives... it is quite a messy and fiddly exercise. However, for two tactile little boys... they loved it.
CWA standard they definitely were not! Nevertheless, we had fun and I even had 5 minutes peace and quiet to enjoy mine with a coffee whilst they were busy eating theirs!
Sadly said peace and quiet was suprisingly short lived. Today is garbage day and, as is a long standing tradition, the boys kept an ear out for the noise of the truck winding it's way up our street. As soon as they can hear it they both race out of the house, screeching like banshees "garbage truck, garbage truck" and then stand at the top of our driveway in relatively quiet anticipation. Normally, the driver waves at them and he and I exchange a "boys will be boys with their obsessions with large machines" glance and then he continues on his way around the neighbourhood. Today was different though... maybe he smelt the lamingtons baking? He stopped and asked if the boys wanted to have a sit in the cab?
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Seriously... my parents actually were awesome!
Here are my parents... looking young and fabulous on holidays in PNG (I think?)!
Another photo of my mother (and baby me!) looking glamourous. We were on posting in Cambodia then and I have to remind myself that she had servants, and thus had the time and energy to look glamourous in every photograph!
Monday, August 9, 2010
Home organisation Chez Pirate
I am trying to work out the best place to store art and craft items. I had lots of jars and bits and pieces in various spot so I collated all items used daily into a vintage (literally) harvest basket! I will pull it out whenever they need something and hopefully they will pop whatever is used straight back in, which will make for quick and easy clean up! Positive thinking people!!!
Recently our hall stand has gathered bags of items I have been planning to pass on and just have never got around to doing. As part of "Operation get the Captain to school on time" I decided to deal with it all immediately. The cloth nappies have found a home with a friend who is planning to use cloth on her new little one and the books are off to South Africa with a flight attendant friend who will pass them onto the "Our Kid Project" a charity that supports children with HIV/AIDS.