why?

I complain about not finding enough time over the weekend to relax and unwind from my crazy week, but as soon as I have some time to myself, I find myself walking around the house “looking” for things to do – I cant just sit and relax like I want to, because all of a […]

Continue Reading Icon

FOR SALE

1 Cat named Charlie – female, mostly friendly, likes to be kept warm and snuggle up to people and enjoys eating. DOB December 2002. 1 Dog named Punky – female, very friendly, likes to lick and jump on people, also enjoys being kept warm and eating. DOB March 2004. I did always say that after […]

Continue Reading Icon

My sugarsnap and snow peas are ginormus

…compared to my girls at least Clearly they are a little overcrowded. I guess I was not optimistic enough about the number of seeds that would actually germinate and grow into viable plants. Maisie and I enjoyed our first fresh pea today. By the weekend, I should have a dozen or more to harvest.

Continue Reading Icon

heat, heat, glorious heat

WOOHOO – summer is back!!! Even though it is now autumn, we are going for gold with 36 degrees here in 2 x Waggas today. Even more exciting is the fact that for the first time in my whole life, I have ducted cooling – so when I just took the nappies out to the […]

Continue Reading Icon

Moving Time (again…)

Cade and I have just exchanged on a new house here in 2 x Waggas. We are very excited and will be moving on the 21st of February. Anyone want to come and pack for me….

Continue Reading Icon

that time of year

we are all sniffly and sneezy. i have been through a pack of soothers in less than 24 hours and cade has almost made it all the way through a pack of lemon and something drops. ahhhhhh – country air…

Continue Reading Icon

When is a bin not a bin?

When your toddler starts using the bin to deposit random household items, such as the wooden spoon or our digital camera. Who knows what else she may have deposited undetected…? I never anticipated having to put child-proof latches on the bin but given Maisie’s latest tendencies, it may be a wise thing to do. However […]

Continue Reading Icon

the end

Our house in Sydney settled last week, so now it is the Li’s house in Lorraine St. Its a very weird feeling knowing that we will never go into that house again, after all the work that we put into it to make it “ours”. I also have this weird feeling that I have left […]

Continue Reading Icon

Goodbye Sydney

Today is our last day in Sydney. Moo, Tali and I are leaving tonight to drive to Wagga and Cade is flying down tomorrow after the house has been emptied of all our stuff. We wont be connected to the world wide web for the next few days, so until then…

Continue Reading Icon

SOLD

Now it’s really starting to sink in that we are leaving Sydney… In related news, Maisie had a good time playing with her cousins on the weekend. Although our girls will live further from this set of cousins, at least there is another full compliment of 4 cousins to play with in Wagga!

Continue Reading Icon

On our own

Today was Cades first day back at work, so us girls had our first full day on our own. We did cheat a bit though – we spent the morning at Louise’s house with Maisies friends from Church. Then when we got home, everyone was so tired from such a great play this morning, that […]

Continue Reading Icon

Tali home today

…And it’s all hands on deck. We’ve already had a ‘babies with pooey nappies simultaneously and one baby also spewing’ experience and it’s quite a rush. We’ve also already had a ‘both babies sleeping simultaneously’ experience and it’s twice as satisfying as when there is only one baby.

Continue Reading Icon

Nightly routine

Note: The purpose of this post is primarily for Lisa and I to read in the future to remind ourselves of what our lives used to be like during our golden era of having two parents and one 12mth old child. The following is an outline of our nightly routine. The order of events almost […]

Continue Reading Icon

Helpful Friends

Today I had the exciting job of going to the NRMA with Moo and getting a green slip to then go and rego up our new/old car. The NRMA office that I went to had a customer car park, so I thought I would use it for the first time so that I didnt have […]

Continue Reading Icon

New Car Smell

Well, not really – but we have a new/used car smell. Today we purchased a 2002 Mitsubishi Magna Wagon for a price that was quite resonable and we are quite happy with. We need to get a couple of things done (like a good clean inside and out) but we needed to get a car […]

Continue Reading Icon

Good girl

In my house there lives me and four females. I don’t mind this, and most of the time I don’t dwell on the issue. But one thing I have started to notice: There is much to praise in the actions and achievements of my housemates and so I’m finding that the most common refrain that […]

Continue Reading Icon

Things I hadn’t done but now I’ve done since we bought a house

Pulled up carpet Sanded floorboards Polished floorboards Painted the interior of a house Moved and installed power points (with the help of a licensed electrician) Sheeted a room with gyprock Tiled a kitchen splashback Removed wallpaper with wallpaper steamer Replaced a door handle Replaced door frames Installed shelves Replaced and modified stormwater pipes Laid roof […]

Continue Reading Icon

Haircut

UPDATE: Lisa cut my hair! And did a great job! Not that I’m surprised at all…

Continue Reading Icon

Gardening

This morning we spent some time in the front yard. I have a “pull it up, cut it off, knock it down, clear it away” type of attitude. Lisa is much the same, although often takes more time to be a little constructive. I pulled this palm tree out with my bare hands. The roots […]

Continue Reading Icon

Haircut

You know it’s time to get a haircut when: 1. Your wife asks you on a daily basis when you are planning on getting a haircut. 2. The first thing you say to yourself when you look in a mirror is “you flaming hippie” in an Alf Stewart voice.

Continue Reading Icon