Ross' Story

Awhile ago I posted on facebook about Ross' story which was on display in the front office of his school. We were very proud of his work and yesterday he brought it home from school so I can now share it with you.
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Scrapping Stuff

Life is NOT always rosie!!!

I would love to pretend that I live the perfect life with my perfect family in a perfect world. Sometimes when I read back on my blog thats what it seems like - all happy and joyful! Thats good but its not a true reflection of reality and I wouldn't like to give a false misrepresentation of our life. Ever had one of those days when nothing goes according to plan? Well, I've had one of those weeks!
I was going to sit and recount my whole woeful story but then I thought about it, and it all started to sound rather insignificant - stomach bug spoiling our weekend away, more sick kids, work, childcare issues, immunisations, housework blah blah blah blah blah........................................................
Ok, so it wasn't earth-shatteringly terrible but it was a little bit rubbish.

Enough of the pity party - rolls eyes.

In the last month and a bit we have ......

Celebrated 3 birthdays





1 Mother's Day (albeit a week late)





Watched Ross play footy very early every Sunday morning





And been to Busselton for the weekend






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We have pets!

On Wednesdays, I normally take Maddy and Gethin to the story and craft time at our local library. They just love the songs and stories and Maddy is really into the craft activities that they do afterwards. Anyway, this week the lady was asking all the children what pets they had at home. It was so sad to sit there watching poor Maddy shake her head everytime the lady listed a pet - dog, cat, bunny, hamster, bird, mouse, fish ............

SO, I decided that it was time for a pet. Now, don't go getting too excited and think cute, adorable puppy! UM No! I'm not that mad. Paul and I are not very big pet people so a dog or cat is out, plus, in our defense, we rent so its not really allowed unless you've paid the pet bond (which is $100 for anyone interested).

I then had a think about my pet criteria and they are as follows in no particular order.
1) It must be relatively maintenance free since I will be the sucker responsible for that department.
2) It must look nice.
3) Low cost.

Ok, that narrows things down to about 1 pet - a fish!
Awww, how cute and cuddly - I bet thats what you're thinking!
Well not really but Maddy and Gethin were pretty keen on the whole "pet fish" idea when I put it to them this morning and suggested a field trip to the pet shop. So off we went to the nearest "Better pets and gardens" and put forward the criteria to the fish lady!
She helped me choose a nice-looking, small, hassle-free glass tank and 3 (one for each child) little fishies and Bob's your uncle, we have PETS!

Maddy insisted on personally, holding the bag of Guppy's in the car, which was rather exciting as she gave them a good few shake ups and constantly reassured them that they were not going to die!




Once we had made it safely home without any major incidents she then very proudly carried the 2 bags inside the house where she proceeded to drop the bag with the Siamese Fighter on the floor with a very loud thud! I quickly rescued him from any further harm and placed him safely on the counter. He looked rather stunned and sat very still at the bottom of his bag - while I contemplated whether he would actually make it to the tank alive.

Fear not - he survived without further incident! And we can now lay claim to being pet owners!



I would take some pictures of the whole tank if I could find the key for the filing cabinet which my secretary in training (aka Gethin) has lost. The camera is not in the filing cabinet but the charger for it is! I think we shall be breaking the lock very shortly as we begin to need more and more items from the said cabinet.

And so, on that merry note, I shall bid you farewell!

Birthday Bazaar!

In a space of two weeks we have 3 family birthdays! I used to love my Birthday month - all alone in May with no one to share it with until .........
I managed to produced two offspring within 2 weeks of that day! They've stolen my thunder - in a nice way!
Gethin had his 2nd birthday on the 22nd of April and Ross is really snapping on my birthday heels with his special day (7 years old) being today (the day before mine)! We're trying to keep Birthdays rather low key this year by only having small parties. Gethin had an afternoon tea party and Ross is having a small movies and Mc Donalds party on Friday!





My birthday - well by the time we get there, I'm just so relieved by then that I've survived the other two that I'm happy for a very low key, relaxed day! Not too low key, darling Paul! I also like to be spoilt with nice pressies!

I've been meaning to share some photos of our new family activity (cycling) for awhile now but its a little tricky getting a photo of all of us cycling down the road while I'm actually trying to ride myself so you'll have to make do with some shots Paul took of us before we left one day. We really enjoy taking a leisurely cycle around our suburbs and parks on the weekends!