Aussie World

Last Sunday, Marian and I and Marty took nine of our children (Marty’s youngest came along) to Aussie World for the day! I have driven past this place dozens of times, most recently in the last two (plus) years since starting my relationship with Marty as it’s on the way to his place. I kept…

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Happy Bonus Day

February 29 has rolled around once more. The last leap year bonus day in 2020 was when I hit publish on my final blog post on my old blog, My Brilliant Foot. My goodness how much has changed since that weekend away! The bonus day before that in 2016 was the final day of my…

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Quinn is 11!!

This blog post is a couple of weeks late as my laptop has been out of action but here we are! 11!! For her birthday this year, Quinn decided to go super low-key which was fine by me! The weekend before her birthday, she wanted to have her cousin Aria here for a sleepover then…

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44 looks good to me!

Or as I like to call it, 40+gst! I love birthdays, and I love all the effort the kids and my parents and Marty put in to making my day extra special this year. I like to include the Wednesday night in my unofficial birthday celebrations, with my regular catch up dinner with these fine…

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Darby is 9!

Having two kids’ birthdays within a month before Christmas is always a bit of a wild time around here. Darby’s actual birthday was last Thursday and we started the day with presents and Coco Pops of course! Darby is always so incredibly grateful and thankful when he receives gifts and he (and all my kids)…

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