Another birthday wrapped up for us – it’s that time of the year! Darby turned 11 at the start of December and we had a little party with some family and friends to help him celebrate. In the week before his birthday, he found out that he had been successful at being elected Events Captain…
Continue reading →Oh yeah, that’s right, I have a blog! It has been over four months since my last post, unless you count all the posts I have written in my head and all the posts I have intended to publish! But I guess you can’t count those, so I’m here now, sitting at a table at…
Continue reading →I was aware that the Saturday we were leaving was the first day of school holidays for NSW, and driving north out of Sydney, I was absolutely convinced that the traffic was going to start building up very early. The alarm went off at 6am and after admiring the sunrise (it was stunning!) we got…
Continue reading →We weren’t in any great rush to leave on Thursday morning, so we took our time packing up after saying goodbye to everyone at Felix and Erica’s house. We got away around 10am (I think??) after packing the car to the absolute MAX, and headed towards the Blue Mountains to catch up with Kelly! We…
Continue reading →On the Tuesday, we all headed to the Borenore Caves just outside of Orange for a morning of exploring. It was cold but we kept warm with all the walking and scrambling and caving! There were so many little areas to go and discover, and the kids had a great time exploring. It was such…
Continue reading →It’s been about a month since we went to Orange, and today is the first opportunity I’ve had to sit down and blog about it (after making collages and uploading all the photos!) I had been planning this trip since the start of the year and the plans changed many times over – originally it…
Continue reading →We spent the weekend celebrating Julius turning 8 and we all had such a lovely time as always. We had a party for him at home on the Saturday, with some of his school friends, and some of our friends and families. It had been raining on and off for a week (or more??) so…
Continue reading →Here we go again! Another wrap up of our time at Pizzeys! It was a shorter stay this time, but we still packed in everything we wanted. The weather was mostly kind to us, with lots of sunshine and only spurts of rain – yes, some of it was torrential, but it never lasted long…
Continue reading →All photos used, and information shared with permission. The kids love it when I tell stories about them when they were younger. They are always interested in how we decided on their names and love to know what they would have been called if they were born the opposite gender. Quinn Maria was the girl’s…
Continue reading →Graduating from primary school to high school is a bit more of a big deal than when I was a kid. For our “graduation”, if I remember correctly, we had our usual Friday morning assembly, and all the year 7s (which was the final year of primary, back in my day) got up on stage…
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