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lakeside yuletide

Posted in reasons to be cheerful, swimming on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Merry Christmas! The lake is lovely and we’re swimming every day. Today we took a gazebo down and spent three hours in the water, the sand and reading the paper in the shade between swims. I swam to the jetty and was intercepted by a huge dog on the way. There were a few boats, [...]

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Advent 2009

Posted in Control, Planning, reasons to be cheerful on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This year our Advent Calendar needed to be portable so we have envelopes in a decorated box. Each envelope contains a small slip of paper with an activity to be done on that day: 1. Have Breakfast for Dinner 2. Stay up late for half an hour 3. Bake scones 4. Make paper chains 5. [...]

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Public Holiday Kitchen Series

Posted in reasons to be cheerful on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was one of those stay-at-home days. No car, raining outside, no school, no gym. Perfect.

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facing the other way

Posted in reasons to be cheerful, tagged on September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This week I walked a fairly usual bushwalk for me. Well, truth be told it’s not quite as usual as I’d like. When we bought this house we referred to it as “the house with the bushwalk”, and since we’d moved from a house with a beautiful bushwalk nearby we were confident of an equally [...]

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supermarket-free zone

Posted in Control, Planning, reasons to be cheerful on September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Boycotting the supermarket is a challenge but a freedom all at once. Try it!

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end of the week is racing toward me

Posted in reasons to be cheerful, Walking on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here we are, Wednesday night. I’ve managed to get 85% of this week’s work done in the evenings so far this week because we have the sports carnival at school tomorrow. Edie has kindly invited me to attend. This is a pretty big deal because she keeps her cards pretty close to her chest. She’s [...]

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fireside

Posted in reasons to be cheerful on August 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Over winter, when we’re not on bushfire alert, we’ve been having fires and cooking marshmallows. Recently our friend Sam visited. To us he’s Sammy, Sam, or Gooders. To the kids, he’s Uncle Sammy. He and I have been friends since 1986. Yup, old friends. He visits for a week every year and we hang out, [...]

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the family outing

Posted in reasons to be cheerful on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Last week we took the kids into the city for the first time ever. They’ve been wanting to go to the museum for months, especially Edie, who has a real interest in science and nature. The afternoon beforehand, following an extended period of water play on the front porch, both kids picked out clothes they [...]

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wednesday

Posted in reasons to be cheerful on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I love Wednesdays. In the past it’s been dominated by Mothers’ Group but that’s died down a little, and I’ve been more sporadic in my attendance since having Jude. Also, Bim now works night shift on Wednesdays and is home during the day. I segue into Wednesday with a relaxing Tuesday night, usually a face-pack, [...]

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happy easter

Posted in reasons to be cheerful on April 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

This post brought to you by a tidy (enough) house, sleeping children, pets with full tummies and a steaming cup of milo. Easter was very busy for us. We started the celebrations on Wednesday with The Hooley Dooleys live in Springwood. They come every year and the convenience of being able to see them at [...]

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