Well the kids have been sick for the last three days with colds and sore throats.  This morning they woke up super early while Brian was still home and I knew then that Ashton was perfectly fine to go to school cause she just talked and talked and talked.
I am surprised that she didn’t pass [...]

So today Ashton asked me what Decoy means and the first thing that came to mind was star wars.  So I described it something like this…..
“Well you know in Star Wars (couldn’t remember the episode) where Princess whats-her-face (Ashton knew who I meant) hops off the Space Ship thing with Jay from Play School, (Ashton [...]

So last weekend when we were down at Janice and Wendells, the kids were really enjoying the Anzac Biscuits Janice had in her secret stash in the cupboard.  It got me thinking that it might be a nice idea to make some Anzac Biscuits with the kids this week and have a little chat about [...]

When we were up in Atwell, we had the kids doing lessons at Stateswim.  Ashton would do good for a few weeks then lapse back to what represented a floundering old lady trying to swim, then she would improve again and the teacher would change.  It just seemed like we were pouring money into a [...]

I can’t wait for the day when Ashton will be too old to bring nits home from school.
I have suspected for a few days now that she had them and every time when she would scratch I would ask her to look at her hair and she would say it wasn’t itchy for nits, she [...]

So its school holidays, Janice (Brians mum) has asked to have the kids for a night or two.  The kids were all for it so we arranged something for this week.  I met Janice and Wendell in Bunbury this morning at Big W and they headed off down to Dunsborough and I returned home.
Since I have been [...]