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 [...]

Now we have all been guilty of cooking and then finding hair in your food afterwards, or you are eating something a friend made and you find hair….  Its understandable, you know where it has come from and although you feel a little sick and repulsed about the whole thing you soon toughen up and [...]

This afternoon I had my VT’s come to visit and they brought with them 2 little chocolate easter bunnies for the kids.  I told them they wern’t allowed to have them until after dinner.  So while I was making dinner tonight I started having this sneezing fit and started feeling pretty terrible.  It was at [...]

Last Friday we bought the kids electric toothbrushes as they seemed to be getting very lax on brushing teeth.  So Brian suggested a new exciting toothbrush might enthuse them into brushing teeth again.  Over the weekend, he has been in the bathroom with them especially at night, telling them how to brush and helping them. [...]

Well Ashton passed her half grading last night so now she has a green tip on her white belt which is really cool.  You can see a photo of this here .
Usually when anything needs to be repaired in this house the kids automatically say “Oh look mum, this is coming undone, we better take [...]

Jett has been really good of late taking himself off to get dressed ready for school.  I haven’t been checking up on him for ages cause he will finish his breakfast, go off and get dressed and usually will do an alright job.
Well yesterday, Brian was helping him get changed to go to Ashton’s Tae [...]

The other day Brian was searching high and low for his thumb drive and made a comment that he hopped I hadn’t washed jeans.  I told him that I hadn’t washed the jeans yet and they were in a pile on the laundry floor, so off he went to have a look.  Last night, I [...]

Well first off it was Ashton who was getting headaches and needed glasses for reading and school work etc, further details can be found here.  Now it is me who was tired of the sore eyes and thought I should practice what I preached for her and get my eyes tested.  So now both of us are [...]