Ethan doesn’t often want to go to the movies, he has ten trillion better things to do but he wanted to see this movie. Dave was away for the day on a fishing charter and I was the pre-req first trimester exhausted so a movie …
WARNING: this post is about to make you cringe with mama-pride Ethan has just finished his first full term at school and has definitely stamped his mark on his lovely, small country school. He has participated in everything, has raced through the reading levels to …
Ethan and Dave are celebrating Isaac’s 5th birthday this afternoon. Me?……..I would actually die if I had to drive anywhere in the car this afternoon, or, at the very least cause huge amounts of laundry. Best to stay at home.
Parents take note; Pirate themed parties are the best! I love them. Easiest last-minute costume to throw together EVER. Ethan of course had previously stated that he would dress up as the pirate’s cheeter, however that leotard is now bordering on the obscene so I managed to talk him out of it thank you jesus.
When almost a month passes with no bloggy, I must be in a serious funk. I am all funked out that is for sure. March has brought with it the stress and pressure of preparing all of our company’s media for the Auckland Boat Show, …
Who knew? It tastes just like zucchini except it has seeds and these can be removed so then you just have a GIANT zucchini with a concave middle. Sweet. We returned from our camping trip to find two giant marrow chilling in the vege patch. …
Today marks the first day of Autumn. We have harvested an awesome crop from the vege garden this season and now have more tomatoes than we can eat! Dave has just whipped up his usual batch of late summer hot sauce with our tomatoes plus our habaneros and red chillies. AND IT IS HOT! Mouth is burning but I must eat more of it’s spicy freshness.
With Ethan on Board! Ok, now he really is getting far too big. He has wanted to catch the bus home ever since he started school in November. It’s not really necessary as his school is a 2 min drive from our house and it …
My day was going great, I was super productive, had a great lecture, crossed heaps of things off my To Do list, had an awesome meeting with Ethan’s teacher, cooked a fab dinner, finished the GST……and then it turned to shit. Strangely I received a …
It should be compulsory for everyone to wake up to these smells at least once a week, thanks Dave xxxx
He’s had a real ‘beaut’ couple of days. Yesterday he was cutting some hose, was using a new blade and sliced his thumb open. It looked like he had gutted a really small fish. So he spent the afternoon at the ER and went back …