Aye Mum.

Golly, last day of August today and I haven't written a post all month. Overall it's been a quiet month as we break the back on winter and peek through to the first signs of spring.

It's been lovely seeing what the seasons look like in our new house, which isn't so new anymore. But there are a few things I want to document.



Oliver has attended 2 five year old birthday parties this month for his two best kindergarten pals.  They have now started school and Oliver is 2 friends down at kindy.

 He would talk non stop about these two, Alfie and Max so I have been surprised at how well he has coped with them gone.  He is a good boy this one, life goes on.  He also ends every sentence at the moment with the expression ...."aye Mum?" EVERY SENTENCE.


Nathan has had his second and third haircut. He has the thickest hair of all our brood. I have a feeling he is going to find it quite unruly as an adult. He isn't talking yet but he makes lots of sounds and has a collection of gestures and expressions which communicate what he wants.

He goes to Nan's house twice a week on the days that I teach and has formed quite a bond. He actually cries and screams when I arrive to pick him up and whenever Nan comes over he rushes to her, grabs her legs and tries to lead her out the door with him to her house. She assures me it has nothing to do with her spoiling him with marshmallows.

Lucy has had nits. Man, what a process that is. We tried two different methods. The nice natural (useless) way first and after a week of that, moved on to the heavy stuff which seems to have done the trick. Very grateful we only have one daughter and not 3. I'm looking forward to just being able to  shave off the boys hair when they get them and not have to do this nit combing thing for hours on end.

She has also lost another tooth and has 5 new wriggly ones in her mouth. I have a feeling they all might fall out at once.

I fed the family rice for dinner for a whole week in a bid to foster gratefulness.  I was completely over the kids remarks at dinner when I served up a meal I had spent a good hour preparing for them.  "Oh, I hate this dinner!"  "yuck!" "I don't want this!"  As well as it being incredibly rude and bad manners, it also stunk of first world gluttony and how much they took food for granted.  We had a whole family focus on gratefulness and it was great.  it backfired slightly when they LOVED the plain rice and would eat every mouthful all week without complaint. It got me thinking maybe it was just my cooking they hated but regardless, it was a win.We got to talk through global concerns with the kids, I got out of cooking proper dinners for a week. We saved a heap of money on groceries and now that we are back to normal meals, the kids have been very good at remembering to give thanks, to God for the provision and to the hands that prepared it for them. They've learnt.

One of our good friends left for Police College this month. He will be gone until the end of the year. Marcus and enjoyed a bit of date night out with him and his wife before he left.

These are our camping buddies and the planning has already begun for the next trip although whether the new police recruit will be able to join us over New Years is not looking likely. We do a lot better at camping than we do at Pub Quiz nights. We didn't come last but just about.

That about sums up our month. Will endeavour to do better for September.