Each and every moment

Tooth Fairy


Why did Isabelle come in the morning all sad saying "The tooth fairy didn't come!". She did put the tooth in a glass cup.

Thank you for coming this morning while she had her shower, she was much pleased.
Perhaps your busy? Too many teeth to collect?

Please priorities my kids and come while they are asleep. Please

So Ethan wakes up and I am in the kitchen and
I ask "Hi Ethan, what would you like for breakfast?"
"Chocolate" he says
"You can't have chocolate it is breakfast, would you like some cereal or toast?'" I say
"Choccccccooooolllllaaaa.....ttte" he says
"No Ethan, you can't have chocolate" I say
He points to a glass jar in the pantry cupboard with "empeng" in it, which is a fried indonesian chip covered with syrup. Marty hates the stuff as it is a bitter chip and covered in a sweet syrup to give it contrast. So I give him one thinking he will spit it out and hate it so much. He will much prefer cereal or toast I was so sure of. He runs off and eats it, come back and says "More, please?". He had like 20 of them in the morning.

Who says breakfast can't be "empeng". I am sure the Indonesians back home do.

Why didn't the tooth fairy come?
Isabelle put the tooth in a yoghurt cup, covered with a Chux wipe in her dolls house. We explained to her that the tooth fairy may not see it there. It is important she put it in a glass jar with water and not covered on her bench in her room.

She decided to leave the tooth in the yoghurt cup uncovered with water on the bench. Hmm... perhaps she should put it in a glass cup tonight and see what happens.

Tooth Fairy please don't forget Isabelle's tooth tonight!

Poor Lachlan is sick, he has a cough and a temperature. He did not even seem hot to me yesterday but the doctor said he read at 38.9. He is on Dimetapp and Nurofen at the moment.


He is normally very quite but the last few days he has hardly said a word. Get better soon Lachlan.

Today
5:30 pm
I have 2 top teeth missing

Guess what? Mama’s going to be working almost full time. That is 4 days a week, which is almost the whole week.

The thing is I only have 2 hands and need you all to know I love you all to bits.

 

I have tried to do it all

To make sure you have meals that are healthy, not loaded with colours, flavours,preservatives,additives or pesticides. I have ensured that you have a balanced diet, with lots of fruits and vegetables.

I have been there at the bus stop to greet you, to give you a kiss and a hug when you come home from school. With afternoon tea ready for you to eat.

I have tried to ensure that in the afternoon you do your homework, sign your forms, listen to your day, get your free time, deal with your arguing, make sure we have everything for lunch the next day, soccer training,spending time with each of you, feed you, bath you, wash the dishes, pick you up from your events, see your friends, pray with you, read with you and put your needs before mine.

The 2 days when you are at school and pre-school. I thought I would have more time. But, dear family it seems the combined 12 hours in those 2 days, or less if we miss the bus does not even seem enough to do all the clothes washing, dishes, cooking, cleaning, bed making, vacuuming, mowing, raking, sorting, shopping, dusting, pruning, watering the garden and most of all picking up all the mess that you make.

Things will be a little different, you may have to go to after school care but I hope to be able pick you up earlier to spend time with you. In the next couple of weeks, I will give you jobs and you will NOT be paid to them because you LIVE here. This will help you in the future.

Having our own business will give mum (and/or dad) the flexibility to be at some of your sports, excursions and assemblies. We know you are happy at your school and pre-school and we won’t take that away from you.

We might have more take away meals, we may need to pay someone to do some of mums jobs at home and we may need to order groceries online. Thankfully, your dad is very understanding that I JUST CAN’T DO IT ALL.

With that said, I love you. It is going to be HARD, very hard. But we will always have time with each other. Mum and Dad always will ensure we spend time with you.

I bought the 4 ingredients book by Kim and Rachael a while back.

On Thursday night  I did not want to go to the shops to get food for kids lunches. It was late, I was short on what to put in their lunch boxes, as they go to school at 7.30 in the morning. It’s important I put enough food in their lunch boxes, as they eat something before school even starts.

So when I am short on food, I bake or cook something. Pancakes, muffins or whatever I have ingredients for. I wanted something really quick and easy. I did not have any eggs. So I searched through their recipes and found the 1,1,1,1 Cake

1 Cup SR Flour

1 Cup Sugar

1 Cup dessicated coconut

1 Cup Milk

You literally put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix it with a wooden spoon. Put the mixture in a loaf tin and bake in oven for 40 min at moderate 180C (I have a fan forced oven and 32 minutes was enough).

The kids loved it.

But I felt it was too sweet for my liking. Surprisingly it is quite dense and moist.

I’ll be making this again.

We went to see poppy and nanna on the long weekend.

When we went for a walk down to the marina we found lots of snakes, Can you see them?

BTW I love this photo of Isabelle.

Isabelle got an award for participating enthusiastically in measurement activities using weighing devices last Friday.

At least this teacher could think about something “different” than the fact that she is kind or helpful to others, like most other years.

   

Every other year she was happy to hold her award and take a photo after the awards. But not this year!. She is growing up.

Dylan was a star at the school play yesterday.

On the Saturday Dad and Dylan spent the afternoon getting the star costume ready. What a beautiful star it is.

 

Problem was, with all the rehearsal and rough handling of the star. On the day the star got a little floppy.

Dylan you were the most interesting star on stage. You Star

I know it is not Christmas, but I had these scanned so why not post them on here. Watch… as we went from 1 baby …. to 4 in 6 years. Truly blessed

 

You look good, I might just eat you…

 

Mr Froggy, I liked the cream but I was not really fussed about the rest of you.

  

It has been raining for days here, yesterday the rain ceased up so we had a chance to get out to the backyard.

I used to live in a villa with a backyard around 6 x 4 in size and no front yard. There were a few plants out the front which I could not look after and died. The plants surrounding the villlas were looked after by a older couple in another villa.

Now, I live in a house laid on top of 800sqm of land.The house itself it not that much bigger than the size of the villa we had. But, the backyard is massive. We have a massive eucalyptus tree at the front and another tree at the back. The tree out front sheds its skin (bark), leaves and these things which I think are gum nuts like in snuggle pot and cuddle pie at different times of the year. 

So yesterday I raked…. raked and raked some more. Gathered wood and cut up some wood for the fire place.

There is a fruit plant right at the back of the place (which mum planted) and the fruits are growing, they taste quite nice. I think they are guavas?. Which makes me think, if fruits can grow from this tree which I don’t prune, water or do anything to. Imagine what I could do with a little effort?

  

I need to clear all the leaves and grass around the tree at the back because the daffodils are shining through!. Those 2 green things in the middle of the picture are the start of daffodils which grows only once a year.

The kid’s find really good ways of entertaining themselves while I am busy!.