My little helper

Becky has found the best way to be a helper lately.....when she can see I'm trying to get dinner cooked or am on the phone and Mary needs distracting she asks if she can read her a story. They curl up somewhere and dive into Mary's book of choice. It's wonderful, not only does it give me a hand but it's helps with her reading confidence.

Climbing my family tree

I have a secret obsession....it's family history! Don't all groan at once....I really do love it and once I get started I find it hard to stop :) Tonight I've been delving into my families history on my mums side and trying to piece together two families that came out from England and Scotland and settled in South Australia. I find it so fasciating and love to learn all about their lives, what they did for a living etc. So far I've learnt that one was a Postmaster in his town, one was a policeman and there is even a police boat that bears his name in a museum in SA. Many served in the world wars and sadly many gave their lives for the freedoms we enjoy. With all the resouces available on the internet nowdays I can feed my family history obsession from the comfort of my own home too! (with the heaters running of course... you should have seen the ice this morning! Brrr) I don't have pics to share of my ancestors yet but I thought I'd share a few of me as a young one. No laughing!

 
 

I've hit my slump

I've been keeping the challenge and blogging everyday for 6 whole days and now I've run out of things to say........
So rather than lose the challenge I thought I'd share something that touched me this week.
Our church frequently creates these short clips about some of the beliefs we have and this one about enduring and paitence really touched me. Hope you enjoy it too.

A visit from the north island

A couple of weeks ago we were blessed to have a visit from our Frannie and Frampa from the mainland....the girls were so thrilled and it was super to have them around for a week. We did lots of touristy things, cheese tasting at the cheese farm, chocolate tasting at the chocolate factory and chatting with the monkeys in city park. It's tough sometimes being down here by ourselves with no family around so we make good use of things like Skype, email and cheap phone calls. The best part about that is when we do have family come to stay it means theres no time lost getting to know each other again, we can just get right into having fun. Here's a pic of the girls and their Frannie and Framps. (The other pics are of Mary being a nutter!)

 
 

Strawberry fields forever

Here's my biggest little one modelling her new "Hilda" hooded top from the 6/2007 Ottobre. "Blue can be a girls colour" she tells me....which is handy because her school uniform is navy and she'd better get used to it as she has a lot of years to go! Fabric is a french terry knit from SL, very cuddly.

 

Mission control to baby....are you there??

Who taught this kid to use a mouse?? I guess this is the tech generation.....with mummy in control however. We set the timer on the microwave for 10mins and she's only allowed to be on these two sites The Friend magazine (our church's magazine for young kids) and Daniel Cook (a fluffy TV show from the states with little activities to do...turn your volume down if you choose to click the link...hence the headphones in the photo!) Oh and we have done the odd episode of Charlie and Lola on youtube....we absolutely love Charlie and Lola around here, it's our favourite and our best.

 

Sleeping like a baby

So miss 3 isn't the worlds greatest sleeper....what baby is? (I don't really want to hear a response to that :P) Anyway, while carrying her back to her bed for the millionth time last night I suggested out of desperation that she cuddle up with one of her sisters for a bit in their beds. She liked the idea and both older girls volunteered which was sweet to see....she chose the top bunk and her middle sister and this is what I saw when I peeked just before going to bed myself......

(they slept all night through by the way!)

A challenge and some shirts :)

So my dear friend in an attempt to motivate us slackers has challenged us to write a post each day for a month......no matter how small :)

So this is a small one, size 3 to be exact.

3 tops I finished last week for miss 3 who has been seriously lacking some warmer tops. I was too keen and they still had all the threads hanging off them when I took the photo

All from the Otto 1/2006 edition, kids raglan top. I played around with my maxilock swirls thread and my new sewing machine to create the watermelon.

(yes I know the last two are sideways, I don't know how to fix it, you'll just have to turn your head:P)

A challenge and some shirts :)

So my dear friend in an attempt to motivate us slackers has challenged us to write a post each day for a month......no matter how small :) So this is a small one, size 3 to be exact. 3 tops I finished last week for miss 3 who has been seriously lacking some warmer tops. I was too keen and they still had all the threads hanging off them when I took the photo All from the Otto 1/2006 edition, kids raglan top. I played around with my maxilock swirls thread and my new sewing machine to create the watermelon.