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Well Said

I am hoping to do a whole stack of posting tonight to make up for my lack, so to the good one first.
We have begun to call them Kenzisms, because she just comes out with so many. Here are her latest 2.

Number 1: Mum made some awesome dessert for Father's Day last Sunday. Kenzi asked, "Mumma when can we have some sticky tape pudding?"

Number 2: When we can we like to look at the stars and find pictures in them, but tonight Kenzi wanted to know where in the sky the stubborn cross was!

Smile and wave Kenzi girl....smile and wave!

Stuffed and Sad

So, I'm stuffed. I am working and I forgot how hard it was to be a Mummy and a wife and a teacher and a sister and a daughter and a friend, etc, etc. I am ever so thankful for the opportunity to not work. We survive on a small wage because we choose to and I love that we can. I also Long for time to sew...I miss it. So I am Stuffed. (Kids throwing up all over the place does not help!)
Kenzi however, is sad. This afternoon she cried for half an hour because the winter colour that we planted in our garden has now come to an end. She cried because all the spring flowers were blooming and her winter flowers were brown instead of the beautiful purple and white that they have been for 3 weeks. She sobbed and sobbed....how unfair that her flowers do not get to enjoy spring like all the other things in our garden! Ahhhhhh, the harsh reality of the circle of life.
Oh, and I promise I will be back soonish, sometime, somehow. I just needed not to feel obligated, but I do love it so. I love seeing your lives. Somehow it makes me feel less stuffed, less tired, less sad....somehow.

Drafts....

Victoria and Grant playing chase the horse!

One of my husband prospects-Youldon's will be proud (Old, ill & wealthy!)

Go Grant go!!!!

21 yr old Hubby prospect!!

Grant on gorgeous Vegimite!

Ben chasing a long away cow!!!

Pepsi the dog who mezmerises cows!

Some of the 700 weaners!

Where I live...

My Trailer home :-)

Triple bunks- I am the middle one
Bathroom- fold up sink and shower is opposite.

My double bed which becomes Victoria and Grants at drafts! Kitchen table, and zillons of storage space.

Back sticker stuck on today with out a divorce! it was huge and hard.

The view from my front door.

This view plus 700 weaners (weaned claves!) now.

Schooling a 9yr old...

Is fun when it's what I want to do, and can do...Teaching Ben to do CPR on a teddy bear!!!

Townsville...

Amen me and my sisters and even my mother are not in this picture nor could we sneak in and not be noticed- we would be lost between cheeks!!!! Yikes!!!!

I had a super wkend in Townsville with Brooke another Govie.

We saw male strippers with 2 other old ladies who told their hubbies to keep walking so they could perv from the street with us. It was $30 to get in- no way would we pay!!!!

We had a toga clad guy get stripped next to us and he continued dancing in his superman undies with wallet stowed in the front for safe keeping!!! (Very nice physice so we did not mind dancing next to an almost nude!!) We broke into the pool at 3am both times to cool down, refresh, relax and de-beer/sweat our selfs. Giggling like school girls cause we felt so naughty.

We beached it and then shopped and drove the LONG trip home.

Missed having a sister there to party and chat with but good good time...

(Andy-just upping the naked word count on our site!!! & it just so happens around me last wkend there was a lot of nakedness! Lucky me ;-)

Bye-bye Baby

We're off, off, off and away again in the morning.  It's a holiday for Andrew and a change of uni location for me.  We're heading to Chester for a wedding (Phil's), Wales for some family (Mike and Liz), Kent for some more family (Sarah plus the parentals), Essex for a wedding (Al's) and then back home.  I'm hoping a trip to Hay on Wye (the town of books) will be in order, and a trip to Sainsbury's to stock up on cake decorating supplies, in amongst the uni work of course. See you guys when I get back!

Being a Librarian

A little boy said to me today that he thought I was once a real teacher!!!!! I actually think a librarian is the best job in a school.
Today I have covered books, read to kids and chosen some books that I will photograph and give you a librarian review of. They will mostly be picture books, because I am in love with them and I can't be reading ALL the time!
So, until my next post sweet dreams beautifuls, rest well and dream of days when you to can sit and read until the cows come home!

Would you believe me if I said I wasn't trying to kill my husband?

I made these mince pies the other day.  They were from a package that someone gave us as a Christmas present...1.5 years ago.  They were good, and only 1 year out of date.  Which doesn't compare with the squid-ink spaghetti that I served up a few weeks ago.  I had seen it languishing in the back of the pantry when I moved here.  So, after only 2.5 years I thought I'd crack it open and serve it up.  We ate it.  And then realised it was 5 years out of date.  Oops.