Family

A day at the beach

June 26, 2009

Photos by Leanne Nelson A couple of weeks ago I decided to shut the door on the housework, packed Little Mermaid, a snack and my camera and headed down to the beach for the day. We were all rugged up as the weather was looking typically winterish. It turned out to be a beautiful day, [...]

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Windmills

May 13, 2009

Little Mermaid loves windmills. It took me a little while to figure that out because she used to call them wombats. I was often surprised at the number of wombats she could spot in the middle of the day on western Victorian roadsides. One holiday, less that an hour after we’d left home she declared [...]

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The pleasure and the pain

May 8, 2009

The girls had birthdays over the last week, Little Mermaid (now 4) last Friday and Cinderella yesterday (now 6). We’re very clever to get them close together like that I know. So far I’ve been able to get away with one birthday party between them, with a cake for dessert on the day of each [...]

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Where do babies come from?

September 10, 2008

It’s an innocent enough question from a three year old and one that I would expect to be able to answer with enough detail to satisfy, but vaguely enough so as not to encourage more difficult questions at this stage. So far our older kids (7 & 5) have been happy with the “you grew [...]

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10 things to do on a day off school

July 30, 2008

Today The Engineer’s school is having a curriculum day. I completely forgot about it until dinner last night, even though I had it written on our . Cinderella will be at preschool until after lunch, but The Little Mermaid will be home as well. My plans for the day have been thrown a little into [...]

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Birthdays, boys and girls

July 11, 2008

Flickr: Seth Thomas Rassmussen Do you ever wonder how your kids turned out to be so different? Today is The Engineers 7th birthday. After a number of false starts during the night, we let him get up at 5:45 this morning to begin his celebrations. Of course, he was most interested in what presents he [...]

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