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Benefits of pets for kids

July 15, 2009
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Do your kids love animals?  We are a two pet household (a cat and a dog).  Both were here before our children.  The first two kids aren’t all that interested in the pets.  They’ll give them a pat as they walk past sometimes, but that’s about the extent of it.  Little Mermaid, on the other […]

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A day at the beach

June 26, 2009
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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
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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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