…is a time for celebration! I was just paying a visit to the little girls room when the phone rang. “MUM! It’s your lawyer!!” shouted my youngest son. “Crikey” I thought, I had better get my finger out as I subconsciously totalled up how many dollars this slight delay in reaching the phone might cost […]
Hey it’s almost the weekend so let’s share a bit of expat humour!
While the folks in the UK shiver under another thick blanket of snow (isn’t it spring there now?!?) here in SE Qld last night we witnessed the most amazing lightning storm I have ever in my 36 and a bit years seen! I managed to capture some cracking (excuse the pun!) images (on my iPhone!) […]
As migrant mums we’ve all had our fair share of decisions to make and the influences surrounding those decisions come from many people, places and events. Personally my family’s decision came quite easy, we watched a TV programme on the subject of emigrating to Australia and the decision was made. Today we have a guest […]
To follow on from Friday’s post, the baby Andrew arrived fit and healthy after a dash by my other half and big son to the local Animal Welfare League first thing Friday morning! There had been a lot of interest in this little fella as you can see on his Facebook page, so the boys […]
oh yes I do! “oh no you don’t” oh yes indeed I do! Another little Aussie amongst a family of Brits down under. A little fella called Andrew who is cute as a button. His bed is waiting along with a collar and lead! Oh! come on you didn’t really think I wanted another ‘baby’?!….a […]
is over! So that’s it! No going back. We have to stick by our decision. Time to move on! It’s going to be difficult, but it’s for the best! It’s caused too many discussions. Too many arguments. Too many tears. There are kids involved too! We need to end this now! So the decision is […]
Note to self as follows….. 1.Do not let 8 year old daughter install horse apps to own ipad 2.Do not then allow 3 year old son to play on said ipad unsupervised 3.Do not then go out for three hours You will come back to find…. 1.Your facebook page full of status updates and pictures of “my […]
The word homesick is being bandied around a lot at the moment and both mummi h and myself have experienced it recently! For me the first bout of homesickness was truly debilitating. I couldn’t eat or sleep and I didn’t even want to leave the house. When I did leave the house, usually just to […]
Thanks for all the lovely comments both here and on facebook in response to my post snow versus sand yesterday. To carry on the theme, I’m just wondering if you had to make a snap decision which you would choose out of snow and sand. Please leave a comment as to why if you like. I would choose snow […]
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