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Jul 11 2008

Where Did The Last 10 Years Go?

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On this day 10 years ago I gave birth to my first baby, Chloe Grace.

I am so proud of her, she is beautiful, smart, funny and caring.

Happy birthday Princess Chloe!

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Jun 26 2008

Happy Birthday Clare Bear!

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Today is Clare’s 8th birthday and to celebrate we had Pizza for dinner (Clare’s choice) and I made chocolate butterfly cupcakes for dessert. They were really, really yummy! I will post the recipe tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

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May 21 2008

Happy Birthday Leanne!

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Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Leanne!

We hope you have a very special day!

A message from Clare: “Happy Birthday - Don’t open all your presents all at once!”

A message from Caitie: “Happy Birthday, see you at your party!”
A message from Riley: “Happy birthday - I can’t think of anything else!”
A message from Chloe: “Happy Birthday Auntie Lan, We love you so much!”
A message from Sophie: “Owww!”

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May 06 2008

My Baby Has Gone Off To Her First Camp!

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When I say baby I mean my eldest baby, I haven’t shipped baby Sophie off to some kind of baby camp. Although after the last few nights of her waking every couple of hours I wish I could send her off to some kind of baby boot camp ……lol! No I’m only kidding, I’m talking about Chloe, my 10 year old. She left this morning to go to her first camp and in true Chloe style it just so happens to be a debating camp. Chloe and 3 other kids from her school (including her best friend) were selected to attend the overnight camp.

I am so excited for her, she has been looking forward to this for months and the fact that she gets to share this experience with her best friend A is very special.

It feels kind of weird here today though, even though right now she would normally be at school the house feels kind of empty and I am having trouble concentrating on anything (I’m surprised I have managed to get this far through this post), it’s not that I am worried or anxious. I’m not really sure what it is……. perhaps it’s just that I miss her!

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Apr 18 2008

Happy Birthday My Girls!!!

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Not everyone can say that they have 2 daughters born on the same day but 5 years apart, but I can! This time last year I was in hospital after just giving birth to my 5th baby, Sophie. On the same day my 3rd born Caitie was celebrating her 5th birthday.

Today we celebrated Sophie’s 1st birthday and Caitlin’s 6th birthday. My girls are growing up way to fast!

Birthday girls

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Mar 24 2008

Easter at our House

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My little cousin checking out her stash of eggs

Easter Sunday in my house was a little different this year. My four eldest kids wanted to have a sleep over at my parents house this weekend and the only day that suited everyone was on Saturday night. So I woke up on Sunday morning with only my baby and my partner in the house.

It was very odd to wake up on Sunday morning and not do the whole Easter Bunny thing. The Easter bunny still visited here, but he/she (does any body know the Easter bunny’s gender?) was able to sneak in quietly in the morning and place chocolate eggs in the kids baskets without fearing that the precious sleeping children would wake at any moment.

It was however lovely to get out of bed and not have to get five kids fed, dressed and ready for the day. I leisurely fed the baby, some some breakfast, had a shower, got me and the baby dressed, decorate a chocolate cake, packed some things to take to my parents house and even managed to check my emails. It was a lovely Easter morning for me!.

Around 11am my partner, baby and I walked up to my parents (they live just up the road) where my family were gathering for Easter lunch.

The kids started the celebrations by having an Easter egg hunt in the back yard. This year they were hunting for chocolate eggs and plastic eggs filled with small eggs and a special Easter message. This is my favourite part of Easter. I love watching the kids hunting for eggs and seeing how excited they get when they find one.

After the egg hunt we exchanged Easter eggs, and all ended up with way to much chocolate to take home.

Lunch followed the exchange of eggs. Unlike Christmas Day we don’t really have a traditional Easter lunch, we all just bring over what ever we all feel like eating on the day. This year my Dad cooked chicken wings and sausages on the barbecue and we had some salads with them.

After lunch we got to sit around and relax and talk and eat chocolate eggs. The kids spent the afternoon playing the PS2 and making up Easter related games in the back yard.

We had hot cross buns for afternoon tea and sat around talking until dinner time, which was left overs from our lunch. Because I had made an Easter cake we all forced a small piece down before we all packed up our stuff and headed home.

We came home and the kids went straight to their bedrooms to see what the Easter bunny had left for them, thankfully I had told them that they were not to eat another single egg and we managed to get them all into bed. But within twenty minutes both Caitlin and Clare had thrown up. Thankfully both felt much better once they had vomited and we had a quiet night. I think they learnt their lesson because today they really didn’t eat much chocolate at all.

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Mar 22 2008

What Did You Do on Good Friday?

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We made Easter Cookies!

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Happy Easter Everyone!

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Feb 05 2008

Is This The Face of an Angel?

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No it’s the face of a lying little schemer…….. ok that’s a bit harsh, after all she is only 5 but honestly this kid has got it all sussed out. She just looks up at you with those innocent blue eyes and you think that she must be telling the truth. Let me tell you the story:
Yesterday afternoon I picked the girls up from school and was very promptly handed a note from my little angel from the school office. It was a bill for $3.00 for an emergency lunch order. At our school if a child comes to school without any lunch they will be made a sandwich and then the parents are sent a bill. This is a good concept because it means that your child will never go hungry if you do accidently forget to pack their lunch however Caitie had a perfectly good pastrami sandwich in her lunchbox. She had even asked me specifically to make her a pastrami sandwich that morning. But it seems that by lunchtime she had gone off pastrami and no longer liked it. So she went up to a teacher told them that she didn’t have any lunch and was sent off to the canteen to get a sandwich.
So my little angel faced schemer has lost her pocket money next week as well as her lunch order priviliges for the next month. I think that will teach her :)

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Jan 25 2008

Happy Australia Day!

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Today is Australia Day!
And I’d like to wish all my fellow Aussies a fun-filled day!
And for all my International friends here is a bit of a history lesson:

The tradition of noticing 26 January began early in the nineteenth century with Sydney almanacs referring to First Landing Day or Foundation Day. That was the day in 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip, commander of the First Fleet of eleven convict ships from Great Britain and the first governor of New South Wales, arrived at Sydney Cove. The raising of the Union Jack there symbolised British occupation of the eastern half of the continent claimed by Captain James Cook on 22 August in 1770.

Quoted from the Australia Day website

We arn’t doing anything special to celebtrate, Rob is currently potering around in the garden and I am taking advantage of the peace and quiet (The baby is in bed and the my other 4 are all playing quietly) by trying to get a few bloggy things checked off my to-do list, then I’ll get started on my house to-do list :)

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Jan 16 2008

What’s Going on Around Here!

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Christmas came and went in a blur of wrapping paper and tinsel and now we are enjoying the school holidays. We have been spending a lot of time at the local pools where the kids have had 2 weeks of swimming lessons. Their lessons go for 45 minutes and then we stay and have a swim together. The kids have been having a great time and they are doing so well with their lessons.

We have also been getting everything ready for the beginning of the school year. New uniforms, shoes, bags, pencils, books etc. It’s an expensive and exhausting exercise but lots of fun. I love the back to school preparation.

Riley is starting Preschool again on Friday. He started last June after he turned 3 but he wasn’t ready for it and I didn’t want to push him. I’m hoping that this time it will be different and he’ll settle in easily. I’m expecting some tears when I leave him, but fingers crossed they won’t last for long.

I’ve been concentrating on spending time with the kids during the holidays so I’ve let most of the memes that I usually participate in slip, but when the kids go back to school at the end of January I will be back in full force :)

See you then!

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