Ash’s 16th birthday I know this came around just way too soon, but there you go, Ash turned 16. Again high cake stakes, although this time Jase was the master chef: It was inspired by her birthday present: Ash’s party was loads of fun (well for them – we weren’t really allowed into the playroom). [...]

Connor’s 10th birthday Connor had a sleepover and it turns out that 10-11 year old boys (and girl) go a little bit nutty under these circumstances. Thank goodness we have a great playroom and they could just entertain themselves with whatever we have in there. It was Mon’s turn for cake cooking and she set [...]

During the school holidays, I was quite busy at work, and was unable to take any extra time off to spend with the family like I usually do.  Mon was working day shift of the weekend in the middle, and like half an hour before she was due to leave she dragged us out to [...]

I wore my good clothes because it was a special occasion, and my stole. Mum and Dad designed and cut out the picture of the cup with the host, and Aunt Andrea embroidered it on. I was happy that people had contributed to such a great mass for me and all the first Eucharist people [...]

As many of you know, Mon began studying law last year, through Deakin University off-campus.  People have asked about how her eyes are going with all that reading, how her brain is going holding all that info in, how her hand feels after all the writing and so on. The real killer though is on [...]

As promised, photos of the new car. Click them for full size

Oops, I misled you, we didn’t do a cool cake for Ash (although Mon had made an incredibly rich, moist, and large cake for her) but we did for Connor. Connor had a science experiment party, which was fun, so we had to make a volcano cake!

Today we all caught the train in to St Kilda to go to the adventure playground there. The City of Port Philip has a couple of adventure playgrounds designed as ‘big backyards’ for children in high density public housing. Based on a similar concept in Denmark, the children were originally given the materials and tools [...]

It was really hot yesterday and we couldn’t go out anywhere, so Connor played a game of Monopoly with himself… Full size version

Here’s an image I made for the front of a card to farewell my graduating catechetics class :