I know this will be out of order, but thought you might all be waiting to see how Connor has gone with his lego.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Connor and I like to play Yu-Gi-Oh the card game.  It’s suitably complex for Connor, and still fun compared to Magic: The Gathering which takes a lot of concentration.  We bought ourselves the Yugi and Kaiba starter decks, so we’d have an equally matched set and would have to survive on our wits alone – [...]

Ash’s school had Nude Food Day the other day.  This is a great idea with both health and environmental benefits, which asks kids to bring food that doesn’t have packaging – as well as encouraging the eating of more natural, unprocessed foods, it reduces landfill from all the packaging that is usually in kids lunches. [...]

We went out to a Greek restaurant for dinner for a friend’s birthday.  Early in the night we noticed Connor had a small Easter Egg that came out of his pocket (We always have a few floating around in the cupboard for months and months), and Monique asked him why he had it. “Just in [...]

One of the side effects of Mon studying law is that our week is more structured so that she can keep on top of things.  She has a timetable of when she’s studying, and I’ve copied the idea to make sure my time is better balanced. This means there are times when she and I [...]

Standing at the platform at Ringwood waiting for the train to take us to Sound Relief when the sky turned black as doom.  This pretty much set the tone for the weather, clearly God has a bit of a sense of humour raining over an inch of rain on a bushfire relief concert. This did [...]