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Tag: the boys

  • Give me the child until seven…

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    and I will show you the man. If you remember I did a similar post when my jolly monkey turned 7. Well the little one turns 7 today and thanks to this Jesuit motto it’s been looming on the horizon like some kind of use by date for me to get all my influence in…

  • Give me the child until seven…

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    and I will give you the man. This Jesuit motto has been running through my head leading up to my Jolly Monkey’s 7th birthday. Could it be that the person he will become has already been hardwired? Sometimes I find myself watching him and wondering what life has in store for him. This gives me…

  • Birthday Month Continues

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    My little man turns 5 today but we celebrated with a party last Saturday. Here he is ready for his party and posing in his birthday t-shirt (I’m not sure about this ‘smile’). The birthday t-shirts are now a tradition and they have definitely evolved over the last 5 years. They used to be made…

  • Kioloa Beach

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    This is where we’ve been hiding for the last three days – at Kioloa Beach on the South Coast of NSW. It was so relaxing and on a day like this one it just makes me appreciate where I live. The beach was relatively quiet and the water was relatively warm and my little men…

  • Struggling for Inspiration

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    My darling husband kindly reminded me that it has been 3 WEEKS since my last post. I’m not sure why I’m not very inspired at present. After all the sun is shining and flowers are emerging in our garden. I have been busy though, navigating a new OS and have just embarked on an online…

  • Happy Easter

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    Happy Easter! Today is the one day of the year that the boys eat chocolate for breakfast! The easter bunny (who hopped out of bed at 4:18 this morning) left a few tasty treats in the nests we made in the garden yesterday. Not even the rain could deter him! This is a picture of…

  • The Beach

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    With autumn fast approaching we decided to take off and enjoy the last of summer at Broulee beach last weekend. It’s been, incredibly, over a year since we last went to the coast and the boys had such a great time now they are that little bit older. The eldest had a great time with…

  • Sportacus in the house!

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    My youngest is completely enamoured with Sportacus the character from the TV show called Lazy Town, which hails from Iceland of all places! As a reward for all his stickers on his toilet reward chart (yes we are tackling toilet training) he got this very cool Sportacus suit. He loves dressing up and he decided…

  • The Vanishing Boy!

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    This is just so strange that I had to take a photo of it. My eldest has taken to laying out his clothes, as above, when he’s getting undressed for a bath. We have no idea why. I walked into his room and saw this! It reminded me of the Wizard of Oz when the…

  • A Camera in the Hands of a 5 Year Old

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    My eldest has discovered the camera recently which is really funny because at the same time he’s snapping these my two gorgeous Atlanta friends had just sent me samples of their girls’ photography efforts. Here are a few of his shots. These are my favourites from the 75 odd that we got off the camera…