Xmas begins

We went to Lynn's place this morning to open presents. Miri was a bit under the weather with her (maybe) chickenpox, but we had fun!

A picture is worth a thousand words...

... and I have a fabulous new camera, so I have ALOT to say now!
Here's 3 from the last 24 hrs...

Xanderisms

At Miriam's birthday afternoon tea last week, Xander was struggling to open one of her presents (it was well sticky taped). After huffing and puffing for awhile he announced "There'd better be something worthwhile in here!"



The other day we had this exchange:

Xander: "I feel like a girl, but I know I'm not."

Me: (um.....) "Oh right. What makes you feel like a girl, Xander?"

Xander: "Because I have eyebrows."



Some responsible adult should really take that boy in hand.

Still breathing... I think.

No posts for a very long time here - that either means I've gone and got a real life, or that little miss M has decided that sleeping is for pathetic loser babies and I'm too exhausted to look after my family, let alone contemplate blogging. (Unfortunately it wasn't the getting a life one.)

Her sleep has improved alot in the last week or so, which I am SO GRATEFUL for! I've actually got energy to see people - we've organised a playdate for next week, and we had a lovely morning at the pool today with some playgroup friends. Ah, life feels so much better when I'm getting enough sleep!

At the moment I'm uploading a pile of photos to a photobook site - I'm hoping to take advantage of the amazing exchange rate (with the US at least) and finally get our photos printed up into books. I love looking through our photos - so many funny and happy memories.

Just for fun - here are 2 pics, just to show how FREAKISHLY SIMILAR my 2 girls look!

This looks fun!

Natural dye for playdough - better put it on the must do list :)

Spiffing

I'm trying to fix up the words of an ancient song that a friend of mine and I wrote when I was at Uni. It's a kind of paraphrase of Colossians 1 and 2. I need a two syllable word for "good" to use in a substitute for the word "gospel".

I consulted my good friend thesaurus.com. What do you think of "gnarly news"? Doesn't really work does it?!

For now I think I'm going with "awesome". Any other ideas?

5 things I'm thinking about at the moment

1. The necessary, frustrating but instructing inefficiency of family life.
2. The way we (adults) teach kids to share, and insist that they share, but don't do it ourselves.
3. That life is not a zero sum game (thanks C!).
4. How I can take better photos of my kids without investing too much time in learning how to take better photos (ha!)
5. Greed, materialism and the internet community - particularly the way the eco-friendly / online / handmade thing makes it "ok" to not be content with what you have and makes lusting for more a good / normal thing to do.


I'm also thinking about a whole lot of less deep things.

How about you? What's on your mind?