Weekends Away

We seem to be in the midst of a mad set of busy weekends at the moment combined with cleaning for the biannual dreaded tenancy inspection.

We were in Adelaide at Easter, and have just been away to the farm. [The one in between we were supposed to have visitors but they cancelled, so we went to a birthday party and had friends over instead!] In the next fortnight we head to Sydney for my Grandmother's 90th Birthday and then to my parents for Mother's Day weekend. Somewhere in all that April came and went and it now feels like the middle of winter!

I hope that you enjoyed the flashback series I set up while I had no time to blog, and I shall hopefully have some photos of our recent activity soon.

Quick Takes unFriday

This is going to be quick, because I really don't have time to blog, but I haven't blogged for a while and I thought I had better post an update... just so that those who read this know I am still alive ;-)

Lessons from the last two weeks

1. Going away for consecutive weekends strains my ability to keep up with all the housework - hence the lack of blogging!
2. I still cry when I read Anne of Green Gables - I reread this when I was staying at my in-laws a week ago and even though I knew what was going to happen I still cried!
3. Alex needs to be supervised when he "helps clean". He decided of his own accord to clean the TV screen last week (after watching Daddy do it the week before) and managed to temporarily break the TV via over enthusiastic spraying into the electronic controls.
4. I really like card making. I made these cards from my new "Three for you" stamp set and punch.





5. "No Spend Month" would go better if we a) did not go away so often during that month and b) didn't plan holidays which need paying for that month either. (Other than that no-spend month was OK - I only went to the supermarket once, and if you deduct the holiday costs we did save money. The most important lesson was the need for delayed gratification. If you still want it/need it at the end of the month, then its probably an OK spend.)
6. It is better to sleep than to have a clean house. I suffer from the problem and inertia - I want to get up and do work before I go to bed (tidy, pick up toys etc), but am too tired to move so I just sit there. On Sunday I had a three hour afternoon sleep and I now have the energy I need to get through the rest of this week.
7. Alex is not yet ready to sleep in a bed. On Friday night we stayed at my parents and Alex slept on a mattress on the floor (having attempted to climb out of their cot on our last visit). Between when I went to bed and 2:30am he fell out of bed 4 times before we had enough and just put him to sleep between us. He then slept soundly (once he had reached preferred sleeping position of head near Mum and Dad's feet!) till 7am.

Well that is seven quick takes of our fortnight - hopefully I can get back here again soon.

And the Winner Is........

The winner of my giveaway is......



Catherine

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Giveaway

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Happy New Year

Hello and Welcome back everyone from their holidays.

We have taken a real (and virtual) holiday for the last three weeks. We had a good rest, both mentally and physically and were amazed at how much our little boy grew up in that short space of time. I hope that everyone else enjoyed their end of year break as well.

Yesterday was our first day back at work, so we are now back in some sort of routine, which means that I have the time and some inclination to blog. I'll probably spend the next week catching up on all the blog posts I have in my head and then go back to my semi-sporadic type blogging!

The time has come

I have finally succumbed to the lure of the blog. For months I have been enjoying a strange, voyeuristic delight in peering into other peoples lives through their blog. It did, however, seem rather one-sided - here was I, knowing so much about their lives (albeit that which they were happy to publish for all the world to see) and I was just "Anonymous", perhaps someone they hardly knew. So I decided to rectify the situation.

I actually decided to start a blog about two months ago but it took me that long to come up with a name - and I suspect that I will not be asking for a birth certificate just yet, it case I change my mind! The phrase "cabbages and kings" comes from the Lewis Carroll poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter" (found here http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html for those that want to read the in context) which my grandmother used to quote. This idea appeals on a number of levels; Lewis Carroll was a mathematician who wrote satirical nonsense, and the concept of blogging strikes me as the sort of "talk of many things" with the ordinariness of life (cabbages) and occasionally talking about the grander things of life (Kings.) Somehow I suspect that any sporadic blogging that I perform will be more of the nature of cabbages than kings!

So Hello, It's nice to meet you. We must catch up soon