No time for getting dressed, there are planes, and shields and x-wing fighters to be made! Look at this delicious playlist, so nice. I think we might have to buy tickets to the Wilco show at the Civic…… Follow
Summer’s finally here and it’s a hot one
……..but don’t think for a second that you might catch me complaining, I wait for 8 months of the year for this season. I bitch and moan and detest winter and autumn because they are cold and rainy, I hate spring because it is so close to summer and often drags on far too long (like this past spring for …
Picnic anyone?
The Jack’s have splashed out and made a grown-up purchase, check out our sassy new wooden picnic table! What a Sunday to get some new outdoor furniture! We have just had the most gorgeous weekend after last week finished with three days of rain and heavy flooding in some areas. Crazy weather. Ethan tore it up at Nippers this weekend …
Christmas Post #2: The decorating. It is done.
Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful….“ It has now been raining for about 3 days and I’m not quite sick of it yet as I’m pretty sure I can see my veges growing from where I sit. Yus. BACK TO CHRISTMAS! Ethan had the day off school today so we shopped and made like …
August on the farm
I can’t remember ever feeling this acutely aware of the change of seasons. Perhaps it was harder to notice in the suburbs, it was more difficult to hear the birds, you never saw the baby animals or noticed the buds on the huge old trees which have been naked for the past three months. But the last week has been …
Mum & Dad Time
It has been a pretty hectic two weeks since we moved house, Ethan has been on holiday with me as we wait for a place to open up for him at his new kindergarten (hopefully the first week of June) and Dave has been working some long hours at the restaurant. So to mix it up Ethan stayed the night …
How many dogs & Jacks can you fit in a Pulsar?
The answer is Molly, Marley, Louie, Ethan, Dave and I. We took the pups out to Muriwai last weekend for lunch on the beach to lament the end of daylight saving and to celebrate the fact that dogs can go on the beach all day now! Everyone had such a good time, little Marl surprised us by swimming in the …
My Handsome Boys
How cute are they? We finished March with a landslide of birthday parties, I took this pic before the guys left for Josh’s 4th Birthday party. Being Ethan’s social coordinator, driver, gift shopper and gift wrapper does not leave time for normal more mundane things, like……laundry or vacuuming. Oh well! Follow
Jack Family – VIP’s at the Summer Series
Thanks to the amazing bFM and my uncanny prize-winning abilities, Dave, Ethan and I were given the deluxe treatment on sunny Sunday at the bFM Vodafone Summer Series. I won 2 Nokia Music Xpress cell phones each with $200 credit plus a VIP picnic spot at the concert, complete with a massive banquet – entrees, lunch, desert and a cooler …