7 years fly by

My big girl turned 7 today! It's hard to believe those years could go so quickly.



I made her an 'explorers bag' and filled it with all those items necessary for exploring - binoculars, butterfly net, compass, magnifying glass and plenty of collection jars! We'll be sure to pop in her sketch book and pencil too, next time we go for a nature walk.

Happy Birthday, my beautiful girl.

A great day for riding

I got on my bike today for the first time in years! Oh boy, I think I'm going to be quite sore tomorrow! It's great weather for it - I have grand plans to take the children out riding regularly while the weather stays so nice and mild.

Our setting out was a little delayed, as chicken no.1 was in the 'critical' point in her Famous Five book...

Seed identification

Chicken no.1 has been sorting through her seed collection this morning. We have been trying to identify them on the Internet, but no luck so far. Help me out if you can!

Happy Mother's Day for yesterday...

Need I say more?

Five on the wall

We had a lovely weekend - lots of sunny weather and good company at church camp.

Chicken no.1 has been requesting contact pictures for her wall, so what do you think I made for the big Famous Five fan? This is my second attempt, as the first was using cheap contact, and it wouldn't even stick properly on the wall. So, if you're planning to do your own wall stickers, use tough and good quality contact!

And the sewing machine had a short workout for a purse, which would be so quick and easy if it wasn't for the gluing - there was a lot of tongue holding for that one, let me tell you!

Today's discoveries

Well you'll be glad to know (or not!) that today I have already made my bed, hung out the washing, mopped the floor (strictly speaking it was at 11:15pm last night - don't ask), and watered the veggies (although that was actually the rain, not me).

Don't little broccoli's look like butterflies?

And I have made some interesting discoveries already:

1. One of my gum trees (that I specifically looked at last night and thought "No, that one is big enough not to need a tree guard now") was demolished by $&@#*! rabbits last night.

2. I really need to use the lock on my bathroom. I discovered this as I was shouting instructions through the shower screen on how to make a bar graph. (Her keen-ness to get through her maths directly proportional to her desire to get back to her book Ginger Pye - yes we finally ran out of Famous Five!)

3. Cutting a big hole in a nappy is a really great trick for toddlers who absolutely refuse to go to the toilet without their nappy on. Toddler happy. Mummy happy.

Peek-a-boo strawberry!

Today's checklist

1. Make the bed. Nope, still not done, but I made contact butterflies to go on littlest chickie's walls - that's gotta count for something, eh?

2. Hang out the washing. Well... it got washed at least. It just hasn't made it out to the line yet, and it's almost dinner time now... I did, however, finish a throw rug that I started about 10 years ago, so chicken no.2 should be cozy in bed even if he has no clean underwear tomorrow.

3. Sort the clean washing. This relies on me making the bed first, so that I have somewhere to sort it...

4. Mop the floor. Negative, again. But the children slid around the floor on cushions, so I'm sure that's helped a great deal... Maybe I should dampen one side of the cushions...

5. Water the veggies. It's been a gloomy day, so I don't think they would have died of thirst today. Hopefully the clouds will burst and my watering will be done for me.

So what did I do today? Not sure. Although I did seem to spend quite a bit of time reading books to a certain little chicken as she was sitting on the toilet.

Well I'm off to cook dinner so I can check something off my list!