In the past 24 hours, whenever I try to comment on Blogger, I get every ‘Incorrect Password’ and other failure notification known to man. Unless Blogger fixes it up, I am just going to have to abandon commenting on Blogger sites. I’m so sorry, but it’s very annoying and I don’t have the time to chase […]

Prairie Dawn: ‘K’ is for ‘Kiss’ and ‘Kite’
Cookie Monster: And ‘Kowabunga!’
PD: ‘Kowabunga’ is not a word!
Cookie Monster: Perhaps not in proper sense, but it is esoteric and poetic in its own right.
Ah - I love it! This is great writing people. Never knock kids shows for being dumb. Well - some kids shows…
…but not Sesame Street!
Plus, […]

Earth Hour 2008
Last year, WWF Australia and the city of Sydney teamed up for the inaugural Earth Hour - where at 8pm all lights at participating businesses and homes were turned off for an hour. This equated to taking almost 50,000 cars off the road.
This past week Earth Hour 2008 was launched and it has […]

Keira is really good with her ABC’s now and even Riley knows some letters (but he is clever for his age - more on that in a later ‘gushy-mama’ post).
One thing which has helped both of them is this accidental game I invented and would like to share with you all.
Helping preschoolers learn their ABCs
First, you […]

Happy Wedding Anniversary for yesterday, dear. You forgot; I forgot.
Five years. Not bad.
Now, where’s my eternity ring? Other women get their ‘pushing presents’ after labour (no one tells you about that in the books) and what did I get? A clap on the shoulder and a “Good going, soldier.”*
I think my time has come…
*Naturally, I […]

Hamlet: I am myself indifferent honest;
    but yet I could accuse me of such things that it
    were better my mother had not borne me: I am very
    proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at
    my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,
    imagination to give them shape, or time to act them
    in. What should such fellows as […]

“Are you sure you want the ‘brick red’ tint added to the concrete?” asked the landscaper.
“Sure” said Adam. “It will match the bricks to the house.”
“Are you positive?” The incredulity was starting to tell me he did not agree with our choice.
“Yes!”
“Okay then…”
The morning of the job, I had to take the kids out for the morning and […]