Category: family

P365 – Day 259 – remembering (16/09/2011)

Today marked two years since my father passed away. I wanted to do something to remember him, but wasn’t really sure what would be the right thing to do, especially since we’d be on holidays. I decided that, as Dad had served in the military and had spent many...

P365 – Day 258 – happy birthday (15/09/2011)

Today was Juniordwarf’s birthday. He’d been so excited about it: the holiday, being with Slabs’ family, getting a pirate cake . . . and he said he was going to wear his pirate suit all day. When I asked him what he wanted for his birthday he said he...

P365 – Day 257 – travel-log Day 4 (14/09/2011)

Today was the last day of our road trip, from Tumut to Canberra. Goodbye Grandma & Grandad We did the obligatory stop at the Dog on the Tuckerbox (where Juniordwarf, upon learning that we didn’t know the Dog’s name, decided that its name was Charlotte). We’d stopped there the...

P365 – Day 247 – fathers day

When we picked Juniordwaf up from school on Thursday he had a wrapped present in his bag, which was for Slabs for Fathers Day. I had a pretty good idea of what it might be, so I couldn’t wait to see it today. Juniordwarf made Slabs’ card at Playgroup...

P365 – Day 154 a bus ride (3/6/2011)

Some background: Today’s the first day of Juniordwarf’s school holidays and it was my mother’s day to look after him. Lil Sis is in town this weekend to do some stuff with Mum. She flew in this morning, and she was very excited to be spending the day with...

P365 – Day 113 memories

Juniordwarf’s room is also home to some of Slabs’ and my stuff that hasn’t really had a home anywhere else in the house. I remember the top cupboard of the wardrobe in my room as a child served a similar purpose. Today we spent the whole day going through...