For right now, we are just happy to have our family here. The boys are excited to have so much attention, I am excited to have help with the boys, and to spend time with them, and Craig is happy to have his parents here and to show them around. We are planning some trips, [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 22, 2009
Family has arrived!
After a long five months, we have our first visitors! Craig’s parents arrived on Friday for a 5 week stay with us, it is so nice to all be together again and to show them around. It was priceless to see Cameron greet his Grammy at school pick-up, I haven’t seen him so excited in awhile, it [...]
February 18, 2009
The story of our stuff
It starts when we are kids, with either a coin collection or dolls, or if you grew up in the 80’s, maybe you had a sticker collection. Our connection with inanimate objects starts even earlier, with either a blanket or stuffed animal. We spend hours with our “stuff”, prized possessions sitting safely on shelves, secret diaries [...]
February 17, 2009
A new normal
I am glad that it happened, and in only 5 months, but I can honestly say that living here feels normal now. I think if we went back to America tomorrow, it would be so weird. It would feel good, don’t get me wrong, but it would be strange; like running your tongue over your [...]
February 15, 2009
Status check: 5 months
FIVE months, it feels like so much longer that we have been living in Melbourne. I look back and realize how much we have accomplished in this short time: got our house set up (furniture, etc), Cameron started kindergarten, Jake got into a daycare, we made friends, celebrated all of our birthdays, rang in a New Year, done some travelling, [...]
February 13, 2009
A new age bracket
So now I have to check the “35-40″ bubble on questionnaires. Oh well, at least I can still color my hair and pretend that I am still only 29. Getting older? It is unavoidable, so why don’t we just embrace it, instead of trying to fight it? No matter who you are, where you live, [...]
February 10, 2009
The Bushfires
From Wikepedia:
“A series of bushfires, including 31 major fires, ignited across the Australian state of Victoria on 7 February 2009. The fires have so far resulted in at least 181 deaths, and 78 people have been admitted to hospitals across Victoria with burns, at least 20 in a critical condition, and 9 on life support [...]
February 7, 2009
Two.
Every parents says this: “It goes by too fast!” How can it be that my baby is two years old already?
I remember it so vividly: laying on the operating table staring up at the clock on the wall, waiting to hear your first cries. Then each second afterwards seemed to go on forever until they brought you over t0 daddy all wrapped up [...]
February 2, 2009
More differences…
What was I worried about? Cameron’s first day at “kindergarten” (preschool) went off without a hitch. Within 30 seconds of entering the room, he found a few “mates” and was playing nicely with them at a table. The tears were not there, not even for me! He had been in school before, in MA, but [...]
