Some random stuff going on in our lives: Jake has taken to eating fruit. Apples & blueberries only, but it is better than his normal diet of anything cracker related. Cameron is incorporating a lot of Aussie terms into his vocabulary lately. We even had a fight yesterday about one of his classmates’ names being [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 27, 2009
Thoughts on: Shopping
In America, you have strip mall after strip mall, followed by shopping centers (think: Bed Bath & Beyond connected to PetSmart, next to JoAnn Fabrics, followed by BestBuy) and of course MALLS (need no explanation there). You have grocery stores: usually located in a strip mall with a big square parking lot in the front. [...]
March 23, 2009
Time, it goes by too fast
We all know this. It is so apparent when things are coming to an end, or when we are approaching a birthday, while looking back over old photos. We wonder where the time went? How could have gone so fast? I can recall sitting in biology class (or any class for that matter during high [...]
March 18, 2009
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Tasmania in a word: BEAUTIFUL. Sounding like a broken record, I found myself saying “I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire life!” and “This is something else” over and over again. All the worries about travelling with our 2 young boys, were soon forgotten as they played in the sand and searched endlessly for [...]
March 9, 2009
Settled?
On a bike ride with Cameron yesterday, he greeted a passerby “g’day”. Out for a walk this morning along the water, Jake asked me for more sultanas (raisins). Seeing people get into cars on the left side to drive on a tv show and thinking it doesn’t seem right. Feeling confident about ordering 250 grams [...]
March 5, 2009
Ex-pat Cats*
PJ & Zoe made it! I swear they have travelled more than any domestic cat in such a short time. Starting in August, they took a car ride home with our good friends in NJ, were then picked up by the Transport company and taken to Albany, where they stayed until this past weekend. They [...]
March 1, 2009
A weekend away
We were able to get a rental house last minute for the weekend on mornington peninsula, it is only a little over an hour away and is such a beautiful place. The weather wasn’t ideal, but we were still able to spend an afternoon at the beach and the boys had fun splashing around. The only [...]
