Next month!

I have a lot to write about: the Melbourne Cup and the 5 days in the Campervan…I’ll get to that. But now that it’s November, what I want most to say is this: WE’RE GOING HOME NEXT MONTH FOR OUR FIRST VISIT! NEXT MONTH!
I can’t believe it will be FIFTEEN months that we have [...]

Spring Racing Carnival

I was never big on horse racing, in fact that only time I was anywhere close to a racetrack was at my Senior Prom, which was held at the Garden State Racetrack (which is gone now and turned into a massive shopping center.) Last year at this time, we had just arrived in Australia and everything was new [...]

Preparing for Prep

Today was the first of 3 events for Cameron as he transitions to “prep” (kindergarten.) The 2010 “preps” met at the school’s playground for a half hour and then we joined in on the weekly assembly. It was so adorable to see him mix and mingle with the other kids and I even got a bit teary [...]

This one’s for you, mom

I just looked at the calendar and it reads “October 20.” This means that it is LESS THAN TWO MONTHS UNTIL WE TRAVEL HOME.
I REPEAT: IN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS WE WILL BE GOING HOME FOR OUR FIRST VISIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Can you tell I’m a bit excited?) I’m thinking I won’t even notice the jetlag because I’ll [...]

Thank-Yous

To whoever decided it was a good idea to domesticate animals: having our 2 cats here with us just makes our family complete. Even though we have been dealing with PJ’s health lately, they brighten our day and put a smile on our faces. I especially love it when I find one of the boys [...]

What’s going on:

*School holidays are over, Term 4 has started & I can’t believe how fast this school year has flown by. After the next break in December/January, Cameron will start prep at a new school; I can’t wait to see how adorable he looks in his navy blue uniform!
*Grammy is coming next week for another visit, we [...]

Disclaimer

I was guilty of thinking people who took on accents of foreign countries, or even other parts of their own country were pretentious.  While living in Salisbury Maryland for 4 years, I may have said “y’all” a handful of times, but it never became part of my everyday vocabulary. When Madonna all of a sudden had a [...]

Who said school holidays were boring?

We are currently on “school holidays” for 2 weeks, in between Term 3 and Term 4. Each state has the exact same schedule (I think this is a brilliant idea) so all the schools are closed at the same time and there are heaps of activities for kids. So far we have only gone to [...]

Daydreaming

While spending a lot of time on the couch this week (being sick sucks!) I have been thinking alot about all the things I look forward to eating, seeing, doing, when we go back to the States in exactly 3 months (OMG THREE MONTHS!) First and foremost it will be amazing to finally see my [...]

A year in a life

Some years go by and don’t stand out in our memories, nothing significant happened to shine a brighter light on them in the files of our brains. For example, I can’t tell you anything specific about 1986 except that I was in 6th grade and we went on a class trip to Mt Misery. Honestly [...]