We had a cute furry visitor at our front door tonight and he invited himself inside! I promptly pointed him back out, shared some apple with him and took loads of photos.

He seems very friendly. I guess he is a "local" and the neighbours feed him? I will have to ask.

Miss 9 was happy happy! A couple of weeks ago she did a home project on possums and the Brush-tail possum was of most interest to her. Seeing one up close and personal has made that project much more special. We'll be adding a photo of her and Mr Possum to the title page of the project.
Her next project is about Panda's, i'm hoping there won't be one at my front door next week!!

Until next time
~x~

The weekend saw us working around the home. We were fortunate to have hubby's son to help with the top part of the front wall. There was no way i was going to stand on the makeshift scaffold and hold the iron or a window! So now the wall is all blue with 2 lovely windows and looking very nice if i do say so myself ;) It's not completely finished. We have to replace some iron in the middle with 1 full length so there are no joins, easy to do. The corners need the cream flashing or whatever it is called put on. I need to wash the windows and the iron and a couple of planter boxes will look nice too. Hubby built a new meter box, smaller and in cream iron to fit with the colour scheme. He is clever, just don't tell him i said so ;P

The next project was a kitchen sink. I've been using a bucket and kettle on the table for the past 3 months. Even longer if you include the time we were living on my parents property lol. Anyways, hubby used recycled timber to build a cupboard. The sink is brand spanking new. It was going to be installed in the bus but it's too big for the area and because I'm fussy, it's back to front, as in the drainer is on the wrong side, so it wasn't going to work at all in the bus. It's yet to have a tap. We did have a 2nd hand mixer tap but it doesn't turn off so a new one is being looked for. There is no hot water over the sink yet so the makeshift tap will work well for a few more months. The oven and cook top are set up properly and work great. As much as i enjoyed having the oven on the bench, it looks much better below. The whole cupboard is temporary. We need to replace the wall in the distant future and we would like an old retro cupboard that we can convert for the sink and oven. As everything it serves it's purpose well. I'm just happy to have a working sink :)

Until next time.
~x~

The other weekend i took my kiddlets to Fairy Tale Park in Tarpeena near my home town. The place has been there for numerous years, way back when i was a kid. It closed down for quite awhile before being taken over by new owners who revamped it and reopened last year. I never had the oppertunity to visit the park when i was younger, i'm sure it would have been a lot different to what it is now but fairy tales never change and what child and grown up alike doesn't love a roam around a magical fairy tale realm :).

It's not a huge park. You can take everything in within an hour or if you have kids like mine who want to recite every fairytale they come across then set aside a few hours. You can take a picnic lunch to break up the experience ;)

I'll let the photo's speak for themselves :)

Until next time
~x~

It's been another few busy days here. I headed over the border on Sunday, had my gallbladder removed on Tuesday and drove myself home today, Thursday. Surprisingly i am feeling ok. I'm not on any medication and the pain is mild if i don't do anything. I have 15 staples that will be removed next Thursday. Miss 11 wants me to keep them lol and Miss 9 wants to take the jar of gallstones to school for show and tell! Weird children i have lol

The kids have had the week off school again, they are looking forward to getting back there tomorrow and having an uneventful 4 weeks before the school holidays officially start!

I'm going to take the next week to rest and relax as much as possible as one can with 3 children and a hubby who isn't around during the week. I can see my only resting will be when i'm asleep lol. Noo, i will seriously take time out to do nothing. I have a couple of letters i want to handwrite so this week is dedicated to that :)

Hope all is well in your world wherever you may be.

Until next time
~x~

Miss 10 turned 11. Don't tell her that though lol. She wants to be 10 forever. She's tired of growing up, physically and emotionally.

All 3 kiddies had 24 hours vomiting bugs in the space of 5 days. I'm not a good mum when it comes to vomiting kids. I can't handle it and need to distance myself from it all, i am ever thankful hubby was around to clean up. 2 out of 3 took the oppertunity to make sure we had to wash the floors and bedding after lol

We had a couple of fleeting trips across the border for various Dr appointments, catch up with family and to tidy up the farm in readiness for selling. It's an exhausting trip for all of us when we go back to our home town. We're on the go non-stop trying to fit everything in. I'm looking forward to July when we will finally be able to stay put for more then a week lol.

We did manage to do a bit around the church as hubby had the last week off work (he's glad to be back in the truck now though, he was fearing for his sanity lol). The front wall is 3/4 finished, we have a new front door and 5 gorgeous chooks are happily clucking around the place. I'll blog about all that later.

The bus is still 1/4 full of boxes we grabbed out of the storage shed. The girls were doing a wonderful job of clearing it out until they'd found all their belongings then promptly stopped lol We are struggling for space for everything but we'll get there, slowly :)

Well that's all for now.

Until next time
~x~

Miss 9 for the very first time in her young life has a room all of her own! She's super happy about it too :D

We had an area in the church that was partitioned off where I wanted to knock the wall out to make the kitchen bigger. Hubby wasn't too keen so he suggested we turn the smaller "room" into a walk in pantry (yet to be done) and because the ceiling is high we were able to build a snug hideaway bedroom on top, using the pantry ceiling as the bedroom floor. In architectural terms it's a mezzanine :)

Apart from the floor boards, once again all materials used are recycled. The "balustrade" is from an old picket fence used upside down.

We’re yet to build a ladder. At the moment Miss 9 is using a normal builders ladder. It’s safe but not desirable. Not sure if a rope ladder, an attic ladder or a straight up and down timber ladder is what we want. We certainly don’t want a huge staircase taking up a lot of precious space. Miss 9 reckons a firemans pole would be funky! Not sure how she’d get up though lol

So, she’s set up her space just how she wants it. Her bed for now is a thick mattress on the floor. A normal bedframe is too big for the area but something small like a camping stretcher would be ideal. She’s only a petite child. She’s filled the bookcase, has bedside shelving with her precious mementos, posters on the wall and ceiling and plenty of room for her beloved my little pony collection and other horses. Lucky she’s not into any other animals otherwise she’d have a zoo happening up there! lol

She only moved up there at 3pm this afternoon and already there is a big difference in the mood of all the children. Master 5 is playing happily in his area, Miss 9 has invited Miss 10 into her corner of the home and they’re playing quietly which is unusual as they’re usually at each others throats at this time of night if they were sharing a room! It’s just a happy home for the moment :)

Until next time
~x~

I'm really getting into the whole blogging lately :) I have to hold myself back from posting multiple entries per day lol.

I've been quite an erratic blogger since i started. I can go a month without posting an entry! Now it seems my life is going forward and although some things may be repetitive in a way, it's all fun and games for me.

When i first started this blog it was for my benefit only, to have a record of my family's happenings. I found it easier to write here then in a paper diary. Now, nearly 2 years on, it's still for me but i do so enjoy my readers input :)

Until next time
~x~