Christmas holidays been and gone

The holiday were a busy time for us. Juliet had her 5th Birthday on Christmas Eve so it was very exciting. She is now a old enough for school. So amongst all the Christmas buying and wrapping I also had to buy and wrap the birthday presents. We also try to make it a special day for her and have to remind them that Christmas can't come until after Juliet has had her birthday. She is very lucky though she shares her birthday with two of her aunties, so they try and make her feel special too.

Christmas morning was fun. The children have to wait for everyone wakes up before they can go in the lounge to see the presents. The rule is you are not allowed to wake anyone up or you go last. I don't want them doing what My sibling and I use to do. We would bother our poor mum until she would let us open some presents and this would sometimes be not much after midnight.

The Children walking into the lounge room Christmas morning

Charles, Juliet, and Anabelle's Christmas presents from Santa

Presents under the tree for relatives and for each other.

Santa gives the children clothes, books, socks and jocks, the last two for children that have been naughty though the year, and a stocking full of goodies that is found on their bed in the morning. The toys on the other hand come from mum and dad. Why should Santa get all the glory. This year they all got scooters even Damien got a scooter. The best present to me was watching their faces and the handmade gifts they had made for Damien and me.

We had my family (Sturt's) over for lunch. It was the first year in a very long time that every one was together on Christmas Day. It was only for about 5 minutes but we were all still together. There was 31 people in total It was lucky we had done our back yard up so we could be outside.

Dinner was at Thorndon park with the Watts side of the family. It was good as there was plenty of things for the children to do. After we went back to The Pilkington's home so we could exchange presents.

I was exhausted by the end of the day and had a busy day to follow.

2008 random school photos

These are just some photos of the boys 2008 school year. Hope you enjoy.

Isiah's Road Safety Excursion






Juliet bored

Charles wasn't to happy

Sport's Day
Isiah waiting for his turn

Rory watching the races

Juliet running as fast as she could. She is the one in the purple jumper.

Rory representing the comits in a race with a team mate

Isiah with the parachute.

Book Week
I think my kids are a bit obsessed with Star Wars
Juliet Amidala

Charles as Yoda

Padwan Isiah

Commander Rory and Padwan Isiah

Commander Rory (Cody)

School End of Year routines

The end of a school year normally includes class parties, movies, games, activities, excursions and end of year concert. That was exactly what we got.

Tuesday
The end of year concert is always the last Tuesday. People start setting their seats up before school finishes. It doesn't start until 7pm. We all ways try and get there at about 6:30 and have a sausage from the sausage sizzle while we wait. The class were grouped into 7 groups and then there were other acts (office staff, choir, band etc.) in between the class acts. The first 3 class acts included the boys classes and Ruthie's class.

Damien was not impressed with what they said the song would be about. They said it would be about the real meaning of Christmas. There was only one song about the nativity, most of the others talked about Santa. It was good, the children all did well, but they shouldn't have really said it was about the real meaning of Christmas. Rory kept putting his hands up to many times when doing the movements to the song. Unfortunately we didn't get any photo but I believe Ruth may have.

Wednesday
Isiah's class had a class party Boys had the savoury and the girls the sweets. The boys always seem to get the savoury and I just want to do a sweet. Isiah wanted salad sandwiches like we have at family parties. So I spent that morning buying what I needed and then making sandwiches. He ended up with just chicken and lettuce sandwiches. Their was so much food when I got there. It was like a family party, no risk of running out of food. Charles and Juliet were able to eat the food as well. We ended up leaving with just as much food as we took, if not more.

We also had casual day(non-uniform day). The children had to donate a non perishable food to come to school in normal clothes. This is normally done on the last day at a cost of a gold coin donation. The Donations go to good cause that the SRC choose. The food was to go into hampers for the less fortunate.

Thursday
The Year 3 to Year 7 go to the Adelaide Aquatics Centre the last Thursday of the year. Rory asked me to come and watch because I wouldn't have Juliet and Charles. I went along to watch. He spent most of his time with me and not his friends. I had brought along a packed lunch for Rory and myself. So we ate together, he picked a table some of his friends were at. When we finished eating I told him to spend time with his friends. He wanted me to watch him so we had to find his friends together so I would know where to look. It was fun watching him, I don't get that opportunity very often as it is usually spent entertaining one of the others. I am so happy Rory isn't embarrassed by me yet and has no problems hugging me in front of his friends.

Friday
As the class rooms were packed up out came the movies and the games. The last day is usually bring a game to play with others. The boys are always keen to take games to school. I on the other hand are scared pieces will go missing. After careful selection of a game (I normally would hand them twister), they got to take their choose game to school.


School always ends an hour early so I picked them up at 2:10 and started our holidays.

Kindy Graduation

Sorry it's been awhile. Damien set this up and was suppose to keep it up to date but seems to be leaving it up to me, and I hate writing(typing) me thoughts. Hence it hasn't been updated in ages.

So much has happened since last blog. We have had Juliet kindy graduation, end of year school activities, school holidays, Christmas, 2 camping trips, Juliet starting school,a heat wave reaching up to 46c, 2 teeth and crawling.

I think it might take more than one blog. Charles won't let me be on the computer that long.I think this one will contain the morning of the Kindy graduation.

Juliet is growing up so fast. The last Tuesday of Kindy she had her graduation. She had her dad, Nanna, Auntie Sarah and eventually her mum and Anabelle there. Damien was good, he got there nice and early for it I believe that he was the first parent there. Me on the other hand saw that morning as a good time to get the Christmas lay-by of.

The boys were at school, Charles was at Child Care and Juliet was at Kindy. I should have had plenty of time to get the laybys and get back. During the toys sales the stores had been storing the laybys at their warehouse and you needed to give them 5 working days notice that you wanted to collect your laybys. I had done this so thought I would have no problem collecting the layby. When I got there they couldn't find all the parcels of one of the laybys. It hadn't been sent with the other parcels. They could replace most of the parcel but not the scooter I had for Charles, the other option was to come back when the missing parcel was there. Option one was the best for me as I would have all 5 children with me when they finally would get it in. Now I just had to get Charles another scooter.

When I finally got out of there I had to go straight to kindy. By the time i got there the graduation was half way through and they had already done Juliet. I felt so bad. What kind of mother would miss her daughters graduation. At least Damien was there. We were able to take photo with her friends. None of which are at her school or aren't at school yet.

Juliet with her certificate

Juliet and Myah. Myah isn't at school yet.

Juliet, Myah, Holly and Jasmine.

Juliet, Holly, Madeline and Monthana.