tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57777516343883006052024-02-19T14:48:25.069+10:00aging backwardsjaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-74012309559967404892012-04-23T21:41:00.000+10:002012-04-23T21:42:09.785+10:00Sunday Sesh
We spent this Sunday afternoon at the park. My work threw a barbecue by the river, at Kangaroo Point, under the Story Bridge. Callum loved the jumping castle and spent almost all his time in it, with only a few breaks for drinks and food. Anya's favorite part was the pile of hula hoops, balls and frisbees. We had a great time throwing the balls to each other -- she was jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-23536406596531580722012-04-14T08:10:00.000+10:002012-04-14T08:10:23.417+10:00Not to Be ForgottenSome stories I jotted down over the last few months... wish I'd written down more.
"You'll always be my little boy, even when you're a big tall man." He nods.
Reading a book out loud in the car -- (Homework! For a 6 year old!) We all get the giggles over the name "Mr. Bumbleticker." Anya tries valiantly to restart several times but it's just not possible. David jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-1297528825069270272012-04-11T14:12:00.004+10:002012-04-14T08:10:33.628+10:00Twenty-five screamsAfter writing the Easter, the long weekend post I realised I hadn't mentioned one thing: namely, my experience on a clown bicycle. At least, that's what I'm calling it -- a spare bicycle that has lived at the coast units "for anyone to use." On the face of it, a noble and good idea. In practice, quite dangerous: after adjusting the seat to maximum height, my legs were still bent like a stork'sjaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-72826514742511678102012-04-10T20:40:00.001+10:002012-04-14T08:10:59.337+10:00Easter, the long weekend
Easter: the end of David's long service leave, which started at Christmas.
We headed up the coast for the long weekend and enjoyed some very fine weather -- hardly any rain, as would normally come at this time of year. We've hardly been to the beach this year because of working on the house, so I was really happy to be able to take Anya and Callum swimming thisjaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-42819043562760431142012-03-26T21:00:00.022+10:002012-04-14T08:10:59.332+10:00The good ship pirateAnya and Callum played pirates this weekend. There was costuming, complete with commandeered bandanas tied in a piratical fashion. There was a map. There were even treasures, which were made, hidden, forgotten about and discovered. (Anya had to do special tricks to forget where she hid them.)
My favorite part was a pirate flag. The design is a skull over one bone crossing a sword drippingjaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-6058935621200249812011-11-21T08:21:00.000+10:002011-11-21T08:21:15.740+10:00Family MomentsLacking time or energy for the last month (being quite sick while juggling work, house construction, and more), today I finally feel as if I'm returning to the land of the living... and blogging! A quick post this time - just to capture some moments and stories.
Anya and Callum have been playing together more and more and are becoming really good friends. I am so glad because when I jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-51775951418786733692011-09-03T22:35:00.001+10:002011-10-25T09:05:09.702+10:00Short, Tasty Chicken RecipeWhat to cook with a minimum of ingredients. Of course you will probably be tempted to dress this up with ginger, curry paste, etc. Feel free! (Though it definitely tastes good the "basic" way.) I improvised this recipe tonight -- I wanted to make Hainan chicken, but with a browned finish.
6 chicken marylands
2 cups chicken broth
400 ml coconut milk
1 tablespoon soy sauce jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-56309306956241862262011-08-08T12:32:00.000+10:002011-08-08T12:32:53.405+10:00Callum's Report CardCallum Ree
sleeping exlent
playing exlent
criing ned enpruevement
herting ned enpruevment
Anya Reejaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-22498720307243186742011-08-08T09:08:00.000+10:002011-08-08T09:08:05.253+10:00About TimeI’ve been untrue. To myself, that is.
All my life I’ve been a writer, reader and artist, and lately I have been none of those things. Why? I’ve been knitting. It’s not like I think that knitting is so much more fabulous than writing, reading or drawing. It’s just that the knitting grows slowly, too slowly to finish in an afternoon, but just fast enough that I can seejaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-57490523069049284052011-06-18T11:39:00.000+10:002011-06-18T11:39:45.150+10:00Bapping WomanPicture this: Anya and Callum are settled in for another viewing of Justice League. This is probably their fourth or fifth episode so they've become familiar with the roster of heroes. (Also, David reads comic books, so they know some characters because of that.)
As the show opens, they call out each hero's name as they appear: "Superman!" "Green Lantern!" "Wonderwoman!" jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-73805342122818084102011-06-13T18:51:00.000+10:002011-06-13T18:51:40.954+10:00David's Birthday DuckDavid's favorite meal being duck, I bought two duck breasts on impulse last week and stashed them in the freezer without an actual meal plan.
Some research found me the following recipe: http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/12162/spiced-duck-breasts.aspx which I liked for being spicy and NOT sweet. It is tedious how many duck recipes involve fruit sauce. Not that I dislike duck jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-75760123272478249202011-06-11T16:06:00.001+10:002012-04-16T08:48:47.137+10:00Photo RoundupJust catching up on uploading some photos from the last few months. This is from April when we lucked into a local fair while we were staying up the coast.
This is from a day when my old rollerblades disintegrated, so I walked up Kedron Brook (in the water, wearing thongs) while David took the kids for a bike ride:
This is from a few weeks ago when we were out for a walk in the jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-87969745738631114592011-06-06T21:33:00.000+10:002011-06-06T21:33:14.535+10:00Pose in BootsAnya's birthday boots got their first outing today. I decided to take a photo to show Helen, who has nominated herself "the Shoe Auntie" and gives Anya shoes every year. (This year she even gave Anya two pairs, as she couldn't decide which ones to get. Anya loves them both.)
This is the first photo:
Then I asked Callum to let me take one of Anya by herself. She thought jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-69244612718237465772011-06-01T19:43:00.000+10:002011-06-01T19:43:26.969+10:00Dinnertime ChallengesAnya and Callum sometimes get very restless sitting and eating dinner. Rather than enforce a "bottoms on seats" rule, we help them finish dinner by setting physical challenges. In between the challenges they have to come back and eat some more.
Originally the challenges were fairly easy, such as "run over to Grandma and give her a kiss." Next was "run as fast as you can down jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-25694792413620161532011-05-29T20:09:00.000+10:002011-05-29T20:09:01.000+10:00the Storry of Biaesthe Storry of Biaes
By Anya
Won day som biaes went for a work and a big hyooj storm came! Bam!
Thai had to go home. And they did. Thai had a nise waum showa and tee.
Ten thai were warm then.
the EnD.
[One day some bears went for a walk and a big huge storm came! Bam!
They had to go home. And they did. They had a nice warm shower and tea.
They were warm then.
The End.]
Anya made this book jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-21033976657328558992011-05-07T20:00:00.001+10:002011-06-01T19:34:21.534+10:00Anya Turns SixAnya had a small party in the park to celebrate her birthday. The theme was "hula girl" and we had face painting, ten pin bowling, and pizza. The peak moment for me was when she and her best friend put on their hula skirts and hula danced in unison, swaying their skirts and waving their arms. It was also pretty cute to see them all bowling in hula skirts.
David also got in onjaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-63462096482665820832011-03-09T22:19:00.000+10:002011-03-09T22:19:10.909+10:00Miss GumpOur family nickname for Anya is "gump" or sometimes "Miss Gump." Imagine our delight when we actually came across a storybook featuring a little girl (Nellie Lou) doing various imaginative hair styles on a customer (Miss Gump) who keeps asking for something different. There are lots of extraordinary 'dos, such as shaping into an umbrella, a large piece of swiss cheese, an island with jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-84737954969641415732011-03-02T20:37:00.000+10:002011-03-02T20:37:48.172+10:00Toothy TalesI'm sure the world needs more help persuading children to behave when their teeth are getting brushed. Lately we've been constructing more and more elaborate tales to help Callum open his mouth properly for teeth time. It all started innocently enough with "open your mouth wider, wide enough for a truck to drive in." This progressed to "here comes the train, choo choo, chugga chugga, it's jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-42987473206990766192011-02-24T22:27:00.000+10:002011-02-24T22:27:08.083+10:00I found some old photos on a memory card we think was from David's previous phone. Awww...
At the Ekka, 2008
Eating strawberries, 2008
Trying on a suit, 2008
Darwin, 2010jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-73599777782027153742011-02-24T21:37:00.000+10:002011-02-24T21:37:40.859+10:00Art TherapyI recently spent the day at the Gallery of Modern Art and the Queensland Art Gallery. It was wonderful to be immersed in so many amazing images and ideas. (Click on the photos to go through to the entire set on flickr.)
jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-45825644311626844952011-02-23T21:39:00.000+10:002011-02-23T21:39:35.445+10:00The Baby Elves Help SantaThis story was composed by Annike, Anya, Bhavya & Niko just before Christmas. (They were the four prep kids in Mrs G's composite prep/year 1 class in 2010.)
Once upon a time it was Christmas Eve in Australia. All the kids were asleep and Santa was at the North Pole packing the presents into the sleigh. They were for all the kids in the world.
When it was time to go, Santa jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-62021630796359239232011-01-31T16:14:00.000+10:002011-01-31T16:14:55.969+10:00
This year as usual Anya and Callum met Santa at the Myer department store in our local shopping centre. I love that it's relatively low key and the kids didn't have to wait ages. In any case they were almost more interested in looking at all the toys on the shelves than the Santa moment! Callum's most repeated phrase these days is "Sometime will you buy me... ?"
We had jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-70968402863475495542010-12-21T10:51:00.002+10:002010-12-21T10:51:14.833+10:00Fa-fa the Dog and Fluffy Catjaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-90074402372909711122010-12-20T15:52:00.000+10:002010-12-20T15:52:50.323+10:00Home, with No House
I've had a few requests for a photo of our demolished house. How does one photograph something that's not there? Here is a shot of the cleared land -- we've visited it a few times to marvel at the emptiness. David took some photos while it was disappearing in the week of demolition, but I was out of town and missed the whole thing.
On a different note, I created something jaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777751634388300605.post-23004837635799407762010-12-20T12:28:00.000+10:002010-12-20T12:28:58.039+10:00Half on HolidayThis weekend we had holiday fever mixed with Christmas colds (three of us have sore throats and coughs to varying degrees, with more to succumb, I'm sure). I also made an absurd attempt to finish off some project work before Monday, futile since not much time is left in the working year. Anya and Callum were hanging around me while I worked, so I now have a piece of scratch paper withjaguarishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905828147338931951noreply@blogger.com0