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:eek: Who would have thought? It's been a good two years since we had more than one thread happening at a time. Tell me everyone, what have you been up to? What are everyone's kids doing? Who has grown an extra head or gotten a dog or bought a jeep? (If the jeep thing is not a joke outside...

Hope you all have a wonderful day :D

This morning I decided to go through the pile of mail that was piling up during the week and there was a letter in there from Lux's principal, telling us that she has expressed an interest in applying to one of the state's selective high schools for year 10 (she is in year 7), specifically, the...

What were the names that didn't make it for your kids? Was there anything you wanted that your partner absolutely said no to? Were there any names that your partner wanted that you wouldn't have?

I had this article pop up on my facebook news feed and it gave me a chuckle http://www.mommyish.com/2014/04/29/saying-no-to-kids/ Kids ask for some pretty amusing stuff some times, for a bit of a laugh, what are some of the more... interesting requests and questions you have had to say no to?

Found out today that Azriel has been elected school vice captain for this year. He doesn't know yet though, he finds out on Friday, the school just let me know so I can go to the assembly where he finds out.

I am pretty sure I have mentioned it before but I have volunteered at a no kill shelter for almost 20 years. About eight months ago a man came in with a 14yr old cat, story goes that she belonged to his mother who passed away, so he took the cat but he doesn't like cats and after two months he...

Not sure if anyone remembers but last year I was tossing up with what to do with Lux going to high school as the older three go to a school with a very heavy arts program and Lux doesn't have an artistic bone in her body, and the regular public school that her primary school is in the catchment...

Has anyone else ever had their children 'parrot-back' advice that you have given them? Because I have just experienced this and it is one of the strangest things. I had a consult this morning that my manager booked and after a while I recognised the name as the name of someone I went to high...

For now at least. Today the Australian Capital Territory passed a marriage equality bill which will make same-sex marriage legal in the ACT. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-22/act-passes-same-sex-laws/5037674[/URL] But the federal government is having their little temper tantrum because...

Not entirely sure how accurate this is, but some of these are funny, some not so funny and some just interesting. http://thedoghousediaries.com/large/5414.png I put the link instead of the actual image because, well, it's huge.

Have to say, it's weird posting when other people are online. Ash is having his pacemaker replaced tomorrow... well technically today and I'm ridicuously nervous and he is fine and sleeping and acting like it's just a normal day. Since I've known him he's always had the same one, he's just...

My sister in law had a baby recently, her third and we were talking last night and she was telling me how she is yet to feel that overwhelming love feeling, or feeling like she has 100% bonded with the baby. She didn't with her older girls either, but she was under the impression that as she is...

I'd love to re-hash the homework debate if that is okay. Do you believe that homework is beneficial to education or not? If so, what type of homework is beneficial? At what point is too much? What type of homework does your child bring home?

What's the deal with Costco? They're building one near-ish to my house (second one in Australia, apparently, goodness knows what was going on when they thought Ringwood would be a great place, but then they stuck the first one in the Docklands which was equally as weird, so, who knows). What's...

Because we're at the end of 2 week spring holidays here and I am ready to sell all my kids. Plus the extra two children we seem to have acquired (I recall agreeing to Lux's friend staying for a week while her mother is on a business trip, but I would love to know why Azriel's friend has been...

Azriel has a friend at high school named Lisa, she is very outgoing, VERY outspoken, will always be the first person to stand up for anyone. She also has down syndrome. Anyway, it's school holidays here at the moment and a group of them went bowling, when they were there they were stuffing...

I spent most of today doing a big clean up of the house and I found a game hidden in the top, back corner of the linen cupboard, you know that fishing game with batteries that spins around and you have little fishing rids with magnets to catch the fish? It had to have been 10 or so years ago...

We recently had some tenants move out of one of our investment properties and Ash and I went over after work today to meet our property manager for the final inspection, we found the following in the wardrobe of one of the bedrooms: I don't know what I love most, the excessive love hearts...