Country Holiday

Small babelet George is going through a bit of a stage where she is only happy being cuddled. Ted is having a bit of a three-year-old crisis and needing lots of special attention. Ivy is loving school but the five-day-a-week hauling of three kiddos back and forth to school is quite intense. Keeping the clan fed and watered, the laundry under control and the floor free of large obstacles makes for a busy day.

In my spare moments I delight in watching cooking shows on the laptop and swimming in the bath to relieve my back from the creaking caused by constant motion and lots of baby-on-hip.

Not much time to keep up with writing.

But we did take the whole tribe on a road trip into country NSW last weekend to a family party in Narromine and my sister's gang in Cowra. It was so much fun.

Here, George pulls Uncle Chris' beard while my sister Sammy finishesthe puzzle we bought at the Dish in Parkes (such a great spot for a family visit. Ivy has decided she wants to be an astronaut, but Ted still plans to specialise in cakes.)

I don't know what Keith has told the kids here but he is cracking them up, big time.

Hotel room, Narromine.

Little George with me on the beautiful farm for Dot's 60th.

With Grandpa.

Ivy listening to Creedence on my iPod. This pic is blurry but I am drawn, over and over, to gaze at it. I can see Ivy as a teenager here. It's magical.

In a Mudgee park, she's back to being my gorgeous five-year-old.

Geoge got some good hair-eating in.

And Ted taught George a few Greco-Roman wrestling moves.

Sleepy girls.

Georgette and the transporting views at Katoomba's Three Sisters.

We are all well and happy here. Hope you are the same.

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