From the weekend

Nice things from the weekend

- breakfast in bed

- Autumn leaves on the mountain

- county markets 

- handmade soap

- animal petting for Mama and the little man

- ducks with cute fluffy heads

- car rides with steering help from Dada

- ten strawberry runners for $5

- cake and a cuppa with family

How was your weekend? 

Care to share a nice thing or two with us?

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A Summer List

Eat outside, play outside, read outside

Get in the water

Visit a gallery

Build a fort

Make fruit juice ice blocks

Head for the hills

Build sandcastles

Fly a kite

Visit a national park or Botanical garden

Make the most of Summer fruit

Feed the ducks

What's on your list?

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Snippets from the weekend. 

Hoping you had a lovely Father's Day.

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Many thanks to those who have continued to visit and leave comments on the blog recently. You may have noticed that I have been a bit absent of late. We finally sold our house, with the requested (stressful) short settlement period. I've been waiting to share the news until the contracts were all final. We spent a crazy week frantically packing and moving our possessions into storage and ourselves in with family. Leaving me forever sympathetic to anyone in a similar situation. Moving with children is an endurance test not to be underestimated, I've since found. Now the house hunting begins in earnest.

Internet access has been sporadic and reliant on trips to the library or family. A situation which should be remedied next week. There have been several other speed bumps along the way, including the little man pulling a steel block on his toe, resulting in a trip to emergency with a deep wound and fractured bone. Thankfully he is braver than I am, and healing well.

I'm looking forward to things settling down soon and getting back into a routine. In the meantime I've been working at the bench and knitting the nights away. I hope to have more time back in this space again soon, catching up on all the goings on I've been missing out on and replying to some of the emails that have been waiting patiently in my inbox. Once again, many thanks to those who have continued to drop in and comment.

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So glad we snuck in a trip to the park and the library before Cohen fell sick.

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A little baking this morning, the first in weeks. I made a double batch of Anzac biscuits because I know they won't last long.

This big brown duck is new to the duck park and he has been following us around, the bottom of his beak quivering as he quietly quacks. He runs straight towards us when he sees us and I'm not sure if he is ultra friendly and coming to say hello, or if he would like a taste of Cohen and to fight with the pram. Keeping a bit of distance just in case.

Love this post.

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I love hearing Cohen babbling to us and to himself. He often has little 'conversations', mimicking the sound of adult conversations. In a the matter of a week his vocabulary has expanded from Mama, Da da and Bub bub to include the words; more, me, this, these, shoes, juice, stick, why and two. And while I'm sure he doesn't understand every word he is copying, it is so fascinating to watch him picking up on language and being delighted with his new discoveries.

Yesterday we had a wonderful time feeding the ducks with Nana and Pop. Cohen's love of feeding our dog his bread crusts proved to be great practice. Thanks for a lovely afternoon Nana and Pop.