I’m in Dunsborough with most of my family and some friends and as usual it’s the normal round of sleeping, drinking, eating and reading. Oh and playing cards. My daughter has worked out that I’m a soft touch as long as she intends to buy a book so today we went down to the town [...]
Dippity
This would be my daughter. She is currently in the middle of a drama festival at the school and we are hosting three girls from the French International School in Hong Kong. It is an interesting experience. They are very sweet girls. Very polite. Fun. I’ve never hosted before so it has been a learning [...]
This is my daughter being some Cosplay character that no doubt she will scream at me for not remembering! She dressed up to go to some anime/manga convention in January. Isn’t she cute. I’m not sure I agree with the whole dress up like a naughty schoolgirl thing that generally seems to happen at these [...]
Or is my daughter beautiful? Girl you are so gorgeous I think we might have to become Amish. Only 12! Colour version on Flickr
Start early!
A little bit of Christmas silliness to wish you all a very happy season:
I’ve always wondered how to rag hair so that you get ringlets – you know, like in Little Women or I guess Little House on the Prairie. So yesterday I checked out this video and had a go, using Dippity as my model. It was much easier than I thought it was. Doesn’t she look [...]
Scary huh? Only three belts away from a karate black belt. Dippity refused to let us watch her grading. Apparently we would have put her off. I think she was more worried about us embarrassing her. Well we did threaten to cheer on the sidelines… It is our job after all, as parents, to embarrass [...]
My entry to I heart faces this week reminded me that we had some video. Ohhhh my kids were so cute! (They still are… just a bit spottier and teenagery)
