James and Christie

Yesterday was Father’s Day, and I was rewarded for my hard toil as a dad by a set of tools…made out of chocolate! Chosen by my son as he shopped with his mum because, as he puts it, “Daddy likes tools.” That’s right – Mr DIY-Fix-It-Man am I!
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In between all the tantrums and tiredness, we do try to fit in a bit of civilised behaviour in our family. And last weekend and today, due to the inclement weather traditional to this time of year, meant heading off to the museum in a desperate attempt to get the little munchkin to run [...]

It is generally well-known that my son has an active imagination. Always keen to dress up in a costume and tell stories, the little munchkin is quite the storyteller when he gets going. He gets plenty of opportunity to express this side of himself at our local Playcentre, where he has recently started [...]

I know that I have been slack in writing recently. I have all the excuses in the book, but the main one was that every time I thought to myself (usually late at night) “I really should write on the blog”, the little devil on my shoulder said “Nah – no one reads it [...]

The title of this post is more than just the cleaner of the words I am heard to frequently yell on a golf course, it is also how old our little munchkin turned today! That’s right – David is four years old!
I’m pretty sure that I will spend most of each of my children’s [...]

June was a busy, travel-filled month. I headed over to the USA for work, visiting San Francisco, Seattle and New York. I was lucky to be able to catch up with Gene in San Fran, and Aunty Tennille in New York; she delayed her flight to have dinner with me for an early [...]

This weekend was all about taking advantage of the break in the weather to get out there and finish painting the fence. Oh, the excitement. But it does look pretty good now (if I do say so myself).
We had our little munchkin assistant out helping with us…well, “helping” is maybe [...]

Hey look – a post just one week after my previous one!
Things have been a bit strained in the house this week, with all four of us fighting colds and sniffles and (in the case of the kids) ear infections. To couple that with a bit of bad weather restricting their [...]

I was wondering whether or not to put up that we had abandoned the blog. We haven’t – at least, not in my mind anyway. I would still like to use it to catalogue life and how the kids are growing up…because they’re growing so fast!
Sarah is nearly 7 months [...]

I am slack. There has just been a lot going on with work and projects and things and stuff…and my (fictional) dog ate my login, teacher, I swear!
I think I need to fess up to the fact that with Twitter and Facebook making it easy to provide short, txt-like updates, the [...]