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While we were on holidays


Oh the memories of the recent Easter/School Holiday Break brings me so much joy. It was magical, fun-filled, steady paced and enjoyable. We went to the show for the first-time (well for the kids anyway) and the kids loved it.

Look at that smile. Pure joy. Elijah was a bit scared at first but I held onto him and then as he got use to it he relaxed and enjoyed himself. You just have to go on the carousel when you're at The Show. The last day was great as it was Kids Day so rides were two for one until 5pm. Some Showbags ran out but we managed to get 3/4 that we wanted so it was great. I even got a bargain on the Womens Weekly bag as they ran out of stock but used the bags to put in spare items and sold it for $10. Awesome!


The older two kids attended the Nestle Active Healthy Kids session in the Food Farm. What a fantastic session which got a lot of kids cooking something healthy that they would eat themselves. My kids are use to rice paper rolls. We must have them at least once a week in the warm season. They were a bit wary of the apricots in the protein balls but they did try them.

Here is the lovely presenter who had done all of the sessions through the duration of the show and fed 2800 participants. Amazing job. Well done to her and her team.

Here are the kids next to the Super Slide (niece in the middle). I loved how the lights illuminated the darkness and everything felt so alive and magical. We didn't want the day to finish. It was perfect.

Now I'm trying to slide into the groove of things now that school has started and I'm back at work three days. My phone died so I was not contactable for a day (not fun). I'm still in the process of getting myself back up and running and with good friends who happen to have spare phones I am back on-line (but have lost some data etc etc.. go and back up your phone and contacts today!) Thankfully I did ask hubby to back up my pics from my phone last week so not all was lost.

Source:Fred Nile Democractic Party FB Page

We had (literally) torrential rain for three days. If you live in Sydney (see pic above) you know how bad it is. Rivers were overflowing, car parks and basements were flooding and our SES (State Emergency Service) volunteers had heaps of calls to attend to. Well done to them for their efforts. Today was the first day the sun shone down so I've got loads of washing to put out today.

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See you soon peeps! xox

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