Henry has started playing 'Milo Cricket' on Saturday mornings. It's pretty fun. They don't actually play a game, it's just skills and cricket themed activities.
It starts at 8am (which is a pretty early start for us) so the boys go down first and Milly and I saunter down to the ground a bit later.
The Bungendore Rodeo was on last weekend too.
Henry took a mate, we had a sausage and an icecream and saw some bucking broncos, barrel races and calf wrangling. The kids lasted pretty much as long as the food did and then demanded to go home.
Oh and these shots are from a National Park just east of here towards Sydney in the Southern Highlands (Bungendore is in an area called the Southern Tablelands in case you were wondering). We had been to a friend's Christening in a little town near the park and checked out the view before heading home. So beautiful.
xmarnie
This morning we woke up to find the whole yard covered in snow! And not just a little bit but a proper covering. A lot had melted by the time the kids got up and we took these photos but further up the escarpment at our friend's house it was still as much as 4cm thick at 9am.
It is a preschool day for Henry but having snow to play in is not something that should be missed out on. So we drove up the hill, had a play with friends, got suitably wet, cold and tired and got to preschool by 10.40. Hooray!
Oh and this is how Milly has taken to watching TV lately.
xmarnie
I have decided to make a 'no buy pledge'. It's a bit of 'thing' in blogland and I have been inspired to do the same. Basically I have decided to not buy any new clothes for me for a year. This may not seem like a big deal but I think it's still worthwhile.
For me it will be about avoiding spending money on low-quality items that are mass-produced in places where people are poorly paid. It'll be my little protest against all the stuff that is sent to landfill, all the environmental consequences of making it, getting it here and then getting rid of it. It's about making do with less and using my creativity to lessen my consumption.
So I won't buy anything new.
But I can buy stuff from second-hand shops, I can swap and I can make it myself.
There are some concessions.
I can buy underwear and tights (that sort of thing) because I don't fancy second-hand undies and I can't make tights.
I can buy a pair of shoes if a pair I have wears out. But I will still try to find them second-hand first.
And I will try to apply the same rule to the kids clothes as much as is possible without them looking like hobos or turning my own house into a sweatshop.
Greg's opinion on shopping means that this pledge is pretty much his natural state. It would actually be nice if he DID buy something once in a while but he starts hyperventilating as soon as we enter underground mall carparks. Of course there are other places to buy clothes but even small stores engender a 'high alert' response and he either starts looking like a cat backed into a corner by a toddler or the stimulation is too much and he goes all limp.
Anyway, so that's what I'm doing. Not buying new stuff.
xmarnie
