Merry Christmas Guys!

My apologies for the lack of communication this past week. I'll be posting all you've missed and all future advent fun and Christmas cheer on our facebook page or in our instagram album.  I just wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for your love, guidance and support this year here on our blog. Thanks for your comments of encouragement and wisdom and most of all thank you for lifting us...

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December 14th

Christmas Advent Activity Day 14. Camp around the Christmas tree! This is another advent activity we have done before. Last year I captured some really festive photos which you can view by clicking here.. This year I only got a few. I left it to the last minute to set the mattresses up and together we watched Charlotte's Web. Nevaeh fell asleep around half way through while Jie and I went on to watch  another movie. For...

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December 12 & 13..

Christmas Advent Activity Day 12 & 13. Cozy up and read Christmas books before bed {plus} Eat a Gingerbread man game! Yesterday was such a massive day. Doctors, blood tests, shopping, Jie's school finishing early, mowing the lawns, preparing for Nevaehs break up party/graduation then babysitting 'til late had my head pounding from 5pm onward. The kids were so tired after such a bg big Thursday night that we almost threw the books...

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Nevaeh & Hosanna's Graduation Night

We all had a wonderful time at Nevaeh and Hosanna's Graduation night last night.  We enjoyed a picnic with sweets and fruit, fairy bread and biscuits. Here are some photos from last night.. The two girls of the night! Hosanna with her Mama Penny.. My son munching away.. Nevaeh with her friends Ella-Jayde and Lacey.. Marky and Judea.. Hosanna with her friends.. The kids in a circle about to perform...

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December 10

Christmas Advent Activity Day 10. Write out our Christmas Cards!  ...

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Moments that made me smile today..

The kids watching TV together.. Jiedyn doing some writing.. and Nevaeh playing happily by herself...

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December 7th

Christmas Advent Activity Day 7. Bake and deliver cookies to our neighbors! Last night we baked over 100 cookies using this recipe.. We then glazed the cookies using this recipe.. We ate all the burnt ones! And packed the others in the goldest cellophane we could find.. We eventually ran out of sticky tape.. But that didn't stop us! We packed the cookies in pairs.. We hand wrote notes to go with our cookies.. and shared...

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December 5 & 6..

Christmas Advent Activity Days 5 & 6.Make popcorn necklaces and watch a Christmas movie & Play the "Don't eat Pete game".. Day five.. Don't remind me.. SIX hours of Christmas shopping for 8 children had Penny and I Hoola hooping in Sportsco and walking around bare feet in Kmart! We stopped in to grab our Christmas DVD and popcorn but the popcorn was gone in 20 seconds flat of walking into the Shillings house. The DVD did not...

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December 4th..

Christmas Advent Activity Day 4.Write angel notes for our friends! This was so totally fun! The kids picked from 6 types of sticky note designs for 5 of their most {favorite} friends and one {could be in the future} friend. They said thank you to each friend for things like, always sharing, being kind, helping and just being a great friend. Nevaeh got really specific thanking a little boy from kinder for helping her build the biggest and best tall tower with the blocks. I thought that was so cute! Unfortunately no photos...

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December 3rd..

Christmas Advent Activity Day 3.Take photo's beside the Christmas Tree! Such a FUN photo shoot! Which one is your favorite? This one is my favorite. Nevaeh on her tippy-toes to reach Jie's shoulder.. It really is the little things....

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December 2nd..

Christmas Advent Activity Day 2.Retell the Nativity Story! Check out The Action Bible here.. While telling the nativity story to Nevaeh, she picks up our baby Jesus ornament and says "I love the little Lord Jesus.." and kisses it. Such a sweet little momen...

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December 1st..

Christmas Advent Activity Day 1.Put up the Christmas Tree! Around a week before Christmas I got the sewing machine out to sew my first ever Christmas Tree Skirt. I did the whole thing free hand and used fabric I got given to me by a neighbor plus two of my old shirts. This was a big deal for me as I have always wanted one. I remember one of the foster families I lived with had one and since then I always had my eye open for them but...

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Jiedyn turns Eight!

My amazing son is 8 today!Here are 8 random facts about our beautiful boy..1. Jiedyns last hour as a seven year old was spent snuggling up to his little sister until she fell asleep while watching Sponge Bob!2. Jie's first word was "Yeah".3. His favorite color is gold!4. Jie's favorite gifts were his new walkie talkies, electronic safe, metal detector and of course his pokemon movies, books & Wii game! 5. Jiedyn's last prayer as a...

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Sew Good!

Last night I had no kids.. NO KIDS!! For a whole night.. As you can probably tell that doesn't happen very often! Nevaeh went to her Dads for the weekend and Jiedyn has gone on an over night fishing trip with his Pop. Last night was meant to be my le réve girls PJ night but everyone had plans and pulled out resulting in me having to change it until this afternoon. With a whole afternoon and night to myself I started thinking of...

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200 Questions - ANSWERED!

1: Are you ready for 200 questions? Ready as I'll ever be.. 2: Was your last relationship a mistake? I don't believe so..  3: Do you miss your last relationship? Parts of it.. 4: Who did you last say "i love you" to? My Daughter before she went to Preschool.. 5: Do you regret it? No.. 6: Have you ever been depressed? Yes.. But never severely like some people do.. 7: Are you a boy or girl? I am a woman.. 8: Are you insecure? No, I dont think I am.. 9: What is your relationship status? Married.. 10: How do you want...

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Melbourne Cup Day 2013

Today I .. How beautiful was the weather today? I don't think I remember a Melbourne Cup Day being so beautiful and warm. This morning I printed out the form guide of all the horses, they're names and numbers along with a few other bots and pieces to make picking a winner exciting for the kids. For the last 4 years Jiedyn has always picked color's just as Nevaeh chose to do today and has done the last two years. But today Jie changed...

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