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Saturday, 31 December 2022
7 Little Letters
As we enter the last hours of 2022, it's Just Nevaeh and I at home. Of all the things we could be doing tonight we decided that we would have dinner and blog together. As I cooked Nevaeh wrote out 7 little letters using Madeline's journal prompts on Pinterest. Here is what she wrote..To the person who hurt me, thank you for hurting me, I'm happy I had you in my life for that short period of time. You hurting me helped me grow and become stronger. You were special to me and still are, but you're gone now.To the person who left...
Monday, 26 December 2022
Christmas Day 2022
Christmas in our home starts just the way it has done the last few years since having sleepless teenagers. 12am opening of Gifts.This year this is what the kids got..NevaehA Beauty Case, Eye Lashes, Eye Lash Glue, Eye Liner, Mascara, an Etch & Sketch Ear Pods, A gold smart watch, Connector Pens, Pencil Case for School, hair ties, hair clips, a beach towel, a DIY candle maker kit, a DIY polyma earring kit, LED lights x4, Scarfs...
Saturday, 24 December 2022
TDOC Cooking Prep + Menu
Now this Christmas Tradition is a brand new one now that myself and Jie have joined Nevaeh and Davids love of baking.This year Jie has been in the kitchen cooking more than any other. So this year, in the lead up to Christmas day, we made Chocolate balls, Jelly Cups, Cinnamon biscuits, Savoury Scrolls, Pizza Scrolls, Vanilla and Boysenberry Cupcakes and egg and bacon muffins. Our Christmas Menu this year looks like this:Grazing...
Friday, 23 December 2022
TDOC Christmas Light Looking
Our Twelve Days of Christmas activity today took us out of the house and into Eynesbury for the first house on our 15 house list of Christmas light displays to see in and around Melton. In years gone by we have had a tradition of getting starbucks and venturing out to Werribee and Point cook but this year there was a hype on facebook saying these 15 houses were a must see.Stopping at Maccas for Frappes for the kids and raspberry freeze's...
Monday, 19 December 2022
TDOC Christmas Movie Night
This year the only Christmas movie we watched at home together was Fred Clause
And the only movie we saw at the cinema was.. Violent NightJie payed for his cousin Jeanette to come thinking it was going to be some beautiful Christmas movie. Once the movie started the kids moved to the back seats of the cinema and we enjoyed the movie in a cinema all to ourselves.Not sure if we will watch another movie together before Christmas but these two were great.On the way home we listened to a few of Mums favorite songs...
Sunday, 18 December 2022
TDOC Hillsong Christmas Spectacular
This Christmas activity was extra special being that we picked the kids 11yo cousin Justine up from her foster home to join us to see the 2022 Hillsong Christmas Spectacular at Festival Hall in Melbourne formally known in the aboriginal Language as "Naarm".On the way the kids played "First to find.." as we listened to our Christmas playlist.And then in no time at all after parking the car in little bourke Street and hitching an Uber before...
Saturday, 17 December 2022
TDOC KIRRIP Christmas Party
As we wait for photos to come back lets just reflect back on all that was one of the best KIRRIP Aboriginal Corporation Christmas Parties ever.As you walk into KIRRIP you are greeted by the beautiful Lita, Cheetah and Aunty Dawn for your Christmas Card from KIRRIP Staff and the Board as well as a free raffle ticket to win one of four jolly big Christmas hampers of donated food and confectionery.As you make your way down the hall towards Santa, Tom is busy in the back ground preparing your children's gifts which have also...
TDOC Bacchus Marsh Christmas Market
Our Twelve days of Christmas time together brought us together at the Bacchus Marsh Christmas Market.We picked up my eldest niece Jeanette on the way and enjoyed a stroll around stopping in at he stalls we liked as we went.There were memory jerking rides I'd been on with the kids in previous years such as the spaceship and the dodge-em cars.We didn't stay for the carols or the fireworks but it was nice just being out together enjoying...
Friday, 16 December 2022
{Flashback Friday} Little One
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As I was going through my old hotmail account (which I've had since I was 14 and pleasantly suprised I even remembered the password) I stumbled accross a few photos I never knew I had.. one of them was the one displayed here. This was my son only 1-2 months old. I was a single teen mother, in a new house, in a new little community with no friends or family for support. I look back now and think about how lucky I was! Jiedyn was such a...
Thursday, 15 December 2022
TDOC Christmas Cards
This year I did something I've never done before.I signed up with Jaqui Lawson E cards for a yearly membership and sent all my co-workers, family and friends and donated $100 to The Neighbours Place on what would have been spent on cards and postage stamps.The kids still wrote cards though. Jie wrote a card and gave chocolates to his Guitar tutor Mr May and Nevaeh wrote a card and has chocolates for her new friend Karen whom she has been spending time with out on her farm.David wrote a card and gave chocolates to his...
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
The Big Christmas Questionnaire
Today I am taking part in Jordanne's Big Christmas Questionnaire which you can find on her blog here.The rules are as follows:Answer the 15 QuestionsTag up to 10 others to take partReference “Tag by @Ofaglasgowgirl” in your postThank the person who tagged youHave fun!So here goes..1. What’s your favourite thing about Christmas?In the years gone by my favorite part of Christmas has been time spent with family, friends and community over...
Sunday, 11 December 2022
TDOC Hot Chocolates
Now this Christmas tradition has been around for as long as I can remember and has always been one of many of my kids favorites. Day three of our Twelve Days of Christmas together was a creating our very own warm and christmassy hot chocolate drinks!With all of it's triple cocoa, marshmallow, candy cane, whipped cream and wafer stick delights, these self made cups of goodness are and always will be a hi...
Community Excursion
It was a beautiful 20 degrees in Ballarat earlier this week when we took a bus load of community to the Ballarat Wildlife Park. I am in no way an "events planner" but I was so proud of the outcome of this day.I was nervous right up until the day because I just wanted to make a memorable outing for our elders and attendees, most of which had never been there before.There were many firsts throughout the day and fears conquered. I...
Friday, 9 December 2022
TDOC Geelong Waterfront Fireworks
Day two of our Twelve Days of Christmas together had us front row on a warm night eating icecream in front of the iconic floating Christmas tree on the Geelong waterfront singing christmas carols and enjoying the fireworks display in the distance.Such a beautiful night ou...
{Flashback Friday} Easter 2011
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Woo hoo.. I can take a step back into my past with you all again!! This photo was taken on Easter 2007! Those trucks were filled with chocolate eggs.. and Jie just wouldn't put them down!! The Jacket I must say was nice and warm and he lived in it through the colder months.. he was such a cutie! Still i...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
TDOC2022 Gingerbread Houses
So our first day of Christmas started today and without me! After work I went to Spotlight to buy some supplies for Christmas Day before I picked David up from work. We got home after 7pm sometime and after checking in on the kids days and organising dinner I went straight to bed. I woke a few times through the night and when David jumped into bed at 10.30pm. I woke up at 4.30am to his alarm and haven’t been able to get back...
Sunday, 4 December 2022
Our Christmas Tree 2022
This is our Christmas Tree this year, a $49 half price bargain from Big W. I know, no extravagant ornaments or tinsil like you’d expect from me but I gave all the things I’ve gathered over the years to my eldest niece whom is living in her own little unit now and I’ve opted for just the traditional green and red minimal tree decor this year! Looking forward to building on it over the years to come. Besides, it’s not the tree that matters,...
Saturday, 3 December 2022
12 Days of Christmas
This year, instead of doing daily Christmas Advent Activities our family are choosing to do just 12 days of Christmas in December.As time changes, we change, circumstances change and the people in our lives change so, we find ourselves adapting to a very new way of life.This year, David and I are both working right up until Christmas Day. Jiedyn (17yo) and Nevaeh (13yo) will soon be on school holidays and so the time we'd usually have...
Friday, 2 December 2022
{Flashback Friday} Big Brother from Day Dot
My waters broke at 2am and I immediately woke her father up. We only lived 2 houses from the emergency ward so I wasn't stressed. We woke Jie who was three at the time and as he got out of bed he said "We gotta go to the park first" after we gathered all the baby things we started walking out the door when again Jiedyn said he needed to go to the park first and started walking towards the park. Jie was 3yo.
Once at emergency I was wheeled...
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