This Moment - Her Idea.

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Joining in with SouleMama.

Night, night peeps, Cat.

Things I have learnt this week and a funny note from my Granny

This week, I have learnt:

• Dust is universal. There is no escape from dust.
• I am missing my sewing machine more than my dishwasher.
• I will never tire of watching my girls play together. The fighting, though, is another matter.
• I am continually amazed at how imaginative Abbey is. At this very moment, she is cutting up a banana (with a bread and butter knife) and serving it in plastic mugs for her and Zoe to eat.
• Hong Kong is so clean. I like it.
• I love school holidays.
• I love staying in my pajamas for as much of the day as possible.
• I feel like a bad mother as I get so bored when I take the girls to the playground. I yawn constantly and can hardly keep my eyes open.
• I think I need to learn to crochet, so I won't be so bored at the playground.
• I need to find our local library here in Hong Kong. We are all a bit sick of reading the same books over and over.
• I miss Zoe's cloth nappies. I personally don't like using disposables. When we do the big move to HK, I will be bringing the cloth nappies with us.
• It really is quite difficult writing this post with a 19 month old Zoe climbing all over me.

On a final note, I want to wish my gorgeous Grandma a HUGE Happy Birthday for today. How cute is her little note to me in the photo above? I bought her a lovely hand made birdie brooch for her birthday, I hope she likes it.

Have you learnt anything this week?

Have a lovely day, peeps.

Cat.

* If you can't read Grandma's old fashioned writing, it says "for being a good girl and also keeping in touch with old granny". Gosh, I love her!

Frog head tea, anyone?

Would you like a cup of frog head tea? I am not sure if this was one of Abbey or Zoe's creations. I had to take a photo as it looked so colourful and almost drinkable.

We are actually in Hong Kong at the moment for the school holidays. It is lovely to be together as a family again, not just for a whirlwind weekend.

The weather at this time of year is gorgeous, between 21-27 C most days and not too humid - yet. Interestingly, Hong Kong has an ozone layer. I can feel the ozone layer working. It is such an amazing feeling, the sun on your skin, but not feel like you are burning instantly. We are still wearing sun screen, it is such a habit to always apply it when you come from Australia. It is a good habit to have, I know.

Have a lovely weekend. Enjoy your tea, with our without frog heads.

Cat

Fancy a carrot in your ear?

OK, I may have to make a promise. No more fabric carrots after this post. First, we had them topless.

Then we had them with their tops on.

Now we have them with ribbons added, and they look even cuter (excellent idea, Clare)

If you like, you can put them in your big sisters ear.

Big sisters get rather cranky with you if you put them in her ear.

So, why not put them in your own ears?

Much more fun to put them in your own ears.

OK, no more fabric carrots from me.

But I can't promise you that you won't end up with one in your ear.

Cat

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday