just another day...

mushroom hunting

mushroom hunting last weekend - frank's perfect family outing - lots of fresh air, can take the dog, doesn't cost a penny.

most of the time i leave my 50mm lens on my camera, occasionally when we're outside I put the chunky zoom on.  it's a lot more trial and error getting the settings right - especially in constantly changing light and shade, but when i do i'm amazed by the clarity and vibrancy of colour it provides.  these are all straight out of camera - no editing, no actions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oh and we did find some mushrooms.  well - tiny toadstools but they might as well have been made of gold such was phoebe's excitement. and yes we did stop her from touching them!

bubbles and mothers day

kids had some friends over last weekend. took some scrumptious photos and later realised i had the camera on lowest res - no bigger than they are here. blah.

should i apologise for a six week blogging holiday?  actually i quite enjoyed it.  started off because i was too busy to blog, then i had some health issues so didn't feel like it, then it had been so long trying to catch up seemed overwhelming, and then i just started enjoying not having to blog.

 

but must just blog mothers day loot.  it started with a picture by phoebe with some words dictated to her kinder teacher..

 

can you read it?  the prompt is "i think my mum is special because..." and my delightful daughters first answer is "... she hugs me and says sorry when she yells at me..."

excellent.

also a decorated canvas bag that every mum got, and a handmade table that not every mum got, just me.  complete with placemat, coaster and flowers.  the table's a little wobbly though so i didn't really trust it with the flowers.

but wait there's more.  that's just from phoebe.

alex got most of his booty from the school mother's day stall, but also made a placemat for me in class.  some truly precious spelling in here.

i didn't get the traditional mothers day sleep in or breakfast, because frank was up even earlier being a good son-in-law, driving my mum to our local market where she has a stall every week.  and the kids are too young to be trusted alone with toasters and kettles.  oh, and the fridge flooded so while some chick on the radio was saying 'happy mothers day to all the mum's out there, hope you're being spoiled with lots of pressies and your feet up' i was defrosting the ancient fridge and mopping the kitchen floor before 9am.

 

much was forgiven and forgotten though when frank arrived home with these.  the flowers and the chocolates that is, i'd bought nigella earlier in the week as my main mothers day pressie :)  some scrummy recipes in there - i recommend it already.

lots more to catch up on including a tag from the lovely jennifer about my quirks (far out where do i start?) and lots of layout shares, but my pc is already having a memory breakdown so this will have to do for now.

holiday

apparently 'jesus the sailor' was getting a bit old.  did i mention she also sang "the cattle are glowing..."? 

i've had a little blog holiday.  i meant to post a little picture like this before i went away, because this screams 'on holiday and all is good' to me, but i hadn't taken it yet.

anyway, i'm still kind of on holiday (actually a lot to catch up on) so the gist of what we've been up to can, i hope, be got from these.