Day 60 - I am so Tyred

Who'd have thought I'd feature a picture of a dirty big tyre on my blog. After having my car at the mechanic today and being told I needed new tyres and using the tyre at the gym in personal training and the strength class, I thought this was very thematic.

Thank you Charlie Hunter from my wonderful gym Get My Body Back for such amazing personal training sessions. Even though I may moan and groan - although not enough tonight apparently while lifting the tyre, I do enjoy every minute of the whipping.

Day 59 - Tricksters

It is funny picking up the girls after school. Funnier when they try and trick me by wearing odd shoes. It used to be wearing odd socks and sometimes I wonder if they plan on changing clothing as well. Anyone who knows my girls would automatically assume that it is Ava who is the tricker, but they would be mistaken. Olivia likes to try and trick us with their plans of swapping and attempting to confuse us.

Moments like this I think that I am grateful that they are not identical.

Day 58 - Eggs, Eggs and more Eggs

The lovely Took from Kindy Patch gave Jenny some fresh eggs and home grown tomatoes. So it was a pleasant surprise after work to discover 2 dozen fresh eggs on our bench. Knowing we'd get some more fresh eggs from Dave tomorrow night, we started cooking up a storm.

We made many mini quiches tonight. I now have at least 1 more dozen eggs - I wonder what shall I cook next. Maybe Shane will make me poached eggs for breakfast on the weekend.

Day 57 - Carnivale

Today we braved the drizzle and rain to go down to Carnivale in Queanbeyan Park. They had a variety of different acts to entertain the crowd and food stalls to sample multicultural food. They also have a couple of stalls to entertain the kids like a jumping castle and petting zoo. The girls enjoyed the dancing, however I think they might have enjoyed the jumping castle a little more.

Each year Carnivale comes to town and each year I think it will be better than the last. Unfortunately things don't change much year after year. If the girls were happy to sit and watch the dancing for a longer period of time, we would stay longer. Maybe next year is the year.

Day 56 - Show time

Today we took the girls along with Jenny, Sam, Austin, Andrew and Madison to the Canberra Show. It was quite a warm day with lots of people at the show. We of course visited the usual areas - sideshow alley, show bags, the craft section and some rides. I always like looking through the craft, cakes and horticulture sections. Today, while we were there, I discovered these beautiful Cactus Dahlias in the horticulture section. There were so many of these flowers, how had I not seen them before? I am going to have to start growing some of these beautiful flowers in my garden, well maybe not me, but Shane, he is more of a green thumb than me. Even if I don't grow them, they are still in my garden, that makes them mine right?

Day 55 - A night reminiscing

Today Shane and I celebrated 5 years of being married. We decided to head out for dinner, leaving the girls safely tucked in at home with their favourite Jenny.  After eating there only once before and wanting to try it again, I made reservations at La Cantina in Narrabundah. Shane had looked at their online menu and had already decided what to have for dinner. An entree of pan fried calamari stuffed with risotto followed by Seafood spaghetti. I opted for spinich and cheese dumplings followed by a wild mushroom risotto. Simply delicious. We couldn't even fit in dessert.

Happy Anniversary Shane!

Day 54 - Currency

So it has been a busy time trying to toilet train the girls at the moment. Quite frustrating at times when they don't want to sit on the toilet. When discussing this with some wise people, they reminded me of currency. Not the money currency, but rather the girls currency - bribery. So each time they do something on the toilet they either get an M & M or a squinky. We discovered squinkies from the Hackney girls and Olivia and Ava love them. I thought I would mind giving the girls chocolate at 7:30am - but if it means sitting on the toilet without a fuss - so be it!