Tales of an Ordinary Life

I know in blog land 3 weeks is an eternity but life has sort of got in the way and one thing had to give and that was updating my blog. I was accepted into university this year to study Early childhood teaching i.e. birth to 8 years old and was absolutely thrilled to be doing that. I had decided that with Oscar being in Kindy and this being my tenth year of working ( here in Australia if you work for a company for 10 years they give you up to 3 months extra leave) I would only do one subject a semester. Unfortunately the University will not let you do things that way and I had to pick up an extra two subjects semester. I did think about it but realistically there was no way I could do that this year. So with a very disappointed heart I had to withdraw from this year. So look out QUT I will be back with a vengeance in 2012. At the start of March my brother in law told us he was moving to Victoria. Very sad cause we will miss him but an amazing opportunity for him. So every weekend I ha...

Just over 6 weeks ago my youngest boy started pre - prep (the year before school starts for real). I have been amazed to watch how he has put himself into creating little artworks every day he goes to preprep. He has an explanation for every piece he creates. One piece he did was a mash of colours and he said to me "that's because I wanted to see what the colours would look like on the paper". I am taking so much pleasure in watching him discover his artistic soul.