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So in case you missed it, yesterday was Mothers Day.  If you missed it and you are a Dad, you probably realised that you missed it when you found yourself…

Happy mothers day to all you Mommies out there! For those of you who don’t celebrate it, happy Sunday to you!!  We will probably be spending the day a little…

Happy Tuesday that feels like Friday! I hope things are going well in your neck of the woods?  For us things are a bit hectic for the next 2 weeks,…

I have never laughed so hard.  Seriously.  The next morning I woke up and my tummy was still sore and I struggled to move. He may have repeated a few…

I’ve been sitting on this post for quite a while, waiting to see if I just wrote it in irritation that would dissipate later, but it hasn’t really gone away…

Finally I have a chance to sit down and actually write a little bit, instead of placating you with pictures of my kids.  But to be honest I don’t know…

Hello everybody! I’ve been meaning to blog sooner than this. But instead of getting irritated that I don’t have my “me” time because I have to put my sick and…

So today is not much better in terms of sleep or sick children.  But it’s Michael McIntyre day and that just makes everything better!  We are going to sit so…

When you have a kid it’s really important to make sure that you train them like you would do a circus animal.  So that when you are out and about,…

There was a time where I debated whether or not I should do this. Now you’re wondering, what the heck are you talking about?!  Well a little while ago I…

I’ve been trying to put it off for a while, but for those of you that have been bitten by the bug you will know that resistance is futile –…

So the girls were a bit miffed with me that I didn’t show you any of the pictures that they took of our holiday.  Actually they didn’t care, because when…

Right now I am sitting bundled up in about 100 blankets and still freezing to death.  Sick again.  Yippee.  (Yes, that’s right – if you actually care you might remember…

Growing up my brother and I would hurl the most disgusting insults at each other for no other reason than to cause a fight.  I always won.  Obviously.  I think…

Hello there! We are still going strong over here at 3 Kids, 2 Dogs and 1 Old House – despite what the lack of blogness would suggest. We were able…

There has been a big change in our house recently. Now that Seth has become a full 10kg’s lighter than he used to be, he performed an amazing hair removal…

It’s quite a scary thing to watch your children doing the things that you used to do when you were little.  It’s even scarier when it doesn’t even seem like…

Lately I have been taking time in my day to sit down and reflect on life.  In particular to reflect on each one of my children’s lives that I have…

There are certain smells that just remind me of things.  Like the smell of freshly mown grass totally just smells like Summer, add in some sunscreen and petrol and suddenly…

Since the girls have started school I have seriously cut down TV time in our house, only putting it on when they are about to rip each others heads off.…

I don’t know about you, but we have a pretty good idea of who our children are.  You know, like without really even thinking about it you know exactly how they…

This last week has been hectic.  Knox has his first real sickness which started with a fine rash from the top of his head to the bottom of his toes,…

How cute are these little felt finger puppets?  As you can see, the girls put each of the little bits on which they absolutely adored doing.  This craft is so…