Emu with a Clue

Friday 13: 13 things to do with kids on a wet weekend

2008-07-04T05:29:14Z

Thought I might as well do my brainstorming here seeing as this is looking like the scenario for this weekend. Go swimming at the indoor Aquatic Centre - my daughter invited to a party there on Saturday along with my friend's eldest daughter...

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Everybody was kung fu fighting

2008-06-29T00:50:06Z

We had a nice day yesterday. The day of my daughter's Kung Fu demonstration at one of the city movie cinemas was finally here. It was meant to be in honour of the opening of the movie Kung Fu Panda but was really badly organised so actually coi...

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Sudoku fever

2008-06-26T06:50:16Z

I got one of these Dora sudoku sticker books for $1 the other day and my 5yo son is obsessed with it. I went through a brief period of being obsessed with sudoku but lost interest after I worked out how to solve them. They also caused me to get ...

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Trip to the park

2008-06-23T01:40:56Z

Yesterday afternoon was sunny but with a cold wind so I took the kids and a friend and Mollie the dog to a different playground to the one we normally go to (which is located on a bay and not very sheltered). My daughter was most unimpressed abo...

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Who Let the Dogs Out?

2008-06-16T04:57:29Z

This is the art exhibition my friend and I took our combined brood of children along to yesterday. It was at a gallery called Hazelhurst which is in a southern suburb of Sydney called Gymea. It was a really fun exhibition and very child-fri...

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Let's go fly a kite

2008-06-09T05:22:07Z

These are some kite flying photos I took in over two days in Malaysia last year. No wonder kite flying is so popular there. The kites just seemed to fly themselves!

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Some poems from my daughter

2008-06-09T04:01:17Z

Homework poem Homework sits on top of Sunday squashing Sunday flat Homework has the smell of Monday Homeworks very fat Elephant on the telephone There once was a elephant who tried to use a telephant No! No! I mean an elephone Yes he t...

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Vox Hunt: Awwwwww!

2008-06-08T01:31:46Z

Show us something that makes you go "awwwwwwww." Submitted by LittleWiseOne.

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Friday 13: 13 things I plan to do this Queen's birthday long weekend

2008-06-06T06:02:17Z

Not stay at work too late tonight (although this may be difficult as I am waiting on things from a few different people before I can go home). Eat pizza made by the kids for dinner (kids are insistent that Friday night is Pizza Night). Go to bed...

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QotD: Since my first post on Vox, I've...

2008-06-05T03:20:00Z

Look at the first post you ever wrote on Vox. What important developments or changes have occurred in your life since then? Submitted by Alexandra. This was actually my second post as my first just a book review. My second post was on the movi...

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