A Mother of One

Ahh, the good ol' Mozart Place days... The year was 2004, Tim and I were still newly weds, sort of. I wanted four children at this stage, and I remember dad saying if we took these three off their hands we'd only need to have one.
When you have your first child it can be a lot more difficult than you first antisipate. Of course, looking back, one is infinately easier than three...

I was feeling rather nostalgic today, and in light of the upcoming mothers day, I thought I'd look back on first becoming a mother.


Monto April 2006

We moved to Queensland to spend some time with my famliy and also to see a little more of Australia before we would have more children and travelling would become more difficult.
Blue Boy...

Grandadda

At the park

Birthday happenings

The usual Garage Sale

Was this at Sarah's birthday party? One of the best ever.
PS don't get on Tia's bad side!


Lovers, kissers, holder-of-hands! Haha!


One of those 'almost-all-of-the-family' pictures




I love this photo! Good times

It was 40 degrees Celsius on this day, as well as many others. The pool felt like it was heated.



Golden Beach October 2006
This was our front yard for 6 months. I know it looks perfect, but there is a down side to almost everything i think. We were happy to have lived here, but happy to move on as well.

Jai's First hair cut at 19 months old

I think Jai was meant to be the second child born into the family because he is such a "people person". He would get so bored being by himself. Thats why I love that he got to grow up a little with Pani, Orrin and Tia. Sorry about the bite marks guys.





No, he isn't 2 years old in this photo, he's just cheeky. Thanks for my tough introduction to motherhood Jai, you have made me stronger than I could have imagined.I love you always, mum Big Kiss Little Kiss Hug Hug Kiss Kiss

Orrin's Baptism

And here we go over on the boat to Kerang, country Victoria for squils Baptism. I'm so proud of him, he is an awesome brother to us all, and a great Uncle to the kids.

The kids loved being in the van. We had to keep on sending Jai over the back to get the babies their bottles.






The wait for departure out of Devonport was atrocious. However, because we were a little late, we got bumped to the front of the line. I did feel a little bad for the people who had been lining up since 6am.


Thank you so much Bobbi for the up-grade to the porthole cabins, it would have been awful to wait around on the boat with no where to retreat to with the kids for a rest before our big drive to Kerang. Jai won the facepainting competition that was put on for the kids.


We made it. It was about 1am Saturday morning by the time we got there.


Little Athletics . . . ahh, that brings back memories, doesn't it?
The kids won everything, so well done guys!




I'm giving Tia some hints on throwing the Discus, which was one of my specialties in the junior years.


Saturday 6th March Orrin's Baptism


It was a special moment for everyone when Steve and Orrin were wading out into the lake. Orrin has a wonderful innocense and trusting nature. It was a really nice service, even though we stood in clay mud, with the rain falling around us.




Happy Belated Birthday my darling baby girl...
We did celebrate her birthday already, but in my crazy circumstances, I couldn't find the camera to take pictures. Mana got some though, if that makes it any better.

Rylan and Sarah, officially a couples photo

Kids getting ready for school

Ully, proudly dispalying his latest kill

Then we went east to visit Sarah and Ray in Albury-Wodonga.

Missy and Nandali - cute little cousins

Birthday Getaways

But first, here is my little Jai, all excited to go to school. He likes to dress himself and brush his own teeth because he is so big now. When he grows up he wants to look after horses for people to ride.



So my birthday is was the same as the Launceston Cup this year so we didn't around to doing too much. But the next day we went to Swansea for a little getaway. another summer camp, Jai called it. We had beautiful weather and tried to pack as many activities into the short amount of time we had.





Mana and Logan baby sat so that Tim and I could go out for dinner. It was nice to eat without the kids whinging at us, and to enjoy the uninterupted views. Tim had the trout and I had their something, something fish. I can't remember. Whatever it was it was really good, and I was completely won over by the toasted coconut salad.







Kate's Berry Farm has a lot more on it's menu these days, but was still really yummy. My favourite is the blueberry ice cream.