Rebecca

A teacher, married to my childhood sweetheart, with four beautiful children. Living in a strawbale home that we built ourselves. Dabbling in writing, crochet, sewing and knitting. Lover of dogs, cows and birds.

Homecoming

Homecoming

I am behind in my posts for two reasons: 1) I had a baby last week; 2) Monte is always using the computer that I want to use. I’ll just take advantage of a moment when Monte is making lunch to write this post. Georgia and Matty are on the computer next to me and […]

Elora Jane Yvonne

Elora Jane Yvonne

Elora, 5 days old Welcome to the world, little Elora Jane Yvonne, born October 4th, 2010 at 6:10pm. Weight = 7lb 14oz or 3575g. Length = 51cm. HC =  32.5cm The name “Elora” is a form of Eleanor. It is of Greek origin and means “Sunlight” and Elora is our “Little Ray of Sunshine.” Her […]

Snow

Snow

On Wednesday we drove into Hobart for our last clinic appointment before our baby is born. We got to drive through the snow. It was very pretty! It was nice and warm in the car and I took lots of photos. The roads were clear and the driving conditions were okay, but we went a […]

Grand Final Day #1 2010

Grand Final Day #1 2010

We had a fun Grand Final Day at our great friends’ house, Ben and Jill. No comment will be made in this post about the actual footy game that the nation witnessed today. We are yet to decide if we will be celebrating another Grand Final Day next weekend… Two Ben10 fans, Hurricane Harry and […]

10 days to go

10 days to go

Ahhhh… the final days of this pregnancy are here. And I will admit that I am counting down, now that we have a date. The induction date is booked for 37+ weeks. I am being induced because of my antibodies; once the baby is mature it can be delivered and thus avoid potential problems due […]

Mizouri

Mizouri

When I was little I had a gorgeous chimpanzee puppet, which I named Mizouri after the chimpanzee that was born in the Melbourne Zoo at the time. I adored him. I am still unpacking boxes after moving into this house over 6 months ago. When I found Mizouri at the bottom of a box that […]

The park

The park

On an almost-warm sunny day in the beginning of spring, this little family went to the playground. And it is worth blogging about because we had fun. We had a picnic lunch by the Huon River Georgia was pretty in pink (as per usual) Sister and brother ran around in the playground together Mum sat […]

Twelve months ago...

Twelve months ago…

I have been flicking through our photo library, which is quite extensive, with nearly 29,000 photos. On this day last year, we were holidaying in Orford. We went to the beach… We got locked out of our holiday house… We made daisy chains on a picnic… We baked muffins… And we did some scrapbooking… That […]