Interview with a 5.7 year old

Interviewed Dom a la Chaletgirl

Here are his answers:

1. What is something mum always says to you?
I love you

2. What makes mum happy?
Us being good

3. What makes mum sad?
Not listening to her

4. How does your mum make you laugh?
Making funny faces

5. What did your mum like to do as a child?
Play rugby (?!)

6. How old is your mum?
41 (I like!)

7. How tall is your mum?
Tall (I also like as I'm 5'1"!!)

8. What is her favourite thing to watch on TV?
her programs                        

9. What does your mum do when you’re not around?
She goes shopping                                                                 

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Painting    (?!)                                                                                             

11. What is your mum really good at?
Loving people

12. What is your mum not very good at?
Playing rugby

13. What does your mum do for her job?
Look after people

14. What is your mum’s favorite food?
Carbonara ( actually that's HIS favourite food!)

15. What makes you proud of your mum?
Taking me to Sofia (where said carbonara comes from!)

16. If your mum were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Gwen Tennyson                               

17. What do you and your mum do together?
We go shopping

18. How are you and your mum the same?
We have the same eye colour

19. How are you and your mum different?
Were taller than each other and Mum has boobs                                                

20. How do you know your mum loves you?
Because she says"I Love you"

21. What does your mum like most about your dad?
They're nearly the same age (He'll be gutted over that!)

22. Where is your mum’s favourite place to go?

Home (Ah, nice...! I quite like Paris too)

Tree hugger

So much for not starting anything else 'til I've finished the blue and red quilt I started almost 2 years ago! Here it lies, downtrodden and rejected, once again.

Moving swiftly onward!!! (she says brightly, trying to ignore the unsightly pile of fabric beside her!)

I was going to make a quilt for the Silent Auction at the French Fete that is the big fundraiser at Dom's school, and started it. I then fell a little bit in love with it and had thought of keeping it all to myself...as a wall hanging. My husband's reaction was less than complimentary to it's awesome-ness.

Picture, if you will the following short but succinct conversation...

" You're not going to put that bloody thing on the wall are you?!"
" Yes, I am! If I can put up with your bloody golf trophy for a year in the family room, then you can put up with my work of textile artistry!"

or words to that effect, anyway. You get my drift!

One of the other school mum's put it in my head to personalize it to the class, a la the kinder quilts, so I had a think and came up with this...

I'll keep posting photos of the progress made.

Kids are starving. Better go

WIP it!

I have been working on this quilt for a good 18 months or so now.

 It is similar to the first quilt I completed, for Dom's kinder rest time, but this one is bigger. Still that same Crazy Quilt, improvised placement thing going on though. It uses beautiful Prints Charming fabric and hand-printed linen panels - and Velvet to add extra texture.

I must have been crazy to include the Velvet, which is absolutely heinous to sew and fraught with slip danger unless you use 1000 pins!

I just want to finish the ruddy thing now. I'm not starting another 'til I do!!!

Have also been working on Beehive and Around the World blocks...

These for Rebecca, who is making a quilt for her Mother in law.

These for three of the Around the World Quilting Bee girls.

I seem to have gotten the sewing mojo back after a bit of a sabbatical where it was really hard to get motivated -around the time christmas came and my machine decided it didn't like me for a while!

I played tennis this morning in 30 degree heat. Sheer madness!!!
Charlie and I are going to Mums and Tots lessons at a local club. It's great! We both had a blast despite the heat, but it has finally hit home that I REALLY need to get myself on a treadmill, like, yesterday!!! I actually surprised myself with how well I could hit the ball, albeit inconsistently, but need to seriously work on fitness if I ever want to be able to move around the court effectively.

I'm having a lovely time here faffing about on the computer - Charlie is upstairs with Jarrah, the lovely Spanish tutor, learning Spanish, funnily enough!

I'm taking the kids to the pool after school pick up. Only place to be when it's 34 degrees in Melbourne city!

kinder kid

it's a week of firsts

first day of kinder for my baby boy

he knows the place like the back of his hand, so no dramas

got the big running hug at pick up though

loved it

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's off to school we go...

The Bomb has hit Camberwell Primary.

He even looks like he is listening to the teacher! 

An exciting week for the little men.

Summer holidays

It's nearly over - only one more week before I officially have 1 at school and 1 at kinder. We've made the most of our holidays - I've even got a bit of sewing done but only in the last few days as it was all about the littlies!!

Pre- Christmas we did lots of beaching and took a trip to Ballarat to get the Mustang renovated. Sovereign Hill, a historic gold rush town that has been re-created, complete with settlers in costume is in Ballarat, so we took the kids. We all had a great time! I thought it might be a bit old for them but they were well into it all, chatting to the old ladies in the cottages, having photos with the soldiers and panning for gold with all the proper tourists!

With Christmas and the present deluge over, we went camping on Boxing day to Wilson's Promontory. We went in the ballot back in June and luckily got allocated a spot for a week. Good times! Swimming, sand sculpting, playing games, not TV for a week (apart from when it got too hot one day and Mummy got so flustered that her very cool in a hot situation husband had to take her for a ride in the car with the air conditioning turned on full blast and feed her ice cream - the kids got to watch a DVD in the car)

Came back a day early on New Years Day - my birthday! I got a gorgeous Candy Apple Red KitchenAid mixer. Love at first sight!! So shiny that I waited 3 weeks to dirty her. Christened with a batch of Chocolate Afghans. They were inhaled hurriedly!

Two weeks of more beaching, Museum visits (Scienceworks was a huge hit, as usual) mooching with mates, etc.

Now we're down in the Mornington Peninsula at Balnarring Beach for  2 weeks in a beach house we've rented.

Time has flown by. Soon it will be all about uniforms and packing lunchboxes.

I have to exercise more, eat less and get more sewing done!

(No photos till later as the connection here is slow and it takes forever to upload)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Hope you all have a fantastic day!! XX