Today is

The last day of school holidays here. It has been a reasonably relaxed time for us these holidays. No trips away or big events. Just day trips, play dates, park visits and the odd family catch up.

We started the holidays with a trip to the Show.

We patted chooks

rode the ferris wheel, saw monster trucks,

saw Mack

investigated future career options

and generally had a good day without too big a dent in the pocket.

Later in the week the regular early wake up call was rewarded with some out of season hot air balloons. I suspect the kids woke up the rest of the street too.

We've spent some time with family and are still awaiting the arrival of the new niece or nephew. We visited Healesville Sanctuary and were lucky enough to see a baby wombat being bottle fed. Mandy brushed up on her circus skills and saw the smurfs with a friend while Lucas came with me on a furniture procurement trip that involved a spot of high speed trolley riding in a blissfully empty carpark. I also squished in a kid free trip to the Wedding dress exhibition currently showing at the gallery in Bendigo.

We have also all spent some time taking turns being unwell. Although this makes for miserable small people it did mean the enforced small person rest times meant I had time to organise the stash. (With the help of the trolley riding furniture expedition)

This is the whole lot all in the one space, infinitely more accessible and now hopefully a whole lot more of it will get used. Plus being spread across the bedroom wall it is a constant reminder to shop from the stash.

Today was spent catching up on boring stuff like cleaning the stuff and locating the school shoes but we did take some time out to test out some new bikkie cutters.

Definite winners.