Practice, Perseverence, Pandemonium

A standard morning at our house starts with everyone being dressed and packed by 6:30am. We have breakfast and devotions together (as Daddy does not always make it home for dinner). We brush teeth, comb hair and then it is 7am ... practice time.

A little fine scheduling is required to fit in trumpet, flute, guiter, drums and 3 lots of piano within and hour and twenty minutes. While we do have doors, they are definitely not sound proof. Visitors oscillate between finding it overwhelming and funny...

Learning to Practice = Learning Perseverence ... "two steps forward, one step back"

Our family verse is Philippians 2:14-15
"Do everything without complaining and arguing, that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe."

Our favourite time is family band ... where we all play together, one day we will post a video of that!

I'm such a bad mother!

It was a scorcher of a weekend with temperatures going well above 40°C.

We enjoyed a swim on Saturday morning. Regretting the decision to not buy the cow, we stopped at the shop to pick up our 12 litres of milk (that lasts half a week). The volunteers to duck into the 'AIR CONDITIONED' shop were numerous... and well practiced in the art of spotting specials of more than $1 off.

The hot mother, in her weakened state, bought two packs of four Cornettos... apparently 'saving' $4! Let's do the math, 8 Cornettos, 7 in the family... oh, well, the baby gets one too!

Pre-School Pandemonium

Calvin got a lift with dad to pre-school today.

He knows when it's time to go because Sesame Street is finishing up. If we get late, dad gets told "Come on Dad, hurry up, we have to get to preschool you know"

This morning we got there on time, and we started painting. We painted a tropical scene with anatomically correct colours for the coconut palm (green), beach (yellow), sea (blue), seagulls (white with contaminants), but when it came to the coconuts themselves, when asked what colour, the confident kid answered "RED!" and proceeded to paint red coconuts on the tree... oh, well...

Then cousin Talia turned up for her first real day at pre-school. Poor baby, not even the presence of big cousin Calvin and Uncle Ben could completely restore her confidence.

You can read about her experiences here:
http://the-ku-family.blogspot.com/2009/02/pre-school-part-1.html

Calvin said at the end of the day "I looked after Talia. Then Dylan (her cousin from the other side of the family) came and he looked after her too. Then she was OK." I don't doubt the veracity of the report, but there seems to be some discrepancy with Talia's report...