Happytown

Chalk on concrete, dress-up box and playing with the kids from next door makes for a Happytown, apparently.

 

A day to be

Sunday in the hausfrau household is family day, and also 'no-screens Sunday'. No TV, DVDs, computers or (if we had them) those hand-held game thingos. This goes for mama, dada and both the squidgets. If we can, we also try not to do any chores or boring household business and just hang-out together.

For a mama that spends a large chunk of her life on-line running this blog, facebooking, tweeting and not to mention the yarn store it is a welcome reprieve. But I do have to work on it, the switch off that is - electronically and mentally, and just be for a day.

So last Sunday we were just 'being' at the Canberra Airport Open day for a bit - enjoying the vintage planes, the mad-bugger doing aeronautical acrobats and hanging out together...it was nice.

Ruby red

Yesterday we were quietly sitting on the front steps watching the world go by...just taking the time you know. The time to just notice - colours, shapes, wind, flowers...and that the petal on the step was almost the same colour as the railings, which was nearly the same colour as Miss Sophie's mouth after her bowl of strawberries.