"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013."
Melody: Back-to-school haircut. Just a few more days now before this girl is a first-grader!
Maddison: Bed-hair and pony-mania. I seriously don't know how we have amassed so many plastic ponies, most as gifts, but they are everywhere I look. She loves them so much I can't bring myself to go on one of my anti-plastic toy tirades... The ponies are here to stay.
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We are hunkered down here at The Byron Life HQ as the big wet hits. Ex-cyclone Oswald has thrashed North Queensland with six tornadoes so far and the low has headed our way. In the space of a few days the weather has transformed from the driest, hottest summer we've had for many years into the non-stop cyclonic rains and heavy winds typical of the season.Ah, the tropics. Always intense.
Looks like we will be indoors for the next few days at least, so I'm planning on keeping the girls busy with a lot of crafting and baking. Melli received some terrific crafty kits as presents for her birthday in the new year and they are being put to good use now. Yesterday the little ones painted "sun-catchers" (wishful thinking?) and today we will road-test another gift - cute bug-shaped silicon baking molds.
I am looking forward to school returning. There, I've said it! As much as I love that we have had a long summer holiday together, I think we are all going a tad stir-crazy in this little house and needing to get back to a routine of sorts. This rain is not helping with the stir-crazies...
Hope you're safe and dry and not going stir-crazy wherever you are!
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Megan
P.S You still have time to enter the draw to win one of two Byron Farmers Market Recipe Collection books here. Winner announced on Wednesday.
Joining the "52" project via Che and Fidel
Click here to see all my "52" portraits to date.
Oswald has left us alone now - leaving behind big patches of sticking mud, piles of washing and that horrible smell that the chicken pen gets in the wet. Also being nicely steamed here today as the sun shows it's face.
ReplyDeleteHope the rain doesn't cause any damage to you!
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So far, so good for us, but it's crazy wild outside. Glad it's left you now.
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It's been crazy weather hasn't it, the rain and wind not letting up much at all. Keep safe we're staying indoors too, a nice relaxing way to end the school holidays I think. I hope your big girl enjoys Grade one she must be getting very excited now. x
ReplyDeleteBoth girls are currently running around having pony races and neighing like wild animals... Not so relaxing!!
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So so cute and growing so much..xx
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds like incredible weather. This country of ours is so diverse!
ReplyDeleteGotta love a school haircut.
ReplyDeleteI hope you all make it through that awful weather, Megan.
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Thanks Bron x
DeleteWe too, have a plethora of plastic ponies! xx
ReplyDeleteoh, that haircut pic is reminding me of the fact that I should probably get my little's haircut too...it's just that I've been putting it off because it'll be her first and i thought i wasn't that sentimental about it, but turns out i am!
ReplyDeleteI felt the same way with all three girls. My littlest had her very first cut the day after this photo was taken - cut by me! Have saved a ringlet :)
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Love your photos, Megan. Those ponies have become a classic, like Barbie. Keep them all and sell some as vintage in about 30 years:) Enjoy the last day of school holidays and send some of that rain down our way - we've had some but so minimal. Stay dry! x
ReplyDeleteWish I could send you the rain! It's excessive right now.
DeleteMy inner- hoarder likes your "vintage pony" idea... But can I live with them for 30 years? Doubt it!
Isn't the rain and wind awful?! Never ending. Loving your weekly portraits by the way.
ReplyDeletesuch sweet photos! natalie has a few (i guess i would call them.. annoying?) toys that i keep wanting to give away but just can't bring myself to do it. i always thought i could inspire, even control, her toy interests but it seems we have opposing tastes ;)
ReplyDeletejust beautiful.
ReplyDeletefound you through che and fidel. happy to be following!
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I've never bought my daughter a my little pony either however I have also amassed several AND a DVD of the cartoon. Argghhh! At least she's not asking for a real one (yet)...
ReplyDeleteI love your photos and the 52 project.