FIVETRIBE

You will not ever find me complaining about hot weather. Nope. Not ever. I will be the one on the lilo. Savouring every moment. Or the first one at the beach although apparently you still get robbed early as I learnt today as I came home short one camera. Cameralessness aside I am really enjoying the sweltering days and balmy nights. Not even Hooligans yo-yo viral temps (last 3 days) can dampen my mood. Although I will confess to moments of extreme concern and weariness. He definitely is on the upswing though - yay! He (Hooli) is Mr Modesty but the other night he was convinced by his sisters to join them skinny dipping. I think he may just be a convert....as Honey (9) said to him : *Dont you just feel freeeeee?* Only a couple more days until we head out on the MSC Melody for our first ever family holiday. By this I mean we are not going to be with family or friends etc - Just Us. On a cruise from CT to Walvis Bay and back. It is going to be a great experience! Any ship tips from seaso...

Welcome to my new space guys - so good to have you follow from Simply-MelB. A fresh blog (#3!) for a new year; a new season in the life of our tribe. I havent made any resolutions for the new year - I am just not wired that way. I do love the idea of a clean slate - an opportunity to start anew and revisit areas of weakness encountered in 2010. These are the kinds of thoughts rolling around my head: entertaining in my home more often putting LGN (my other blog) on ice attempt to come to terms with the fact that cooking is a necessary evil get my kids involved in the kitchen. Honey baked muffins completely independently on Sunday and it really made me realise how much help she could be. visit the library once a week with the kids read more real books plan a family holiday for late this year allocate specified times for specific online tasks including emails/research/blogging/facebook/admin/itunes and the like. learn a new skill; this could simply be taking ballroom, cooking, photograph...