Millar wants to make a Hot Air Balloon, so he has written some instructions.

It took me awhile to figure out what it said but here is the translation – just in case you wish to make one yourself.

How to make a Hot Air Balloon.

Instructions:

So, we need a cup to make the basket for the hot air balloon.

Then we need a string,

Then we need a balloon.

- There you go – couldn’t be more simple – go forth and make hot air balloons.

linking up with IBOT today

Today I broke a lasagne dish

I also dropped a spoon.

I threw my kitchen tantrum for an audience of no-one,

stamping my feet for want of a spoon rest

- and a new lasagne dish.

My little annoyances happen while the world turns and bigger badder things happen to good people.

Today, I also wept

when facebook told me an old friend is dying.

She is at the end of a painful battle

One that she has lost.

It is not my story to tell,

So instead I will tell you of my tears spilt

- over a broken lasagne dish

- and a dropped spoon.

With Millar (5 days old)

With Xanthe, one year old

I’m working on a project for my mum for mothers’ day and I wanted to share my favourite photos of my mum with my children. I love these photos. So much. Even more so because we don’t see each other often. So these moments are rare and very precious.

Linking up for wordless Wednesday with Trish at My Little Drummer Boys

I was super happy to wake up to this news this morning:

Proud to be a kiwi today as New Zealand becomes the 13th country to recognise marriage equality and make it legal. I am also really looking forward to the rest of the world, especially Australia, catching on. Hurry up, I have some weddings to attend.

But it means more than that. So much more. It means that there will be no legal backing to homophobia. No double standards to back up your bigotted beliefs. This means a happier,fairer, more equal world for my children.

This law passed last night and the sky is still up there, so you see? It’s still all good.