Music to my ears...

Our week started out well with the discovery of a handy new technique to help speed up the kids clothes hanging time.

There were no tears and less complaints this time round.  Josh figured out quickly it was best to specialise in socks and undies, leaving the harder clothes to hang for big sister Eddie.  She doesn't seem to know or care, she even managed a smile.

Luckily, for the kids, the weather turned to custard after Monday and it rained on and off

for the rest of the week.  That was the end of clothes hanging.  Apart from Monday, we spent the rest of the week indoors, which ment more than usual amounts of X-box gaming and TV watching.  A week indoors with the kids is enough to drive me a lil crazy but thanks to the wonderful accomodation Kalgoorlie Hospital provided us with there was enough space for us to keep out of eachothers hair, most of the time anyway. 

Before the weather turned bad we managed to get some bird watching in at Hammonds Park.  Josh has always had a weird phobia of birds (especially Seaguls and chickens..?).  Even though the birds were behind cages he was still jumpy every time they squawked or made sudden movements.

I don't blame him for being particularly scared of the Emu's, they are kind of creepy.  They like to come right up to the fence and stare at you.  Josh was terrified they were going to peck at or bite me and kept pulling me by the hand to get the heck out of there.

This is our beautiful Hammonds Park where we often come, the kids play and I relax.

Beautiful Australian gum trees.  Australia Day is coming up this month and in the supermarkets they have loads of Australian stuff on sale in anticipation for Australia Day.  I asked Eden if she wanted to buy some small Australian flags so we could celebrate Australia Day and she replied with an emphatic, "No!  Mum, we don't go for Australia".  She was dead serious.  Don't forget your roots my friend.

As you all know, the Wharemate's are karaoke die hards, and good on them too.  What is life without a bit of music for the soul.  That being said, Erin got down to business this week setting up a small home recording studio / karaoke room in his office for us and it's been a big hit, especially with Eddie.  Normally she loves to rock out a few Taylor Swift tunes but seeing as it was Sunday today she rocked primary songs.

Eden has always loved singing, but she's always put herself down as not being any good.  I guess, if you compare yourself to Taylor Swift all the time... The more I tried to inspire self-confidence and belief in her by telling her I thought she was a wonderful singer, the more she insisted that she was bad at singing.  It made me sad to think she didn't believe in herself and that I couldn't do anything to change it.  I guess sometimes people telling you something isn't good enough and you have to truly believe something for yourself to accept that it's true.

Eddie listened anxiously to the playback recording.  She was really pleased with what she heard, (which wasn't any different to what she usually sounds like..?)  Anyway, the breakthrough moment was when she said, "I'm actually quite good, aren't I".  It's not important to me weather Eddie can sing or not but to hear her say those words and believe them was music to my ears.

Erin, Leonie, Eddie and Josh. x

(working on the video editing...)