Life under a Pepper Tree

There is something very very wrong with my hubby. I don't know why he's like that... Actually I do. He's just like his mother. A bunch of tree hugging greenies they are not! My hubby loves cutting down trees. Whole trees. Selected branches. What ever. It just needs to be cut down according to him. Why exactly does it NEED to be cut own?? Don't ask, you'll get some mumbling, shrugging of shoulders, a cheeky grin and he's off!  I'd say his preferred method of destruction is with a chainsaw. The bigger the noisier the better. It must be some kind of manly show of just who's the boss. Him. Not the poor tree!  He also doesn't mind a bit of a workout with a handsaw or bush saw.  He's also a bit partial to his parents pole saw.  My poor garden is rather bereft of trees as a result. No sooner is something planted and begins to grow does he decide it needs a 'trim'. Unfortunately his idea of a trim and my idea are vastly different. I now have

I've got an itch.... An itch to spend! It's been a few days now and I'm trying to restrain myself. It all kinda hit on Monday afternoon when I was sitting out in the backyard's sunshine with Dylan. He was playing happily and I was on the iPad. There were a couple of things I decided I had to buy. I mean I NEED them! They were practical. They were not wasteful. That's sounds okay? Yes? Good! I agree! The first item on my shopping list was some photo albums. I bought some gorgeous photo albums off a baby products website months ago when I got the first big batch of baby photos of Dylan printed off. Each of the 2 albums held 200 shots, and I filled one album completely and part of the second with just the photos up to 6 weeks of age.  I went back to that website a couple of months ago and they still had the albums, but not in the pretty blue that I already had. I kept checking back on the site every few weeks and the Blue version just wasn't available. No other web

I went back to boxing last week, and once again, come Friday morning I was aching and walking around the house like a decrepit old woman! I'm sure it must be doing me some good, but for now I just feel sore after each session. We had a bit of an exciting weekend just gone. Saturday I could just see the very edge of Dylan's first tooth on his top gums poking though. I knew they were coming as he's been particularly irritable/dribbly/spotty/ear rubbing/and chewing on almost anything during the past week or so. I could see the gums were a bit red and indentations where the teeth would be since early last week. Sunday morning I take a good look in his gob and lo and behold, the other top tooth is just poking through the gums too! So 2 teeth in 2 days! Go Dylan! Lets hope they ease their way out now without pain or issues - for Dylan or us! Yesterday was Fathers Day. My hubby got to celebrate his very first Fathers Day. And after a scrumptious breakfast, gifts, and then a de