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Sounds of Laughter

I have had the rare delight of 5 straight days at home with my Muddy Kids, just getting jobs done, and spending time together. It has been so lovely. I am still running round like a mad person trying to get through my to do lists, but every so often I stop and just enjoy being at home, soaking it up before I go back to work.
 
The best bit about it – the sounds of laughter as we play, that wicked giggle when they are being cheeky and know it, the hysterical, uncontrollable laughter as they have so much fun with each other. There is nothing in the world like that sound of laughter.
 

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A Portrait of each of my Muddy Kids, Once a week, Every Week in 2013


Muddy Organiser – At the moment there is no silence, you are constantly chattering away, asking questions, sharing information, your mouth just never stops.
Muddy Pixie – At the moment you have good days and bad days, the good days you let me do your hair, the bad days – you don’t
Muddy Puzzler – This week you turned 4, it’s hard for me to believe and you are LOVING being 4
Muddy Boy – Caught in motion, as Muddy Hubby throws you in the air

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Shiny and New

Over the weekend Muddy Hubby and I had to be on the coast, so we had two Muddy Kids with us and took some time out to take them to the beach. For me, growing up on the coast it’s not so much of a ‘wow’ thing, for Muddy Hubby and the kids though it is awesome, every, single, time! It’s like each time is the first time seeing it, stopping, just watching the sun, the sand, the waves, and the shells, my goodness the shells! It is all shiny and new.

Each time we go to the beach the Muddy Kids collect shells, hundreds of them, we go through a culling process, then a washing process, and then a mummy culling process and then we have a small collection to take back home to remember our time at the beach.

Although the beach doesn’t have the same ‘wow’ factor for me, I get such enjoyment from Muddy Hubby’s and the Muddy Kids excitement that I can’t help but get caught up in the excitement, looking at the beach through fresh eyes as if it was shiny and new.

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A Portrait of each of my kids, once a week, every week in 2013
 
Muddy Organiser – The awe that is the beach
Muddy Pixie – New glasses for the next 4 months
Muddy Puzzler – Clutching her shell collection
Muddy Boy – Look Mum, an egg
 
Linking up over at Che and Fidel for 52 – A Portrait a Week
 
 

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A portrait of each of my kids, once a week, every week in 2013


Muddy Organiser – Now on gate duty, jumping out so quickly to get the gate
Muddy Pixie – Stacking up her own fire and packing it down, just like Dad
Muddy Boy – Dirt, Dust and Old Machinery = Happy Boy
Muddy Puzzler – Glamorous in her party dress while holding a sheep skull – and showing off her new haircut.

Joining in the lovely link up over at Che and Fidel for 52 – A Portrait a Week.

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A Portrait of each of my Muddy Kids Once a Week, Every Week in 2013
 
Muddy Organiser – Thoughtful
Muddy Pixie – Determined to get over the ramp
Muddy Puzzler – In action on the last day of shearing on the wool table
Muddy Boy – Peeling potatoes, lets hope it continues!
 
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A portrait of each of my kids, every week in 2013
 
Another week in and out of the shearing shed this week.


Muddy Organiser – Checking the wool so she can tell Muddy Hubby exactly which bin she thinks the wool should go in
Muddy Pixie – I will climb onto the wool table – and she did
Muddy Puzzler – Overseeing it all, making sure the shearers do a good job
Muddy Boy – I’m having trouble managing all three brooms Mum – do you think you could give me a hand?

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July School Holidays

Around here July School Holidays mean only one thing – it’s shearing time. Every year, the first 2 weeks of July (normally coinciding with school holidays) we do our Main shearing, where we get all our ewes, lambs and rams in and shear them. We do it across 2 sheds, with 3 shearers and a team of rouseabouts – mainly family. It’s busy and exciting and exhausting. This year as the Muddy Kids are getting older they are wanting to be in the shed more, help more and learn how it all works.
 
It has been 2 weeks of juggling whose turn it is in the shed and who gets to have either the battons or the broom, and who helps in the yards and who scoops up the locks. Lots of time with Muddy Hubby, lots of negotiation, lots of team work, lots of lovely family time.
 

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A Portrait of each of my children, once a week, every week in 2013
 
Muddy Children in the Shearing Shed and the Sheep Yards for our Main Shearing.
 
Linking up with Jodi at Che and Fidel for 52 – A Portrait a Week
 
 

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A portrait of each of my kids, once a week, every week for 2013


Muddy Organiser – Hiding amongst the washing
Muddy Pixie – Waiting til it’s raining the heaviest before dashing out into the rain
Muddy Puzzler – Obviously on an important call
Muddy Boy – Overseeing things in the yards

Linking up over at Che and Fidel with Jodi for 52 – A Portrait a Week