Keepsake moments

Today I asked the girls what they wanted to do with Andie and I threw out a few ideas. I honestly didn't think they would want to do anything other than swim. Must have been my lucky day cos they chose, Kennedy Park and A.C.'s icee's followed by dinner at an absolute dive called Scotty's Landing, a fave of ours because of it's atmosphere and location.

We headed out and within moments both girls were fast asleep in the car. (They were exhausted from yesterday and I will post about it soon. Let's just say it was an insane day filled with many hilarious moments.)

First we headed to the park and once we had explored E.V.E.R.Y.S.I.N.G.L.E inch of it, stopped for an Icee.








Anybody know what sort of bug this is?





Then we headed into the Grove proper for a walk around before heading back to Scotty's for dinner.








We walked past here on our way to dinner

All of the parking spaces outside are marked for various staff members from Mayor to the commissioners but my absolute favourite is this one

I can't help thinking, what with this being Miami and all, that this space must always be vacant ~ snort.

And finally I will leave you with a Public Service Announcement.

If you DON'T wear sunscreen and you insist on soaking up the sun you will end up looking like this.

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Such a fabulous day. We are all in denial about Andie leaving tomorrow. But I have lots of posts to do that include her and the trouble we managed to get in to.

Mothers Day breakfast

Rosie has been trying really hard not to tell me all about her special Mothers day breakfast that she was rehearsing for at school. She tried so hard not to sing her special little song in front of me and just kept saying, "it's a prise (surprise)". Yesterday I got to see for myself everything that she and her classmates have been working so hard on.

It was incredible. That Ms. Maria has raised the bar yet again and I am not sure that any other teacher will even come close to being like her. sigh.

First all the children gathered together and sang a song for us. I was so choked up that I couldn't see to turn on my video.

Now of course with Ro being Ro when the volume in the classroom increased so did her anxiety and as Ms Maria was reading out a little question and answer session that she had given to all the kids about their mummy's, Rosie looked like this.

Miss Maria asked them all the same questions and didn't change a word of their answers. We had to guess what answers were ours. These are Rosies.

I think my Mummy looks pretty when: She goes to birthday parties.
My Mummy's favourite thing to do is: I don't know.
I love my Mummy because: She never stops loving me.
That last answer made me cry. I think I was the only one who got teary eyed but this should surprise no one.

Then we were all handed lots of wonderful hand made gifts and card. I am saving mine for Sunday.

All proudly telling us about their Mummies

Enjoying a beautiful breakfast
Now there is that smile I love.
"friend" and Rosie

Everyday is Mothers Day to me, really it is. I love these girls all the way to the big blue sky, across to Grandpa's, over to China, up the Great Wall, back again and then some.

Happy Birthday Anlei

Sometimes I wonder if it really is possible to have as much fun in one day as we have. My life is fun and filled with the love and laughter of 2 little girls and lots of great people.

Today we got to celebrate Anlei's 9th birthday with all of her family and ours too. Even Andie was with us and got to witness the madness that is 5 girls.

There was pool fun

We were all in there and having a ball
There were secrets to be shared
There was cake
and of course their was the birthday girl blowing out her candles.

And after all that fun and tonnes of great food, prepared by Grace, there was the need for relaxing and just being together. Everyone else had left and it was just us and Hollis' family. We could have stayed for a lot longer but it is a school night, schucks.

Old Blogs

For a very long time I have been meaning to close my old blogs. All the old posts are now incorporated into this one so all the Eggrolls history is in one place.

I don't care who reads them I just think it is silly to have 3 blogs when this one has everything in one place. So feel free to delve in to the archives here, it's all the same stuff.

So now I have just this one and I hope I haven't offended or shut anyone out.

I love weddings

I have always loved the pomp and ceremony that is England. England just knows how to do things in a classic and elegant manner.

Today was the royal wedding (in case you have been under a rock) and lots of people have been complaining about how much media coverage there has been over here and how sick they are of the whole affair but I am yet to meet someone who didn't watch it. I woke up shortly after 5.am and was joined about an hour later by Lily who was mesmerised.*

The bride looked simply elegant. A true Princess. Her groom is as handsome as his mother was beautiful.

Queen Elizabeth even saved her very best outfit for today and looked lovely.


All in all it was a fairy tale day but I have just one little question. What the heck were Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie wearing? My Fathers wife said it best when she said they looked like 2 fat old pantomime dames. Good heavens, they are a train wreck.


*This is what kept Lily so mesmerised for so long!

I do believe it was Prince Andrew in drag, wearing African art as a headpiece.

God save the Queen.

Spring cleaning my brain

• So many things are going around in my head that I have decided to have a little cleansing session.
• Rosie is going to attend Lily's school next school year. They have so many kidlets apply that they have to draw a lottery. Lucky for her and us, her number was picked.
• She is really excited about the idea of going to Lily's school.
• Lily's school is a uniform school. It's quite a liberal uniform and there appear to be no ramifications whatsoever if you don't wear it particularly if you are the child of a teacher.
• Lily has 5 teachers kidlets in her class and every single one of them is picked first to be student of the month. It's been this way since kindergarten. Lily and her friend S are on to it and now believe the student of the month award to be a total crock. That's my smart little Schnoog for ya.
• This is not meant to be a post to bash teachers but since I am here, why move on. I am not going to get a tattoo, not ever. That doesn't mean I don't think you should get one, your body your choice. I do however think that if you have a tattoo you should probably keep it covered up whilst at work. 2 of the female teachers in Lily's grade have them and they don't hide them. They would probably be hidden if the women dressed like professionals and not like hoochie mama's. If you are going to school why are you wearing cheap rubber flip flops and a spaghetti strap sundress. If male teachers wore the equivalent they would be sent home.
• Teacher bashing done! Sorry to all my friends who are teachers but you know these comments are NOT directed towards you. For the record, Lily's home teacher always looks great and is an awesome teacher.
• I forgot just how much I love re-finishing furniture. Forgot that is, until this past weekend when I dragged out my handy sander and got my groove on. Something about staining and sanding that I love. I think if I ever quit doing massage I will open up my own place. I have blisters on my fingers and am a hot sticky sawdusty mess and I even love that too. I will post before and afters when I am done. ( of the furniture not me)
• Cousin Andie is coming to stay. The girls are freaking nuts about this.
• I am freaky happy too.
• Here in Miami we have always had lots of homeless people. There is also an organisation of homeless people that stand at all the major intersections and hold out their begging bowls. I call them tolls. If you want to get through the intersection you have to pay a toll. For the first little while this was fine but now they are E.V.E.R.Y.W.H.E.R.E. I would be homeless myself if I paid each and every one of them. What is very sad to see, or I think it is, are the men in shirts and ties carrying signs that say, "lost my job, "X" amount of kids, need rent money". I cannot imagine a Father going into the streets to beg for money for his family. One man sells candy bars. Jacob likes the guys that sell stuff instead of begging. Why don't people prepare for a rainy day anymore? .
• Hating people is not nice. How can you hate a group of people based on their beliefs, with the exceptions of psychopaths etc. Tolerance and broadening ones mind goes along way. Educate yourselves. (but not by a teacher who dresses like a hoochie Mama)
• Phew, glad I go that off of my chest. My brain was about to explode. maybe that is why I had a 6 day migraine last week that resulted in a fever blister the size of Saturn. Kind of makes me look like a hoochie mama....might just as well get a big old hickey to go along with it.
• Oops, I nearly forgot, Rosie will no longer wear matching socks. One set of Little Mis-Match socks and she was smitten. Every single day she unfolds 2 pairs of socks and wears one of each. In Rosie's crazy 4 yr old brain, sock monogamy is a thing of the past. Here is today's selection for school. I helped a little as the ones she chose were so wacky that it sent my OCD into overdrive, at least this un-pair sort of goes together.( my sister will be so proud, she doesn't believe in sock monogamy either)

Alrighty then, that about does it.

Candy reigns supreme

The girls woke up this morning and were thrilled to see that the Easter Bunny had hopped by. He left them a little basket each, filled with goodies and bits and bobs.




The Bunny also hid lots of eggs all around the house in the most peculiar of places, some were filled with pennies, others with a piece of candy. He left one golden egg and that had a $1 in it. Rosie found that one and was super happy.




Our traditional Easter morning was cancelled this year which truly put a damper on things but we recovered, fast. Life has been extremely hectic lately so a quiet afternoon, with just the 4 of us, was a much needed treat.

Hope your Easter was peaceful, it seems fitting.