Eve’s Daughter

Let me tell you about “fluffs”.

In our family we don’t use the word “fart”, we have decided that “fluff” is a better alternative; I dunno, but I find the word ‘fart’ coming out of a young child’s mouth to be a bit too course and uncouth, call me old fashioned if you like, but it’s just the way I feel, besides, using the word “fluff” means that Tim’s family don’t suffer from conniptions every time my boys talk about the sounds coming out from their bottoms! Anyway, I was told a story just the other day about how our use of the word “fluff” instead of “fart” has affected another family we know.

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I’m on the computer, desperately trying to type up thoughts on a story idea I’d had inspired by one of last night’s dreams, before I lose the thread and before X wakes up. As always, I only ever have a small window of opportunity. X is meant to sleep for two hours, but as soon as I count on that you can pretty much guarantee that he doesn’t! And then of course, I also use the time X is sleeping to run around the house and do all those jobs that are nigh on impossible to do while he’s awake, which doesn’t leave much time for doing extra things like typing up a story idea.

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We’ve done it! We’ve been talking about it for ages; dreaming about it. But today we made a decision!! We have decided what the next major step is for us, for our family and our walk with God. So it is not just us who decided. As a family we prayed and asked God to say “no” if this is not the direction he wanted us to head in.

Well, God did not say “no”. And so we have set the date. We will travelling around Australia, slowly. We’re not quite sure in which direction we’ll head first - there’s so many ways we could go. So far we are thinking we’ll meander our way slowly up the coast visiting some friends and relatives along the way. We’re in no hurry. We’ve said six months, but it could be more, maybe even a year!

So anyway, we are leaving on Monday 11th Feb, 2008! Whoohoo!!!

There will be more posts on this, but we are setting up our very own travel website so there’ll be more details on there. When I post here it will be more about my personal journey, rather than the family travels.

We now have our travel website up and running - The Great Adventure - and it’s really cool!

The other day I was in the kitchen washing dishes (seems to be a fairly regular occurance - just lately I’ve been feeling like I’m spending the entire day in the kitchen!) when I looked up to see B (my oldest) balanced on a small wooden stool which was balanced on top of the glory box, standing on tip toes, stretching, trying to reach the ceiling to stick up the paper balloon he had made ~ he wanted it to be a helium balloon!

Needless to say, I freaked a little! I was having Looney Tunes visions. You know, when Daffy or Buggs are balancing precariously on top of a multitude of boxes, chairs, ladders, tables, spinning tops all somehow balancing on top of each other and invariably there is an amazing crash with things going everywhere. If it’s Daffy or anyone else it’s a disaster, but if it’s Buggs, well somehow he manages to get out of it.

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