James is back

August 4, 2008
by Rodney Olsen
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Our 9 year old son James, returned home from an overseas trip on the weekend.

He had traveled with Pauline’s mum to England and France. I’m not at all jealous that he got to see the final stage of this year’s Tour de France live in Paris. (Well – OK – maybe a little.)

We’ve been missing him terribly so it was wonderful to finally have him back, even if it meant being at the airport in the very early hours of yesterday morning. We finally got to bed at around 4:00 a.m.

I reckon that overseas planes purposely arrive at odd hours so that even the people who haven’t been traveling can go through the whole experience of jet lag with those who’ve been away.



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Fitting in with the kids

May 22, 2008
by Rodney Olsen
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We caught up with a few friends last night. We headed out to a local Thai restaurant.

It wasn’t a late night, probably because we all had kids at home. We needed to get home to relieve the babysitters.

I guess another reason it wasn’t a late night also had a lot to do with the children. Having kids certainly puts you into the routine of eating earlier in the evening so we had quite an early booking at the restaurant.

I remember dinners in the past that started late and went on well into the night. These days if we’re not eating by seven my tummy starts asking questions.

Children bring about all kinds of changes to our routines. Sometimes the changes are so subtle that we don’t even notice them.

Are there things you do differently now because you have children? Are there any routines you started when your children were young that have just stuck ever since? Are there routines that are still in place even thought your children have outgrown the reason those routines were put int place?



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Ice Cream Therapy

March 10, 2008
by Rodney Olsen
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ice_cream_cone.gifHow was your weekend? It was a rather relaxing weekend for our family.

We took advantage of Perth’s beautiful weather yesterday afternoon to take a drive into the Swan Valley for ice cream at Oggies. Very nice.

I’m a bit predictable when it comes to choosing flavours. If an ice cream shop is offering macadamia ice cream that’s what I’ll usually end up buying.

It was a very relaxing way to spend some of the day. It’s amazing how much stress is released through the simple act of eating an ice cream cone.

I think that eating ice cream cones should be a recognised therapy and that we should get a rebate from our health insurance company every time we buy one.



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