The Dalai Lama and Dora the Explorer

I Bin a Princess

I left a question dangling at the end of the last post.  And now I have the answer:



What the....?



Yes. Unless you have loads of money.  Because then when your children need snow gear and warm clothes you can just go and buy it.  And you wouldn’t have to ride to work getting soaked to the bone because you probably wouldn’t need to go to work, or else you’d buy a second car!  And you wouldn’t care about paying over the average for a comfortable apartment that actually had a freezer in the kitchen and not next door in the shed!

Anyway, before we left Australia a good friend of mine sent us a card, which I’m carrying with me, that said:  “Life is like a box of chocolates….”  No it didn’t.  It said:  Life’s journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘holy crap, what a ride!’

And while we’re sharing inspirational quotes, another friend recently emailed this to me:  When the Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him most about humanity, he replied “Man sacrifices his health in order to make money, then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.  Then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present.  The result being he does not live in the present or the future, he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies never having really lived.”

Tap 3 times Dorothy!

I got Dora on!!

And on a lighter note.  I recently saw a picture of my gorgeous nephew wearing high heeled shoes with Aunty Jo asking ‘Should I be worried?’ Well here are some of our own ‘Should we be worried?’ pics!  In his defence, he doesn’t have many toys, and the ones available to him seem to all be pink and frilly!! 

It should be noted that we don't dress him up in these outfits for a laugh, he actually picks them out and dresses himself with Amelia's help.  He then proundly strutts out of the bedroom with a big smile on his face!  He insisted on wearing this Dora vest, over the top of his clothes, out in public, for about 5 days in a row.  Before i managed to sneak it away and finally put it in the wash!