<p style="text-align: center;font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">despite the fact that my mothers favourite saying was: &quot;Life&#39;s not fair&quot;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; ">Lacrosse</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 13px; ">
<a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134803de0d3970c-popup" onclick="window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false" style="display: inline; "><img alt="IMG_6022-Edit" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20134803de0d3970c selected " src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134803de0d3970c-500pi" style="margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 2px; " title="IMG_6022-Edit" /></a> <br />She loves it...</span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 13px; ">Not sure if it is the sport she loves,</span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 13px; ">or the fact that her friends do it too.&#0160;</span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">And because she got 10 kisses tonight</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">instead of the 8 her sister got.</span></p><p><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 15px; "><br /></span></font></p>

<p style="text-align: left;">Today she says:</p><p style="text-align: center;">&quot;Boys are Boys and Girls are Girls&quot;</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">as we are walking home from school..... So what&#39;s the difference I asked?..... I didn&#39;t really get an answer. Just some mumbo jumbo about soccer and ballet.</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">Then later we headed out to pick up her sister</p><p style="text-align: center;">As per usual she had ditched the school shoes</p><p style="text-align: center;">in favour of her boots</p><p style="text-align: center;">She refused to have her photo taken of course:</p><p style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133ed0d0c2d970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_5982-Edit" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133ed0d0c2d970b " src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133ed0d0c2d970b-500wi" /></a> <br />So of course I didn&#39;t take it!</p><p style="text-align: center;">I guess you can tell that the boots are new...</p><p style="text-align: center;">She&#39;s only had them about 2 weeks.....</p><p style="text-align: center;">We got them the day her Grandma passed away.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They are her first ever pair of boots.</p><p style="text-align: center;">She&#39;d been begging since she first saw a pink pair in the shop last July.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I kept asking her where she would ever wear boots....in Darwin.</p><p style="text-align: center;">So we waited ....</p><p style="text-align: center;">and waited....</p><p style="text-align: center;">and waited</p><p style="text-align: center;">I can&#39;t tell you how many times I put it off...</p><p style="text-align: center;">So now we have boots</p><p style="text-align: center;">pink ones</p><p style="text-align: center;">from Pumpkin Patch</p><p style="text-align: center;">and I swear she&#39;d wear them to bed if she could!</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#0160;</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p>

<p style="text-align: center;">&quot; In Antarctica it&#39;s windy so your hair blows ......</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#0160;&#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; like my hair is blowing now&quot;</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">Don&#39;t you just love 8 year old wisdom</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not quite sure where she learnt that fact.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It was supposed to prove that we were not in Antarctica.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Ironically it indicated the opposite.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Yes today (and yesterday too)</p><p style="text-align: center;">I could have sworn</p><p style="text-align: center;">that I had moved to Antarctica</p><p style="text-align: center;">I&#39;ll admit that it wasn&#39;t as cold as that time in England</p><p style="text-align: center;">when it was supposedly too cold to snow</p><p style="text-align: center;">and I got laughted at for wearing to Jackets</p><p style="text-align: center;">Nope today I only had a jumper two gloves and a scarf...</p><p style="text-align: center;">but I still had to wonder....</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">So one from a few weeks back, with appropriate attire for 5pm........
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<p style="text-align: center;">in these old days......<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e201348013a881970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_3651" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e201348013a881970c " src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e201348013a881970c-500wi" /></a> <br />what the whole point of it was....&#0160;<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">but yet it seems maybe..</p><p style="text-align: center;">just maybe....</p><p style="text-align: center;">there was a point...</p><p style="text-align: center;">when today we returned to those old days</p><p style="text-align: center;">frontsaults</p><p style="text-align: center;">backbends</p><p style="text-align: center;">straight into the pool</p><p style="text-align: center;">the beam looks a little different</p><p style="text-align: center;">its blue and bounces.....</p><p style="text-align: center;">what fun it was to watch</p><p style="text-align: center;">the upside:</p><p style="text-align: center;">the lighting</p><p style="text-align: center;">(have to say the lighting in that photo is probably the worse you will ever encounter</p><p style="text-align: center;">dark gym - oh wait it&#39;s a shed pretending to be a gym with horrible halogen like lights mostly turned off.)</p><p style="text-align: center;">and of course following every gym session:</p><p style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e201348013b0e2970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_3180" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e201348013b0e2970c " src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e201348013b0e2970c-500wi" /></a> <br />dinner on the run........</p><p style="text-align: center;">Yes it was a definite return to the good old days...</p><p style="text-align: center;">only without photos to show for it</p><p style="text-align: center;">and so begins the new Friday night routine.....</p><p style="text-align: center;">Swimming and Diving</p><p style="text-align: center;">followed by peak hour traffic (that&#39;s new)</p><p style="text-align: center;">and dinner on the run.&#0160;<br /></p>

<p style="text-align: center;">So today we were walking home from school...</p><p style="text-align: center;">Miss E says:</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#0160;&quot;Today Ms W... said we could go to lunch if we had blue eyes.....</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#0160;Miss F...... said my eyes were green</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#0160;so I went and told Ms W... that my eyes were only green because I had this top on</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#0160;(she pulls at her t-shirt)....&#0160;</p><p style="text-align: center;">when I put a pink top on my eyes are blue!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134800c6024970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_0755-Edit" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20134800c6024970c " src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134800c6024970c-500wi" /></a>&#0160;</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133ecdc7337970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_5575web" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20133ecdc7337970b " src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20133ecdc7337970b-500wi" /></a>&#0160;</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not a lot of photos of pink t-shirts looking at the camera.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">So an oldish one</p><p style="text-align: center;">at the park</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134800c8de4970c-popup" onclick="window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IMG_0204-Edit" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e20134800c8de4970c " src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e20134800c8de4970c-500pi" style="border-top-width: 2px; border-right-width: 2px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: #e6e6e6; border-right-color: #e6e6e6; border-bottom-color: #e6e6e6; border-left-color: #e6e6e6; " title="IMG_0204-Edit" /></a> <br />And her sister trying to show her 11 year old wisdom</p><p style="text-align: center;">Tells me she remembers what the p stands for....</p><p style="text-align: center;">prodenant</p><p style="text-align: center;">nope thats not it</p><p style="text-align: center;">proderant</p><p style="text-align: center;">nope</p><p style="text-align: center;">oh hang on..</p><p style="text-align: center;">prepararant</p><p style="text-align: center;">nope</p><p style="text-align: center;">prespartarian</p><p style="text-align: center;">I say</p><p style="text-align: center;">Presbyterian</p><p style="text-align: center;">Yes thats it.</p><p style="text-align: center;">- on the way home from Lacrosse -</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#0160;</p><p></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;">I am so not very good at this so I figured I&#39;d try again....</p><p style="text-align: center;">in this terribly sad week...&#0160;</p><p style="text-align: center;">I took the camera to school this morning and noticed it really was autumn....<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">I don&#39;t remember seeing falling leaves before....</p><p style="text-align: center;">perhaps it was</p><p style="text-align: center;">just that there weren&#39;t any.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">So this is not really a falling leaf....</p><p style="text-align: center;">it was instead suspended in mid air.....</p><p style="text-align: center;">saved from the ground by a spider.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e201347ffce9ee970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Falling leaves" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834ec580769e201347ffce9ee970c " src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834ec580769e201347ffce9ee970c-500wi" /></a>&#0160;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br />&#0160;<br /></p>