#1957 Monday 28 January

Today began with an unusual start .... she normally wakes around 6 am or so ..... and begins a process of wearing me down ...... "Kaylia's birthday ....... school?? ...... Bubble Bath!!"  [response] "7 o'clock"

.... but today she slept till 7:30am .... then she woke ... and popped up bright as a button "Bubble Bath!!"

By 9am, breakfast was over and it was "Drive?"  .... so we headed down to Fremantle .... then back to Garvey Park in Redcliffe.  Here she is on the playground equipment .... she's turning 15 on Wednesday but she still likes the playground.






It's now 4pm and Kaylia is on the computer ..... exploring the photo archive.  She's really good at navigating all the folders to find the images that she wants.

#1956 Saturday 26 January

Happy Amnesia Day

Fortunately Kaylia will probably never be plagued by the awareness that she loves in a stolen land.... that she lives in a culture built on lies. 

Today Kaylia's routine won!  She asked Casey if she could have a really long drive.  Seriously....  that's what Kaylia said!  So this afternoon I took on a drive for 200 kms.....    down Brookton Hwy, out to Beverly and back home.

#1955 Friday 25 January

Forgive me for the gap in blog posts!  Since I started writing poetry again, I've had two blogs to maintain.

Today something quite remarkable is going on.... in the morning trip, Casey found a bubble machine at K-Mart..... and Kaylia has been entranced by it for over three hours now.  She just stands in the stream of bubbles.... singing and flapping.  She doesn't want to eat....  she doesn't want any interruption. 

 She finally stopped after 3 and a half hours and now she's in the bath again.

#1954 Sunday 20 January

For a while now I've been puzzled by things falling off the shelf above the window facing the spa..... today I discovered the cause!   Mr and Mrs Possum have moved out of the bungalow ceiling..... and taken residence on the shelf!  The photo above is up above the window ..... looking along the shelf

#1953 Friday 18 January

Today Kaylia and Casey went to Kings Park ...... with the latest bubble making apparatus!

#1952 Tuesday 15 January

This morning Kaylia was on the computer searching through the photos..... she was looking for photos about the time we went on the cruise ship.  She reminds herself of that time regularly.... especially the room that was full of balls!   Today she found a small video of herself bouncing on the bed in the cabin on the ship....... and she watched the video over and over.

She's at the movies ..... "Mary Poppins" .... at the moment and when she gets home it will be bubble bath again!   She has two countdowns at present.... birthday and school.

#1951 Saturday 12 January

I made the mistake of reading the news this morning .... some of the news is so horrible that I had to consciously "switch channels" .... Kaylia is very good news of course!  She has come such a long way in recent time and for most of our day, she is a joy to have around.  She still has some very annoying characteristics produced by the anxiety and routine dependence ..... but overall she is an easy child to care for and she is very easy to love.


To get myself further out of the "bad news" rut, I searched for "HAPPY NEWS" ...... and an item came up about the fact that few people are aware that the world is actually getting to be a much better place.  The source is pretty reputable .....

Here are some of the ways....

.....  so there are actually many good news stories!