Tackling Prickly Heat

Dominique Thoughts Botanic gardens, kids outing, tackle it tuesday

Over the weekend we brought the boys to Botanic Gardens to play with their new Frisbee. It has been quite a while since we last brought them there and there have been quite a few changes to the place.

We visited the glasshouse where there was a new cactus garden. I was amazed that there were so many different cacti around and the glasshouse. Monkey boy didn’t know that it was possible for Cacti to have flowers as the pictures of cactus which he has been introduced to are mainly of those that were prickly and green.

The cactus garden at the Botanic Gardens

Besides going to the Cactus garden we also came across the another lovely greenhouse which had bonsai plants.

At the Bonsai Greenhouse

At the Bonsai Greenhouse

After about an hour in the park the heat was getting to the boys and they had a real “cool” way of beating the heat. Ya!! Place the towel on your head. Doesn’t he remind you of a Coolie worker?

Doggy Boy keeping cool in the sweltering heat

*Photos were taken with my Nokia handphone and edited with Picasa. 
I brought along my Sony Cybershot but was unable to take any shots as the camera
battery was flat!!..Grr..must remind myself to charge the batteries before we go out 
on the weekend.

November 3, 2009

TT- Tackling Papers

Dominique Thoughts decluttering, tackle it tuesday

Now that the exams are over it is time to spring clean my desk at work. It feels so good throwing away dated circulars and schedules. Filing up the loose pieces which I need to keep neatly filed up for further use or referrence. My desk is so much neater and it really looks great to have decluttered.

At home I also cleared out the boy’s study sheleve and junked all their classwork which I deemed not neccesary to keep. Nowadays I just snap pictures of their classwork to put on their blog(an this one) instead of keeping the hardcopy. Each term they come back with one huge stack of worksheets and booklets which they have made in class. At the rate they are going I would have run out of shelve space when they enter elementary school.

What have you been tackling lately?