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And so the list goes! Many would be familiar with Taco Tuesday, and a definitive Aussie culture is the Sunday Roast. My 6 year old last week coined Bunday Monday! This means on Mondays we eat buns with various fillings. Week 1 was YIAH slow cooked pulled pork with homemade coleslaw, on brioche. Week 2 was YIAH La Parissiene meat patties with salad - essentially a hamburger - on tiger buns. It's not fancy, it only classifies as healthy because it's homemade and comes with salad but the most important thing about all of it is my 6 year old son is involved in the process. He named the funny meal day after working to find a word that rhymes with Monday, he has chosen the bread rolls each week and as a result is keen to eat what's in them.  Anyone with a six year old will understand the magnitude of a new food item being added to the revolving repertoire at this age.  So If Bunday Monday means cucumber and lettuce being eaten, roll on next Monday!

A whirlwind is the only way to explain the first three weeks of school. Who can ever believe their baby has grown another year older and is now playing in the "big kids" playground or doesn't necessarily need to be walked to and from the classroom? In the past three weeks I have learnt a lot about me as a Mum too! I have learnt that homework is another layer in our already very busy lives that needs to be managed, or it just won't get done due to time constraints, and that it will cause me more stress than it will Cas, or his teacher, if it doesn't get done. I have also learnt that as Cas grows I am struggling to keep up with a varied and reasonably healthy lunchbox. From this I have learnt that you can cook fish fingers and then fridge them for lunch the next day! Read half of a blog post last night about all the kinds of Mums at the school gate. Why there is a need to label everyone I don't know. I just know that I have also learnt that real friends ca