Charlotte’s Web

Greetings to you during this holy and festive season. Another year has rapidly marched by for us and this letter to you is a good chance for the Lindorff family to reflect on what events took place over the course of the year. Not surprisingly, we are all a year older, especially apparent in Charlotte and Bethany. Charlotte is now 3 ½ years old and Bethany turned 2 in late October. They play well with each other (most of the time!) and now that Bethany is speaking clearly, Charlotte enjoys her company during sessions of ‘doctors and nurses’, ‘reading classes’, ‘dress-ups’, and pretend shopping. They now both enjoy a day per week at the child care centre, which they affectionately refer to as ‘Indoor Park’.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ‘SMILEY’ – BETHANY!

Our little baby has turned two on the 21st October. It seems like it was only yesterday that we were rushing to get to the hospital. Time flys. Our little princess shared her day with family and friends at Jollys Rd. I was a little apprehensive of having so many people over but everything went smoothly. I’m a bit rushty in the entertainment area. Mum and dad entertained all the time when we were younger, still do. I remember spending hours the day before and on the day helping mum cook and set up for whatever event was lined up on the family calendar and they were big parties of 40+ people.

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On the house building front, there is perhaps little more to report than last year. Whilst all of the structural components of the house were completed in 2005, we made cosmetic and functional additions to the house in 2006. With the mud-brick walls under cover of the verandah, we tidied up the walls and finish it with a light render and smoothing over – that is, until we ran out of fine rendering material.

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The entire Lindorff clan headed to the Otways for a 4 day holiday over the Labour Day long weekend. Margaret and Peter thought that they would take the whole family to a hoilday, after having received an inheritance from late Aunty Pat.

We stayed at a family retreat called Iona Cottages. There were two cottages and a large barn with accomadation and a general meals area. The placed is situated close to Johanna Beach. A very lovely place. I reckon the only place in Victoria that is still green. It has beautiful rolling hills (green!) and magnificant rainforests.

DAY ONE: We headed off on Friday afternoon and arrived there after 5pm. It took just over 2.5 hours drive from Anakie. We decided not to go along the Great Ocean Road (due to car sickness) and go straight through to Colac and down to the coast.

DAY TWO: Saturday was hot in Melbourne (reached high 30’s) but quiet pleasant in the Otways. We decided to head to the beach in the morning before it got too hot for the kids to be out. We found out that Johanna Beach is a fishing beach and not safe for swimming. Non-the-less the kids had fun playing in the sand and getting their feet wet.

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We would like to congratulate Tom and Gena on their wedding. They make a beautiful couple and we wish them happiness and love.

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This was an unexpected trip to the Melbourne Zoo. Chris’ work colleague, Greg Ogal and his family were down from Koraleigh, NSW for work and they threw in a few extra days of sightseeing. So we met up with them at the Zoo. We spent 5 hours walking around seeing the animals in their various enclosures.

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Our little princess no.2 is 12 weeks old and I can’t believe how quick it has gone by. The memories are still fresh of that day she came into this world, heading down to the hosiptal, cursing at the traffic for blocking the entrance to the hospital……

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We welcomed the New Year at Justin and Naomi’s place in Coburg. We had a lovely BBQ, with chicken and kangaroo thigh on the menu. I managed to stay up til midnight which is a struggle to do now days, especially when the alarm clock can go off anytime between 7 – 8am in the morning, calling out mummy and daddy every 5 seconds. This time the alarm clock, being Charlotte not Bethany woke me up at 6.30am. Waking up early after a late night felt like I had a serious hangover. Charlotte discovered the drums at Naomi and Justin’s place. Naomi gave her some lessons.

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Merry Christmas everyone. We hope you had a lovely Christmas filled with love, happiness and lots of food. We did the usual thing for Christmas, off to Chris’ parents place for lunch and my parent’s place for dinner . This year was a special one for our family. We had a new family member celebrate their first christmas, Bethany. Charlotte was very keen in demonstrating to her little sister how to open presents. She was very willing to give Bethany a hand in opening up hers as well.

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We attended the Whitehorse Carols by Candlelight concert at the Whitehorse Soundshell on Sunday 17th December with Peter, Margaret, Lillian, Alison and Naomi. The main reason for attending the concert which took us 1hr 20mins to get to, was to watch Naomi (Chris’ sister) singing in the choir.

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