You saw the Before, now here's the After...

art. house. mum.

I showed you our team photo from before the Lifeline Bookfest, so it's only fair to show you our family portrait after... (obvioulsy, Matt whipped up this little one in a moment of rest and appreciation...)

And helping us to achieve these extended periods (okay, never-ending) of famial bliss are the bagful of books which we brought home... Thomas, Disney, one-offs, and the much-loved and remarkably bland Bananas in Pyjamas.

Surprisingly, the only Reader which I found was... ta da... a re-working of the book which we already have in its original format.  Now, by re-working, I mean that the book was not changed at all, barring the illustrations.

 

The words are exactly the same, and honestly I am not sure if it was worth the work of re-doing the illustrations...

But it's always good to have a spare copy of a much-loved kids' book.

There were tonnes of lovely old Annuals there and I displayed amazing selfcontrol by choosing a mere two to add to our collection... this time.  Along with two more little volumes of Uncle Aurthur's moralistic (in a good way) bedtime tales.

Guess what I'm planning on doing tonight (after I've run the kids ragged and sent them to bed early... good plan, I hear you say).  See those stunning looking shorts.  My lucky husband is destined to get a pair (perhaps with a less patterned fabric - he's excited) and I need some new shorts for bed... 
 

The other items which I was surprised to find and grateful to take home and put to use straight away were photo albums.  For 50cents each, I got two albums which will house roughly 650 of my til now homeless photos.  The upshot being that we will have much more opportunity to look at and talk about those images full of memories and faces.

My thought at the end of the day was this...

Everything which I bought home was really great (and a bargain to boot), but each item brought with it a new job for... Mum.

Happy jobs, though, and with no deadlines...

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