i'll show you mine if you show me yours

I'm far too distracted about all the crazy uncertainty in our lives right now to even want to write about it. I'm hoping that soon I'll have something actually concrete to say.

So, in the meantime, let's talk about fridges. I don't know about you, but I love looking at what other people have on their fridge. Whenever I'm at a friend's house for the first time, I find that I am drawn to their fridge and I love poring over it, looking at their photos, their cartoons, their sayings, whatever it is they have up. It's like a window into their family life, a little voyeuristic, like hearing snippets of a diary. There are usually baby photos, which are like signposts of joy. I think the coolest fridge I've ever encountered belonged to my marvelously talented and creative artist friend, Eleanor - I remember there were childhood photos of herself, little sketches, snippets from the paper, photos and art of little Edith - it was fabulous!

So anyway, here is a recent photo of my fridge. If you click on it, you should be able to see the details...


:: my brother Kaje and sister-in-law Clel, all suntanned in the Australian Outback
:: Michael and Kieran and Michael's new tattoo at Elk Falls
:: tiles of the kids' names from the Filberg Festival
:: Kieran and Liam in dress-up at Kieran's birthday party last year
:: Michael's Dad and Stepmom at Robbie Burn's Night
:: baby Lily's birth announcement
:: with Karina, Kevin and Jenna at the Walk for Heart
:: Curious George, Michael's favorite from his childhood
:: Nana and Grandpa, a few weeks before she died
:: me and my baby brother, circa 1974
:: baby Danika hoping to share baby Lily's title as World's Cutest Baby
:: me and my honey in our boots in NZ, 1997
:: Casia looking like a gorgeous teenager already
:: a view from the top of the hike from the cabin weekend, with a quote that Kerry and I share from Great Big Sea: just keep your faith, and your ship will come in....
:: While there's tea, there's hope - also from Kerry, and no truer words!
:: Cow's milk is for baby cows, stolen from my Mum's fridge
:: What that woman couldn't do with tofu! - a lovely homage from dear Kara
:: and all the cute clips from Goats on the Roof!

Hmmm... where is all the kid's art, you might ask? We did keep lots of art on the fridge too until after Christmas, when I made the Kid's Wall of Art in the dining room for displaying all the masterpieces, so maybe another time I'll take a photo of that too :)

What's on your fridge? I don't know how to tag yet, so if you read this and have a blog, why not do the same, just for fun! God knows I need the diversion .


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Tagged: sheriagogo

Added for Kaje and Clel:

This is cool to see the same kids on fridges on opposite sides of the world - aren't cousins great? (but really dudes, get your own blog going so we can get all the weekly updates of Lily Mia!!!):


Top, L-R: Baby Clel in frame, baby Lil 12 wks in a warm dark place (shh, sleeping!), preggie Clel, world famous Lily card, Clel meditating the serenity in SW Western OZ (our trip), Kieran a la pro baseballer, Zavie as a toddler, Wombat magnet 'Crikey!' from Oz zoo, Lil sleeping on her side 20 wks in utero again - so cute!, Princess Zhara, papa e bebe, flowering eucalyptus macrocarpa - life-size - SW WA, Clel & Lil commune at 10 hrs old, Lil snuggles into Nanny Janette, LIAM!, tiny picture of The Wave - one of my faves, magnet with trees "A wonderful future is just ahead", Clel & Kaje say "Lick me!" - magnet from ice cream shop, fern in tree buttress root - NE QLD Daintree tropical forest, Kaje beholds the view in SW TAS, cry Sth central QLD - near a gorge oasis, our friend's new arrival - Jade, singing whale toyshop magnet, view from nail steps 200ft up a fire lookout tree - SW WA, red Pilbara rocks and ghost gums - NW WA, Autumn glacier from Comox magnet, 'Our Rainbow Bimbi' picture from Zha for us just before Lil was born, various emergency call numbers, Ruby as cute puppy, Lord Howe 'Treasure' Island magnet, 'We are in Scotland' picture from Kieran featuring Clel preggie with Bimbi & Kieran & Kaje & Blair Castle & of course the Loch Ness Monster!, Laura outside (Great) Zia Clelia's 878 Nicholson St in 1977.