Given the freedom to choose their own bed times Boo proved that adage about girls maturing faster, taking herself to bed by 10. Fid however proved the testosterone is building in the newly minted 12 year old (yesterday) by, in his words, "Dominating" the stamina of the rest of the family, staying up to 3am!The highlight of the morning (for Fid) was me getting pulled into the full scan, once again the testosterone fuelled him to boast at "dominating" me by avoidi...

Delirium struck hard around 1am. Best intentions had us all plan to stay up for the night and sleep the day's flight away. Emerson was the only one to crash before our 3am pickup, the surreal result only further loosened our collective grip on civility - imagine the state of things if Emerson is closest thing to adult supervision that we could manage?I'd figured our 6am flight would mean we could avoid a days worth of schedule problems and get away on tim...

It's over :( The sun was shining, we'd arranged breakfast in the park with Minnie and her friends as our farewell breakfast to end our trip. We spent the rest of the day doing all the rides we all loved the most at Disneyland - Autopia for Max, Space Mountain for Gab and I, Dumbo for Emerson and Toy Story Midway Mayhem for all of us. We spent our last few hours in Toontown, a new land we hadn't been to before. If I could reset the clock to when I was 16 I'd ...

All packed, the car is already brimming with our luggage! 20mins before the car arrived Emerson whined: When will we be there? I told them we're spending the next two days at a Soy Bean farm, 5am bean picking and everything. They'll burst when they see where we are going :)

The grey had fought a confident battle against my youth, it was clearly not going to let up until the entire beard had fallen. There was only one obvious response, break out the daisy cutter and unleash a scorched earth policy on the beard. Just when I thought victory was mine, the grey had a final sting in its dying tail for me, under the beard my skin is a pasty, lifeless, grey, I need SPF60+ The barber was petrified he had misunderstood, he clarified s...