Quick Trip to Singapore

Last week I flew to Singapore for a week of meetings. The best part of the trip, and my only free time consisted of a speedy and I mean speedy trip to the mall where I hit my two of my favorite stores Muji (adorable home/clothes/stationary in a Japanese+Scandinavian style) and BANANA REPUBLIC! Fantastic, Banana has opened a store in Singers and I was stoked, nothing like 10 min. of retail therapy to get you through a tough week at the office! (no Tiff & Mom, I did not buy a black sweater) Now...if only I could convince them to open a Nordstrom! Here is a picture of me on Orchard Road, the main shopping street in Singapore with my Banana bag. - kel

There is a New Fish in the Sea

Luca and Grandpa (Mark's dad) at Luca's first swimming lesson. Watch out fish...surfing lessons are next...-kel

Luca photo's

Meet the Manny

Yup, that’s right it’s not a typo. We’ve got a male nanny on the way for Luca! Luca’s fantastic nanny, Sally, has decided to take a fabulous new position at one of the big hotels in Manly as an events coordinator, we are super sad to see her go, but very happy that she is moving on to such a great opportunity. With no nanny and two working parents we hit up everyone we knew to find a replacement, Sally is AMAZING, so this was no easy task. To the rescue came Uncle Robin! My younger brother Robin has agreed to come to Australia for 3 months to be Luca’s Manny, this will give him a chance to hang out with Luca, see Australia, do a bit of travel and live with the three of us! We will now have enough time to search for a replacement for Sally. We couldn’t be happier and can’t wait to welcome our newest housemate to 45 Bennett…crazy Manny stories coming soon…-kel

Three Thumbs Up for Three Weeds

The Ferguson's are back in action…we had the best winter weekend a family could ask for. Friday night – Small dinner party at our house with friends, lots of wine, yummy desert and best of all Luca was down to sleep on time and slept in on Saturday AM! Saturday – Beautiful Sunny weather, after a brief sleep in we were up to one of our favourite beach towns, Avalon, for a bit of shopping and the best croissants outside of France, followed by Luca and I cheering Mark on while he refereed a soccer game, leftovers from Friday night (more yummy) and a movie. Sunday – We actually slept in again! Seriously this is a miracle once but twice in one weekend was amazing! It was a cold rainy day – so we headed off to the Rozelle Markets in the school yard of Mark’s primary school, picked up a spotted succulent for the garden and 4 French champagne flutes for a bargain (Apparently when it’s raining you get better deals) and some yummy New York style Bagels. Lunch was at the Three Weeds Pub Luca and I shared the bean soup, Mark had the Guinness and Steak Pie, the atmosphere was fantastic, all warm and cozy, kids and parents enjoying a raining afternoon at the pub, I was warm inside and out and the food was fantastic! Dinner was Bagels and cream cheese sangers, I did a quick sewing job and made a new belt and two travel shoe bags then it was an early night in bed. Great winter weekend, we all agreed three thumbs up. -kel

Fergalicious

It dawned on me the other day that now that my last name is Ferguson, I should fully rock out to the song Fergalicious as much as possible, it’s like a theme song just for me. While I am at it I have also taken to dancing about to the other great (smile) songs on Fergies last album. This however has become oddly entertaining/perplexing to Luca. It’s funny that now that I am a mom I am like a one woman band and 24x7 entertainer…will the first word Luca can spell be G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S? Fun times abound at 45 Bennett. - kel

Super Seattle and My Favourite Seattleite

We are home sweet home, after travelling with Luca on a 14+ hour flying kangaroo home I was never so happy to see my bed! When thinking about this blog a few weeks ago, I was all set to out Mark’s crazy driving with the hand brake on, however he confessed himself below so instead here is my short take on the holiday. Our trip home was a whirlwind of shopping, eating, working and visiting friends and family. Super strange to be in Seattle on vaca, I didn’t feel like I was on holiday, but Seattle just doesn’t feel like home any more either. Luca was a great traveller (slept like a champ on the multiple plane rides), shopper and smiled on queue to all the right peeps at all the right times, thank goodness. I got my fill of pizza and Mexican, shopping at Nordies, baby Gap, Banana and of course the outlets. Thank you to everyone who made time to see us, especially to Tiff who reminded me regularly that she knows just how to push my buttons at all the right times in all the right places, what more could I ask for from a sister. She has told me I am not allowed to come to Seattle for another visit unless I acknowledge her as my favourite Seattleite, and it’s true this trip reminded me that even though I am now a mom, with Tiff I can still laugh until I cry when I hear her telling me the first joke she ever made up at age 4, Tiff will always be my favourite Seattleite, I just can’t wait for her to have babies so I can laugh while she changes dirty nappies…cheers kel