As Louisa likes it.

Louisa is living the good life - in fact her life is so good right now that it can really only go down hill from here.

Those are pierced ears - for her 12th birthday.

And those are new glasses - they are training glasses and she'll probably have them for 2 or 3 years. It's all about getting both eyes to look at the same spot. When the optometrist gave her the good news Louisa said she'd been thinking that she needed glasses for a while now. And she didn't tell me because.... she thought she was just convincing herself to need them since she wanted them so much.

The whole family, Joan, and the other Fulchers (except Robert and Samuel) went to the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble's production of As You Like It - we are practically groupies - we go to everything they put on because it is always fabulous.

Matilda and Patrick came to As You Like It too - they took Lee & Petie's tickets.

One of her many birthday presents was a ripstick. Max got one too and they are addicted.

Her birthday dinner was provided by Joan - roast anchovy crusted lamb, with creamy potatoes, organic greens and seaweed and spelt bread followed by a spelt sponge cake with rich Jersey cream, bananas and rhubarb coulis.

Last week was Pine's Wet n Wild day.

She has a possum as a pet and has a vision of herself lying on the reading couch with her glasses on and a possum sitting on her shoulder, reading a good book.

This week is Pine big kids camp on Stradbroke Island.

It just doesn't get much better than that.