What a looong week! Illness has pervaded every pore of this house for the last few days, and we are all keen for a break. Spindles is still down with a sore tummy, but his fever has broken and he is walking around. Topsy has been SO much better today, and I discovered, with my finger, that he has sprouted maybe four new teeth (I say maybe, because they are up the back a bit, and he won't let me see them!) Brave boy for getting those toothy pegs without me knowing!
Hey, get this. Today was the last day of school, so tonight Diva and Spindles (Roly is at a party) are watching a DVD, or at least they were going to. We have a mini library of DVDs to choose from, but the kids couldn't think of what to watch. Everything was 'old' and 'boring'.
Well, a minute ago I walked in to tell them that Shrek will be on on one of the TV channels in 5 minutes. They are so excited! The irony is that we have Shrek, and Shrek 2 on DVD! LOL! What is that about?!!
I still have lots of stuff to do, but I am nearly organized for the big trip. We will be gone for three weeks. The first week we have booked a holiday rental home for a week, and Robyn and her family and our Mom and Dad are all going to be there. Should be a great time! Then it is off to Bega where Hubby's parents live on a farm in the middle of a green valley. We cannot wait to have a few days with Nanny and Poppy.
And in our third week we will slowly meander home, stopping off to see Hubby's Sydney sister and their new baby, and also probably take in a night at Robyn's mansion. LOL!
*News break*- I just picked up Roly from the birthday party he went to; remember the one where the bully and his cronies were going to be? The 'cool' group? *lots of eyerolling*
Well Roly had a great time! Apparantly they are starting to see what WE have always known: that Roly is a wonderful, humorous, fun-to-be-around kid. Unfortunately a couple of the group decided to voice some not- so-kind opinions about Roly's group of friends. (none of whom were invited). Roly defended them vigourously, and I told him to really keep his head on straight, despite being excited about this particular group of boys deciding that he is now 'cool'. These guys may well be a flash in the pan, but Roly's friends have been faithful to him through thick and thin, and for several years.
Anyways, all you dear ones, I had best be off to pack and clean! I will miss you all, and look forward to catching up in *sniffle* 21 days!
Today was the last day of kid's club for the term. It was also the day that the stars which the kids earned this term, were converted into Kid's Club Dollars to spend at the Kid's Club Shop. Well, so many kids showed up, we were all sold out! and it was very LOUD! We never broadcast when the Kid's Club Shop dayis going to be, but just spring it anywhere in the last four weeks of term so that only kids who come regularly will benefit. But we ran out of time this time and couldn't help but do it the very last week of term. Hence it was kind of predictable and EVERYONE and their 5th cousin-twice-removed showed up! I am looking forward to a break from Kid's Club, even though it is a wonderful gift to be able to point these kids to Christ. Remember that gorgeous deaf lady I have told you about, who helps do our afternoon teas? Well she is off to sydney on Friday to get a cochlear implant. I hope and pray that she will come back able to hear us! We got her up the front and prayed for her with the kids, and then they all waved and mouthed 'Thankyou and Goodbye!' to her. Cute! Well I am resigned to having the fever bug rampage through my family again. Roly is improving every day, but still is hot and headachey. He vomited several times today. I picked Spindles up from school to find him feverish and headachy, and poor old Topsy has slowly deteriorated today as well. By the time I panadolled him and sent him off to bed, he was feverish too! Oh well, on the bright side, God sent us masses of rains today; rain which settled all the drifting pollens and pesticides that were driving my nasal tissues crazy, so I feel great!!! And since I was informed that Croup is actually a form of asthma and have been giving Diva Ventolin at night, her croup has ceased, or if it starts up in the middle of the night, two puffs of Ventolin knock it on the head! Hurrah! Well, that is me for today. For those of you who care to answer, I have a Daisy question!
Do you have any family (either in your own family unit or in your family as a kid) traditions that you love?Or that are unique? I can't even think of an answer to my own questions. HA! I don't do anything unique generally, but I love hearing what others find works for them. Why reinvent the wheel? Here are two I can think of:
*The kids each get to skip school on their birthdays, and after a morning of playing with new stuff, we all go out and celebrate with a nice lunch and an activity. *As Hubby does not get as much contact time with the kids as I do, he takes each of them out for an hour a week. Monday he takes Diva out for a milkshake and some outside playtime, Thursday he takes Spindles out for a milkshake and a bike ride, and Friday he takes Roly out for a milkshake and to throw the football or frizbee around on the local soccer field. The kids really look forward to thatspecial one on one time. We are trying to work out how I can do something similar with each of them, while Hubby minds Topsy, but at present, it is more important that he gets to do it with them.
My real post is below, but I had to share this cheeky card that Hubby got from a female parishoner!Not so much that it is fall-over-laughing funny, but who actually sent it to him! A very respectable senior citizen!
Picture this- Your head is full to bursting with mucus, your nose feels though it has been fastened on too tightly, and the mucus appears to be attempting to secape through your ears. and it hurts! That was little old me yesterday. And meanwhile poor Roly's temp climbed to a perilous peak of 40.5C (105F to the Americans!) and I was beside myself, wondering what to do. Well today we both went to the Humming Doctor (today's tunes were River of Dreams and Always Wear a Yellow Raincoat When Your'e Outside in the Rain !!!) who said I just have a bad case of allergies which is affecting my sinus. The Beconaise spray has made a certain improvement, in that I am off the couch. I am still ready to gouge out both itching eyes, and a bit headachey.
As I said previously, yesterday was Hubby's birthday. We spoiled him rotten and he was exceedingly grateful. Then last night a lovely babysitter showed up so we could go out for our first night outing together since Topsy has been around. We were tossing up whether to go until the last minute, with a nearly delirious Roly, and a croupy but improving Diva. To add to the indecision, Hubby had been queasy all day, and my head was chock full of unblown boogers, but.... we did it! Hubby ended up choosing SSS BBQ Barn which was nice, but nothing to write home about. He had a big rump, and as I already have a sizeable rump that goes everywhere with me, I decided to have something different, and ventured to try the 'Best of Both Worlds' which was the steak and ribs. The meat was lovely, but you Southerners would have wept at how they botched the Oven Roasted Sweetpotato with butter and cinnamon sugar that I had as my side dish. I was expecting an almost crunchy caramellized taste, but I think they boiled the thing, with the skin on, cut it in half and 'voila', that was it!! : ( Great service though. Here is just about exactly what my meal looked like! No I did not take the pic, but someone else obviously has, and I found it. Ha!
Our final verdict was thatThe steak place we have gone to before is tons better. The best thing was that it was good adult chat time for the both of us, and we were glad to have done it! I am very aware that this time last year in the very same holidays was when I began to come apart at the seams, and ended up on the post natal meds as a result. It is really our first holiday away since then, so we are being wise in planning to balance relax time with outings and doing stuff.
Oh and I had Spindles dig up the 'grave' a few moments ago, and in breaking news, this is what Diva tipped had us bury the other night:
I think she must have been blind with grief! Though in her defense, she brought them over in this box and simply tipped the contents out without looking. It WAS dark!
Since I put Topsy in the plasic tub of water the other day, he just adores that tub, even though it is now empty. It is his favorite new place to sit and watch the world go by.
