Where does time go?

I have to wonder where time has gone lately...Yes I know I have been doing nothing and everything but time has run amuck on me it seems. I have already read my Christmas "junk" book "Lovers and Players" by Jackie Collins ...Yes I read trashy stuff too!!!! Almost finished "Predator" by Patricia Cornwell and think I may have missed reading the previous one "Trace" but have to check the bookcases. The two eldest went to see "The Chronicles OF Narnia"with Daddy. We have redecorated/redesigned Miss 8's room. I have cleaned out the toy box in her room and the children's book case. Mr 3 is fully toilet trained and how melancholy it is not to buy nappies any more when shopping after NINE years of buying them....I almost miss it. At least I admit it.

We are working on the kitchen/vegetable garden and have to get rid of some agapanthus along the fence...Really bad plants to have to dig up but it has to be done. 2IC has done some lovely hanging baskets for the back verandah which are nice. He fixed Mr 5's remote control truck which broke last Feb and never got repaired. We shopped for school shoes and lunch boxes, Mr 5 is a size 13!!!! And I have labeled all the clothing for Mr 5 which needed labeling. He now wakes up each day asking if he goes to school today.

Best of all..We got placed with the speech pathologist we wanted, she rang on the 22nd December to say she could take Mr5 as a patient. He sees her on the 2nd Feb for an assessment...Lets hope it continues with the funding from the Catholic Education Office coming through for help at school for his teacher.

The kids have been playing under the soaker hose on the hot (40degrees Celsius plus) evenings...Oops I mean the hand held spray attatched to the hose being used during assigned hours of operation as per the water restrictions.

They have been riding bikes, playing with the pup (who is growing and now weights in at 7.6kgs)reading, playing PC games, running about and YES, GLORY BE....SLEEPING IN!!!!
I did not know what hit me when it first happened and then it kept happening, no children in our room or our bed with us before 0930 or even 1030....MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!!!

Happy 2006

Hello again,
I have been remiss but with good reason for 'tis the season to be jolly or plain lazy which ever is your preference I guess. I've been recovering from Christmas and cleaning up and chucking stuff away and redecorating and planting and ,and and and well, just everything and nothing it seems.

Christmas was fine, except 2ICs mother was in and out of hospital the week before Christmas with "chest pains"( let's say no more about it as it seems to happen EVERY year about this time and I know what I think!!!!), we had my nieces 21st a week before Christmas, annual Christmas catch up with friends BBQ at our place and then Christmas eve...Some of our friends (not all at the same time) decided our house was THE place to bee Christmas Eve and visited over the course of our quiet evening at home watching the nightly parade of people viewing the lights and displays about the area. Needless to say a few Brown Brothers whites were had by myself and the girls and it was quite fun to quip about his and that in our inebriated state. Do you realise how funny reindeer antlers REALLY are??

Santa visited and left some potatoes in the sacks to warn the children that they might just get ONLY potatoes next time if the behavior fails to better. He left bikes and a "mean machine" in the garage, books, puzzles, pajamas, CDs, miners helmet with torch, Thunderbird No 1 rocket and chocolate stocking in the sacks.

We had my Dad and aunt over for Christmas lunch and hope to be granted a reprieve next year (SOMEHOW) as you can only listen to who has died and how long they had this or that malady for a very LIMITED time. 2ICs mother came over with his SIL and brother for tea..They no longer come for lunch as last year because we were moving so close to Christmas we asked that they do Christmas dinner and they replied they were doing their own"thing" that year and could not do it...So they do their own "Thing" each year in fear that we ask them to take a turn!!!!
My BIL gave 2IC a carton of beer for Christmas as he was "given too much as gifts at work" (nice cheap present with lots of thought NOT!!!!!) 2IC doesn't even drink regularly only at Christmas and such, so this THOUGHTFUL present combined with the "oldies" lack of manners (Get us another drink, pass the beans, give us the vegetable dish, make some gravy will you) REALLY REALLY REALLY pissed him (and myself) off no end. Add this to my aunt staying overnight and running out the hot water and wanting a COOKED breakfast the next morning, we got desperate and told her we had to go out at midday so she would just go. (last year she hung about till 3 in the afternoon the day after Christmas and we got nothing done)

I AM SO OVER CHRISTMAS!!!!

So now we enter the frey of 2006..........................