Christmas, New Year And Beyond

Well Santas been and gone and a new year is upon us all. I have been supa busy helping Santa and organising not sure exactly what but have just really been busy doing lots of stuff...story of my supa life, I guess. The children finished school and kinder with great results and Mr 7 got the teacher I requested; whether it was because of the request or not ..I really don't care. But another mum who is a teacher has told me "we need to have a long talk about who I choose in the new year" Trouble is it was the devil you know or the one you know yells too much. Time will tell..teacher H, who I requested has had a friends special needs child last year so her recommendation supported my opinion and observations . Miss 10 has AGAIN got the non preferred teacher she had for Gr 5 ... and to make matters worse this teacher is getting married in "08 so we all know what her priorities will be as most of us have organised a wedding whilst working, haven't we? *SIGH* And Mr 5 got the incredible R as his Prep teacher!!! Without so much as a hint of wanting her...what a start to his school life!!!

Santa bought the kids a trampoline with a safety net and everyone pitched in for a fun filled Christmas Day arvo putting it together. It was only fair anyway as the uncle. aunt. cousins and nana saw fit to give them a games table with soccer,pool, table tennis, and air hockey which required some assembly..yeah, right and the Styrofoam packaging was the type that breaks up into little balls and the boxes were like boats...so we had a white Christmas in the main lounge anyway. HAHAHAHA!

2IC has been busy with home projects and such including building a outdoor BBQ area with built in BBQ....NICE.

The virulent neighbors (read "they who have no life") are up to their old tricks with a letter received before Christmas from a utility co alleging we were watering not only at 0815 am but watering our back lawn!!!!! POINT OF NOTE ...you can water lawn ANYTIME with recycled water, IDIOTS. Some people really need to stop looking over fences and stop being such hypocrites. We invited the water co to visit and see our yard which is watered via recycled laundry/bath water via a wheely bin and hose, we also invited them to visit our street and look at two of the very green lawns of the complainants. What goes around,comes around and revenge is a meal best eaten cold.

NYE was a blast with 2IC's new toy, iPod classic ,being rigged up to a six speaker system and music on tap via a docking station. Good friends, good food (2IC has almost mastered the ribs al la BBQ) good drink (apart from that bottle commemorative Draino someone had given to them HAHAHA) good music all equaled a good time till almost 0300AM!! Apart from one friends dog getting out and the ranger calling to tell us someone had it and the ensuing trip to collect the wayward canine and return him home to the safety of the laundry (bloody fireworks but hurray for the rangers working NYE) we stayed at Chez Supa all evening/morning.