The week that was and will be

First weekend after getting home with the Tab and we took it away! YAY!! We stayed at a van park in Townsville. Saturday we took the kids swimming at the rock pools and had fun at the waterpark on the Strand. Sunday we went to the markets and then to Riverside/Riverway?? - more swimming anyway which is the thing to do in this stinking hot weather. Speaking of which we almost died of heat exhustion on Friday night, I got absolutely no sleep and had a ripping headache from rolling around in my own sweat all night (and some of Anakins too), We had to go and buy a fan for inside the van and one for the annex too so Saturday night was heaps better. I suppose you can't really classify it as camping when there's a Pizza Hut, Sizzler, Noodle Box, Macca's and Hungry Jacks within a 200 metre radius, but I did cook Jaffles, which got all stuck to the jaffle iron, burnt around the edges and totally sucked, but anyway... We caught up with some much missed friends and visited with Anakin's cousin Toby, it was fun. We packed a machete so on the way home we could stop on the road and cut ourselves a Christmas tree. We were walking along looking for the best one and signing for the truckies to honk their horns as they drove passed. HONK!! HONK!! Hilarious. Just as we got safely home a huge thunder and lightening storm began. The cracks of thunder were deafening and we lost all power except for some power points in our bedroom. So Izzy put his mattress down on the floor, we plugged one of our new fans in and away we went! (To sleep.)

Monday morning I got a ride to Cairns with Nick and Chris to pick up my car (which has been there ever since Greg flew down to Brisbane to meet me). The kids and I stayed up there for the night and Nick looked after them for me for a few hours while I did some damage to the bank account shopping for Christmas. Visited my girlfriend who got me into wedding planning mode googling wedding dresses. Have to post a few of my favs so far.

Got home yesterday and have been hooking in to the house work trying to spruce the place up. The inlaws are coming tomorrow!!! So I've been cleaning under beds, washing all the cushion covers and throws, scrubbing out the laundry, making trips to the salvo' bin ... I've still got SO much to do. I need HELP!! Or just one more day!! Two would be better. I can't wait to have it all done so I can indulge in something a bit more fun - like some sewing, or some Christmas cooking. The yard needs serious attention too but we've been getting rain every arve so there's nothing we can do about it at the moment. We are heading to Kurrimine Beach this weekend so if we can't get it done beforehand we're going to need a bloody slasher by the time we get back!

Anakin has been reciting "Hey Diddle Diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon.." his favourite nursery rhyme to us all tonight. He sounds so incredibly cute. He thinks it's a really funny poem. I bought him a beautifully illustrated book of nursery rhymes (from Nana and Grandad) for Christmas so his repertoire will be a lot larger come the New Year I'm sure.

I bought Izzy a box of decaffinated cappacino sachets to satisfy his current obsession with drinking coffee. He's been drinking them like there's no tomorrow. Except there is, and tomorrow I'm going to be setting a limit of ONE!

I feel a bit ripped off that Christmas is coming up so fast and I don't feel like I've had time to be Christmassy enough yet! We only got around to putting up the tree last night!! Today we set up some colouring fairy lights in Izzy window. Yesterday I bought myself a little Christmas frock from the op-shop and dug out my jingly christmas braclets. Actually we stopped at a servo in Gin Gin in the middle of the night on the way home from Gympie where I bought three CD's of Chrismas Carols. They even have renditions from Lou Reed and The Darkness! I flogged them in the car all the way home don't worry.