What a great weekend, just perfect weather and so much fun catching up with DH again. The boys loved getting to cuddle up with their dad again. We decided to go and check out the Queen Mary while it was in port. Funnily enough so did the rest of Auckland, man what a nightmare that traffic is!
Sorry a very boring post, will try and make it a bit more interesting tomorrow night :-)
the mulcher man came and chopped up all our large piles of clippings and made them into a huge mess all over the lawn. Lots of clippings for the gardens now. I think I might have to resort to more bribery to get them all raked up and distributed.
Ali has gone, off on his big adventure of his first waterski tournament that is not at his home club, and we aren't with him. Weird feelings really, but he is with Glen who will look out for him anyway. With a bit of luck the fact that we aren't there will mean he will have an even better tournament and ski really well.
We are meeting up with Andy and having the weekend together. I so can't wait to have a cuddle. Have a good weekend all.
Well I love living behind one, but man when you get them trimmed it is a freaking nightmare. We have a rock wall and garden down one whole length of the drive - about 100m and of course the trimmings are all over both of these. Unfortunatley we have to get the clippings off the garden and onto the grass so the mulching man can come and do his thing. I was outside this afternoon trying to clean up and only managed to get really peeved, hot and sweaty and about 10m cleaned up.
Time for a rethink of plan - bribery and corruption - yep it works a treat, the boys were in big time when the temptation of bucks was dangled in front of them. They worked so hard and with no fights either. Yay, they cooled with a water fight and I lay on the grass and took photos of the piles for the mulching man.
Yay, now I can sew on my cardstock! OK, if you aren't a scrapper and are reading this then that will sound really sad. But, if you are a scrapper then you will completely understand why I am excited.
I was in Countdown yesterday and saw these machines for $39 and just couldn't resist. It operates on 4 batteries and weighs in at 2kg, perfect! Now all I gotta do is hide it from DH so he doesn't think I can now take up his jeans!
Yay, I have done some scrapping for the first time since before Christmas. Ruth came round today and we spent a wonderful school day with no kids or interruptions and talked and laughed and caught up on all that has been happening. Ruth did lots of scrapping and completed 4 layouts, while I procrastinated lots and made up lots of excuses such as not having the perfect piece of paper. I had 2 circle journals that were sitting on my desk waiting to be done, and I finally got settled down and stuck into getting these done. Yippee, both completed and packaged up ready to go to the next contributor. One posted today and the second will go tomorrow. I don't think the mailbox would be big enough for both of these at once!
So many changes going on in our life at the moment and I really don't know where to start. We have bought into a new business, the New Zealand master franchise of Howards Storage World. All very exciting and very scary at the same time. The Head Office is based in Auckland which is making things very interesting for us being in Whangarei. We are not keen to shift back to Auckland so have decided to see how we get on with Andy commuting and spending 3-4nights a week in Auckland.
He spent his first night away last week and left today for his first full week. So far he is hating being away from the family. Obviously the fighting and boyish stuff doesn't get to him as much as it does me! His task this week is try and find an apartment so that at least he can leave his stuff there and not have to live out of a suitcase the whole time. It will also turn into a base for us when we want to head down for a shopping trip.
Learning new routines as a single parent is my big challenge for the next few weeks. So far today, I don't think I am doing very well. I headed to the lake to pull down Alistair's tent which he "forgot" to get down while he was there yesterday and needs to take away this weekend to a waterski tournament. By the time I got back from that and did the groceries for dinner and lunches tomorrow there is no time left and the boys are home already. Hopefully the rest of the week provides a chance to start some new routines.
Home again thank goodness! I love being away but being back in my own bed has to be the best thing. The last 10days of the school holidays were incredibly busy with our waterski club hosting the National Championships. We had 115 competitors from all round New Zealand and it was our job to feed and entertain them and their support crews for the duration. Lots of fun, lots of new friends to meet, lots of talking and lots of smiling, lots of serving in the bar and for me lots of collecting all the money and collating it all at the end. That bit is still happening!
The boys are back at school and very happy with their teachers and being back in routines. It didn't take the teachers too long to get the homework underway and they each came home with some on the first day back. Man, I hate homework and the stress of getting it done.
