What are you going to do

with all those acorns? I went into Nick's room this afternoon and when I sat down next to him at his I looked toward his bed and saw this huge pile of acorns. I dunno was his response. But why did you get them all? It's acorn season - you wouldn't understand cos you aren't a boy was his response. 

Well whatever you are going to do with them there sure are a heck of a lot of them. The boys counted them and there are 1,127 acorns Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do with that many acorns??

They forgot ...

My mother remembered, my sister remembered, my brother remembered, my online friends remembered, my real life friends remembered, but my blokes forgot my birthday yesterday. At first I thought they were going to surprise me later so I didn't worry, but by the time I dished up dinner I couldn't hide my disappointment or disbelief they didn't get the hints I kept dropping. Today they are taking me away for the night to spoil me heaps :-)

MXC

Have you seen this show on TV? I just had to go and check it out tonight when I could hear Tommy laughing so heartily and for so long. 7.30 on a Tuesday night on C4 is MXC a very painful but very funny show. It is a Japanese game show where the contestants try to complete an obstacle course and often fail. I know, I think I have the same morbid sense of humour as my boys, but I couldn't help laughing out loud either.

Catching Up

Walking through the supermarket getting some bits for dinner tonight I heard someone call my name, I looked and the face was ever so vaguely familiar but I couldn't really place it. "Remember Tech" she says. I wind back the clock about 6 years to when I did my computer course and still can't place her. She then starts talking about names I haven't heard in years and my mind is forced all way back to when I was 17! OMG!

A real trip down memory lane and I am still struggling to remember the names of all the girls I hung out with. Of course that was back in the day when the camera very rarely came out and I have no photos of any of these girls either!

We reminisced briefly about sitting in the cafeteria drinking coffee and chippies and talking about the MOTMs (Man of the Moment) now that we were all so worldy wise not being at school anymore. Too funny. Can't wait to catch up with Teresa again, after my mind has battled through the major mummy brain it is suffering at the moment.

I have been

reading some of my old blog posts while I was searching for some information. It made me realise just how much I use this as a diary and so much of the stuff I had forgotten. Really inspired me to start posting again. Who knows for how long, but we will see.

 First up a couple of pics to share with you. We went down to Piarere for a waterski tournament last weekend. Piarere is on Lake Karapiro just south of Cambridge. We had to take our tent down for onsite accommodation. We were a bit worried about the tent as the last time we had it up was 16years ago. When I got pregnant with Alistair we decided that camping with a baby was going to be too hard and made the step up to a caravan. The tent was great nick and even though we had lost the instructions on how to erect it the memory didn't fail me and we managed to get it up with not even one disagreement. I had forgotten just how much fun it is to go camping. The boys kept laughing at me because I was so excited to be boiling up water so I could wash and dry the dishes!

 This is the view from our tent, the big white thing in the water is the jump which is probably the most exciting event in waterskiing, except when my boys are jumping and then I turn all scardey cat and can't watch them. You have to excuse all the pics of me in my pjs, but Andy couldn't wait until I got dressed to take the pics.

Monday was a big day for us in that we celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary - can't believe how quickly that time has gone. We didn't make a big deal out of things or do anything special, mainly because we forgot what the day was. Better plan something for next year though.

I was so proud of Tommy on Monday. He had decided that he wanted to be a house leader at school. They had the voting on Monday and he couldn't wait to tell me that one friend got 3 votes, another got 4 votes and he got 55 votes and was elected the leader! Woohoo, way to go Tommy, so very proud of you. Very impressed too that even at number 3 in the family he can still do something that no-one else in our family has ever done before.

Drivers Licence

 When, oh when did this child grow up enough to be able to drive a car? It really doesn't seem that long ago that he was 3 years old and annoying the heck out of me. Now he is 15 and only annoys me sometimes. Alistair turned 15 on Wednesday and Friday we went and sat his learners licence. I let him drive home from the school at the top of the road and that was enough of being a driving instructor for me. Andy took him out a bit later and they were gone for an hour, not bed for a first lesson.

We have just found out though that Alistair is not insured to drive our vehicles and the insurance is null if a driver under 25 is using them. Oops, I will be ringing the insurance company on Monday to get clarification on that one, but in the meantime, Ali has had his wings clipped. Bummer.