Long Awaited Update

Wow its been a while since I have blogged!

Life is quite hectic lately, with stuff on every weekend and no time for a breather.

Lets work backwards..

Last night we had a games night at Mat's place while Josie was sleeping over at Granny's. For the third time in a row we played Risk. And for the first time, Mathew did NOT win!! Woohoo!! Jacqui won fair and square and I came in second (with an outrageous amount of cheating!). So finally the girls beat the boys! So ok, I cheated, but that does not diminish Jacqui's win! You go girl!

Oh before games we went and saw Ghostrider at Fox. It was a good movie, a little scary, but generally entertaining. Of course no one can just sit back and enjoy the show.. they all picked apart the poor movie.. but I liked it ;-)

The weekend was pretty packed.

On Sunday we had lunch at the Eiger for Josie's birthday. As always, the food was magnificent and the chocolate fondue for desert was sublime. Josie thoroughly enjoyed herself, as per usual at the Eiger. If anyone is in Petersham, you should drop in, its fantastic.

After lunch we went home and then went to Mahon Pool for a swim because the weather was just stinking hot all day. Mahon Pool is an ocean pool, and being that we always go to simple chlorinated swimming pools, this was quite an experience and I have to say, never again! There was moss everywhere, it was slippery, it was all rocky and shelly and well, I am just not an outdoorsy kinda girl. Gimme chlorine any day. Not to mention that it was hellishly windy and just plain freezing!! We all got in the water, well all except Tony who's a wuss. Josie really liked it, except for choking on the salt water and turning blue from the cold...

So Saturday was also a big day..

We picked up Rachel and took both girls to their dance class. Unfortunately you can't really watch the class because its in a big room and they dont allow parents in because it distracts the kids. We had a quick look through the little window in the door and then left.

I went shopping and Tony went and played basketball on their bball court for a while.

I had intended on getting my hair cut, my toes done, and doing the grocery shopping. I got to the hairdresser, and wished them luck with brushing my hair (I hadnt been able to brush the knots out in 3 days!). The guy then suggested I get a treatment done, to help with the knots, and also moisturise my hair. It wasn't that much more so I agreed. He didn't mention how long it would take though! After the 5 step treatment process, including 30mins with some oil in under heat, and then another 30 mins with a mask in under heat, 3 hours later I had short, bushed out, clean, moisturised hair! However, now I didnt have time to do my toes because it was almost 3pm and I still had to get the groceries!! Needless to say I was unimpressed!

So I managed to get groceries and get home just in time to get dressed, and get Josie dressed for dinner out. Meanwhile Tony had played hoops, picked up the girls, gone to his mums, helped her clean the backyard, taken the girls to swimming lesson and gone to a playground with Michelle!

So dinner out was great. It was for the Chinese New Year (Year of the Pig now??). Wendy's family had invited us out to celebrate at a lovely Chinese place where we had a chinese banquet. This included about 11, yes thats ELEVEN, courses. We had some very unusual things, like jellyfish, and abalone, and shark fin soup. But we also had the most amazing lobster with legs as huge and thick as your arm! Needless to say, I was in heaven!!! It was absolutely delicious!!

They had the usual big Dragon Dance come in (except it was a Lion!!). When Josie saw the big Lion her face lit up in surprise and she looked incredibly excited... for about 15 seconds until they started beating the drums! Then she dived under the table and stayed there for the majority of the act. She did come out towards the end once she realised that the Lion was not real, but the drumming was still hurting her ears. For some great photos of the night, check out Mat's Flickr site.

On Friday night was Granny's birthday and we went to the Gourmet Pizza Kitchen with Michelle and Rachel. The pizzas were divine and the girls had a great time.

Josie has been having a great time at school and is loving going there. Not much new on that front.

And thats it I think.. don't really have anything else to report..

Some Updating

Its been a couple of weeks since my last post so I thought I'd bring you all up to date ;-)

Josie started school and is now very settled as a Comet. She is enjoying herself and is very eager to go to school in the mornings.

We had our garage sale last weekend. Took a lot of hard labour to set up, and even more hard labour to pack it up. We sold probably about 30% of what was there.. mostly kids clothes..

It was actually a very nice morning just sitting outside in the fresh air with Tony, chatting about stuff. Its probably the most one on one time we have spent together in years ;-) At two seperate points of the morning, the threat of rain loomed. We had thunder and lightening.. but it passed right on over! Twice! We even got a bit sunburnt.

We are doing it all again tomorrow morning, although there is again the threat of rain. Hopefully it will pass over again ;-)

Yesterday Tony dislocated the top bit of his little finger playing basketball. It was pointing towards him till he popped it back in *EEK*. YUCK.

Nothing much else happening... so I'll leave it there..

My Baby's a Comet!

So Josie started school yesterday.

She is now in the 2nd year of pre-school, and has graduated from a Rainbow to a Comet.

She was hugely excited yesterday morning and couldn't wait to get to school. On the way she told me about how she is going to have new teachers and that Marlene and Silke weren't her teachers anymore. She was looking forward to seeing her friends againa nd seeing all the new Rainbows.

She had a great time and even met a new Comet.

This morning was a little different. Not because she didnt want to go to school, but mostly because I was making her wear a tshirt that she didn't want to wear. Blah.

Once we got to the car she was fine though, and looking forward to going to school again.

There were heaps of parents there this morning. Mostly the new Rainbows parents. I looked around and remembered being there as a Rainbow parent myself. It was surreal. They all looked so frazzled, and one little boy was screaming hysterically and taking every opportunity to escape through the front door. Luckily there is a locked childrens gate beyond the front door so he couldnt get far, but his poor mother, and Terry, kept chasing him all over the place.

Over the holidays, building started on the new classroom which adjoins the main activity room. Its looking very good. Can't wait to see the finished product!