Home Again

What a great weekend, best we've had in ages.  We got up and away earlier than expected and got to Julie's easily with little traffic being a Sunday morning.  The Navman is great, it really helped us.  We've both lived in Sydney, I grew up there but it's just changed so much and the motorways have cut through areas we used to know but can't quite recognise.  I showed the kids the footpath I helped to build near Julie's place.  I was on an employment programme back in the 80's after my older kids went to live with their dad and had a job for Rockdale Council laying paving bricks on footpaths and carparks.  Best job I ever had.  We used to piss the male gangs off (we were a gang of five women) because we'd finish our jobs way before them because we just put our heads down and got on with it.  It was pissing down with rain so we didn't actually go and walk on the footpath and photograph it like we planned, and Julie's car battery had died so we got busy with Phill helping her with that.  We went and had breakfast together at Maccas and that was nice, then we were on the road to home.  We stopped off to see Sarah at the cemetery and left her a bunch of pretty little yellow roses.  I am always shocked to see more fresh graves at the baby cemetery, this never fails to upset us after all these years.
We had a good run home, I did half of the driving and ended up copping rain and mist as we passed through the southern highlands.  We tried a different turn off to get home from the highway, through Jugiong and it's shorter and much prettier than the usual way we go through Harden.  Yes Harden is the name of a town.
It was great to get home and the animals were all well and happy.  We are broke after the weekend, but all agree it was worth it, especially to see and spend time with little Harvey, we're all in love with him.  So it's frugal time.  I decided we'd have a Chicken Caesar Salad for dinner with a cos lettuce out of our garden, and we defrosted chicken and made our own croutons and only had to buy bacon.  It was an odd recipe off the net and I won't make it again but it was tasty.
Back to reality tomorrow, dealing with the birth certificate crap and my Centrelink debt.  But, right now, life is good.  And it's so nice to be back in my own bed.