Nice Weekend

I felt a bit better on Saturday and the kids and I were desperate to go somewhere.  We wanted to take the boat out but Phill wasn't keen so we just got in the car and went to Lake Centenery.  We took some sausages and bread rolls  and bbqed them.  It turned out to be a really nice day. 

Kids mugging for the camera as usual.

Phill played in the playground while the grown ups talked.

This was Em showing me how to do a "panorama" shot on my phone.

On Sunday Phill did the lawns before his trip down to Victoria and then he, Josh and I got in the pool for the first time in ages.

We've probably only got about four or five weeks of the warm weather to enjoy it.  We have been here a year next month, it's gone quickly.

Today I had to be up at 5am to take Phill to Junee to meet his workmates for the trip down to Victoria.  I really did not want to get out of bed.  Came home and got the kids ready for school, dropped Emily off and took Josh up to the medical centre for his breath test to see if the helicoblacter has gone.  He was very good, had to blow through a straw into some bottles, then chew up a tablet and drink some water.  That was the bit that had us worried, he can't swallow tablets at all and they had told us this one is especially horrible to chew but he did it like a trooper and then had to wait ten minutes and blow in some more tubes.  We'll know in ten days if he still has it, the test has to go to Sydney.  So I dropped him at school and did some grocery shopping and came home to start on this horrible messy, dirty house.  I really dragged the chain as I was tired but got a lot done, and then knocked off when it was time for the kids to come home, tomorrow is another day.  I made Salmon Quiche for Josh and I, he loves it, and made a little marinara sauce with the leftover seafood from last night's pizza for Emmy and she just ate it like that with no pasta, but at least she ate something.  I made some amazing hommus for an after school snack and had some cut up carrots to dip. 

Phill likes to take frozen meals with him when he goes away so I made my Kick Arse Curried Sausages, and a beef and vegie casserole in the slow cooker over the weekend, then we made up a hot pot type thing with leftover bbq meat and lots of vegies.  So he took eight meals with him, plus a batch of blueberry muffins that I baked yesterday.  And there are still plenty of frozen meals in the freezer. 

 

Scout is getting so big, he's really a dear boy, and he and Harley are great pals.

My camera is on the fritz so I've been taking photos with my phone and then I have to email them to myself and then save them, and it's a pain, if I can't fix my dear little camera I will get another one exactly the same because I love it, and it's so easy to use.  When it's working.

And Josh walked home from school!  He really wants to lose weight.  Em didn't go with him as she didn't feel well and it felt odd to be picking her up and leaving him there.  It's a long walk.  I felt sorry for him and got a bottle of water and set off intending to meet him half way but he was already almost home!  He walks fast like his father, I could barely keep up with him.  He's going to shed this weight and be the gorgeous, healthy young man he was always meant to be, and I suspect his tummy troubles will fix themselves as well.