G'day, folks.
Sharon/WO, I'm glad you had fun at the pool and enjoyed the movie. Enjoy Michigan.
SFR, fresh corn for dinner sounds wonderful. We often have it for lunch, difficult child 3 & I. It's available at the moment but not as cheap as we can usually get it.
Trish, sounds like you got the message across to your son very effectively! Well done! I hope your friends don't have to go to the media - here's hoping that tomorrow's interview goes well for you. I won't be home for moral support for you tomorrow, not until mid-afternoon, but I'll be thinking of you and praying for you all. Is it still as cold at your place as it has been? We've had a cold day here today, I did get my washing dry although I had to finish it on the heater; I fetched the washing in just as it finally began to rain.
It's been a moderately busy day today, beginning with cleaning/washing/cooking. I had help thank goodness.
I've made a batch of sausage rolls and frozen about half of them. The rest go in the fridge to eat over the next few days. And tonight I've been making a double batch of Moroccan lamb for dinner tomorrow night. It has to slow-cook but won't all fit in the crockpot, so I'm cooking half of it tonight on the stove and the rest of it will cook tomorrow during the day in the crockpot.
All of this happening with difficult child 3 as usual expecting me to be in total sync with his mind and his thoughts as well as my apparently being the repository of all knowledge of the universe and exactly what is happening. Every little noise - of course Mum MUST know what has caused it and how the noise is made. Tonight a typical example - husband turned on the bathroom light then went outside. "Why did Dad just turn on the bathroom light? Hang on - was that the garage door?"
Of course I must know. Even if it would be easy for difficult child 3 to go ask his father, he still expects me to automatically know everything.
It's quite a burden, being omniscient...
Tomorrow I am taking mother in law out to the mall so she can get her hearing aids fixed. I'll grab the chance to get more shopping done, but try to get home early enough to get a bit of rest (mother in law too) before the family dinner tomorrow night. I'll have to sneak a birthday cake for mother in law tomorrow as well so we can celebrate at dinner. She will be 85 on Saturday!
It's holiday time but difficult child 3 has decided to stay home to get some schoolwork done. He gets bonus points (from me) for doing it during holidays or weekends and he really needs to catch up. All his friends will be away tomorrow so he may as well stay in and get some work done. His choice. I'm proud of him.
It's been wonderful news about the 19 yo English backpacker who was given up for dead after going for an afternoon walk in the Blue Mountains. He had left his mobile phone behind (idiot!) and took a wrong turn and was lost for 12 days. Luckily the strams are flowing well so he had plenty of water; plus he ate whatever soft greens he found (which from my knowledge probably included Warrigal Greens aka NZ spinach, edible but with a soapy taste when eaten raw. Not terribly nourishing unless you eat a lot but loaded with Vitamin C).
Here's a link to the amazing story of te backpacker. His father had arrived with hope, but finally accepted that his son was probably dead and was at the airport about to fly back home when the police rang to say his son had been found stumbling out of the bush. A miraculous story of survival! I do love a good news story for a change.
Here is a link -
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25790389-2702,00.html
Oh, and last night's tsunami was no big deal, less than 20 cm but still a good thing that we were told about it, a good test of the early warning systems.
Enjoy your Thursday, everyone.
Marg
