G'day, folks.
Sharon/LDM, I hope you get to fit in everything, including a rest.
Sharon/WO, enjoy the time out with husband. I hope the game goes where you want it to.
Rabbit, rainy days sometimes are the best ones for cleaning.
TM, I hope the rain holds off for the girls' cheer comp.
SFR, you sound like you have a busy day ahead.
Valerie, I'm sorry easy child was in an accident. Glad nobody was injured. Congrats on your silver wedding anniversary!
I've been MIA for the last couple of days. Things are getting busy here. Yesterday (Thurs) is my cleaning day, plus I got some bulk cooking done because the weekend is going to fill our house with people (teens/young adults) needing food. easy child 2/difficult child 2 has organised all the non-pregnant females in the bridal party to turn up for their final fittings, we're gonig to have to get all their dresses finished tomorrow. ALL. Because the pregnant bridesmaid is now overdue, if the baby doesn't turn up by itself before Monday, that's when she's getting induced. Three weeks to the wedding from TODAY and counting; and we still have one more bridesmaid's dress to make, from scratch. The design is a body-fitting one, there really is no room for slack. It will be forgiving and flattering, but it will need to FIT.
Oh dear, things will be busy!
We have a meeting with the wedding reception place on Tuesday, the bridal couple plan to visit mother and baby in the hospital afterwards. I think husband & I should go too. We'll leave difficult child 3 at home to do schoolwork, so we'll have time free.
Yesterday after my cleaner left, difficult child 3 & I immediately went out on an excursion with friends of ours who are home-schooled. It was all work difficult child 3 knpws but a refresher never hurts. The home-school kids - the mother has been too busy to set up much formally, I think the kids are not getting enough academic work to do. So I wrote some notes for them to keep and yesterday we explored different forest types and also did some geology of Sydney basin and looked for fossils. First we explored magroves (near where we live) and also had the chance to study some strangler fig trees. Then we went to a small patch of temperate rainforest and walked through it, explored the upper reaches of one of Sydney's major rivers. Then we drove a long way south to Wollongong and I showed the kids the shale rock shelf at Coldedale, and the narrow coal seam that outcrops there. It's the same coal seam that completely lies right underneath Sydney (miles deep there) and outcrops to the south in Wollongong, north in Newcastle and west beyond the Blue Mountains in Lithgow. There's nothing like getting your hands right in it, to teach you.
Today we had a quiet day at home, very tired (even though I didn't do much physically yesterday). difficult child 3 went to his tennis class but was tired and irritable. It's all going to get busy tomorrow, when people start to arrive. easy child is coming up from Canberra although sister in law is staying home this time. Not sure when difficult child 1 & daughter in law will be here, I'm hoping she does some artwork while she's here.
Enjoy your Friday, everyone.
Marg
It's Friday!!
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