What we did this summer
30 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
in Family, Home, Loo, Noos Tags: home, Loo, Noos, school holidays, Summer
The very very long summer holidays are nearly over – 1 week until school goes back. We didn’t take a lot of time out this summer – a week down the coast for me & an extra week for the boys in Sydney. Otherwise it has all been about work & juggling places for the boys to be.
What we did manage to do was lots of fun.
We spent some quality family time on a wet afternoon before Christmas catching up with our extended family and exchanging gifts and finding out what our cousins had been up to during the year.
We found some beautiful weather at the coast. Christmas week at Kianga, with a day trip to Tathra was the remedy for the very wet days leading up to Christmas.
We didn’t totally escape the horrible weather that battered other parts of Australia
This 1/2 hour hail storm just after New Year caused a lot of localised damage, including my poor little car & my friends car & pergola. This is so very minor compared to the devastation in Victoria & Queensland.
When the boys came home from Sydney the weather improved – it became hot! We headed off for a river swim – a very Canberra past time in Summer and something I had never done before.
It was fantastic. Except I was expecting the river to be the same as last time I visited – a slow moving trickle which the boys would have been able to splash around in. Didn’t think it would be a full on swimming hole and so I forgot to take rashies, hats or sunscreen. So ended up being a quick visit, but lots of fun.
We headed back to the coast for Australia Day and had fun in the lake entrance at Burrill Lake
Noos also had fun playing with a snake – Loos was game enough to pat it only.
And as the summer holidays draw to an end I am looking back and feeling so blessed to have been able to spend time with all of the people important in my life.
School Holiday Fun
17 Aug 2010 1 Comment
in Family, Friends, Loo, Noos Tags: Family, friends, Loo, Noos, school holidays, War Memorial
I have been meaning to post about our school holidays for weeks. Well it is now week 5 of term3 and I have finally made some time.
Normally I dislike school holidays – the normal routines are thrown out the window, I am juggling boys and care and finding things for them to do and squeezing work in too. So in July I decided to take the whole 2 weeks off work and spend some time with the boys. Of course Loo decided he would rather spend some time in vacation care instead, so I was able to have 2 days with just my big boy.
Loo loved his Vac Care program – he spent one day catching monsters and another day being in the army – at the very wonderful Swish. Noos and I visited friends and managed to catch a movie as well.
The highlight of our holidays though was spending time with Sheridan and her two little people. The boys adore both of her two and miss them dreadfully after their visits.
As Sheridan has a child who still sleeps at lunchtime she left me with her big boy at the War Memorial for a few hours. After a lovely lunch, where chips were the main item on the menu, we were able to wander around the memorial with our little visitor becoming very excited about all the dead enemy soldiers. We admired the planes and watched the G for George sound and light show. Then we hit the Discovery Zone. I found a seat and sat and waited and waited and waited for them all to be finished. They dressed up as soldiers, drove a submarine (not sure whether that is the correct terminology), flew a helipcopter and fought other soldiers in trenches. It was a huge hit. After a couple of hours I was able to convince them we needed another drink. We ended up back in the Discovery Zone again as we had to show Sheridan all we had seen and done.
I suspect we spent close to 3 hours in the Discovery Zone! Definitely recommend it as a cheap way to entertain.
School Holidays
06 Jul 2010 1 Comment
in Family, Home, Loo, Noos Tags: Family, home, Painting, school holidays
I thought that these school holidays I would take the whole 2 weeks off, spend some time with the boys, have some time to myself and get some things done around the house.
Right now, I think I made a mistake. I have Noos trying to upset everyone, stomping & screeching around the house, being a 10 1/2 year old. His idea of playing is to upset his brother. Loo is now crying & yelling about how Noos has wrecked the lego cars he has made and how he can’t remember how to remake them. And we are waiting for paint to dry…..
The painting of Loo’s bedroom has been, well, it has been interesting. This morning we have done an undercoat and a first coast of blue. Both boys decided they wanted to help paint. So it kinda looks like a mess. They weren’t able to reach high enough, which has meant I have had to go back & do the bits they couldn’t do. There are drippy bits were they weren’t paying enough attention, despite me constantly asking them to watch for drips & clean them up before they dried.
I am hoping so much that they have had enough and won’t help with the final coat. Otherwise, I can see an expensive time paying for a proper painter to fix the mess we have made. I hate painting at the best of times, but have decided that it is even more horrendous with the boys.
How many days until school goes back???
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