slippers, coffee, heaters, blankets are just some of the things that i love about winter.
roast dinners, soups, casseroles are just some of the things i love to cook. right now a roast is baking and the smell is divine. i love to snuggle under a blanket and watch movies.
this weekend has seen plenty of time to snuggle and watch movies, read with izzy and generally break away from our regular routine. we have been busy the entire time, but it is just so nice not to have to be living our regular schedules.
weekend break down:
fri - student free day for izzy. instead of making her come to work like i usually do we went to hang dog (an indoor rock climbing centre) with her friends zara and zac. it was the first time i had been, izzy had been once before. it was great and i didn't realise how great izzy was at it. she has great strength in her legs and arms. she takes after her daddy. zara came back to our place for the afternoon. both girls had a great time.
we dropped zara back to her mum at westfield figtree. izzy and i did our groceries and picked up some things on our to do list.
sat - sleep in and 3rd birthday party for our cousin zac (not the same zac mentioned above). it was a lovely party and zac is so sweet. he was really into opening his presents. very cute. mick worked and i was mad at him for missing the party. when i called him on the way home he said he was still with the same customers that he met at 9.30am. i didn't believe him until i drove past and sure enough they were still there. 5 and a half hours he spent with them. i was totally annoyed. it is the long weekend after all. customers have unbelievable expectations these days. they only think of themselves. when mick eventually got home, we went to do our green groceries. we went to our favourite place, leisure coast fruit & deli. i love fresh produce. it makes me happy to have healthy food in the house. here's our fruit basket at the moment. i love looking at it.
izzy enjoyed a yummy snack pictured below
i am so glad she loves to eat like this.
i love going to leisure coast. we always spend way to much but it is such a fun place to go. it makes me feel like cooking once i have been there. we got organic natural yoghurt and fetta, beautiful cold meat, rye bread, honey and so much more. after leisure coast we went to office works. another favourite of ours. izzy has been hounding me for a globe for ages. we finally gave in and got her one. we have spent hours this weekend looking for places. she has a game called "where in the world". we have been using the cards from the game to find the places on the globe. she has been fascinated by it. it's been great for me too. i didn't realise how bad my geography is. mick is awesome. he knows where everything is. on the way home we went to the dvd shop and spent the rest of the night watching movies.
sun - sleep in, cooked breakfast, house cleaning, then we headed out for a bike ride along the lake at berkeley and a play in the park. we played tip and i slid down the slide with izzy. she thought it was hilarious. it was a beautiful day to be outside and so nice to be out in the fresh air. we had a great time doing stuff together. it's not often we get to do this stuff all together. then off to woolies in the afternoon to pick up supplies to make pizzas and return dvds. home to make pizzas and watch masterchef. pretty early night.
mon- washing, mowing the grass, cleaning the kitchen, changing sheets, a scrap page, reading, catching up in my diary, cooking. izzy asked me to watch a dvd with her called "another cinderella story". it was great. girly movie and i loved hanging out with her. spent the afternoon sorting out bills and photo editing. sorting myself for the week ahead.
here is the scrap page i made in 10 mins. nothing fancy. very quickly put together. just felt like i need to do something scrappy. trouble is, i have no photos. after this week however, i hope to have a stack. with the editing i have done this arvo, i am already planning pages in my head. i miss scrapping so much. i really need to get into again. it really is a stress relief for me.
so while i have enjoyed the weekend, it has been with mixed emotions. i had a tonne of work to do and haven't touched it. now i am feeling anxious. i had so much planned. also my nan is in hospital with a broken hip and cellulitis. my poor mum is beside herself because there has been talk of putting nan in a home after this. mum looks after nan full time and can't stand the the thought of her going into a home. however, it is a full time 24/7 job. i am worried about my mum. she is spending all day and most of the night at the hospital because nan is so confused and keeps calling for mum. she has been a bit of a handful for the nurses. mum is the only one who can calm her down. i wanted to go down and see nan as i feel bad that we are not there, but right now she is confused as to who is who and i didn't want to make it more confusing for her. she thinks of me as a child at the moment. poor old bugger. she so wants to go to sleep and not wake up. she is in terrible agony with her hip and the cellulitis. it is so unfair.
also this week ahead, i have to take my dad to RPA for surgery on his leg. he has a skin cancer that requires some attention. mum is having hard time coping with the fact that she wont be there for dad while she is with nan. dad's prognosis is good. he will have a horrible wound but it is far better than doing nothing.
anyway i am off now to set up an external hard drive for my mac. all my photos are slowing things down. plus i don't like the idea of everything being in the one spot. i have lost some files i thought were on my hard drive and i can't find my discs. so i am worried about what else i have lost.
bye for now.
