catching up - part 1
Finally a blog post! Honestly, I have been meaning to get to this for DAYS and WEEKS. Well, here it is at last! Time for a cuppa and a read!
One reason that I’ve been finding it so hard to get here is that I have been INSANELY busy for the last month or so. Of course, I finished up my part-time Office Manager job about a week before Christmas and then it was Christmas craziness (good crazy) and then school hols all of January. I had a great time hanging out with the kids. We didn’t really do that much - mostly we just hung out at home - but we did go ten pin bowling, saw a few movies, went to Questacon, swam at Pine Island, played card and board games and we even went to Melbourne. I guess we did do a bit, after all!
Melbourne was a lot of fun. I flew down with Jack and Emma (thanks Paul for the points!) and that was exciting already for them. We sat over the wing there and back and Jack LOVED looking out, especially when exciting things happened like the flaps moving up and down. On the way back, Emma felt funny and then had a tiny vomit (thank god for those little paper vomit bags!) but she was fine again right after.
Of course, that gave me a great opportunity to tell the kids about a (truly disgusting) prank that Barry Humphries used to do. I think it happened in the 70s on a TAA plane, though I could be wrong about that. He took a tin of condensed soup onto the plane and quietly tipped it into a vomit bag and tucked the vomit bag back away in the seat in front. A little while later, he makes a big scene of grabbing the vomit bag andthen he makes horribly loud vomiting noises for a little while, before looking inside, grabbing a spoon and EATING it in full view of the horrified passengers. It’s soup, remember! How horrible is that story? I LOVE it though. Anyway, back to Melbourne…
Churros on Brunswick Street, Melbourne. Churros are Spanish donuts that you dip in melted chocolate. to.die.for. We made quick work of them.
We had a great time in Melbourne, staying for about 4 days. My bestie Yvie and her husband Dan had a gorgeous baby back in October and we were SO happy to finally meet her. She is absolutely gorgeous and it was such fun. It was a little stressful at times, trying to keep the kids quiet and all that but I needn’t have worried really as Dan and Yvie are easygoing and understanding about noisy older kids who don’t seem to have a volume button. It was so nice to hang out with a baby again, they truly are just gorgeous things. Yvie and Dan seem so relaxed and confident, and they are just loving their new time as parents.
Batman Park, above and another awesome park I forget the name of, below.
We went to quite a few parks, CERES for lunch, and Brunswick Street for window shopping and Churros. We even ran into my niece Ruth and her mum Sascha while we were there, and stopped at a cafe to catch up - such a great surprise!
We caught lots of trams (including a couple of wrong ones - no dramas though, thanks to the iPhone GPS I knew where I was and how to get back) and we did lots of walking. It was the week just after the massive heatwave, so we were very glad it had cooled down a bit by the time we got there. We went to the Melbourne Museum, which was awesome and we met up with Al (SIL) and her lot for a play in the park just outside. We had such a great time away and then we came back to another few weeks of holidays at home - I love Summer!
Cool Kids: Jack and Emma with two of their other three cousins, Kyle and Cam (the third one, Kenzi, ran away!)
Besides all that, I have been really busy on the work side of things too. I am going to save that for the next blog post though…
Here is another reason why it’s getting harder for me to write a blog post: The Facebook Generation shies away from blogging - that’s a link to an article at SMH that pretty much says it exactly as it is:
Writing a regular personal blog is hard work, especially if you want to keep it interesting enough for other people to keep reading. Having an idea is one thing, but you then need the time and skill to articulate it in on the page. Suddenly something you do for fun is starting to look suspiciously like work.
Meanwhile Facebook is quick and simple - just bash out a sentence and you’re done. Reader feedback is almost instataneous, and is from your friends, so you’re encouraged to continue.
I am determined to keep the blog going though, so don’t worry. With my life so busy right now, I may not get here as often as I would like, but I will just have to make time! I do love blogging!
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Welcome back
I love catching trams in Melbourne… and have learned to love the window seat on planes!
eeeeeek, cute amazing and interesting
i love your experience and the way of writing :)..!