First couple of weeks in May

Well Friday evening we had intended going into Mornington and having a couple of drinks, but it didn’t happen. Peppa’s new baby boy who is still unnamed was rushed into hospital. He is being treated for 2 possible viruses in the hope that when they get the test results back they will have started to treat whichever one it is, thankfully he is responding to the intravenous antibiotics. While Peppa and Owen were at the hospital with him on Friday night we baby sat for McKenzie, Finnegan and Lilac. Poppy was already at our house with Mollie having a sleepover.

Saturday we didn’t rush to get up, after lunch we set off into Mornington to pick up some bits and pieces for Justine’s Mexican themed birthday party. It was take a plate so I made cake and also chicken fajitas, both went down really well. We also bought a piñata which the kids loved and made margarita’s. We had a great night and a good laugh as usual, we were home just after 2, not too late as we had Moo and Sam with us. Tom was at Hayley and Paul’s babysitting for them as they were out too.

Sunday was a lazy morning, we skyped mum and dad who are in America with Andy and Jane, they sound to be having a great time, the weather is good, 90 to 100 degrees they said. It was evening for them so they were the ones drinking wine while we were on the coffee for a change. We then sorted ourselves out and drove into Mornington, we had a wander down Main Street and did some shopping, I got another pair of Havaiana flip flops, a new cardigan, t shirt and scarf and Jason a new jumper before going to The Deck Bar at The Dava and spending a couple of hours sat in the sun with a pitcher of beer, cheesy nacho’s and potato wedges with sweet chilli and sour cream. We then headed home where I cooked a roast beef dinner and we got ourselves organised ready for work and back to school on Monday. Also an early night as we are still shattered from last night and a catching up from a few late nights last week.

Well it was back to work on the Monday as usual, still getting into the job, I am enjoying the personal care element, but not enjoying the home care bit quite as much, ohh well hopefully in time I will get more personal care jobs than homecare. On Tuesday I had a lovely couple of drinks in Mornington with Diane. She picked me up at 7.15 and we only had 3 drinks, Di was good and had soft drinks as she was driving. It was a really relaxing evening, we put the world to rights and talked and talked and talked.

After work on Wednesday I called round at Peppa’s to see the new baby who has finally been named Presley London. Diane, Kerrie and Lesley were there too, it was a very pleasant few hours and we had a good laugh. I was also very happy as Jason had rung and confirmed that we had received the governments $900.00 stimulus payment, we weren’t sure if we would receive it as we haven’t received previous ones. Jason came home from work early today and as I had been out most of the afternoon tea hadn’t been christened, so we thought it would be nice to go out. Well the idea of the stimulus payments is that you spend the money and it helps the economy, so I was quite happy to go and support a local restaurant. We headed down Main Street to see where we fancied and as we had Tom with us had to look at menus to see what he could eat .....He is such a bore when it comes to food and very unadventurous. We decided on Medditeranio which had pizza on the menu, fancy pizza but pizza all the same. We all shared a garlic and herb bread while we studied the menu. Mollie and Sam then shared more garlic bread for starter, Tom didn’t want anything he was sulking about the lack of cheese pizza. Mains, Sam had an adult portion of mussels with chilli and bread to dip, Mollie had Calamari, chips and Salad, Jason had lamb shank which was delicious, I had fillet steak with peppercorn sauce and Tom had ..... you guessed it pizza, you should have seen the look on his face when we asked for a plain margarita pizza and the waitress asked if he would like some olives and anchovies on that. Anyhow it was lovely and we had a lovely meal and very good value.

Thursday Mitchal who is Mollies friend was coming for tea, Kerrie also came round for coffee and Scarlett played with Moo and Mitchal, they must have been having a good time as Scally didn’t want to go

Friday we spoke to a financial advisor to talk about buying a house and how things worked in Australia, also to understand how much we could borrow and how much approx the payments would be. He gave us lots of things to think about. Fright night was the baby’s head wetting, Jason went into Mornington with the men and I went and sat with Peppa and the kids. The blokes had a great night and all had too much to drink, well apart from Owen who knew that he had a new baby and 4 other kids to get up to tomorrow so he was good and drove. Peppa and I had a couple of glasses of wine, but not much as I was driving us home.

Saturday we had a lie in, a cooked brunch breakfast then Jason and I set off to look at some show houses, we have not decided if we are going to buy an established house or buy land and build. There are pros and cons to both, but we are not going to rush into anything. Evening we were at Hayley and Pauls, I cooked beef stroganoff and rice and Hayley did the pud. We weren’t late, we were tired and they have two little ones who get them up early.

Sunday was mother’s day here in Oz and also in America. Mollie made me two slices of toast and grapefruit juice, I got cards and a new Pandora charm for my bracelet. We then spoke to mum and dad who are still in America, they were sat out by the pool even though it was evening and told us how hot it is. We then set off into Frankston as our TV has broken, completely and utterly and the second one switches itself off after 15 mins, so you can’t actually watch anything on it. We went to the Good Guys who always have special offers..... thankfully ...... we walked out with a 50 inch plasma, guess who’s choice that was.

After the drama of trying to get it and us and Mollie and Sam in the car we dropped the TV at home, picked up Tom and headed down to Main Street for mother’s day lunch. Again we were limited and Tom would have been really happy had we gone to KFC, which we used to lure him out of the house. We then changed it to Taco Bills for Mexican or La Porchetta for ........PIZZA. Well Sam and Tom had pizza, Jason and Mollie shared a seafood platter for 2 and I had chicken parmigano which was rather nice. We then had a quick run round to look at a couple of blocks of land we have seen before heading home for a few more glasses of wine and to prepare for work and school.