Last couple of weeks in April

After the long Easter weekend it was back to work as usual, it was my final week at Domain before starting with the Shire, I was sorry to leave the Domain but looking forward to starting my new job with less and better hours.

On the 18th we were back to the airport to pick up Tom, we had a quiet morning before setting off towards Melbourne. First stop was Moorabin DFO, we had a lovely couple of hours, we didn’t spend much, you didn’t need to with t shirts at $7.00. But it was good and the kids enjoyed being able to look for a couple of new things, well we all did, new clothes are still not on our montly budget plans.

From here we headed towards the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex, we wandered round the shops, window shopping as these were the top price designer shops, before heading to SteakOut for tea, it was lovely, very relaxing and I was able to have a couple of drinks unlike poor Jason who was driving. After we had eaten we went into Crown Towers Hotel and sat in the lounge people watching for half an hour before getting back into the car and heading towards the airport. Tom was 30 minutes late and eventually walked through the arrivals door at 11.15. It was straight to the car and the first KFC drive though as he was starving. Straight to bed for us all when we eventually got back to the house about 1 ish.

The 20th was a big day, all kids were back to school and I stared Induction training with the Shire, starting at 12.30, We spent the afternoon going through policies and procedures. Tuesday was looking at the role, responsibilities and OHS, the afternoon was manual handling. Wednesday and Thursday was shadowing, again that was really enjoyable and I met a couple of really lovely girls who were really helpful and gave lots of advice to help me when I am working alone. Thankfully nothing on Friday as I was exhausted and we needed to get ready for our party on Saturday to celebrate Our one year in Oz, one year in the rental and Jason’s birthday.

Saturday 25th was our party, it was a good party and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, Maggie and Mitch came down from the city and stayed over and it was lovely to catch up with them. The evening flew by, I hardly spoke to anyone it went so quickly. Tom went and babysat for Hayley and Paul so that they could come to the party. We went to bed about 3.00, not that late thankfully, but late enough.

We were woken at 8.30 on the Sunday morning with a text from Peppa, her contractions had started, Owen was not about and she needed to go to the hospital, I took her and did the rubbing back and breathing, Owen arrived just in time and I was with them for the birth of their beautiful baby boy.

The last week in April I was working alone, my job is a mix of personal care and home care. It was enjoyable but the home care can be tiring and I do prefer the personal care, hopefully in time I will get more personal care.

Tuesday was Jason’s birthday, we got the kids KFC and we went to The Rocks for a lovely romantic meal and very relaxing evening.

The last week of April saw some dreadful weather, more rain than we have had in a long time and gale force winds, so our leak in the balcony roof it back, the builder has been and had a look and cannot figure out how the water is getting in. They may have to take the study ceiling down or the balcony floor up to try and sort it ..... great! Not what we had in mind.

And best news of all for April ..... the blog is now up to date, so I can not carry on with updates as they happen, rather than trying to remember what we did and when.