Friday & Saturday

Friday I was given extra shifts at work through to the first week in January which is good news, they have asked if we could agree some permanent ones then (I get paid more on a casual basis than I would being permanent, but am working more or less full time hours on casual at the moment) although for 2 of the weeks I only have one shift each week, which is not so good.

Some of the shifts I have been given are only until 1.30 which fits in well with mum and dad being here. We have spoken to them and they appreciate that I need to work to assist with our monthly outgoings. Jason is taking some time off work on the days I am not working and we can have day trips out then and also on the weekends. When I finish at 13.30, once the kids have broken up, mum, dad me and the kids can go off somewhere local, there is soo much to see and do on our door step that we can do this and still pick Jason up at 18.00.

We had an early night as we were all shattered and knew we had a busy weekend planned, Sam is away next week with school, I am working 4 days and we are all on countdown......... so as next Saturday gets closer the more excited we will be, I was excited Saturday morning just thinking that this time next week we will have mum and dad with us.

The weather forecast for the weekend is dreadful, severe gales and a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours, nowhere near a bad as Brisbane has had though, so we can’t complain. It was recommended that we move everything into the house / garage to be on the safe side, which we did. Wind wise we have had worse since we arrived, but it rained lots and lots and felt very cold, in fact we have had the heating on, so mum and dad you might want to ensure you have a fleece in your suitcase. They do say that Melbourne can have 4 seasons in one day and I will agree with that.

Saturday we were up to do Tom's paper round, it was still raining intermittently and quite windy. What normally takes an hour to do, took over 2 hours. After dropping the kids at home, Jason and I set off to finish buying the bits we needed for Sam's trip to Canberra on Monday and food and bits for the weekend. It seemed to take us hours to get what we needed, although we did call in at Peppa and Owens for a coffee, which was a ploy to get keys from Owen as it is Peppa’s birthday on Sunday and Owen had arranged a surprise party with the assistance of Kerrie and I.

They are going out for breakfast into Mornington, Kerrie and I will let ourselves into there house, put up some decorations, and start organising the table, it was going to be a BBQ but as the weather is going to be pants we are cooking, I have done a chilli with French bread, tuna, onion and gherkin pasta (much nicer than it sounds trust me....Mollie loves it too) and a birthday cake, pictures will follow, but it will look like Mollies cake as I seem to do that one well. We all seem to have a signature dish and everyone is going to bring that dish as its a bring a plate party.

I did the kids pizza for tea, but after all the cooking I had done Jason and I had crisps and dip and of course a few beers.

Did we tell you that mum and dad will be here this time next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!