Been Thinking................

Alot!

No Words.....................

TRAUMA

I really try not to freak out when i come across creepy crawlies here in the bush, centipedes,earwigs,lizards,flying things of many descriptions and spiders are an everyday occurence and i am very calm and collected and manage to deal with them without freaking myself or the boys out................until yesterday!!

Bob reported a "massive" spider in the corridor, no worries i go and have a look....yes large and weirdly lumpy, havent seen one like that before so i get the big see through container and calmly place it over the spider........and then it happened, something so freaky and frightening i lost all sense of calmness and completley lost it, screamed and ran away. The spider turned into a million babies that scattered and spread out all over the place. Losing all coolness i screamed for the fly spray, the boys are now picking up on my panic and we are all watching the million babies and screaming while hysterically laughing and jumping about, it was not pretty. We managed to spray around the container and get ourselves under control.....just. I bravely slipped the card under the container ran outside and dumped it on the lawn then ran inside so try and restore my calm demeaner with a quick Scotch cup of tea!!

BUT THEN.........Sean came home, we reported our traumatic experience but managed to see the funny side and got the boys calm and ready for bed...BUT THEN ........the spider was back in the corridor, no joke, same spider, back for her million babies, I bravely told asked Sean to deal with it, he coralled it into the Laundry where it ran up the leg of his work pants (not the ones he was wearing thank goodness) Sean calmly shook the pants....and then.......she dropped a million more babies so we all did our screaming dancing jumping thing and grabbed the fly spray again!! restoring a little calm i grabbed the camera (as you do!!) took a pic of the spider with her sadly depletted mass of babies then Sean caught her again and took her to the chook pen so the girls could decide her fate.

This experience has left us all traumatised, Toby gave himself a bad case of the heaby geebies and had to change his PJ's 20 times before he was sure there were no spiders. I am walking the corridor only with the lights on and we are all shaking our clothes really well before putting them on.

Anyone want to come and stay????

The Annual Burn Off

Once again, Sean and Toby had a weekend of "their kind of fun" The annual burn off is a highlight on Tobys calendar and im pretty sure Sean loves it too. Bob and I are happy to watch the "festivities" from a safe distance then spend the next few days putting out the spot fires that flare up from underground, not near the woodpile this time! We had some help from the rain this year that arrived obligingly on Monday to keep things from getting out of hand but amazingly we still had fires pop up a couple of days later.

Toby worked all weekend with Dad and was a real help this year (rather than another hazard to watch!) He is such a worker..........just like his Dad, he could'nt be happier!

I say it every time

We love the holidays!!!!

We have been busy everyday, have not been taking many photos as mostly we are just busy at home. The weather has turned very wintery, we have lit the first fire (indoor) of the season but we love the lazy mornings particularly when i have been working late the night before!!

We have nothing much planned for the rest of our break except more chilling out and a few friends over.............bliss!

Zim and Zero

These two.....................

...............are actually sisters........really!

NEVER AGAIN!

5 days was too long, I don't think it will happen again for a very very long time, I had the most miserable Easter because I was apart from these 2!

Is that normal.....I dont care, I hated it so NEVER AGAIN!

The Competion

Why has it taken me so long to post about this???....................is it because it has taken me this much time to process/get over it? is it because of the 3 trips to Bunbury in 12 hours to get the boys weighed in(thats a 80min round trip)? is it because the organisation was so random that we spent the whole day worrying we would miss Tobys fight? is it because of the meltdown when Bob realised he had only one fight...which he lost? Is it because we could have got the boys weighed in just before their fights and not worry about the official times so we had 3 yes 3 wasted journeys?

Is is because of all of the above......probably!!

All was not lost though!! Somehow, even though they both lost their 1 fight each they were given a bronze medal each, they were thrilled, we thought it was a very expensive medal!

Will we do it again? if the boys stop whinging about training.....its possible!

Maybe.