11 October 2009

Well it is Bathurst weekend. David loves this weekend. He sits in front of the TV and shushes everyone because when watching cars go around everything must be silent. Crazy but lots of beer and junk is also consumed. Well it is only one day, so he keeps telling me.

We also had a death in our family. It turns out if you don't feed birds regularly they die. Crazy that. We are not sure if that was why they died but it is probably what it is. The other one is eating feaverishly now so i think that is what it was. Well we learn from our mistakes. I have been asking David for 3 days to check the water and food and he says he'll get to it. I can't totally blame him I could have checked on them too but I don't usually feed them so I take only a little blame.

Well I think that is all for this Sunday. Hope everyone else is enjoying the race as much as I will be.

Helene

Canberra

Today we went to Canberra to see the flowers in floriade but of course it was raining. We took a trip to the War Memorial and it was great fun. We didn't look through the whole building but we did see the planes and spent some time in the Discovery Area. That was good fun. I didn't even know it was there. I've been there a few times now and for some reason we never went downstairs. Well the boys loved the hands on activities.

We also took a drive out to Tidbinbilla and that was also good fun. The boys had a great time learning about space and looking at all the space dishes. The drive out there is a bit windy but ver pretty. If it was dry we would have stopped off at Cotter Dam. That is a really pretty picnic area.

Well I hope everyone had a nice long weekend.

Love,
Helene

Hello Again

Wow how time seems to get away from me. It has been ages since I have blogged. Hope everyone is well and getting ready for the school holidays as much as I am.

Well I am planning to have a cooking day at my house on the first Tuesday of the holidays. I thought the kids could come and some cooking. They will make Pizzas and cookies and a few other things that have yet to be discussed. Well i hope you can join in the fun. Let me know so I can count numbers. On the second Tuesday it will hopefully be a bike track day if anyone is interested in joining us.

Well we had planned to go to Canberra this weekend to see the flowers but have put it off for another week due to the terrible weather they were going to have. I can deal with most weather except for the wind. Rain is terrible at an angle.

Well I think that is all for now. So looking forward to seeing New Moon in Novampire. Then we are off camping for a few days up the coast.

Love,
Helene
xoxo

Some More Random Thoughts

The school holidays are almost over and I think for the first time I may be a little bit sad. We have not done a whole lot during the vacation but we have still had a pretty good time. The boys have enjoyed being home and having there separate times with Nanny and Poppy. Yesterday we spent a very long but very good day at the bike track. The weather has been absolutely perfect for lots of outdoor play.

I have been watching True Blood on my computer at night and I have to say it is one of the strangest shows I have ever seen. I am three episodes into season 2 and I have to say that it really freaked me out and I had such trouble sleeping last night. It is my drug right now I want to watch but I know that it is bad for me. What will I do. I need a fix bad. It is pathetic.

Target toy sale tomorrow and there about a half a dozen things that I would really like to get but I just don't want to go and stand on the lay-by line. I just don't know what to do. Well that is all for now. I hope everyone else is having a great time, too.

Love,
Helene

Wonderful News

Film producers aren't wasting any time rushing the third Twilight movie into cinemas. Production Weekly reveals that Summit Entertainment will shoot Eclipse from August 17 to October 31, 2009 — meaning it will wrap before New Moon, the second part in the series, is even released. Eclipse, due to open in theatres on June 30, 2010, continues the epic love triangle between unassuming teen Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), decades-old vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and spunky werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). As Bella's high-school graduation approaches, she must decide which of the boys is her one true love. New Moon is slated for release in November.

A Nice Weekend

Only one week left until the school holidays and that thing. This has been a really long term and I am very ready for it to finish. I do have to say that it was better than last term so that was a good thing.

My children and husband have spent the last week home with varying sicknesses. I was also sick and that was no good. So we spent the week resting and driving each other crazy.

On Saturday I thought I would rid the house of germs and do a massive clean. The house smelled fresh and it made me feel better to have it clean. That was a very productive day.

After I finished I was able to sit down and enjoy a new book that I had bought on Friday. It was called Lovely Bones. It was a story from a dead girls point of view as she watches her family grieve and try to move on from her death. It was a great read. Now Narelle can finish the forth book in the Twilight series so she can read it too.

On Sunday the weather was so nice we thought we would do something outside. We drove down to the Southern Highlands towards Bowral with the idea of going to Fitzroy Falls. We had been there before and it is such a beautiful spot to see. I love that area. The properties are so beautiful. It was very cold but we hiked the trail for a while and took some nice photos. If ever we had the money it is somewhere I would love to live. The trees change colors and it seems so peaceful. The boys were great and it was really a great day out.

It is Monday now and I don't have as much cleaning to do because I did so much on Saturday so I thought I would bake some nice banana bread and relax.

I hope everyone had a really nice weekend and am looking forward to catching up over the school holidays.

Love,
Helene

Just some thoughts

Well here we are with another term almost behind us. This is actually a good thing. In so many ways I used to dread school holidays. There was always the "what are we doing today" questions. Or the "what do we have to eat?" ones. Well I am actually looking forward to them being home. I hate the rushing about and getting here and there. It is a time to sit back and relax and to just enjoy them. Well I'll try. The boys split the weeks with home and Nanny's and they love it. Thomas still goes to preschool and so each of the boys have one on one time with us. It makes for some relaxing days. We will try to do at least one trip to the bike track and maybe a day out somewhere else. If anyone wants to joins us that will be great.

I really liked this photo of me and the boys. There are so few photos of me that I like and the boys are all smiles and it came out really nice. We took a very long drive down to Wombyan caves last weekend. We have been before and I just don't remember it taking so long. It just seemed to take forever but the boys were really great and except for the rain it had been an excellent day out. It is worth the drive if you have never been. The boys loved learning about the stalagmites and the stalactites. If it ever stops raining maybe we will get them out on there bikes again.

Well I hope everyone is well and looking forward to a little break from the monotony. Hopefully it will stop raining for the holidays.

Love,
Helene
xoxo