We have had a productive weekend – unlike the All Blacks, who didn ’t manage to produce anything useful really. We need one more coat of aqua enamel paint on the doors and it ’ll be done. We might even get the window frame half done, if we ’re lucky. The biggest job will be Thursday night where we move all of Toby ’s bedroom stuff into a bathroom! Eeeek.


Toby had a social whirlwind weekend. Friday night was movie night snuggled up with me in our bed. We watched Toy Story for the first time in ages and loved it. Then Saturday morning was his first swimming lesson. His instructor is Alice this term. Toby was a bit rusty but started figuring it out. Wee Tom has also started lessons there (friends from Pipitea – father is John, mother is Christine) so they come home afterwards for a coffee. Lucky I was out of my pyjamas and had attempted some tidying. Kara called as she just got back from Europe and chatted for over an hour on the phone. So I was pushed for time.

Toby then got two phone calls for play dates. But he was keen on a visit to the Sampson household. So we put that plan into action. We ended up eating dinner there (nice curry that Wally told Toby was a stew – so he ate it all up) and Toby slept over. Mike and I went home to meet Andrew to watch the rugby. The whole affair was made much better by the nibbles Andrew turned up with. Yummo! The All Blacks were pretty woeful. But Australia still took ages to put them away. So, maybe Australia isn ’t that great yet either. Just NZ is worse!

Sunday morning we collected Toby from the Sampson ’s and he got collected by the tabors for a quick trip to Lollipop Playland. Then Toby was home in time for William L to arrive for his playdate. Then Toby arranged some quiet time after William L left so he could finally relax. Phew!

Needless to say, Toby was in bed early!

My parents are somewhere on the Nullarbor today. They left on Friday afternoon after all their possessions were possessed – hopefully they will see them again in Wellington in a month or two. I hope they enjoy the journey. It is a great drive! We loved our trip over.

Ok. Time to truly start the day.

Have a good week.