Hi,
Another month bites the dust. Whew - the year is flying by now. Our weekend was great fun despite the wintry conditions. Friday night Toby and I watched a movie (let's see... what was it? Oh yeah - Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Squeakwel) and fell into a deep, deep sleep. So deep that when Mike got home around midnight and took photos of me and Toby fast asleep, we never woke up. I think Mike was taking evidence that there was no room for him in the bed because he went down to sleep with the cat in Toby's bed. Heheheh. When I woke at 6am, Mike heard me and came to bed with us. But Toby and I had woken up at 5am, and Toby said "Daddy isn't here yet" and rolled over and went back to sleep - like me. So Toby was surprised to see his Dad in the morning.
Saturday swimming was good fun. It was cold and wet and Toby needed some convincing to head off to swimming, but once he was there he enjoyed it. It is warm in the swimming pool.
After that we went home for lunch and waited for Mike to turn up from his planning adventures with the tramping club. Mike was the agenda - or at least agenda item 2. It's all about the tramping club website and Mike is in it up to his wee eyeballs.
Saturday night Chelsea and Brennan came for a sleepover and Toby had a ball. They were up late but they were playing together very well. And they did get a reasonable sleep-in.
The kids played for most of Sunday together. The other Sampsons were running around in the horrible conditions and seemed very sensible to leave the younger Sampsons with us: nice and warm. Mike was off early to have some tramping club van driving practice. He is getting involved, isn't he? I got dinner ready (slow cooker meal to feed 11 or 12 people) and tidied up. Then I relaxed in the afternoon reading while Mike got the tramping website revitalisation project underway with a new machine to compile it and emails sent off to build up the project team around him. Yikes! My book was way more fun than that prospect. I am reading "Last Child in the Woods" about nature deficit disorder. Although I think the 400 pages are re-iterating the opening two pages over and over again, the author has made a few new assertions. The main idea is that children no longer get to experience nature and this results in many of society's recent woes. I think it certainly is an idea to entertain - we've evolved to appreciate nature. If we cut off that appreciation, it might be damaging to innate feelings. Who knows? It can't be a bad approach to fixing some messes in society...
Wally and Lesley came for a cup of tea and collected Chelsea and Brennan. We will book in Jessica for a sleepover in the next few weekends.
Dinner was great fun. The slow cooker cooked up a storm and fed the masses. Sally and Andrew brought dessert and Marion and Ma brought biscuits for tea. Dad turned up with impeccable timing - his plate had just been dished up to be put aside for him. There was fine conversation and we nearly squashed everyone in around the table (Marion and Toby ate at Toby's wee table and Marion impressed on him the idea of table manners).
That's about it. I fancy Yum Cha next weekend. It's a long weekend for us and if the weather is ok, I might get some gardening in. It's so easy to pull out weeds with all this rain we've had.
Have a great week!
Love,
Angela
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