Happy birthday to Toby for today! What a great weekend we all had. It started with Benjamin babysitting Toby on Friday night because we had our work Christmas party. It was held in the waka house down by Te Papa and was a fantastic night. The theme was Oktoberfest, and I had a silly little beer wench costume on. But Mike's costume was so bad it made mine seem positively demur in comparison. Mike had dodgy lederhosen on and they were a little tight around his... ahem... bits.
We got Benjamin home by midnight so we weren't too late.
Saturday morning we started early to try and get everything done. And we did do everything. Including swimming for Toby, grocery shopping, rotating the Corolla car tyres, getting a new stereo in the Corolla, getting central locking on the passenger door of the MX-5, tidying the house and preparing for the onslaught of 7 children for Toby's party.
Mike took the kids to the cinema in Wally's huge car and they watched Arthur Christmas. Mike said he had a good sleep. This is when William went home - he was a bit sick and slept on our couch waiting for his Dad to collect him. Poor wee boy.
Then at home they bashed the pinata Jack had made for Toby. It was a thing of beauty - an Angry Bird (bomber bird possibly) and filled with so many lollies the kids were unable to hold them all.
Ma called to say hi to Toby. Toby had such fun it was funny to watch him so animated.
Then dinner followed by a DVD. Not a lot of watching happened. They slid down the stairs in their sleeping bags! But they were all asleep by 10pm, so not too bad, really. Mike was the only real casualty. In a vacuum cleaner maintenance accident of all things - he stabbed himself properly in the webbing between his thumb and index finger with the sharp blade on my pocketknife. Judging from the blood left on the knife, he went in quite a way!
Next morning we prepared for the Bichan family lunch and Toby's family birthday lunch, all in one. Thirteen for lunch, which consisted of two roast chickens and veges. It all went very well. Malcolm came early and now our alarm system is back up and running. A few more tweaks and it should be good.
Our house has never had so much luxing over the course of one weekend - between preparing for Toby's party, cleaning up afterwards, again to prepare for the lunch, and then sorting the aftermath again! It's clean now! And, the vacuum cleaner is working very well, after I finished getting the hair off the turbo brush - safely and easily with scissors rather than a sharp stabbing knife...
Time to go to work and school. Mike is on the plane over the Tasman now. He'll be back Friday night. And stay here until the New Year! Hooray!
Have a fantastic week!
Love,
Angela
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