A Wash Out!

This week has been a total wash out in many ways!
We have had an extra-ordinary amount of rain, causing million dollars of damage in Queensland and Northern NSW. The only positive thing is the once desperate, dry dams are now completely full. We didn't get too affected in the way of damage or anything like that, but the kids school got evacuated in the late morning on Wednesday as the weather conditions were deteriorating and the pathways were flooding and they wanted the whole area to be evacuated as a precautionary procedure. The children were thrilled to bits! I picked them up just on midday and one of the teachers said that they expected the school to be closed for the rest of the week. The weather however didn't deteriorate and it cleared up enough for them to go in for the rest of the week, much to their disappointment. All sporting activities were called off, well for Bailey and Ian anyway. Ian's football wasn't on Friday night and Bailey's game has been called off today. Yaz however still managed to play her soccer yesterday where their team won, 2-1.
Bailey however had two little triumphs in sport this week. On Monday, before the 'wash-out', he had a school sports carnival and he came home with a first prize ribbon and the biggest, proudest smile on his face for winning his 80metre sprint. Then on Tuesday at swimming, he got assessed to go up to the next level and got through, so now he goes into an 'Intro class' as of tommorow, another beaming smile from our little boy. He had a good week.
Tuesday was a school strike as the Queensland teachers stood their ground as they are underpaid compared to the other States in Australia, and so they should as well. The children spent the day at home with me and we just had a relaxing day, in fact I can't even remember what we did. Probably just stayed in our pj's all day...kind of like today. It is 1.30pm and we are all in our pj's still. I love these days! So the kids have had a good week really!
Ian had to battle the rain all week with work though and I must admit I do worry about him driving around, not only in the terrential rain, but the danger of the roads etc...Thankfully he is always O.K. and I am just my normal worry-wort self!
It's been a week where I've been able to watch a couple of dvd's. I have just finished watching 'Australia' for the 2nd time with Yazmin. I am just in love with that movie and cried again in all the same spots. Yaz enjoyed it too but thought it was a bit long...I also watched a dvd that I borrowed from a friend, 'Revolutionary Road'. It was a great movie too, but very sad and tragic.
Thursday night I went to a seminar about another kind of therapy. It was very interesting and I would really like to study it but it's the whole time thing and whether or not I want to stress myself out again and put my family through it too. I didn't realise when I was going through it, just how much pressure I was under when I was studying and working and still trying to run the household and take the kids to sports etc...I can't believe I got through it with my sanity actually. I am at the stage where I feel like I need to venture into something else as there is so much to learn and I think that once you're in this kind of therapeutic industry, you want to know everything there is to help people and I kind of feel a bit bound into just a tiny smidgen of what's out there. I know I can't do everything and I am very content at where my business is at, but I have this unexplainable yearning to do more for people....We'll see what the future brings anyway as I'm sure something will happen if it's meant to!
Friday night Bailey went to his friends for a sleep-over. He had a good night as always and they were up bright and early the next day getting maximum time into the hours they had left until I picked him up.
Last night we had some friends over for an Italian feast. Their daughter Victoria is in the same class as Yazmin, the Italian Immersion program and they will be heading off to Italy with 26 other students next year...can't believe it. I'm glad she is getting this opportunity but I'm not going to want to say good-bye...Anyway, I stayed in all day and cooked! I made a minestrone soup, a traditional lasagne, fettucine bosciaola, chicken risotto and Yaz made her famous and beautiful tiramisu. The only thing that I could really eat was the soup and the risotto as I don't eat pasta, but everyone else got stuck into it. There was so much food and there is still quite a bit left too. It's certainly very filling food! So basically I cooked the food for the girls and their up-coming Italian adventure. The fund raising is just about to begin at the school in many different ways and then everything will get finalised and before we know it, they'll be packing their bags and asking for speding money to hit the shores of Italy!
We are heading up the coast in a couple of weeks over the June long weekend. We are going North about 2 hours up where it's just like paradise. It is our Anniversary over the weekend which is one of the reasons for getting away. The other reason is that Ian hasn't had a break of any sort where as the children and I have been to NSW, so it will just be so nice to have some family time away. Unfortunately we will be missing out on a friends 40th B'day celebration where there are a couple of the girls jumping out of a plane. It would have been great to stand very safely on the ground watching them fall safely to the beach below but I'm sure I will hear all about it afterwards anyway.
I am so looking forward to Mum coming up in a couple of weeks as I'm really missing her at the moment. I miss her all of the time obviously but have been very homesick lately, so she will be welcomed with the biggest open arms and who knows, I may never let her go again!
On a final note, Happy B'day to my dear friend Tanya for the 29th. We wish you all the very best and will be thinking of you and missing you....To all of our family and friends that we are no longer physically around, we love you and really miss every single one of you...please never forget that xxxx