Spring finally here

Yesterday Joe was at home as the landlord had arranged for someone to come and do an evaluation of the house. We did a spring cleaning and the whole place was really clean and neat. I took the carpet out but they really need a good shampooing. The surveyor was here only for a while but that was a good excuse for us to clean up the house. Anyway the beautiful house only lasted a few hours as it kinda back to square one when kids were back. At four, we went for ice skating and after that we went to a new restaurant香港小厨 for dinner. We ordered 3 dishes fried mixed vegetables, Tofu and seafood pot and fried crispy chicken. We had a pleasant surprise when they gave us soup of the day. After asking the waitress, we realized it is a complimentary dish. Nice lotus soup and kids enjoyed the food very much. The cost is only $55 and it's not considered expensive since there are 4 big dishes. Channery was so tired that she fell asleep after finishing her food. I ended up carrying her and eating at the same time. When we reached home, kids refused to do homeowork. Joe said no need to nag them as they know the consequences - no ice skating on Thursday. I told Joe I wanna rest early so I left him to put the kids in bed. After a while, channery tried to act out so I had to get up and put her to bed. She is getting very smart in order to get her ways. Well! I am determined to train her to sleep alone and that will be done with an iron hand.

Today Children went to school at 11am as the teachers on strike again. We are fortunate I am not working so can take care of them. For kids whose parents are working, they will be left in school with minimum supervision. Wondered how the teachers here could suka suka go on strike. I prepared Marcoroni and Cheese for them and the boys simply bochap. I had to scream at them to get ready.

After sending them to school, I went to the library with Channery. There were many babies there with their mothers as it is special activity for babies 6-24mths. Ended up reading to Channery in the library. She loves to read so maybe I should bring her to library twice a week when we go shopping. After that, I went shopping and she was getting rather difficult so I ended up scolding her and coming back without buying the things from supermarket.

Now Channery is watching TV as she said she is not sleepy. No nap means she will not be able to sleep early tonite. Now is Spring and I feel so much better now. Winter time and people tend to have negative thoughts as weather cold and tend to coop at home. Plants look nicer now an d I am looking forward to see flowers blooming. Newspaper said The past month August in Australia was the coldest in 64yrs so I am really happy that I had gone through it in one piece.

Okay that's all. need to go fetch kids.