a week's updates

Last Sunday we stayed indoors as we were tired. On Monday we went shopping for groceries but Charles did not want to go with us. In the end, we left him at home as we would only be gone for a while. After buying some vegetables and fruit, it started to rain so Joe drove back without us as we had left the laundry outside the house. When he got back home, he was very pleased as Charles had the initiative to get the clothes in so the clothes were not wet through. charles decided to come fetch us together with joe. We had icecream and fried chicken before coming back home.

On Tuesday, Joe went back to office and left me with the children. I ended up asking them to clean up the toilet as they were the ones to make a mess out of it. They would get $2 each for cleaning. In the end, Charlynn told the boys to get out as they were more than a hindrance than help. I told Charlynn I will give her $5 since the boys only did halfway. When I told the kids to come forward for their reward, the boys kept whinning and said that it was not fair that they had less than Cahrlyn as they went out because they were told to do so. In the end, I took back the $3 from girl and told her she will be rewarded soe other time. The boys were really a headache.

On wednesday Joe was back at office so I was again alone with the kids. To keep them occupied, I told them to do gardening at the front yard. They happily did that looking forward for their reward. My neighbour lent us the lawn mower as the kids were cutting grass with scissors. they were unable to use the electric lawn trimmer so I asked them to use the traditional way. It would also keep them occupied for a longer time. My neighbour invited us over for coffee and had a look at his garden. They really planted quite a lot of stuff in their backyard. We chatted for a while and children decided to come back for lunch.

Today we went out in the afternoon as we decided to go to the Science Centre at Wollongong. We took the Pacifc highway scenic drive. We spent about an hour and a half there. the trip was nice as the weather was fine. We actually had hot dog and icecream at the royal national park -baldhill area as there were many people doing handgliding and paragliding. it was fun to see the participants moving off from the cliff and into the air. We managed to come back to campsie at 5 plus. We did out shopping at Woolworths and I came back to cook dinner. Children saw their friend so they went out to the park with Joe. They had fun at the park and only came back at 6 plus to have their dinner. Today's dinner was baked rice, mashed potaotes, baked chicken and fried vegetables.

Well! life is pretty fun this hoilday as Joe was mostly at home to look after the kids. He also took us out of Sydney so we kinda enjoyed this holiday the best so far.