Easter travels & visits.....

Had my brother Pwyll , his partner Emily & my nephews Awen (9) & Kaya (6) up from Castle Forbes Bay today. Was horrible rainy weather after yesterday being so gorgeous, so they sat in the loungeroom eating Easter choccy's & watching Transformers vids. Hadnt seen them in over three months, Kaya is quite the little man now, his face is changing all the time and I'm sure they're both at least 4 inches taller than last time I saw them!. I still remember babysitting Kaya when he was a squirmy little bundle like Min is now. How it flies.........

Min seemed quite chuffed to be hanging out with the 'big kids', and enjoyed Awen's lunchtime game of peekaboo.

Taking her to swimming tommorrow, although neither of us has fully recovered from our nasal drippiness so should really leave it one more week at least..such a waste of $ though.

Nanna Dianne is down until next week, and is finding Min's (hopefully temporary) three times per night wakings and 4am final wake a tad hard to cope with. She was an absolute angel thismorning though and managed to let me sleep for an extra hour or so whilst she did the washing up and settled Min back into her cot. I really regret not having any close family on hand to help out sometimes, and sometimes wish I belonged to a more immediate, close knit clan, instead of having to wait until major holidays to have everyone together.

Needless to say it is now only 8.49pm and Mum is already pushing out z's!! Is also back to her usual trick of cleaning up everything in sight too, which is slightly frustrating (she is supposed to be chilling out and having a rest )

Lindsay , Minerva and I got back on Sunday night after 5 days over in Victoria for the Easter holidays, to hang out, see the sights, went to Melbourne zoo (the next day Yakini the 95kg gorilla escaped and the zoo went into lockdown!) Spent some quality time with Grandad Raymond & his partner Dorcas at their houses in Fountain Lakes and Drouin. So nice not to have to cook and to get the odd feed & change relief, although 9 month old clinginess definitely on the way.

I have two Anatomy assessments to start which I havnt even read the texts for and are due on Tuesday... and all I want to do is knit. Sure its got something to do with the weather.

Anyway, twas good to get out of the flat for a bit, as I suspect the next part of the year is going to be a pretty hard slog. And the country is now officially in recession, so finding a suitable job and making ends meet should become almost impossible shortly too. Nothing like a bit of positive thinking!!!

Anyway, am too tired to tap much and should probably try to get at least a couple of hours rest, if not deep sleep, tommorrow. Just thought you should know what we've been up to!!