Catching Up

SO much has happened!! I haven't been near the computer in a week!
About a month ago my brother, Tim, went over to the States to visit a girl he had befriended over the internet. A fornight ago he got home and Michael got up at 5am to catch the 6am train into the city to meet the 8.30 am plane that my brotyher was on!
The boys were coming back here, so I stayed at home with the four children, and we did the fortnightly grocery shop! We went and got Macca's for lunch ($30!!!!!!!) and then we went to Aldi and then to Woolies and Coles, arriving back home for a late lunch.
Daddy and Uncle Tim arrived home at around 2pm ... train trouble .... use your imagination :P.
During the time they were away I also had a call from Mum that resulted in us bringing Tim home and staying the night at Mum and Dad's place! Needless to say I was WIPED OUT!
Eli did not want to sleep that night, and so the next morning I felt like death, but I still managed to visit Miriam and Ryan before we drove home again.
I had only bought carrots and potatoes on the shop, because we have all the other veggies we need out of the garden. I am so pleased! We haven't bought much in the way of veggies from the shop in about a month as the garden has been doing REALLY well! I have been getting cabbages, silverbeet, spinach, collard, mustard greens, cauliflower, kale, mizuna, white radish, and fennel, and the broad beans are flowering, so we will have beans soon too :D I have my seedling s of eggplants, capsicum, cape goosberry, radishes, parsnips, snow peas and chilli all planted, and they should be popping up real soon, AND on the window sill I have some carrot heads growing :D
We bulldozed throught the back yard on Monday with the herdge trimmer and the lawn mower, and BOY! I didn't realize how badly it needed it! It looks SO much better now!!
On Wednesday we were on the road again to Mum and Dad's place, this time to help Miriam and Ryan move. Miriam is still having morning sickness, but she coped REALLY well! Much better than I would have!
Eli had conjunktivitis (yeah, spelling bad, but you know what I mean) and on Thursday when we were moving them he looked terrible, with a little white swollen face and purple/red bags under his gooey eyes. Poor wee little man. I was washing his eyes out with salty water everytime they sealed shut, and he slept in the car almost all day. We did two car trips of stuff with the trailer before we called it quits, and then Michael did another one without me with just them and my brothers.
They have a beautiful house that over looks the river. The rent is quite a bit, but it is a three bedroom house with a study and two enclosed veranders and a nice back yard:)
Friday we did not leave as we planned as I was very sick. And during this day we got a call from the chap looking after our animals that Spud seemed to have jumped the fence and nicked off, as he was not there, but Gaspode was, and there were no holes. *sigh*
We left on Saturday afternoon with My brothers helping Miriam and Ryan to move the last of their stuff.
Got home and I was so stuffed up in the head I could smell NOTHING but every one else was almost knocked over by the smell of mouse (heheh!).
So Michael got to cleaning the cages straight away while I emptied the car, and then he had to scrub the kitchen floor when he was done thanks to scrabbling filthy footed dogs, AND clean the shelf where the sleeping bags lived as we had discovered when we took them down this last time it was covered in mould, and I wasn't about to have the sleeping bags put up there again till it was cleaned!
I heard that tea tree oil is a mould repellent, so we are trialing this theory to see if it is true. Michael spayed the whole area after he had cleaned it, and we shall see what happens :)
By the time Michael had done with all that I had emptied the car, put it all away, gotten dinner on (frozen pizza, chippies, and garlic bread) and had had a shower and gotten the children though the bath.
We watched Call of the Wildman (Turtleman) during dinner, then the children rolled into bed, and I followed while Michael washed up, emptied the bath into the grey water tank, and had a shower. My hard working boy!!
Today we had a lovely quiet Sunday School because the chocolate babies were not there, and then this afternoon so far I have made a double batch of wheatbix biscuits, a chocolate marmalade cake (still cooking, it had better hurry up or else I can't cook a roast this arvo!) and got a loaf of bread cooking!
Spud is in the pound and he will have to stay there till Monday as they are closed over the weekend. I only hope they do not charge us for the weekend as that would be rather unfair since they give us no option of doing anything about it!!!
Okay, no you are all caught up :P