Week One - Diary 06/12/2009

I have decided with unconvincing enthusiasm, that I am going to attempt to keep a weekly diary on my blog. But as I know myself so terribly well, this endeavour will probably last a grand total of one week, hence the unconvincing enthusiasm...
I am beginning week one as of the first on December, Summer, and as you may have noticed I am already a week behind. Some weeks will contain very little, usually not because we've done little but because I have little time. Sometime perhaps just a photo or two, and sometimes mostly words, and other times, loads of photos
Whatever it ends up being, this is my endeavour for the next year...good luck to me.
Week One:
Sunday:
Danny and I set down our first ever batch of beer for fermentation. I bought Danny a home brew kit for his birthday in September, so two months later, we finally got around to doing it. I made the most of Danny being home to entertain the kids (by entertain I mean watching transformers with them), and did some sewing. I made a hat for Charlie, I was very impressed with it, it turned out so well.
Monday:
Was met at a park with friends day, it was all a bit windy and threatening to rain, but the kids had fun playing with their friends, which is what they do best...apart from making a mess. Baked my first sourdough wholemeal spelt bread (must take photo of this), it certainly isn't much to look at but it's yummy and chewy, just the way I like it. Tennis lessons. Read books...lots of little things
Tuesday:
We stayed at home (I think, Tuesday was a very long time ago, my medium long term memory is pretty bad) I honestly don't remember what we did Tuesday, I get back to that one day maybe.
Wednesday:
I spent the morning making food and doing kitcheny stuff while the kids played and Charlie slept. We went to a park for lunch and to meet with another home school group in our area, a nicer day this time, and sitting under the Morton Bay Fig Trees is always lovely. The boys enjoyed climbing the trees, playing on the skate park and crab hunting with their friends, although Josh had a buster on his scooter when it hit a bottle top just as he was trying a new trick...bummer. Later that afternoon, Josh went to a friends house for a play, a swim and dinner.

Thursday:

Early start to the organic farm in Rosebud for our veggies, and to the supermarket and the post office. Kylie and the boys came over for a play and a chat, the kids had really missed each other as we have not seen each other for weeks and weeks and they just love playing "boy games" together. Never seems long enough though. After lunch we went to basket ball in Frankston with some other homeschoolers. It's great fun, the kids really enjoy it, they have a great teacher who makes it fun for them. Eli was a little champ, and Noah was sinking hoops left right and center. After B Ball, we all came back to our house again, but with Josh's friend Ryan this time, he was coming for a sleep over, Kylie bought watermelon icy poles for us all...YUMMY.

Friday:

Stayed at home for most of the day, cooking again (I think we went through a box of wheat bix, an entire apple crumble, 4 pizzas), apart from having to check the mail and buy a baby monitor and a very successful trip to the Three Legged Chair (an op shop in Mornington), I love it when you score good goodies. The boys played war games all day, as you do when you are 11, 7 and 5 and a boy. I managed to sew a new hat for Eli too. We had our friend Adam over for dinner as his family is away in the UK at the moment, so that was nice.

Saturday:

Another early start, Josh had Tennis at Red Hill today and I was on duty so I had to do the rounds and pick up kids. Josh was excited because his Friend Jack was playing who he hasn't seen in ages. Unfortunately, the markets were on (well it would have been good had I actually planned to go to the markets and didn't have 5 kids with me and had some money to spend) WOW, talk about a crowd. It took me half an hour just to find a park and walk the two KM's back to the tennis courts. But we did it, and the kids all had a good day, didn't win but had fun as usual. Josh went to his dad's, then Charlie and I had an afternoon nap while the boys played and Danny worked on installing the inter cooler in the Patrol. We are hoping to bottle some beer this afternoon, but we'll see.