April 10, 2006
Just a perfect day.
We had a quiet weekend after we all woke up on Saturday with sore throats and snuffly noses. Curse this damn cold weather! (18C!)
Jacob did manage to make it through his weekly swimming class after which he was rewarded with a certificate marking his graduation into the following level. From next week it's Swimming-without-parents. Some children may be apprehensive about this but its what Jacob has been waitig for. The first step in a masterplan whose aim is to achieve our redundancy as soon as possible. Preferably before Easter.
Sunday he was obviously feeling better (she thought, ruefully) and we enjoyed some post-dawn (just) football while the rest of the universe slept. I'd had a nano-second or so the previous week to allow my thoughts to wander and had come up with some plans of my own. These involved the ripening cumquaats in the front garden so Jacob and Papa and I killed another hour or so picking said cumquats. I then spent an hour or so seeding and peeling a miniscule portion of the cumquats and discovering why no one makes cumquat marmelade anymore.
Plans for some winter vegies are also being hatched and so it was a quick trip to Bunnings before heading over to Tante Alix's to celebrate her birthday. The prospect of my sister's plastic dinosaur collection was enough to convince Jacob that he had better NOT have that afternoon nap so while he made it through the birthday celebrations the last of the day was ended on a tired-and-slightly-cranky note.
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