A toxic day, well it was for Aj.

Thursday am

What a weird sort of day, very dark skies but no rain yet. There is a 90% chance of rain today and tomorrow though. (Poor Aj and his class are on an Outdoor Ed camp ;)

Yesterday we said goodbye to a couple who were just strangers last Thursday. We first met Chris & Hosanna on the Spirit of Tassie on our way back from Melbourne after Christmas; a coincidence. They are from Cairns and go to church with another couple who moved from Melbourne a couple of years ago. They were told to drop in on us while in Tassie.

We are so glad they did! Chris & Hosanna have been travelling and working their way around Australia for the last two years and spent their last five nights in Tassie with us. They slotted into our family seamlessly. Never have all four kids taken to people so well, as they did to these two. Hosanna and I talked and talked and talked. The conversations were both deep and light hearted, and we were able to talk about anything and everything. It felt like we had been friends for life. As you know I struggle with friendships especially as those I am closest to have moved away (and/or are interstate). It would have been nice for them to have stayed longer and if the timing was different I'm sure they would have. As Hosanna wrote in the visitors book "...our home is your home. You may want to wait until we move out of the tent though."

Thursday pm

Today I took the trailer to get some gravel to fill in the  pot holes in the driveway and only after it was full (1.25ish ton ) did I see a flat tyre...grrr. I crept up to the house of a friend who lived close by. It was not running on the rim but was very low. Up to the servo we went to pump it up. We got some funny looks - hehe. A cuppa and then home, twins in to bed, and out to spread the load. MissZ came out not long after and sat in the front seat of the car taking pics on my phone. Two funny things she said were,  "Are you having fun mummy?" and when asked if she wanted the radio on, "No, I like peace and quiet". MissZ is generally anything but quiet and peaceful. Cute kid.

The starts of it

Work in progress

What got spread around the turning circle

One of MissZ's many many pics

Oh and while on the subject of kids. I can't recommend more highly 'almost-two-year-old' twins....they are so very very cute together. Today MrW went to help MissO up from the floor by clapping and putting his hands out for her. After helping her to her feet, he made sure she was coming with him. They looked like Tellytubbies though as they helped each other up.

As I finish off this blog, I have received a text from Aj saying his day was toxic and it was lights out at 8. So early, MUST have been a huge day for the students. AND it is now raining heavily here.