Catch up - Part 1

*DISCLAIMER - Aj has not proof read this hehe

Well, we are a bit of a sick household at the moment, well, the girls that is. The last few days have included exhaustion, lots of sleep and all that yuckiness stuff. Aj took Monday & Tuesday off work to take care of us and is back at school today. I feel blessed to have him in a job where he can take carers leave even if he still has to prepare his daily lessons. I have three kids asleep as I write this and I am enjoying a rest myself.



Last Thursday two year 12 students/bible study friends, the three younger kids and I went off to find snow. It was the day that Aj took his Outdoor Ed students off to Cradle Mountain. Find his story here.


We ended up at Cradle Mountain too but only to the visitor centre. You see the fuel light went on a couple of ks from the visitor centre. Queue the pushing of Mel's panic button. We are on gas and not many places in Tassie sell gas so we had JUST enough to make it but to Ulverstone. I pushed it to the back on my mind and we played enjoyed playing in the snow near a creek for about an hour. MissZ LOVED it. It was amazing to hear 'I want to go home' and then 'Look, look, snow!!! I love snow' just minutes after. I found out that you can roll snow but it doesn't roll easily into balls and it falls apart when you try and lift large rolls. MrW was very weary of the cold white stuff at first but soon enjoyed it after finding out you could throw it at people. Yes, a few snow ball fights were had. MissO hated it. She was cold and not her self. Maybe she had already started to feel sick and it didn't show up til the weekend.

We ate lunch in the cafe and headed back to Ulverstone. We made it to the fuel station on zero fuel in the tank. Ashlee said she thought we had been driving for about 5-6 ks on zero. I real God moment I believe. I really appreciated Kate and Ashlee joining me. I mean if it wasn't for them I would not have gone. The day included, adventure, laughter, and much happy chatting.

We made it back to town a few hours later than I thought so was grateful to friends for collecting MrT from school and allowing him to hang out with them for the afternoon.

A great day had by all.