Jo and Dal’s Big Adventure—the home front
Thursday 5/5
I’m going to try to post occasional updates from the home front while Jo and Dal are away travelling the world.
The big day. We were up early and rushing about to take Jo and Dal to the airport. Temma was ready very early, because we told her she had to get dressed and ready for school if she wanted to come to the airport. Such achieved this goal, although 4:30am was probably overkill.
Despite leaving (predictably) later than intended we got to the airport at about the right time. Traffic on the ring road was much better than I remembered from my days of commuting to Footscray. There was a long and slow-moving queue at check in, so we pretty much had to go straight to the international doors (after a last minute nappy change for Dal). A hug and a kiss and off they went.
The kids and I came back home before school because Kian wanted to change into shorts and I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss the Coles guy. I left a “back in 5” note on the door while I ran the kids to school, which was just as well because he was waiting for me when I got back. He didn’t seem to mind at all, and was very cheery as he unloaded the boxes.
In between catching up on a few admin chores and squeezing in a few hours of actual work, I put the lamb shanks and some veggies in the big pot to make soup for dinner, following roughly along with Stephanie’s “middle eastern” lamb shank soup recipe. The kids seemed to think it was ok, which is lucky since there’s tons left over.
