Week 2
This week was mostly about eating.
Monday
Kian cooked nachos for dinner, including making guacamole from scratch! Yummy.
Tuesday
Dad made shepherd’s pie again. Also yummy. I snuck some mushrooms in, which the children didn’t seem to notice. Until I told them about it the following day, when they claimed they knew all along.
Wednesday
Or Whacked Out Wednesday, as we like to know it. I got home from work in time to drop Kian at basketball training, came home and put some pasta on, which I gulped down while Temma and Grandma took their time to enjoy. I raced back to basketball to pick up Kian, and he ate dinner when he got home.
Thursday
Chicken strips and steamed vegetables. I remembered slightly too late that the flour goes before the egg. Doh. A bit of back and forth and it was all good.
Actually, eating wasn’t all that happened. Wednesday was Open Day at school, so Temma made some “citrus delight” cookies Tuesday night. Our oven managed to burn them a bit, so we had to “cull” a few… but a dozen or so actually made it to school. Kian was playing violin in The Trillers, so he gave us a sneak preview.
Grandma went up to school to take part in the open day on Wednesday morning. She was very impressed with the friendliness off the school community, including being offered a lift home by the school council president. And also with Kian’s violin playing.
There was more special activities on Thursday: Japanese Day and the inter-school cross country race. Natalie brought around a kimono for Temma to wear for Japanese Day, which was very cute.
Kian was one of the team representing the school in the cross-country. He came 29th out of about 80 kids, which was a pretty good effort. I think he could probably have done better, because he wasn’t nearly tired enough Thursday night.
I guess that about wraps it up. One more day of school and work, and an evening of cleaning the house… then a very early morning to pick up mummy and Dal from the airport!
