Monday 23rd December 2013

This week went with the speed of light.  Our weather has been hot with little or no rain.

Tuesday 17th December 2013 was a very hot day so I did not play golf - opting to stay home and do some catching up around the house in the airconditioning

Wednesday 18th December 2013 I went over to the Golf Club early to do some gardening and worked until 2.30pm.  Then it was home for a nanny nap.

Thursday 19th December 2013 we went out to Erina to do the last of our Christmas gift buying.  While at Erina we had coffee with Lynn Puiatti who told us that her first grandchild's birth was imminent.  On our way home we stocked up on our liquor supplies for Christmas.

Friday 20th December 2013 we went household food shopping and then to Bunnings for a few things and came home with two new roses and some petunias.  That evening we met Anne, Joel and Emily at the Golf Club for the Children's Christmas Party which they enjoyed.  We had dinner at the club and won a meat tray in the raffles.  Joel loved Santa - but Emily was not too sure.

Saturday 21st December 2013 Anne picked me up about 7.15am to drive to Sydney for the Wiggles Concert with Joel & Emily.  We had a good run through to Acer Stadium where the concert was being held and arrived an hour early which gave us a chance to have some morning tea before the show.  Joel liked the show but was not as taken as Emily was.  She knows all the names of the wiggles and all the songs, sang and danced along with her favourite ones.  We had a slow trip home with the Sydney traffic but it was not too bad when we got onto the highway. I can now cross "The Wiggles Concert" off my Bucket List!   We were home about 2.30 which was not too bad.  That evening I made some rocky road to have on Christmas Day.

Sunday 22nd December 2013 I was up early to water the gardens and to dead head the roses which have been suffering a bit in the hot weather. at 10.30am we left for golf to play in a team event with Arthur Collien and Kay Frewin.  Our original playing partners pulled out because of the heat and Kay and Arthur's partners pulled as well so we were able to play as a team in a 1 X 2 X 3 event.  Kay played really well and won the ladies singles event and I broke my handicap so it was a good day.  We also won a ball in the team event.  After golf we, Kay and Arthur and some of our golf friends went to dinner at the Grange Hotel.

Monday 23rd December 2013 was F-Troop Day and I was minding Joel and Emily for the day while Anne went to work.  Peter went to F-Troop early and I came over later with Joel and Emily.  I took them around in our golf cart which they loved and they "helped me" until morning tea time.  It was a very hot day so I brought them home before it got too hot.  Emily had a sleep and Joel cooled down in the wading pool. At 2.15 I went down to Gosford to have my nails and a pedicure done for Christmas and left Peter to mind the two littlies until Anne picked them up after work at 3.30.  He did a good job and both Joel and Emily were happy to stay with him.

Tomorrow is going to be a hectic day doing everything I can possibly do to prepare ahead of time for Christmas Day in the hope that we can have a nice relaxing day on Wednesday with not too much work to do.  We are having an Open House as the kids and family are going to be arriving at different times so we will just graze all day.