Its been awhile...Hmmm...Mother's Day was fun....got spoilt my the children and had a lovely day. I bought myself an ipod...now to work out how to USE it ! Had to watch a youtube clip to be taught how to download...instructions from and eight year old ! How tragic !
Mum and dad went on a three week holiday to South Korea and Malaysia, Kula Lumpur and Singapore. I missed them - like A LOT ! They had fun but didn't like that the Korean people were not too friendly. The food wasn't much to their taste but the good company made up for that.
Since there was no Grandparents around to chauffeur them to and from school, Michaela, Madi and JB has to learn to catch the bus. Bit scary for the ole mum to let them attempt this...but everyone has worked it out and its all good ! They are happy to have the grandparents home too...but especially ME since I know that the public transport system has some scary looking customers !
What else? Oh. My permanency has been confirmed ! YAY ME ! So no more looking for a job every year ! Woo hoo !
Oh yeh...we have booked our tickets to go to Tasmania in December! We got a good deal and took it in case we looked again for a better deal and missed out entirely...it happens a lot. No tickets home yet....but we will be there for Freed's birthday. The children are most excited - well Madison and JB especially since they have never been in a plane before. The girls aren't too exited about the fact that we are ONLY taking hand luggage ! Hee hee hee ! It will be fine I'm sure. Looking forward to having a very cool Christmas. I get to leave work two days early and I've already booked those two days off.
Michaela starts work experience on Monday. She will be a waitress at Miss Maud's in the city. It will be "interesting" to see how that all works out. She recently has to complete an assignment on "Moving away from home". She had to research 5 jobs in her area of interest, find out how much she would earn, find 5 rental places and work out her budget for the place she liked the most, work out a budget for furnishing the place, find 5 cars and work out the repayment for the car she liked the best, do a two week menu and work out a food budget and work out her fortnightly expenses for water, electricity and gas. It was a VERY good assignment! I loved that they were teaching her such good principals for budgeting and showing her the realities of what life is going to be like!! Michaela actually got to see figures. She is now determined to NOT leave home because she said that she could not afford to live ! Ahhh....yeh....
