Twice the Fun

28th March

4 days after Lynne and Chris's wedding we celebrated Aaron's 9th and Ben's 5th Birthdays.

The best parts (according to the boys) were the respective Lighting McQueen and Harry Potty Birthday Cakes and the Egg spoon race that turned into egg throwing sessions.

Egg Throwing is a great family tradition from my side of the family. My Dad has all these theories about how you need to throw the egg (angle/speed etc) to get the fartherest distance.

Gotta watch those stray egg throws by some kids though;-)

Ben starts School

27th and 28th March

Finally it's happened, it's taken 5 (sometimes long) years, but my youngest child has entered the world of full day education.

Very Cool

I was probably more upset than him at leaving kindy. I have being very involved with the teachers and committee there since Oct 2000. Looonnng time, cool time, made friends forever and helped the centre grow and adapt to a Kindergarten from a playgroup.

Ben of course was only interested in what kind of cakes (FOOD) his Rannie and I made to give to the kindy kids on the last day, and what his favourite song would be to choose( NOISE). (the Snake dance song).

He was a bit apprehensive at first about school - lotsa rules, normal teacher away sick, no friends all made for a boy that didn't want to go for a week, but tough love and he has settled in. ..well sort of, whats a few time-outs a day anyway??

There is still that eerie feeling that I should be doing somethings around 11.30am - like remembering to pick up someone from kindy... weird, I've had to drive somewhere in the middle of the day for 6 1/2 years. It may take some time for that habit to break!

Cheers

Megs

Finally - an update

Firstly thanks for looking back at this blog in the never ending hope I will update someday..

and apologies for taking so bl***dy long to do so!

Things have been soo busy here, and that's not just lip service. Truely, ...very busy . There's lots of news to catch up on. Might take a couple of blog entries to bring you all up to date.

Here goes..

24th March (audio anouncers voice) When we left the Lamont Family they were busy helping prepare for Lynne and Chris's wedding. In this episode we find out if they finally managed to fix the computer in time for the slide show, and if Megan still fitted her bridesmaids dress...

Yep, the wedding was cool. Nope, not all parts of the speech slide/show thing worked because of a technicality (we didn't know the DVD from overseas was going to be in quicktime), and yes I still fitted the dress,

Even the weeks of hardout chocolate bar eating under stress didn't alter the figure too much (go figure - perhaps it could be a new diet).

A very cool part of the wedding was that it was held in Mum and Dad's Garden, which is the same as Pete and I but a very different garden is now there since the 12 years ago when we were married (Hi Hun).

Mum has planned this garden (and house) renovation for a long time, and as they say There is nothing like a wedding to get the job done. So here's what it looked like after the demolition stage and here's what it looked like on the day of the wedding. BIG Difference.

The speeches were the best part of the whole night. Lots of emotions, highs and lows, laughs and cries, and Lynne did the best speech I have ever heard a bride give.

We only had a couple of days to recover (and clean up) because 4 days later Ben started school!! Wohoo, so see the next post.

Stay tuned for our next episode, when you'll hear "Mum ..I don't want to go to school today.."