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Well the kids are here for the weekend and I’m just not up to it.. I’m at home alone with a headache while they make a start on “drag about Saturday” as I call it.  Drag abouts are where the whole day centres on the kids activities, and we just get dragged about from eone to the other, from early int he morning to late at night.  This happens because all of their activities are back intheir home town an hour away, and it isn’t worth coming home in between times.  If the activities were close, we could jut drive them out and then come home in between.. but no.. we have to find hours to fill in a boring suburb with even the closest cinema 45 mins away, and having already spend an hour in the car to get there.. don’t really want to do that.  I try to avoid them whenever possible, all the driving spas my energy and the day is no fun.. it’s not like we even spend that much time with the kids on those days anyway.

So here I am at home, with a big grin on my face, while they are off doing their thing. 

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Sometimes I wonder if I’m just

We had skids for the last two weeks (winter holiday in )

I refused to take time off work to skid sit for the first week (we were away for the second week).. SD10 ended up going to camp and it was just SS13 here during the day. (DH came home for lunch to break it up, and we found a day camp for two days.) So he was home 3 days alone.

Now BB is only supposed to call between 5:15pm and 6:15pm Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

She made none of those calls. She called SS13 during the day on Friday, but he was out at a science day. She to DH on voice mail that she had been trying to call SS13 DURING THE DAY but could not get through. (His cell phone won’t work in out house )

No idea why she would call during the day when we were not home.

Except, that was when SS13 was UNSUPERVISED in our house, on the computer in our office, with all our private papers within arm’s reach.

I’m betting she wanted him to snoop. She is incessant about gathering information on us.. obsessed, really, and getting worse.

I feel like we are constantly under the microscope, with no privacy at all.

Which is something I told myself I would NEVER do.

DH is only allowed to call skids between 5:15 and 6:15pm every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. If he misses these times for ANY reason (including skid not having phone turned on etc.) BB’s response is TOUGH

DH missed a call the last holiday (because skids didnt answer) and called the next day. BB went off on him over email saying that she had talked to the kids about it and that they did not want him calling “outside of hours”.

So what does BB do when the skids are with us this holiday and the situation is reversed? Misses the Monday, Tuesday and Thursday calls and calls skid during the day Friday!

Skid told me and I said: Your Mum would have a cow if your Dad did that.

Skid: I don’t think so..

Me: She already did. She told us that you didn’t ever want him to call “out of hours”. Is that true?

Skid: I don’t mind him calling at all, unless I’m in the middle of something and can’t talk.

Me: That’s fair enough. Don’t worry about it, it’s not your fault. Sometimes I think your Mum misunderstands what you say to her.

Skid: Yeah, maybe.

Now I feel like this big.

BB turned up at our Church over the weekend.

We have had a new pastor this year. He was given our Church because he has been battling cancer and our church is pretty much known to run itself. It’s a soft place to land. There has been lots of speculation flying around the general community about his health. On Sabbath he spoke about his health and his ongoing battle.

Now BB does not know this man or his family. She has not been to our Church for 9 months, and she only came before to try to stir up trouble for us. When that didn’t work, and she was in danger of being reprimanded by the church management committee, she left in a huff, saying that the Church “had problems”.

DH mentioned it to SD10 (because we were worried about her coming back) and SD10 said “Mum just wants to know what the story with the Pastor is. She isn’t coming back.”

Personally, I find it rather ghoulish for her to turn up just to get the gossip on our dying pastor. She’s like one of those people who slows down to get a good look at accident victims on the side of the road after a car crash.

She’s soooooooo classy. Not.

Over a year ago.. we went to have our photos professionally taken.  I let DH choose which ones he wanted.. he did and the bill came to $3k!!!    Unfortunately it was done (I would never have paid that much for them) but I do have to say that now that we have them (a year of payments later!) they look really good. 

I’m going to scan them in and send them to folks, and today I came across a site that will let me put a slide show together to music!  Tonight when I get home I’m going to down load the software and have a go!  It’s relaly boring to look at other peoples photos, so the addition of music may cheer them up a little.  (Not that they are boring in any way.. *I* personally think they are great!)   If I was a scrapbooker I’d probably make some scrapbook pages out of them, but this is probably better because it allows us to email the photo’s around, including our “enhancements”.

The other thing this software does is let you put video’s to music.  I’m thinking that the next time I put revolution on our pet rabbit, who hates it, (but does a REALLY funny bunny-dance to try to get rid of it - with lots of shakes and rolls!) well that would just be hysterical to music!  (I know.. I’m a really mean bunny-mum!!)

Well I talked to DH last night about not letting the kids into our bedroom.

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