Tuesday, July 5, 2011

A blog's ebb

These past months I've been bogged down by work. And by that I mean not only paid work, but also volunteer work. One is something I've been doing for more than three years now--clerical, data entry, payments processing work at a charity. Another is basically a slew of school volunteer jobs.  Note that I haven't even mentioned household work--of which I've received much help from Mr. Nest (vacuuming, tidying up) and our houseguest (washing up in the kitchen, sometimes hanging laundry to dry when I need to run off after running the washing machine).

My job has kind of peaked at this same time because of the liasion/coordination entailed among a travel agency, clients and a European counterpart after the deadline ended in mid May and logistic work has then ensued.

Family-wise, we've been running around. A large part of our life has been football (for the littlest one that's twice a week) and fencing competitions (foil) for the older boys. These happen around April to July. So you can just imagine the training sessions (4 times a week. I know, I know, you don't have to say anything!), competitions on a Saturday or Sunday.

I've got too much to say that I don't know where to begin, so just forget it. I've got lots more photos, actually. So I might just give that space instead of the stuff in my head.



Meals and packed lunches for school and work 



home made sausage rolls (above)


porcini mushroom risotto (above)


playdates, lunch dates and coffees with friends (mine!), picnics and playing in the park


(and play often means storming out in  a huff )


fencing training and all those translated into 3-minute bouts toward a gold (yes, we did!)



another year of cadet training under the belt and a boy inches toward manhood


a trip to town after organizing a send off and farewell to a school choral mistress; another one was organizing another teacher's birthday surprise and presents.


 flying off one early winter morning to Melbourne for work and back (taken at the train station on the way to the airport)

walking to work




1 comments:

lapizlaz said...

Running around is infinitely more rewarding than slumped somewh mind empty. You are on track. When u get i nto your sixties and seventies you won't be done, still vibrant and creative and strong. Your kids will be a crown of glory to you, like mine.

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