Saturday

After reading about Elder L Tom Perry talking about work and teaching children to work and saying that he would spend Saturday morning working with children and Saturday afternoon playing with them - I realised we sometimes skip the second part. So this Saturday after mowing and so on at home and a working bee at Pine, we took lemon bread for afternoon tea and went to see the APT at GoMA. It's spectacular.

We love the APT because it's cheery art - usually.

Then - because we have afternoon church this year so it doesn't matter so much what time we get to bed - we went to Mt Glorious for a night hike. Just the rain forest circuit - 1.9 km - dense air, lots of frog sounds, a funnel web spider that Roger teased with a stick, a little mouse like marsupial , an so on. Lee and Joan came too - they were out checking the orientation of their house and fortuitously arrived just as we were about to go.

And Jesse, Peet, Louisa and Max slept on the front verandah - I think it's been a week since they slept inside - we could manage with a two bedroom house -one for us an one for the kids clothes.

Max is in the hammock.

Prince Street

QPI (well, mainly Lee) is part way through a renovation of a house in Toowoomba - Jesse and Peet have been working with Lee and earning some spending money. Peet is very proud (as he should be) of all the work he is doing.

Daniel is working there too for the next few days - sore muscles are sure to follow.

An almost before photo - actually a lot of work has already been done - including the driveway and some painting.

Work Day

We spent Saturday - Australia Day - working on the yard. All the kids got stuck in and weeded, mowed, tidies, swept and so on. Now - even though an inexperienced eye may have trouble seeing it - the yard looks heaps better - and I can replant the herb garden.

The herb garden was in such a sorry state that it took almost all day to weed. We even tied the clump of lemon grass to the back of Alec's forerunner and pulled it out - along with three of the sandstone blocks that made up part of the garden bed.

Louisa's garden got weeded too.

A full day of everyone working and being able to see some progress at the end is my idea of a good day.

Jesse made a wreath from some of rosemary that we pruned.

LilyRhadika came out and slept over on Friday night. Lily, Louisa, Max, Peet & Jesse stayed at home while Roger and I went to the temple and Alec went to a party (which Max tells us is the right thing for him to be doing at his age). Nobody went to sleep till after midnight - they were all up racing around the yard till then.

Louisa and Lily woke up early for a swim then helped with the work and played all day. I made Lisha's lamb roast - which was declared the best lamb roast ever made - and we had a fire at night for s'mores - which Jesse is a bit addicted to - and finally took Lily home at 8.30 pm. All of which made for some exhausted people around here.

Jesse also taught Lily to ride the postie bike in the middle of all that.

After Lily and Louisa left, Max and Jesse were still sitting around the fire. Max told Jesse that he feels a bit lonely when Lily comes over because Louisa mainly plays with Lily. He said it was fun playing on Friday night - but he felt lonely the rest of the time. Jesse assured him that she would play with him if he was ever lonely - so Max hit her up for a sleepover in the lounge room that night. So Max, Jesse and Peet slept in the lounge room- and Louisa slept with us - she was so tired she couldn't sleep alone!