What a wonderful weekend... Starting on Friday I was lucky enough to have the day off and head over to the school my kids (Master 12, Miss 11 and Miss 8) attend with my amazing and truly wondrous wife to mass produce around 20 homemade pizzas. Friday Fresh is a great canteen incentive that Jervois Primary (like many schools around the world) do to make sure the kids are getting a heathy, home cooked meal, have full tummies and it is also an opportunity to utilise some of the goodies grown in the school garden... Win! Win! Winners all round!!
Our home made pizzas with a wholemeal flour and Greek yogurt base are simple to make, extra yummy and oh so amazingly filling. I think a good 90% of the kids and teaching staff order Friday Fresh when they know we are in the kitchen.
Following on from a busy and satisfying Friday day we had a great tea and then settled in to watch HUGO for Family Movie Night... I just love this chance to all sit around and enjoy a fun, often funny family movie. Sometimes it is a DVD we bought of something we missed at the cinema, sometimes a movie we have streamed and often it is something I have spotted at work (our local library has a great DVD collection for all ages, very eclectic with something for everyone and then some)... In this instance it was the latter, a film we have had in the teen section which often gets borrowed. When Master 12 suggested he was reading the book the movie HUGO is based on as a class novel I thought it was time for us to borrow the DVD too and see just how great a film it is. All I can say is we all loved it (or at least what we all say of it). Great cast, great story and great pace had all of us highly entertained.
Following this I had a pretty good shift at the library on Saturday morning and (drum roll please)... The Murray Bridge Community Christmas Pageant. In similar fashion to other years I nominated to walk with my daughter, Miss 11 and her cousin Miss M on the local Girl Guide float which had a truly Aussie theme of A Beach Christmas. A quick shout out to a local company Longs Sand and Metal who donated the pile of sand that some of the Guides used to build sandcastles on the back of the truck as part of the float. Also a quick mention of the massive show of talent of the two Guides who played Totem Tennis while said truck made its way down the main street (Bridge Street), turned at the roundabout, headed down the steep Seventh Street hill and then weaved its way down to the Murray River. Also finally a thanks to the truck driver (cheers Nick!) who didn't run me over as I walked beside the truck spending the who walk throwing pretend buckets of water (made from blue steamers and tinsel) at all the kids that wanted lollies and all the families I know. I am truly not sure who had more fun... The Adelaide and Murray Bridge pageants over now for another year it is a huge reminder that crazy Christmas time is just around the corner...
A Law/Crook catch up followed after with the addition of a good mate (let's just call him Batman)... The boys settled in with a delightful glass of scotch and a fun game of Gloom (and guess who won... I mean lost... I mean I don't know what I mean...) while the sisters caught up and the kids just did what our kids love to do. Love so much that whenever our families catch up it all seems to just go smoothly...
That brings us to today... A lazy morning followed by a trip to the docs (nothing too sinister, just a check over one of the kids for piece of mind)... Another shift at work and then a lazy afternoon/evening fending of Shmunday (Sunday blending into Monday)... Sadly I still have some ironing to do but nothing I can't handle... Cannot wait to see what next weekend has in store...
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