Sense Of Achievement

I have just taken this photo of the 2 boys. Brandon, Bailey and myself ventured over to our next door neighbours to look at his Christmas lights. They are absolutely lovely. Inspired by the extreme enjoyment and pleasure on the 2 boy's faces I piled them into the car and off we went to find and look at Christmas lights. We found some a few streets away. The whole street was lit up. We parked the car and the 3 of us got out to look at all the lights. The boys were so excited. The street even had a Santa there giving away lolly pops. I still can't believe that it's Christmas in only a few days.

The 2 boys and I had a busy day finalising things. We started off with my replacement Eftpos machine arriving for work. I thought they would do a clean swap, but the man installed it and activated it all. That's good. So now it's already to go. Once he had finished, I spent the next 45 minutes trying to get 2 boys dressed and then put suncream on them. It was a mission. I had sweat pouring off me. Finally to the garage where it takes another 10minutes to get the boys into the car. Again mission accomplished.

We had collected heaps more lovely things around our house that we just don't use so our first stop was to The Salvation Army to pass it on to someone else who may need it. We had boxes of kids clothes and toys and baby mobiles. You name it we had everything baby. Then we drove to a faraway shopping centre to drop in 2 entry forms that I had cut out from the paper to win a big screen TV. I just know that I am going to win! We all bought a drink each at the local bakery to rehydrate us so that we could keep on going.

We travelled into our local big shopping centre where we had many things to do. First up was all the banking. Done and relatively pain free. I never go into the bank anymore. I had forgotten how cumbersome it is. Anyway, from the bank we checked the PO Box. Then we went to BIG W to pick up our photos. We also had to buy some candles for my work and also a Christmas DVD. We went straight to the photos where I did a 180 degree turn and went back the other way. The que to collect photos was nearly 50metres long. There was no way I was going to wait. From here we went to get some candles for my work and then have a look at a Christmas DVD. We ended up with 2 DVDs, neither of which were Christmas related. I tried. The boys DVDs were - Thomas The Tank Engine (The first episode ever written.), and Meet Diego with Dora as well.

We eventually collected our BIG W photos when there was no-one in the que. I just walked straight up.and was served. BIG W led us to our next destination-The Newsagent. I was hoping that we may have won a huge chunk of money from Lotto, but alas, we didn't even get 1 cent, let alone our money back. I decided that it was home time so up the escalator we went. At the top we turned around and came back down. I had decided that this would be the only time I would have to get the last of Daddy's present. So I bought it. Now we really were heading home.

Both boys slept. So much so, that I had to wake Brandon up later in the afternoon.  We did washing and I managed to make some phone calls and then I got ready for work. Once daddy came home I went to get ready for my clients. My afternoon was spent at work. I can confidently tell you that daddy's afternoon was spent sneezing - for hours. He only stopped sneezing because he fell asleep on the lounge once I had finished work and was bathing the boys. We only have 3 more days until we are all on holidays. Can't wait. Once I had bathed the boys and got them dressed in their pyjamas, that's when we went off exploring our suburb for Christmas lights. I managed to get both boys organised, fed again, read to and then both to sleep. What a great sense of achievement. I really wanted to take the boys to look at Christmas lights and I'm glad that I did it.