Fathers Day in Australia
Well I'm sure I'm the slackest daughter/wife on the planet today as I didn't get anything for any of the fathers in my life until TODAY! I will just blame my lack of routine, my feeling unwell and being completely over run with family visits since our arrival in QLD! Pssht they are my excuses and I'm sticking to them haha.
I decided against going to the markets today, namely cause I'm still not feeling 100% so I'm still not sleeping very well (disturbing dreams, tossing turning, coughing, sweating/shivering), and my voice still isn't back to normal. It started disappearing 2 days ago now, yesterday it was almost completely non-existant and I spent most of the day whispering, today I can talk again I just sound funny.
So because I didn't go to the markets today (and tbh I really don't feel like ever going back :/) I got to sleep in for the first time in AGES!!!!!!! HUZZAH! It felt oh-so-good to drag myself out of bed at 10.45. I cannot exclaim enough about how I love to sleep-in. Needless to say I got up and thought I'd better go out and get some Fathers Day presents before the day dwindled to nothing. Mike informed me he wanted cake, so I got some lovely Boston mudcake from the cheesecake shop. I do love the boston mudcake but I walk into that shop and just drool at all the other lovely cakes I could get. Unfortunately the cake is for him for fathers day so boston mud it is, not the double-choc strawberry torte that I would have loved to get! or even the caramel mudcake or even the marble milk choc/white choc mudcake that had the very groovy happy fathers day decorations on top.
Apparently the money mom left here cause she didn't want to take it back to canada (oh to have the flippancy with money to just fob off a couple hundred dollars cause you couldn't be arsed taking it back home with you!) was to buy Storme a pair of shoes, so we did that today. He got a new pair of lynx which he likes very much but were more expensive than his Nike's! However it left me still with enough money to buy the cake with the remains of the money so that's ok I guess. Then I got a card for Mike n Dad and got them both some scratch cards. Apparently no packs up here like they do in SA so I just randomly picked a few for them. Dropped one child off at his dad's place, dropped the other child off at her dad's place, then dropped myself off at my dad's place hehe. Spent a half hour with Dad then came home having done my daughterly duties... which lets face it, is more than I've done the past decade!
It was kinda nice at Dad's though tbh. It was him and ALL his kids. That's a first for a very long time and I don't know if he noticed but I did and it was nice. Y'know Jarrod may be annoying at times but he truley is a loving creature and for that I can't help but love him. He makes me want to strangle him often but at the end of the day, I'm really glad he's my brother. I love all my brothers in their own ways. I'm glad I live near them. I'm glad I've been given this opportunity to get to know them a little better.
Maybe next year, if I'm not working, I'll organise a BBQ or something for the fathers in my life. There's quite a few really! Maybe next year I'll be better prepared and see about getting real gifts rather than the easy scratchie option ;) though I do love that option!
Anyway, I hope Dad felt at least a little special and a lot loved today. I do love the man, even if he too drives me a little crazy... though in all honesty who doesn't? Even I drive myself a little crazy sometimes, so what hope does anyone else in my life have? I wouldn't have it any other way though.
THERE! A POSITIVE POST! SO :P
I decided against going to the markets today, namely cause I'm still not feeling 100% so I'm still not sleeping very well (disturbing dreams, tossing turning, coughing, sweating/shivering), and my voice still isn't back to normal. It started disappearing 2 days ago now, yesterday it was almost completely non-existant and I spent most of the day whispering, today I can talk again I just sound funny.
So because I didn't go to the markets today (and tbh I really don't feel like ever going back :/) I got to sleep in for the first time in AGES!!!!!!! HUZZAH! It felt oh-so-good to drag myself out of bed at 10.45. I cannot exclaim enough about how I love to sleep-in. Needless to say I got up and thought I'd better go out and get some Fathers Day presents before the day dwindled to nothing. Mike informed me he wanted cake, so I got some lovely Boston mudcake from the cheesecake shop. I do love the boston mudcake but I walk into that shop and just drool at all the other lovely cakes I could get. Unfortunately the cake is for him for fathers day so boston mud it is, not the double-choc strawberry torte that I would have loved to get! or even the caramel mudcake or even the marble milk choc/white choc mudcake that had the very groovy happy fathers day decorations on top.
Apparently the money mom left here cause she didn't want to take it back to canada (oh to have the flippancy with money to just fob off a couple hundred dollars cause you couldn't be arsed taking it back home with you!) was to buy Storme a pair of shoes, so we did that today. He got a new pair of lynx which he likes very much but were more expensive than his Nike's! However it left me still with enough money to buy the cake with the remains of the money so that's ok I guess. Then I got a card for Mike n Dad and got them both some scratch cards. Apparently no packs up here like they do in SA so I just randomly picked a few for them. Dropped one child off at his dad's place, dropped the other child off at her dad's place, then dropped myself off at my dad's place hehe. Spent a half hour with Dad then came home having done my daughterly duties... which lets face it, is more than I've done the past decade!
It was kinda nice at Dad's though tbh. It was him and ALL his kids. That's a first for a very long time and I don't know if he noticed but I did and it was nice. Y'know Jarrod may be annoying at times but he truley is a loving creature and for that I can't help but love him. He makes me want to strangle him often but at the end of the day, I'm really glad he's my brother. I love all my brothers in their own ways. I'm glad I live near them. I'm glad I've been given this opportunity to get to know them a little better.
Maybe next year, if I'm not working, I'll organise a BBQ or something for the fathers in my life. There's quite a few really! Maybe next year I'll be better prepared and see about getting real gifts rather than the easy scratchie option ;) though I do love that option!
Anyway, I hope Dad felt at least a little special and a lot loved today. I do love the man, even if he too drives me a little crazy... though in all honesty who doesn't? Even I drive myself a little crazy sometimes, so what hope does anyone else in my life have? I wouldn't have it any other way though.
THERE! A POSITIVE POST! SO :P