Double trouble

I think this weekend has meant double trouble for Kristian!  He has had two Lauras to cope with for most of the weekend - each one as crazy as the other!

The weekend did start relatively calmly. I had an appointment at the hairdressers straight after work. Then it was home to welcome my mother-in-law who was coming to see us for a quick visit. She was going out to eat up at our end of the woods (so to speak) and so she thought she would drop by for a quick coffee. She was also wanting to see what more we had done with the house. It was great seeing her, even though it was only for a short time. Andrew was allowed to drive her car down to the petrol station to give it a wash, something that put a smile on his face!

Friday evening I spent at the hospital with my old lady friend. They are still running scans and tests.

Saturday I was up early and on the move. I had a house to clean, a daughter to collect from a sleep over at church and a bit of shopping to do. It was then home to prepare Sunday school.

However, because neighbour Laura and I were forever running over to each other to talk about one thing or another, neither of us were getting much done, so we made a plan! 

We would meet up and work together that evening. She would work on all her teaching projects for next week and I would work on Sunday school.

So at 7.12pm we met up in our living room. We actually did some work and didn´t talk (at least not the whole time!). It was a bit like being back at school, working in the library, with a good friend across the way!

We really did achieve a lot.

Today after church I went to see my friend John´s art work. He is such a fantastic artist and he had a display at the local fitness centre. 

It was then home to work for a few hours on the house. Kristian and Andrew worked on the garage while Laura and I worked on cleaning the outside of the house. We both got cavity wall insulation put in at start of the week and the place was covered in dust from the drilling. So I scrubbed and she rinsed and we soon had the place sparkling clean!

Kristian and Andrew also did a great job on the garage!

Above - the garage before.

Above - the garage now. We still have a bit of clearing up to do, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel!

So after all our hard work we decided to eat dinner together. We ordered Pizza which Andrew treated us too! (When he heard what I planned for dinner he was not impressed! not one of his favourite dishes so he was willing to do anything to get out of eating it....off course it also meant he got to drive the car to go and get the pizza!)

We had a great time planning all the traditions that we are going to introduce out here. From Spring clean up parties to harvest celebrations to carol singing to toboganing, Now we can hardly wait for the snow! We did get a bit carried away with all the things we want to do. Bless Kristian, he just shakes his head and smiles. I really don´t think we have time to go to work with all the things we have planned! haha

Laura made a delicious cake for us all and we stuffed outselves with that and ice cream. All in all a rather perfect weekend!