Day One.

Today is the first day of the rest of our lives... um, nope, well it is, but isn't every day? I never got that saying.

Today is the first day of....

4 WEEKS HOLIDAYS

I am just a little excited. Wolf hasn't had any significant amount of time off (like, more than a day for anything other than being sick) since January last year... 18 months ago! I will have Wolf home for 4 weeks straight!

We'll see if I am still this excited by Wednesday.

We have lots planned, I am hoping we do at least one day trip each week and the last week we are hoping to head up to Cairns/Atherton/Port Douglas/Somewhere North of Here to have a real get-away-from-everything holiday (our anniversary falls in that week too... second honeymoon with kids in tow maybe?... maybe not). The last time we had a holiday that was just a holiday and didn't involve Wolf visiting one of the other stores to fix/train/placate something or someone or wasn't visiting family was... well, I can't remember, it was pre-Dragon days I'm pretty sure, possibly pre-Lion days! I am so looking forward to getting away! We had so much holiday time owing that we got/will get paid out for some of it so that helps to pay for actually going away for a bit.

Other than that we are cleaning! Monday is 10 weeks to baby so we have lots to get done to make room for person #5 in this little house. Wolf and I have quite different cleaning styles. It makes us want to kill each other causes lots of "discussions" when we clean together. One thing that needs to get done is the double garage needs to be cleaned out (we only need one side so the other is storage). Hopefully Wolf will just reverse the ute up to the roller door and leave me alone to start throwing things out. At one stage (getting ready for baby #2) I got a ute load ready for the dump but we never got around to borrowing the ute to take it so it has integrated back into the rest of the chaos. The ute now (and has for over 12 months) lives at our house on semi-permanent loan so we can do this any time but it's a BIG job. Thankfully not a back breaking one so I can do it without too much interference help. It'll only be once I get to the section that has been our home office (yes, in the garage, we are all class and a little strapped for space) that I'll need to get Wolf to move boxes of books and such. Once that is all figured out hopefully I can start looking for a small second hand chest freezer to store leftovers and bulk meat and stuff... shh, don't tell Wolf... we are yet to discuss that one.

So, where might we head to on our day trips??? Paronella Park, Balgal Beach (maybe a night or two in the family beach hut) Charters Towers or Ravenswood to let the boys go feral in the dirt and try to find some gold that they missed back in "the rush" or explore the gun hides from the war, I am sure there will be a visit to Frosty Mango for some icecream somewhere in the 4 weeks. I have an invite to a ladies day at Magnetic Island next Sunday with the girls from my mummy group. We met at antenatal classes with our firsts and have just kept catching up and adding to our families as the years have passed. I think I might be spending my birthday money on that one since it's not like I'm popping out for coffee with the girls, there's the ferry across, bus pass once there, my friends all married "well" and many of them have gone back to work so lunch wont be at the local fish'n'chip shop, they are classier than me that. Me, well, I pick and choose which things I go to, moderation is the key:) This one sounded like a lot of fun though!

There are some little repairs that need to happen around the house too... things that when we were talking of moving I made a mental list of what we would need to fix up before we could sell... we then decided that we can't sell up at the moment and we'll just make do but I though "you know what, why should we be living with a screen on the laundry and servery that don't unlock anymore, bathroom fittings that are yellow and breaking and yucky, etc... We deserve to have doors that work and fittings that look nice so we should just do them for us! Why fix them for someone else and ignore them for us?" So those are my small goals... about $100 worth of fittings for the bathroom in something that isn't white plastic, a locksmith to fix the two broken screen latches, doing our darndest to try to remove the dodgy screw from the shower screen to replace the broken bit with the new bit we have had sitting there for ages but can't put in because we can't get the old screw out to stop the screen opening in the wrong place. Geez, one of them is even free, next to impossible but free none the less.

So...

Holidays here we come!