Despite the heat ridiculously early in the season, today has been a beautiful day of blissful domesticity.
It was Lazyboo’s turn for a sleep-in (something that only ever occurs rarely, I’m ashamed to say) and McBean decided that 545 was a good time to start the day. So I stumbled out of bed and went outside to lounge on the trampoline with him in the cool of the morning while he jumped around excitedly. After breakfast, Fenfox emerged from her room so we rushed some food into her and then went to the park for a couple of hours. McBean walked a really long way and the dog ran herself into exhaustion even before we went to the playground. At the playground, FenFox impressed me with her monkey bar antics and her newfound ability to swing herself (finally – it was like she had a mental block). McBean scrambled up stairs and ladders and down slides, ate dirt and asserted himself with an overly friendly little girl. Much fun was had.
Once we came home, Lazyboo was up and the rest of the day was spent in quiet relaxation (for the girls anyway, McBean ran around playing, messing, exploring, shouting, dancing as he usually does). We had a lovely sunday roast (foolishness on a 34 degree day but yum nonetheless), we gathered and labelled and packed up FenFox’s gear for her very exciting school camp to Mt.Eliza tomorrow. And then I had a two hour nap, as had McBean a little earlier.
When I got up we headed back outside where it was cooler than our little hotbox of a house and watched McBean jump on the trampoline again. FenFox sat under a tree and continued to read (her third book of the day). Lazyboo and I hung out some washing and installed the toddler seat on the back of my bike. Then it was time to get FenFox all washed and fed before she headed off to church with her Dad and R2 (it was a guides thing and I sure wasn’t going!) There were some lovely moments while FenFox was finishing her dinner and all of us (including R1 and R2) watched some video of FenFox as a 9 month old, exclaiming how R1 had hair then, and my hair wasn’t yet gray, and how we were babies with a baby.
After watching a little guy splash around in the bath (which ended suddenly after he repeatedly pulled the plug out), Lazyboo and I headed back outside with a beer (me) and some gin (Lazyboo) for a chat in the lovely cool evening. Then we came back in and cooked my favourite meal (beef madras) to eat tomorrow night, and a leftover frittata for us to eat tonight. FenFox was delivered home asking questions about why they use words like thee, thou and ye at church and exclaiming about the boredom of it all then she headed off to bed.
McBean has just woken up after discovering for the first time how to remove his nappy cover – I am glad that we chose the two part option and not the all in ones! A quick cold bottle and he’s back off to sleep.
Today was a good day.
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So I have a question…this may sound super crazy but what season is it right now in Europe? What’s the next season? Here in the US it’s fall/autumn and we are heading into winter. Maybe I’m just crazy and confused but I thought you said in this post the complete opposite of the seasons here!
Europe has the same seasons as the US. Here in Australia we run opposite to that, so we are in Spring, heading into summer.
Technically here in Melbourne we are in a temperate band, which should mean reasonably mild seasons, but all it means in practice now is blistering long summers and mild dry winters which feel cold because it’s so hot all the rest of the time.
Right now it’s 10.30 in the morning and it’s already over 30 C (86 F) – we’ve had a couple of days around 35 C now (95 F). And it’s still spring…