Chants's Journal, 23 August 2008

I've not been journalling as much as I'd liked over the past week. The lull in work is slowly picking up due to my bosses work commitments in Beijing coming to an end and having to make sure her travel arrangements are up to scratch for her return to the UK! She's had an amazing time out at the Beijing Olympics and learned alot... alot of which is grounding for our team putting on the best Olympics in 2012 that the world has ever seen! So she's back in a fortnight's time and while she's been gone I've kinda got lazy... net week is crutial in making sure that everything she's asked me to do while she's been away is completed perfectly... whew it's going to be a very busy week!

Last night we picked up my partners son for his 1 week stay with us over the summer holidays. I'm looking forward to having him here with us as I have alot planned for him. Today we are going out to get the last of his Daddy's birthday bits. Tomorrow we fetch my partners eldest son and he too will be staying for a night or two, then we also have his brother-in-law's annual birthday bbq and I've arranged a little treasure hunt for the children who are coming. On Monday it is a public holiday so as a birthday present to my partner we are going to have a tour of his favourite football team's (soccer)stadium. The boys aren't looking forward to this as they support other teams... trust kids to be difficult! LOL. On tuesday, it is my partners birthday and the boys will be going to a day's holiday football academy and that will give my partner and myself a little time for ourselves. I'll be going back to work on Wednesday! Whew... that's only 3 of the next 7 days... wish me luck!

Last night, after we'd fetched the little one, I decided we'd have a seafood stirfry. The little one will try anything so I showed him what was going into the dish and he watched me make it... it was purely veg and then I added a few muscles, squid and bits of crab meat. He wanted to know why there weren't any noodles so I added a little (for effect of course) Stir fry noodles in! i must say, it was a resounding success! I loved it, my partner loved it, and the little one loved it!He wanted to know who taught me how to cook such YUMMY food! I laughed at that because although my mother is a brilliant cook, we never had things like stirfry as children... it was all healthy food but not this healthy! (my mom is a professional dancer so she's passed down the healthiness onto my sister and I... it was just our choices when she wasn't watching that made us put on weight - oh and my gramma's rice pudding!)

So it's now 7:30 on a saturday morning.. I can hear the little one stirring in his bedroom - he knows not to come down until the clock says 8 0 0 (Eight Oh Oh as he says it!)and he hates that so I think I'll put him out of his misery and get our day started!