A New Year.

We are already four days into a new year..... and as usual I am already behind with posting...
We are now on the Sunny Coast. The week after Christmas pasted in a real whirl. The kids were home we were out most days, just enjoying being together. We shopped, we went to the movies, we caught up with friends, and it warmed my heart that when it was time for them to go, they didn't want too... I love it when our time together ends with them not really ready to leave.

The day they left we felt a bit lost in the morning too. Just flat... we love having our kids around. The afternoon was busy, we had a visit from Sarah's in laws. Lovely folk, we get along well, it was nice to catch up with them, and then that night we had good friends over for dinner. They were back in Rocky passing through heading north.

Some highlights from our week home

We did plenty of shopping.
All kinds of shopping... clothes, new sheets, towels, house knick knacks lots of bargains, lots of specials. The girls got jewellery and shoes too. We stopped for coffee's and lunch, we all fitted in the movies on Boxing day, and on Tuesday we managed a real girlie day where we did this.

and we all managed one of these as well
The girls were most obliging and even though they aren't hugely impressed with a Mum with a camera, at least we got to document our special day. We try and fit in a day like this at least once a year. Such good fun when we do it all together.

We caught up with friends and went to coffee
Sarah's bridesmaid was also in town, so we got to go out for a coffee all together as well.

We also had fun working together at home. The annual mango peel took place
We had quite a few mangoes this year, so we did a lot of peeling and a lot of freezing. We will be able to have mango frappe's and smoothies hopefully for the next couple of months. I have a new receipe to try out. A mango and mint smoothie. it tastes divine.

I even managed to squeeze in a sewing lesson for my new sewing machine. I am SO impressed. I have never had a machine this fancy before. I cannot beleive how easy button holes are now. It even measures the size of the button and does it automatically for you. Just WOW WOW WOW... The kids had me mending things for them and altering a couple of the new dresses they bought on sale.
Finally I received this photo today from a friend. Thought it would be good to document it so that I can remind myself this year that this is what I want to do.
Must go, we are busy cleaning the house down at the coast.... lots to do and we are hoping to break the back of it today so that we can have a bit of a holiday next week. Will be back to share some more photos soon.