Hello Sailor

I forgot to mention yesterday that petrol is now 163.9 cents per lire. If I had to fill the car from empty it would cost $100. I am so glad we have LPG.

Today was a busy day. I went to work early (8.30) so that I could leave early as we had a birthday party to go to tonight (it was on from 4pm-7pm so we were going to miss some anyway).

Right now I am negotiating a discussion about who threw balls first. I reckon mankind have been throwing things at each other since the dawn of time (I daresay Eve chucked the apple at Adam when she gave birth for the first time, maybe she even chucked the whole tree).

Anyway....

I finished work at 4.30pm, went and collected Will and Scott, dropped them at the party, collected Matt, came back to the party. It is amazing how much noise ten boys can make! Surely girls aren't as noisy. It is like boys compete to see who can be the loudest! they had a Pinyata (wow, I don't know how to spell this word and I really can't be bothered looking it up). It was a papier mache balloon and Scott managed to break the stick over it, instead of breaking the thingy (lol). They found a thicker stick but still no-one could break it, so they ended up playing soccer with it until it broke! Pretty entertaining. Justine made it and had done layer after layer of paper, it was really thick. I find Pinyata's scary because of the stick, it is so easy for accidents to happen, but the boys were kept back and under vague control so nothing happened.

We stayed until after 7pm, I helped Justine with some of the cleaning up (it was Thomas's party, he turned 9). I was glad to go home, I had been feeling sick and headachy all day. I think I will have an early night. Matt is in bed and the other two are having a ball fight with the balls that I bought for the ball pit. This has been a pretty regular game for the last couple of weeks, I allow it as long as they clean up the balls.

Scott has completed his exams, he seems confident.

I spoke to Brenda tonight, she is doing fine and is looking forward to having bub. I am so excited about seeing her and having a cuddle with her baby. I have the quilts nearly finished, I'll do some major work on them this weekend.

We have soccer in the afternoon tomorrow, yay, I can have a sleep in until 8am, lol, if Matt lets me.

cheers
your wife