July..

18 Days till my Miss 8 becomes Miss 9! Gees how time does fly! Not always when you are having fun as they say either. It has been a hard 12 plus months with her, but I do have days where I think we may be getting somewhere! So, have no idea what we will do, something small and for the family only I think. She doesnt really have any great friends here, so I'm not sure if she will want to do anything. PLus it all depends on if Ray is working as well. It will take us a little while to catch up after him having most likely a month off work!

Today is awful. Not the day, outside it is how it should be in June July here. Sunny and warm. Inside- cool and cold, needing a blanket. I have no energy. I havent done for a week or so, just ran dry. Is annoying as I needed to keep my numbers heading downwards as there is now only 2 months till the end of winter and I would love to be knocking doors on the 80's. TTOM doesnt help either though. All I want to do is sleep and eat. Went outside, cut a few dead roses off, took clothes off the line, watered some plants and that was it. Enough. Started well with the eating - scrambled eggs with mushroom, onion and ham on wholegrain toast - followed by Rays pancakes and little cakes! ARG!! Hate it when I do that! Havent got to the gym for 3 days or even a walk, so even the exercise is lacking! So with the excess fluid and no gym work, I am not expecting a nice number this week. To be honest, I'd be happy to stay the same!

Went to the Townsville show. Was good, the girls liked it. We took them on as many rides and games as we could. These things are just so expensive! They seems to enjoy the showbags they got and the prizes they won. We were there for around 5 hours and poor Miss 4 couldnt keep her little eyes open by the end, she fell asleep on the walk back to the car. Made sure we had lunch before we left so we didnt have to spend money on food.. As you can see by the balloons, we ended up with 10! I just kept telling Miss 8 to keep getting them; they were free!!! So the boot was full and the girls thought it was great! I missed having the big balloons with all the teddys and stuff in them though, that was a shame as I would have liked to have got one for them. Maccas for dinner on the way home, I was not cooking after a day like that!