kids clothes
costumes
food for a week
my clothes
schoolwork from our last unit to return to teachers
art and crafts from my store
de-activated my ETSY store for a week
de-activated my MADE IT store for a week
swimming togs
shoes
hats
laptop and September invoices to process
mailbag
We're off to Julia Creek this afternoon for the week for mini school. All the kids from the Julia Creek area who do distance education with Mount Isa School of the air descend upon Julia Creek for the week and either camp at the sports oval or stay in motels. (I'll be motelling it ... and not afraid to say that - see my camping blog post) The kids then spend the week eating together at the main hall, exercising, doing schoolwork and fun activities with their friends that they hardly ever see.
For us mums, it's a week of (also eating together at the main hall) planning, cooking, working the kitchen roster and this year I'll be taking my art along with 2 other mums (Caroline Butcher and Karen Price - previously blogged about here) to see if anyone would like to buy some presents for Xmas!
One of the mums has also organized for us to learn the Marimbas... apparently some kind of African drum, so I've put my name down... see how that goes.
On Thursday night the kids will all dress up in their costumes, do a parade and interview on stage with one of the teachers for all to see. (Usually the dads all come in from their respective cattle properties on Thursday to see their wives completely frazzled after the week and the kids super excited to be sharing their costumes on stage).
My mum will be coming out for the week as well which is great - she gets to see the kids, catch up with all my friends as well as I can rope her into helping when I'm on kitchen duty and looking after my art store while I'm bashing the marimbas...
See you in a week!
ps. there's an obscene amount of food that we all take to feed the 30 families and so lots of things like lamingtons, peach blossoms, sausage rolls etc which we never have at home... possibly a new exercise regime will follow when I get back as well.
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| good old Aussie lamingtons - image via Pinterest |
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| mmmm... Peach Blossoms - EVERYONE'S favourite! recipe on Macellina in Cucina |
~ enjoy ~
