Doing what we Do!!

Hot day here in Brisbane.. Muggy. So Minigoat and I are headed to the Library (airconditioned goodness) to program Term 1 Scouts. He's the new Scout Leader and I'm the one with programming experience.. so I'm sure we'll whip this over in no time at all.. :)

We are in for a super busy year with Scouts. 

Next January is the Australian Scout Jamboree and with that we need to prepare our Scouts for the biggest Scouting experience they will probably ever have, unless they attend an International Jamboree.

They must have a minimum level of skills and while we are aware of other groups which give free passes so to speak.. we WANT to make sure our Scouts go in as prepared as possible to ensure their Jamboree is a great experience not a struggle. 

Laughing is better

Fair dinkum .. Would it kill The Man to read his referral BEFORE sending me, us, EVERYONE.. on a wild goose chase ALL over the hospital.. LOL


Tells me he is as anxiety ridden as the rest of us when it comes to being here at the RBH..


So far we've managed to harass urology, pathology, urology again and now he's headed to medical imaging..


Which apparently was today's destination all along.. Good to know these things.. Oh yes .. And he had to have a full bladder .. oh my goodness.. And he also had to do a mid stream urine test after this fasting so he had NOTHING to give them.. Too funny.. (like the 3 drops in 20 minutes that had JD and I in stitches laughing...)

Then .. Because you knew there would be more.. We've put him in a wheelchair so he can survive the day with the least amount of pain possible and TJ and JD have something new to fight/debate/irritate me about and TJ it seems is not able to cope if he's not touching the wheelchair in some way.. I wish I took a photo of him almost asleep on a wheel....lol.. sad.


Our not at all healthy lunch/snack. Potato gems are a tradition for the boys so we had to follow that tradition. 


We left him in medical imaging.. checking occasionally because the bladder wasn't full then it was too full so it took a while..lol. So JD did multiple trips to check if he was ready.... then we're painting and drawing quietly and da da... he managed to wheel himself down.. only he did a few side trips without us... he went back to bloody urology ????? I guess he needs them to know of his existence..



Peace xx

Rest Day

Yesterday we had a day planned with 3 must do items.

1. Take Minigoat to abseiling (he helps Scouts have their first abseiling experience and has been busy on the courses all year.) 
2. Take JD to a semi-formal - his first and probably only semi, his first DATE, his first +1
3. Pick up Minigoat from work (he went after abseiling) and pick JD up from the semi-formal.

The rest of the day I planned to paint... paint... paint. 

Instead it went like this * sigh

1. take Minigoat to abseiling
2. received an 'alert' from my calendar telling me a Joey Scout event should be on that I should have been notified about that I wanted to attend. Arranged to meet the participants in the city at 1pm so I could take some photos and catch up with the darling Joey Scouts... 
3. tear about the house looking for documents I had put somewhere 'safe'. I did and they were still in my bloody diary where I left them. The diary was in my hand most of the time I was searching for the document... doh doh doh and they were always 'safe'
4. called my BESTEST GIRLFRIEND... AKA the BITCH...said with all the love in the world and talked for AGES.. as we should when we can ... not often enough.. she lives in Newcastle... INSERT HUGE SAD FACE
5. caught up with an 'old' friend who I'd lost contact with 20 years ago...... facebook can be wonderful
6. typed up draft emails for the week..... 
7. left a message for website domain peeps (another scoutie job) to get back to me in regards to 7 yes 7 websites I'm hoping to get launched this year.
8. read some blogs.. cause I CAN                    *pokes tongue out cheekily.. 
9. took a phone call re the websites.... yay.. looks like I can get moving pretty fast.. phew
10. rescued a crow from a young adolescent male Brush Turkey who was chasing and jumping on the crow.
11. removed multiple ticks from crow. The crow was more than happy for us to do this.(I should add we rescued another crow when it was trapped under a tree a couple of years ago and he and his family live on the property..we have no problem with them - the turkeys are another matter.)
12. pondered what our next move should be about the crow.. was unable to fly.. :( 
13. called 1800 ANIMAL which is actually the RSPCA and was advised to take the crow to the local Vet.
14. realised on way to the Vet there was NO WAY I would make it to the city for my meeting. Rang and apologised... :(( I wanted to go for just a little while.. arranged to meet at the den later for a group photo and pizza.. before the lights out.
15. Delivered crow and made sure if the crow was to be released it would be here at home... don't want to think about the other possibility. ... still I've cried tears for the crow. Praying he'll be home soon though.
16. Went to visit Minigoat at abseiling... 
17. Ran into some friends/fellow leaders from Scouts, had a chat and a laugh. Can now delete 2 emails when I get home.
18. Pretended I wasn't visiting Minigoat at abseiling and checked one of my Cub Scout packs who were abseiling... shhhhhh.. ( I can multitask)  took photos for websites.. 
19. watched the abseil team help a young special needs Cub down the wall... nearly cried when I saw the look of 'wow look what I did on his face... special moment'
20. left after pinching some mulberries from the park... mmmmm
21. I'M EXHAUSTED....just need to add that.... remembered to eat lunch
22. Waited while my gorgeous son got ready for the semi-formal by reading more blogs...
23. Delivered JD to the address supplied... found out where I had to pick him up...lol I needed that part..
24. Thought I would make a late dash into the city... I'm uniformed up and heading that way when I get an emergency call from work... JO WE NEED YOU
25. raced home, got changed and went to work.. texted to say I couldn't make the pizza or photos.. was told I'd be missed... I missed them.... :(((( big sad face. 
26. Grab MG - we work at the same place, and head to city to pick up JD
27. HOME - BED I never did pick up my art journal...sighs....

peace xxxx