January 26th. Australia Day and
Triple J's hottest 100 countdown (Bernard Fanning came in at #1 with "Wish you well"). No wonder every year we celebrate - two great occasions on one day!! So inevitably every year we have a BBQ. But this is never a planned event. Despite knowing that every year without fail these
events WILL occur on the one day, we always leave our invites until about 24 hours before the event. I'm not sure why we do this - it invariably means we forget people (sorry if you didn't get an invite, maybe next year!!) and it
always means that I spend the morning before running around like a headless chook (or chooken according to
Henry) picking up meat and salads and rolls and green and yellow paper plates and a multitude of other things that we don't have just lying around waiting for 12 people to descend on us!! I am so unorganised. Anyway, so we hung out bbq-ing and drinking.
Here is Charlotte before everyone arrived, just kicking back, not being at all helpful with the preparations!!!
And here is another photo of the legendary Xmas present from
Beck.....
Darling Charlotte had been up since 5am so when everyone left not long after 6pm I can't say I was sorry - as delightful a day as it had been..... I was exhausted!!! I believe I was asleep by 8.... how tragic.
The apron looks very good. Socialising when you have small children is so much more work than it used to be isn't it?
ReplyDeleteyeah it is tiring, although to be fair she and about 3 other children aged 7 - 15 months played quite happily in the backyard for most of the time so that was great.....
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a great day.
ReplyDeleteHey, when did you get the TV cabinet (as shown in the background of the photo of Charlotte slothing back in true Aussie style)? It looks good.
got it soon after she was born when we realised we were going to need a cabinet with everything UP HIGH.....she's just started opening the cupboards now so will have to put a lock thingy on them now....got it from AMart which i wouldn't normally do but i really liked this cabinet - no glass!!!
ReplyDeletei'm glad you're getting some wear out of that apron!
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