So, here's our news for this week. For a little while now Jeffrey and I have been tossing up the idea of moving to Queensland, more specifically to Brisbane or the Gold Coast. We love Coffs Harbour, but the house we are in is not suited for us, and there is an extreme rental crisis here and there is nowhere to move to. The rental wait list is 12 months long. Mum and Geoff and both of my brothers are looking at QLD at some point in the future, so we figured we'd look around before the kids got truly enmeshed here. So, on Saturday I mentioned to Jeff that one of us should go up there to check it out, and it couldn't be me. He didn't hesitate (go figure!) and he packed up our camping gear and left the next morning for Brisbane! He spent three nights there, scoping out the city and the neighbourhoods during the day. Then he travelled south and spent last night and will spend tonight at the Gold Coast. He is loving it, although he claims he is missing us :) We are leaning towards the Gold Coast because there is a really active homeschool group there, it is right on the beach, and there is a lot going on. Yes it is really touristy, but we don't plan on living at Surfers Paradise. Living in QLD would be great as far as homeschooling is concerned, as it is the most lax state in Australia and much easier for me as far as registration goes. I'm actually really excited about venturing further north. I think we will start looking for rentals in July. Nothing is set in stone yet, but we are really liking the idea.
On Sunday I took the kids to a birthday party. Their friends Will and Charlie have a little sister, and it was her birthday. The kids were desperate to go because there was going to be a bonfire and they were going to roast (vegetarian) marshmallows. It was very crowded, and everything was fine at first, until one of the kids knocked Arley out of this hammock, and he fell face first into the dirt. He really hurt himself, and I ran and got him and carried him to the car. He had a meltdown in the car. He felt safe and I let him get it out. He spent about an hour in the car and then when they got the fire going I managed to coerce him out, but he had a massive meltdown on the lawn and it was awful. He did get to roast marshmallows after that, but he took it all out on me so I was very exhausted. We left soon after. The good news is that Carmie had a blast and was completely unaware of my struggles with her brother.
The kids and I have had a good week. Arley has had one bad episode where he refused to come to dinner. Other than that, things have been pretty calm. I think the dynamic is different without Jeffrey around, and Arley needs to vie for my attention less. Carmie has been sick for three days this week, but was back to normal today. We spent Monday through Wednesday having home days, and Carmie barely made it out of bed. Today she was able to do her horse riding lesson. Arley's not doing them at the moment, so we sat on our picnic blanket while we waited. Two ponies came over and were nuzzling up to us, it was too cute. They just would not stop because they could smell Arley's crackers. So even though he didn't ride, he still got to pet some horses.
I got both kids to swimming today and Arley complained of having a tummy ache at first, but I told him he had to get in anyway. He did, and he had fun. The teacher smartly changed things up, so hopefully we have cracked Arley's anxiety about swimming lessons.
I don't have much else to say about this week. It's been pretty cruisey, which is a good thing. I know it never lasts though, so I'm hanging on to my hat!
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