I got back into my exercise routine this week - it was nice to get back into yoga, aquafit and tai chi. I also had another facial with the lovely Helen. I also got together with friends this week for..........you guessed it................another iced chocolate or two 😂 The first get together was with teacher friends and then, yesterday, I got together with Robyn to celebrate her birthday. First, we went for a swim at the beach and then to a cafe we have been to a ton of times as they have a fabulous quiche. When we got there, it turned out that they had no quiche and were only cooking hamburgers as the main cook had left already. We were disappointed in the meal - the hamburger was not cooked properly and also was not very flavourful. The fries were very tasty as was the iced chocolate, although it wasn't very cold. We decided that we would give this cafe a miss from now on. We are going out again tomorrow for lunch -a 'take two'.
The view from the cafe where we had Robyn's birthday lunch
Tuesday we had a call from the missionaries to say that their dinner appointment had fallen through and could they come over to our place for dinner (we had suggested that this past Sunday). We gladly said 'yes' and ran out to get a roast chicken and salads. We love having the missionaries in our home - we had a new one (Elder Puckey) come to Hervey Bay while we were on our cruise - he is from New Zealand and it was nice to get to know him and to see Elder Prows again. They shared with us a nice spiritual message about the importance of reading the Book of Mormon each day.
On Wednesday night, Dad and I picked up the Louws girls (Scarlett and Indiana) and took them to Hungry Jack's (Burger King) for dinner. Their parents, Ben and Lisa, wanted to go out to celebrate Valentine's Day (they took the 4 month old twins with them) and so had asked me if I would babysit. I really like looking after these two - they are so cute - and such good listeners. They have a play area at Hungry Jack's and there were a number of kids there, so the girls had a fun time playing there. After we finished there, I drove Dad home and then drove to the girls' home. I had picked up some library books and so I asked the girls to decide which ones they wanted me to read to them before it was bedtime. Of course, they wanted me to read all 10 of them - so, I did. 😃
We bought a new lawnmower not long ago and on Thursday and Friday, I got to use it - I love it - it's so much better than the first one we bought. I always like mowing the lawn and it's such good exercise.
Dad's week was less exciting than mine - he spent his week fixing stuff: trailer stuff, house stuff, scooter stuff, fence stuff. I prefer my week to his. 😄
I have decided that writing down what we want to complete in a week is important for me - otherwise, it is so easy to just diddle the time away and nothing gets done. I made up this chart last year and found it again when I was cleaning up. I used it this week and, although we didn't achieve every goal we had set out to do this week, we did a much better job of it had we not used it.
The chart showing the goals we wanted to achieve each day this week (eg: scripture reading, exercise, chores, reading, piano, knitting....we started doing this one on Wednesday and I highlighted the ones we achieved (oops, forgot to highlight what we completed on Saturday and Sunday on this chart) - but we did pretty good overall
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