School Holidays

This is from a few weeks ago.....

I love school holidays. I always feel so worn out by the time we get to the end of Term 3. I think it's the combination of all the regular school things, the soccer and hockey seasons and the sickness that seems to take up residence in our house from June onwards.

I'm going camping with my family on Friday. Well actually, my husband has to work Friday now and my eldest boy decided to stay for his rugby league breakup party, so now it's just me and the 6 and 8 year old heading to our campsite on Friday morning. I have to admit I'm a little worried about this. They're not the most reliable workers in the tent and tarp set-up business. In fact they usually run off as soon as we arrive, so I've been drilling into them the importance of helping me out at least until the tent and tarp are up. Still, I have a suspicion I'm going to be trying to put up the tent on my own.

The beauty of our camping trip is we go with about 5 other families, so once we're set up, all the work is done. The kids even look after themselves, returning for food at regular intervals to show us that they're still alive and haven't lost one another. All I have to do is grab them when they appear for dinner and their torches and march them off to the showers. Oh, and do all that cooking. For some reason, I seem to cater for about 10 children every morning for breakfast. Lucky the bacon and eggs seem to always stretch the distance!