School holidays, but the kids are at camp!

I love my kids dearly but at times they can make me want to pull my hair out and wish that those nuns had never given their urine! (long story- will explain later!)

You have to love school holidays! Well as a pre-service teacher I am indoctrinated to, but as a parent... The trouble is that my kids adore school. Both of them just love it. J is not looking forward to the Christmas holidays because it will be 8 weeks without school!

School holidays started last Saturday week. Both kids spent the weekend typing stories on the computer. I typed a very amusing story about Beanie Kids being babysitters and how they let the kids eat what they like and go to bed late. She made sure I read it! W taught her how to do a word count on the computer. She did mistake characters for words and told me that has she had written 3000 words then I should get my thesis done that weekend! I explained the difference between words and characters!

J wrote about his friends and typed everything out so beautifully- sounded out names and even left finger spaces on the screen and showed them to me! I had to try not to laugh! He typed out most of his friends names then said that they were all building green ant traps! That is the latest craze in the sandpit at school! He then tries to get on the computer when he can and types things like 'J***** is cool' and 'J*****'s rm glz no way' (J*****'s room girls no way!).

We had a nice afternoon last week at the local playground with some other prep families. I is besotted with Discovery Home and Health and I am sure she is going to become a plastic surgeon! Dinner conversations consist of what child had its jaw stretched, what woman had her skin cut away after losing so much weight and who had liposuction where! She is sure that I am going to need to have my skin tucked when I finish losing weight which is amusing! Oh and J told W that he needed to go on 'Style by jury' so they could get him wearing nicer clothes! Out of the mouths of babes!

There is a magazine type pamphlet that comes home from school towards the end of term that talks about what is going on in town during the holidays. I immediately picked up on the M Falls Holiday Camp. She went last January and had a ball, but this is the first holiday camp they have had since Cyclone Larry. So she rang her uncle to ask if he would pay and he said sure! So i had to ring to book her in. When the lady on the phone told me what they were doing I jokingly said 'Pity my 5.5 year old is too young'. She told me that last year they had a 3.5 yo who came along with his older sister and had a ball. So I asked J if he would like to go! Well! The look on his face said it all! I explained it would be 3 nights away from Mummy and Daddy but I would be there. He was thrilled to be asked and got so excited! I was a little less enthusiastic until I told her that he would probably play with the boys and leave her with the girls!

So on the weekend they packed! I packed for both of them and luckily I looked to see what she had packed as J had 4 pairs of size 2 jeans that she found in a box and thought they were shorts! W took them to the bus stop and I punched J twice before the bus arrived and he was in tears. I think W was nearly in tears too! J ran to the bus, waved bye to Daddy and climbed on! His lip then dropped when he sat on the bus and realised W was not going with him! He has a photo of us and 5 Beanie Kids! I rang this morning to find that all the kids were having a ball!

It was so nice to wake up to a bed with just W in it and not have to worry about arguments about what was going to happen today! I have told W that they are both going again next holidays too! lol!