Friday 27 February 2009

There's No Place Like Home

We've had a fun day, considering we had officially 'evacuated! I don't know, I reckon we just had a day out....with the car all packed up as well!

We managed to successfully purchase long pants for Miss Sunshine as well as some other essential attire for her. WOOHOO! We bought me...us...two saucepans. We looked at cookbooks but by then Mr Busy was beyond being corralled by the constraints of polite shopping centre behaviour so we left. In between, of course, we visited the food court and had lunch. Along with a number of other families from Our School. One of those we saw was one of Mr Busy's teachers. She seemed to think holding Our School at the shopping centre might've been productive, given the number of us wandering the halls there!

And then we visited with some very special friends who happily welcomed us for the afternoon and evening. The kids had fun and insisted we keep talking so they could finish watching a Vegie Tales movie about Jonah.

There were, apparently, no new fires today despite dire warnings from the CFA. We're relieved that all is safe and well in our little corner of the world and that we can sleep in our own beds without worrying at all.

The kids did much better with their packing this time. One little suitcase each and a couple of very little bags for shoes etc. They did well.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow Tracy...you are so calm throughout all this! I'm so glad all is well with you and you can sleep safely in your own beds. God Bless, xxx

Left-Handed Housewife said...

Glad the fires didn't end up in your neighborhood and that you're home safe. I hope you have a boring, uneventful weekend that involves using your new pans in interesting ways!

frances

Tracy said...

The trick to being calm, I suppose, is the whole 'leave early' policy ~ before you have any reason to panic.

I'm thinking of ways to use those pans before dinner time Frances. Mr Busy and I have the day at home on our own so I'm sure he won't mind helping!

Anonymous said...

So glad you are safe and well and that your evacuation was a positive experience. God bless.