Went away down the coast with a another family who have similar aged kids in the weekend. It is good going with other people that have kids, cos then when we lose the plot and start yelling, they don't think we are horrible. After all, it may not be five more minutes and they will be yelling themselves. Childless people don't really understand or sympathise properly...
Would you believe my son ran into the sea up to his waist in the first five minutes at the beach WITH HIS ONLY PAIR OF SHOES STILL ON HIS FEET. Nor did he have a change of clothes actually with him, so he had to wear girls clothes for the rest of the day.
Its also much nicer than going away just by ourselves, because there are new people to talk to, that we don't know as well as we know each other. And the kids feel the same way about going away with other kids.
We went on the zany trams at QEII park. They travel over paddocks to the beach, which for trams is very very peculiar. Trams are a city method of transport, and country trams look funny. The other day we went to the petting zoo. The kids loved that.
Now I have a week to get my act together before the school inspectors get here.
Think Lord of the Rings drums: "DOOM, DOOM, DOOM, DOOM..."