Year 12 Stress!

Having a Year 12 student in the house leads to an increased number of stressful episodes and this week has seen a little bit of that! The ACT has a continuous assessment approach to Year 11 and 12 and it seems that this term the peak of assessment tasks are happening in Week 4 (this past week) and Week 5 ( next week) so we are half way through it! Last week Amy had an in class essay on Tuesday and Thursday for English and an in class essay for History on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday! With a Chemistry Prac on Wednesday that needs to be written up by Week 6- the write up is the assessment task. We survived it just- but we did have a few of these moments.

Next week we have 3 assessment tasks due- A Maths assignment Monday, a history oral presentation on Friday- ( read major stress item!) and a Biology Assignment on Friday as well. So should make for another interesting week!

Certainly a week to practice my patience skills!

Dogs and Chooks

It is a bit of a giveaway when I feature the dogs and the chooks on my blog- it means it usually is a slow news week in the Frost household- and seeing as though we had a big weekend in Adelaide last weekend there is nothing much to report on this week!

We did see the arrival of three new chooks this week though- in order to try and boost the egg laying capacity of the current flock- it seems to have fallen to about 4 eggs a week! It is always interesting when we get new chooks, you feel sorry for them as they seem so timid and scared of the other chooks, the older chooks are a bit mean to them, but the irony is that in about 6 months these newer chooks will be at the top of the pecking order! We always get them in threes, so they have someone else to hang around with!

As for Benji, he has decided the green chair in the lounge room is his new favourite spot- it is not supposed to be! We usually have a chair in place to stop access to this spot, but the moment that chair is moved or forgotten to be put back and alarm must go off for him and he finds his way there!

Adelaide Buildings

I just love the houses in inner Adelaide, beautiful sandstone buildings. I took some photos of some of them as I went for a walk each morning.

We certainly had a wonderful time in Adelaide. It was great catching up with Bill's parents and it is great for our kids to spend time with their grandparents.

Haigh's Chocolates

Before flying out on the Monday we managed to squeeze in a tour of the Haigh's Chocolate Factory, sample a few bits, and make a few essential purchases! We left Bill at his parent's place to clean the gutters! He was given an option.

First Time to the Opera

Sunday night we went to the Opera! It was my first opera and I wasn't sure how I was going to go. Marian had assured us that the Co Opera Company put operas on for people who hadn't been before, one of its aims was to make opera accessible to all, so it goes on tours to lots of country areas and puts on operas in a relaxed and informal manner. They also sing their operas in English-so that helped a bit! We had a program that explained the story and we managed to follow that and enjoyed the music and singing and fun, it was a good experience!

Birthday Lunch

On the Sunday we went out for a birthday lunch- it was a buffet at the Intercontinental Hotel in Adelaide. It was a cold, wet, windy day, but we were in such lovely surroundings it did not matter.We had a lovely meal, ate so much we did not need any dinner that night!

Wicked in Adelaide

Bill, Amy, Lachlan and I all went to Adelaide for the weekend to celebrate Bill's mums 80th birthday. We flew over Saturday morning and that night we had a girls night out at Wicked which was on at the Festival Theatre in Adelaide. We had a wonderful time. We left the boys at home to look after themselves- they had a boys night in!