The dash to Tweed Heads etc

My oldest daughter Sara had work commitments at Surfers Paradise last week. She was kind of joking when she asked me to meet her there. But when she hung up from the telephone - I thought why not.

After all I have wonderful friends there - and my work colleagues came to the party with a relief worker that I like wanting the days work. I don't normally like spur of the moment huge engagements but I wanted to see my oldest daughter madly. And knowing I would see Joy and the kids too... was just an added bonus.

Now... Micci is all grown up now. Which means she rarely answers when I call for Micci. She tells me not to call her that because it is the name of someone she doesn't seem to care for at school. I completely don't get it because I have ALWAYS called her Micci.

By grown up I mean she is tall and beautiful. Look at her getting cranky with me for taking her photo! Ah- so pretty. And she did my hair - straightened it with a hot thingo - Friday and Saturday morning and only just got a little tired of me asking everyone to pat me.
We were not very adventurous this trip. We simply went shopping. Here is William posing with a reptile display. The green tree python and the frill necked lizard is easy... but I forget what the yellow and black snake was. Mustn't of been able to kill you I guess?

This photo is Sara, William, Jane trying on something around the corner and Micci in the purple with her back to me.

This is Sara saying ... for goodness sake Mum ENOUGH.....

The girls are so tall now. Actually we had just shopped till we almost dropped. Us girls.

Three of my kids....

According to EVERYONE... it is only meant to take 6-7 hours to drive to Brisbane-Surfers Paradise. I seem to take 9-10. It takes me forever and I hate driving! My foot gets sore. I smoke cigarettes and hate smoking on them so I stop a lot to smoke. I get wild (angry) at other drivers. I don't feel that my competency as a driver has diminished I just.... seem to let driving take so much out of me. It makes me so incredibly tired. I feel like my right foot and my hands are so tense.

I bought a work colleagues children home from where we once lived a long time ago today. And I felt that as an extra pressure when we had cows on the road after a bend or some truck driver who wanted to ride my tail when I was doing over the speed limit anyway! I have NEVER had a speeding ticket and prefer to sit... maybe 3 kms above the limit normally.

Time and speed have never really been my friend.

Oh - and I have to mention this. My friend Joy? Her cupboards and drawers are ridiculous. People shouldn't have them so damn tidy. If I didn't love her so much I would worry about that. There is no reason to have drawers and cupboards so bloody neat. They just make your guests feel bad. And I didn't break one single thing this time! Maybe the lid to the coffee because it would not go back on. But just that.

Oh... goodness.. and when I got home... MOTH had.. done something wonderful for me... I will have to post that in a minute or tomorrow or next week. Bit like my driving actually. Anything over 100kms is really too long for me.