Flu, flu, go away!!

The sun is setting over the Outeniqua mountains and as we close the curtains and blinds for the night we're reminded that the weekend has come to an end. Its been a great weekend! Yesterday morning Ouma, Aimee, Jed and I visited the infamous 'Pink Tree Market' and it was quite obvious - from what we each bought - where our priorities lie: Jed bought 6 books from the second-hand book stand (they are older publications, were in a brilliant condition and a huge bargain at R3-00 each!), Ouma bought an orange-flavoured sachet to put between clothes in her cupboard and a generous packet of ginger biscuits to share with us for tea and I bought 7 chilli-bites (which we all savoured as we devoured them!) and a corriander plant.

Some friends came over for the rest of the morning and us moms sat chatting and looking for scriptures together while the dads tinkered around on the car in the driveway. That left the children to roam free and they had a wonderful time together pottering around in the workshop and playing in the garden.

I spent the rest of the weekend horizontal on the couch under a blanket, trying to rest as much as possible. Ryan, Ethan, Aimee and I are still struggling with these coughs and snotty noses. Flu, flu go away!!! I even got into bed just after putting Ethan and Aimee to sleep at 7pm, leaving Dieter and the older boys to watch 'Night at the Museum 2' together upstairs. It was another stop-start evening with both Ethan and Aimee interrupting our sleep when they moved into our bed sometime in the early hours. By 4am I couldn't take the squeeze anymore and opted to go sleep in Aimee's bed rather. She woke Dieter at 6am looking for me, and then kept me awake when she came to lay with me. She probably went back to sleep for about an hour, but it was a tossing-and-turning-affair!

We didn't go to church this morning, we stayed home and rested. Just before lunch Dieter's aunt and cousin called to say they were in George, so we invited them to join us for boerewors rolls. (We used ostrich boerewors which we found discounted by 50% a couple of weeks back .... hmmm, it was yummy!) They brought a yummy vanilla ice-cream with Bar-One chocolate sauce in it that we polished off after lunch - with much oooohing and aaaahing, it too was yummy! It was really nice to see our family from Plett again!

The last visitor of the afternoon was an Irish lady I met this week. She and her family live quite close to us and I discovered that she does web and graphic-design. She offered to help me with some branding and design some labels for the Baby Food business and came this afternoon to show us some of her ideas. Its all very exciting for us ... its all coming together nicely, slowly - but surely - and its looking good. She also took a whole lot of the samples we've mad this week and will share them with her friends who have babies and toddlers.

An early night is on the cards for all the children and I don't think I'll be up much later than they will. Hopefully we'll all be 100% well again very soon.