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Milk Duds and a Narrow Escape
Took Vivienne for a driving lesson this afternoon.People should be born knowing how to drive. It should be genetic memory or something. Just sayin’ It could only be by some magical twist of fate that there aren’t more learner driver fatalities. On the upside I took what is possibly the best photo ever. Milk Dud’s have never looked so exotic.
Teenagers and The Epiphany
So, we just got back from holidays and Vivienne is home with us again. Yay for that! I think. No, I really am glad she is back but I’m not loving this whole parent of a 16 year old thing we’ve got going on. Young teens I can deal with. Teens who don’t go out and drink and party I can deal with. This new business, not so much. To be completely honest it frightens the fuck out of me to see her spiral down the same road that I took so many years ago. And even though I know she’s smart and ultimately I really don’t think she’s going to turn into some drunken junkie loser who never amounts to anything, the situation is so frightening to me it almost leaves me gasping for breath.
Why do I try and make her understand when I know there’s no point? My own memories of my teenage self are still so vivid in my head that I know I’m talking to a brick wall but still I’ll try. Maybe there’s just a glimmer of hope that something will get through and maybe one day when she has to choose between doing something stupid or doing the smart thing, a little something of what I’ve said might be ringing in her ear. It’s possible right?
The one thing I can’t remember is how long this goes on for? At what age do you have the epiphany? You know, the one when you realise your parents were actually right. I know I realised it long before I admitted it. I just really need to know right now how long it takes. How many years of this do I have. Will it be when she moves out of home to go to university? Do I have to wait until she’s finished school and settled into her working life as an adult? God help me if I have to wait until she has kids of her own. I don’t know how much crying and yelling I can take. Maybe I’ll just get drunk and wait for it to pass. I’m kidding of course. I beg for honestly but sometimes I think being oblivious to everything would make it so much easier. Why couldn’t I have been a naive kid who never did anything wrong and therefore a naive parent who never suspected her kids would do the same?
I guess I’ll just sit back and wait for the epiphany to come.
Gotta Mix It Up
Yesterday we all had a fantasic day on the reef, today I realised I transferred $2000 to an account that isn’t mine. God knows if I’ll ever get it back. Gotta take the good with the bad I guess.
We’re Going, On a Holiday, so much for me to do
We’re going, on a holiday, such fun for me and you……….Right now it’s 6.22am and I’m sitting here enjoying the view from our room at Sea Temple Resort and Spa Port Douglas! The weather is glorious outside, there’s a pool down below, a hot tub on the roof and a giant spa in my bathroom. I think I’m in heaven. If you’ve never stayed 5Star, I’m telling you, DON’T DO IT! Because once you’ve gone 5Star you’ll never want to go back baby. Even the distinct lack of sleep we’ve had over the past few days due to sick children has been made bearable by our beautiful surroundings. Hey, if you’re gonna have a shit time, you might as well do it in luxury.
The reason for our stay in Port Douglas was the Coral Coast Triathlon that Ethan competed in yesterday. It’s the first one I’ve been to see. I was so proud of him even if I do think that he’s a little bit insane for choosing to subject himself to a 750m swim, 20km ride and 5km run. He doesn’t have his official times yet but knows that he came 7th in his age group. It was his first ever ocean swim and I think he swallowed half of it which made him feel a bit sick for the ride but he came home strong in the run and made up heaps of time. And because I was there we actually have some decent photos! Every time, I ask Dan to take some good photos and every time he comes back with maybe a bit of video or a picture of a swimming capped head in the water. Men, you can’t trust them with the simplest of tasks….
Yesterday I took Vivienne for a Mother Daughter Spa treatment at Mii Spa right here at the resort. It was my first ever spa treatment and will probably be my last because of the ridiculous expense but seriously, everyone should do it at least once. It was pure gluttonous indulgence and I loved every minute of it. It was kinda weird to have someones hands all over my body like that considering I’ve never even had a massage before but I dealt with it. So well in fact that I even managed to nod off for a minute or two. We started off with a full body salt scrub, then full body massage and an Aroma Facial. I have never felt so pampered in my life! But like I said, It was very expensive and I have to admit to feeling a little guiltly spending so much money on such an indulgence. I mean, I’ve bought expensive things before, but never thrown it away on something so frivolous. Mind you my skin is so soft and absolutely glowing 
Today we’re off to Cairns for 6 nights where we have lots of shopping to do and a reef snorkeling trip planned for Wednesday. I’m quite certain that we’re going to freeze ours bums off in that water but hopefully the kids reactions to the whole experience will be worth it. It’s so lovely to be able to give them experiences that our parents would never have been able to afford to give us when we were children. It makes all the hard work worthwhile.
