Holiday house at Forster

CRAZY!

I've just arrived back to Sydney, surprisingly well-rested and somewhat sound!
It has been a relaxed week at Forster, a beautiful little place four hours up north from Sydney.My old host-family here in Sydney had rented a MASSIVE holiday house there with huge surroundings for their four kids to run around. The place was sooooo beautiful!! I loved the old country style it was reflecting but how they had mixed modern elements in without making it tacky!

When EJ and Harrison (the two older boys) saw me, they simply flew across the room to hugg me and were so excited they could have wet themselves! I was so happy to see them too, and unbelievable but true - even the twins remembered me! The dog licked me like crazy and of course the parents hugged me till I was short on breath! It was a happy reunion :)



The twins have changed though - grown to be such big boys and very naughty ones too.. Goodness I nearly lost my mind with them!I don't think I really want to babysit them, I'll rather go just visiting them every once in a while :) That way I remain sane and can still hang out with them. EJ and Harrison are pretty much the same than when I left, so that was a relief! The family has had some really bad luck with their aupairs recently so they aren't taking another one now.



As said, the house was big and beautiful and surroundings big enough for us to feel peaceful while having four kids running around! I personally loved the hammock on the back yard porch!! my room was also beautiful - on top of the garage to ensure I got to sleep in every morning and have my devotional time before kids would torture me :D It was really great since my bed was queen size (read: MASSIVE!)! We also had chickens, so we got fresh egg every mornig for brekky! One thing we did not know beforehand was that we also had a holiday dog included in the package! :D Well, not really, but the neighbours lovely shepherd visited us every morning to have a play with the kids, which was just lovely. She was the most adorable and friendliest dog I've ever met!



So we did heaps of fun stuff together - played cricket, soccer, climbed in the treehouses, went to the beaches and bowling, saw the tallest tree in NSW,went to the pictures, had a roadtrip, played in the parks, went shopping and other fun stuff :)



We visited a church called Greens Cathedral - it was a beautiful opendoors Christian church where I would have loved to listen to the service too!



The beaches there were incredible - there were beaches like Nine mile beach and Seven mile beach which were actually that long! I loved to swim in the ocean again and catch waves - I seriously need to get a surfboard as soon as possible! The sand squeeked under your feet because there are no pollutions in the beaches up there! I thought it was funny because no matter how much I tried, I couldn't stop squeeking!



We also had a trip to the local hospital - Deakin tripped over and had a hole through his chin! They took him to the hospital by ambulance to glue the wound and he was really brave.. Bevan kept saying "Dad, I want my T-shirt cut off too..!" :D:D:D silly billy!



but some things never change.. They're still adorable while sleeping! :)



On our last day we went to the sand dunes and got the kids to run up and down.. man it was really hard work I have to day! Had the exercise for the whole week with that.. :p some guys were going down the dune with boogie boards, looked heaps of fun! I might need to try that one day :)



all in all, it was a great holiday and I was really happy to be there - no matter that the kids have no manners anymore. They're still speciall to my heart and as long as I am not responsible of their behaviour I can endure it.. Makes me to miss the Darlingtons and Stuckers kids heaps though!!



I'll be soon writing about my flat and roomie and stuff like that, but for now I need to get to bed, Im tired after fighting the cockaroaches in our kichen! I have washed all the cupboards and washed the floods with eucalyptus oil to get ridd of them.. Let's see if my hard work will bear any fruit!

Lots of Love,
P