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Hopefully I will get a chance sometime this week to go for a jog along the course to remind myself of all the ups and downs.

For the record, I placed 14th last year with a time of 36:55mins. But I honestly don’t expect to perform anything like that this year.

I am about to head to Sydney for a 48 hour “all about me fest”.

I have not been thinking too much about this trip, as we have had so much going on here in the past few weeks, that the weekend has crept up and grabbed me by surprise, so I really have not thought about what in fact I will be doing or where I will be going - all I know is that I am getting on a plane this afternoon and I will be flying back home on Sunday night.

So much to do and so little time to do it in - but I’m sure it will be fantastic fun.

Call me Esme if you will, but today a strange event took place in our street and it ended in a visit from the Top Cops of Wagga Wagga.

I was on the phone just looking out our front window when I noticed two punk kids walking down our street with sticks in their hands. They walked past our house and then stopped about 10 metres down the road and then turned back and walked back towards our neighbours house that live across from us. They stood around for a couple of minutes and then one of them ran up the driveway, grabbed a 3 wheeled scooter and then they both took off down the road. I got some shoes on and ran across the road (whilst still on the phone) and knocked on my neighbours door, but no one was home. So, I ran back home and decided to call the police.

Now, I know that its not 000 that I should dial, as it wasnt an emergancy - but the phone number for the police station wasnt anywhere in the front of the book, so I flicked the pages of “P” and finally found it, was put thru to a “hotline” and then told the lady the above story. She said that they would send a car out to investigate and that they would pbly pop around here to ask some more details.

When they arrived, Maisie and Tali sat on the window sill and amused the both of them whilst I re told the story. They told me that they had caught the kids and had the scooter back but the problem was - which kid was the kid that actually took it! They re took my details and said that I may be called apon to make a statement if our neighbours decide to take further action and then they left. It was all very crazy and all happened very quickly, and Maisie has been quite excited about the policelady and policeman that came to visit.

Maisie is sick with something that makes her be sick, so not quite sure what it is, from what I have read I would assume it the flu (maybe?).

We have her on a mattress in our room, which makes it easy when she calls out “mommy” in the middle of the night - all I have to do is answer her and she rolls back over. (I realise the “mommy” bit is the americanised spelling - but that is really how she is saying it at the moment).

After she is sick - she goes thru this hyper/weird/over excited stage that can last for up to about 1/2 hour - it is the weirdest thing. She talks about everything and anything and makes hardly any sense and just goes crazy until we can calm her down and stop the talking, which is then when she usually goes back to sobbing and just wanting to cuddle again. Cade ended up getting the camera out last night, but we were too busy trying to re make her bed with towels and get clean PJs on her to film anything. Also - not sure if thats the best footage we would want from her - I know I want to forget the last few nights and Im sure she does too…

Tali is just starting to learn animal noises and actions, and is very keen to impress us. Just this week she has picked up monkey, fish and rabbit much to our delight. Its so funny to watch her watch Maisie and just take it all in and then show it off a little while later. She is also very pleased with herself and spent some time tonight showing off her new skills when she was meant to be in bed…

This morning the girls woke each other up at about 6:20, which is the earliest either of them have been awake in a very long time. Its also the earliest that I have had to get up in a long time.

Whats weird is that Cade gets up at 6 every morning, and has been telling me how light it is getting and I smile and agree - as I know I dont ever want to see it- but this morning I finally know what he is talking about. Not that it makes it any easier to get out of bed!

I complain about not finding enough time over the weekend to relax and unwind from my crazy week, but as soon as I have some time to myself, I find myself walking around the house “looking” for things to do - I cant just sit and relax like I want to, because all of a sudden there are 1000 things to do (that have been there all week) but I cannot stop thinking about them.

I also feel like I spend so much time with the girls, that I need a break - but when I get a break I cannot stop thinking about them and wonder what they are doing and wanting to see them and play with them.

Both of these things tied into one last weekend when I announced on Friday night that I would be having a sleep in on Saturday morning… Well, as soon as the girls were both up - I ended up getting up just because. My body ached for me to stay in bed, but my heart said “get up sleepy head and enjoy the delights of family time on a sunny day”.

I assume that this is normal and everyone else in the world suffers from similar situations… Well, thats what Ill tell myself to make it feel better!

But I still get a kick out of scaring the kangaroos away when I arrive for work.

Baby #3 - Sonny as it has been named by Miss Moo - does not need any more clothes at this stage…

Even though there are 14 weeks until Sonny is born, I decided that this afternoon would be the perfect opportunity to sort thru the 00000 & 0000 boxes of clothes with the helpful but yet not so helpful girls by my side.

Because the season is the total opposite to when Moo & TB were born, I thought that we would need some stuff - but we have so much white & yellow summer wondersuits and other white summerish items that I dont really think that I need to worry at the moment.

Although, Kmart & Target both have kids sales on again this week - so I cannot promise that I wont be tempted into getting something just because it is so cute and small!

Also - check out the latest photo of #3… freaky face shot… this was taken yesterday and its the weirdest thing ever!

As previously mentioned, I entered the 10km version of the Wagga Wagga Trail Marathon on the weekend.

Much to my surprise the field was very small (probably only 30 runners) and not very competitive.

Subsequently I finished first, by at least 1 minute I reckon. Not sure of the actual time yet, but apparently I finished the run somewhere in the 46 minute range. Given the cold conditions (I almost lost feeling in my hands for a little while), and the 10 styles we had to climb over, I thought that was a reasonable time, although a good 7 minutes slower than my quickest time for a 10km. However now it appears that the 10km distance was actually more like 11km. Not surprisingly, this is a very, very pleasant surprise. I don’t feel quite so awkward about my ‘victory’ now.