Busy weekend

The weekend is over, but the children have the next 2 days off so it feels like the weekend is just about to begin. As predicted it was a very tiring weekend. Following the afternoon making cookies on Friday I was at school by 9am on Saturday to make popcorn, steamed cakes, donuts etc. Home by 3:30pm to make a roast lamb dinner for Megan and Nathan (and us of course!) and a nice evening of icing cupcakes and gossiping.
Back to school by 7:30am this morning to make french fries, chicken rice chicken nuggets etc. and then watch the kids (and some very big kids!) bash, bash and bash rice till it became the sticky glug that they make into rice cakes. Next came the sticky rice cake throwing - not exactly the safest event of the year, but the kids don't seem to mind the odd bang on the head from a bag of rice cakes! After that was the children's presentations - songs from the junior school, instrumental pieces from the senior school then an "operetta" that the whole school did together. My daughter had told me that she was doing a solo which put me on edge a bit as I thought she had inherited my not so wonderful singing genes, but fortunately someone had a bit more faith in her and she did an amazing job. It wasn't exactly a long solo, but pretty impressive from a tone-deaf mother's point of view! Unfortunately I didn't have the video....
The finale for the day was the "bazaar" where we sold all our baked goodies etc. as well as lots of gifts that people had been given, but didn't actually want. Surprise, surprise there were a lot of towel sets! Finally home by 3pm and off to the car dealers..... more on that tomorrow! For now I think an early bed is beckoning me.