A never-ending weekend to reminisce and recharge...

I feel like I have been on a never  ending  weekend, never quite sure where it started or where it would stop... Its been going on forever.. 


Time seemed to stand still... Leaving work unexpectedly on Thursday when I received sad news about my cousin... I had been on edge all week expecting this phone call, but I was still never quite prepared for it or the raw emotion it brought  about.. not a great look in a new work place, meh... I wasn't caring too much at the time! 
The rest of Thursday was an emotional roller coaster, I may write about it at a later stage (or I might not)  so I will skip forward a day.... 

I woke on Friday morning, like the previous day had been a dream..... I decided I needed to stay  at home and spend time with my family.... I could have fronted up for  work... but I still wasn't feeling like it was where I was supposed to be at that moment..

Darby and I spent the day with my parents, sister and my aunty. We  wanted to do something for her birthday which fell the day before.. with all that was going on, she didn't get to celebrate too much, so we took her cake and candles and sang her happy birthday.... 

We also sat around looking through my aunties albums ... she seemed to have captured some delightful pictures of our childhood than my mum and dad have..... I scanned a couple below.. one of my favourites was with my sis and dad at the zoo... I look so happy..Love it!! My mum and dad agreed cos I saw them sneaking out the albums to take home and scan them all....

After some birthday cake we all needed to walk the calories off so this involved a trip to the park.. This park has the coolest flying fox... even I (along with all the adults)  had a good old crack at it!!  Here is a video of my sister on it! We completely monopolised it ..... so much fun!!  This was the perfect anecdote to a sore heart! Some good old fashioned laughter......

Fun on the the spinny thing!

Darby wasn't feeling the best all weekend, he has had a cold and it seems to have gotten worse over the weekend.. so we went home and he slept for 3 hours and then went to bed, so I sat on the couch on Friday, watching bad movies and playing around on my computer....Time seems to disappear whilst reading other great blogs!!!  

On Saturday we managed to sleep in ... and with no where to go we  stayed in our PJ's all morning... I was in mine till 11.58am...... I didn't quite make it to midday!! We went out to get coffee.. and I had an urge to buy a candle... I have never been a candle kind of gal.. I never 'got' the fascination with them, yes they smell nice, but what else do they do???  My sister loved them.. but I was sitting on the fence... But of late, not sure whether due to a couple of candle presents, I have started to get a slow burning love for them (pardon the pun!!)!  So my excursion on Saturday was to buy a new candle.. I settled for a GlassHouse candle in Neroli and Sweet Myrrh aptly named Rodeo Drive... aka Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, it smelt divine.. I love these and Circa Home ones,  I can see this becoming an obsession.... Ill just work my way through them.. (slowly!!) 

So I went home and burned to my little hearts content, Darby and I had a night in, watching DVDs and eating homemade burgers yum... 

Sunday, Darby spent time with his dad, so I had lunch with my sister and then just relaxed... the week ahead is going to be a full on one so preserving all of my energy was the smartest thing I could do.... 

Poor Darbs... Not feeling 100%

Hopefully next weekend I will have more to report and I will be  back to my happy, coffee loving self... Oh and I have exciting things to organise this week... I'm beside myself! Will share soon! 

I am linking up with the adorable and gorgeous Son at Life Love & Hiccups....

Until next time , life is just too plain short