Day 29 – Thursday 11 January 2018

We woke up to Austin’s good morning cuddle & kiss.  We will miss that so much.  Austin is getting very clingy – last night he wanted the 3 of us to sleep on one bed, he says it isn’t fair that we are going back to Australia, we should stay with them, & how long before he will see us again, etc.  I tell him that Australia is our home we cannot stay, we have to be happy for the nice time we had.  He certainly plays on our heart strings.

It is school & work day again today.  We have our breakfast, do the washing & watch another movie with Monica.   Ron catches up with more business, email & research on the computer.  We go to the shop & buy things I will need for the Pavlova roll, a surprise for Jackson – it’s his favourite.  The boys get home early on Thursdays & after afternoon tea we all go down to the pool & have so much fun that even sooky Ron stays until he is freezing.  We came back from Oman last Saturday afternoon & we wondered what we would do until today.  Nice quite time with Monica, catching up on things & some classic movies.  The days just slipped away so very quickly.

Charles came home & cooked us a treat & the Pavlova was a hit.  Ron & Charles enjoyed a few glasses of good Ozzie red.

Austin read his school book & then we went through his Arabic words – like we have been every day this week, he laughs at me – he says that he will think of me when he is learning his words because I was so funny.  We have some more smooching & whys & why nots before he goes to bed.  Jackson played Xbox with Ron for a while & afterwards we watched some (very ordinary) young person’s TV shows while I massaged & scratch his back – something I used to do when he was little.

Tomorrow we are off to Dubai for the day & we are all staying in a Hotel for the night so that we can leave early in the morning for the airport.  Our bags are packed & it is bed time.  Another great day.