It's time for a VaCaTiOn!

Looking forward to our ocean view apartment! Got this awesome pic off goldcoast.com

We're flying tomorrow night to Brisbane, spending a night at Tangalooma and then heading on to Surfer's Paradise!

I'm looking forward to this break after a very sleepless week. Dw was out-stationed the whole week in Germany and I was left looking after a sick & very cranky Jenson alone. He came down with high fever on Sunday night and a couple of days after, cough & runny nose followed. It's not easy to feed this guy his meds & it gets really bad when he needs to be roused from his sleep for the night dosage. He alternates between struggling, yelling & shutting his mouth and I'm alternating between clamping him down, trying to squirt some meds in when his mouth is open and squeezing in the syringe between his shut lips. It has been a battle every night and I'm zonked. The kids were sleeping in separate bedrooms so that the flu wouldn't be passed from brother to sister and yes, that meant I had to shuffle between 2 bedrooms every night. Each time a kid whined, I'm up & off to the other room. It's either mother's instinct or mothers just have very sharp ears to somehow catch even the softest whimp from the kids. (By that I mean most dads can always sleep through the night even when the kid is bawling.. WHY?!!?!!)

Long story cut short, I'm extremely sleep deprived. Dw's heading back this evening & I know he's going to be exhausted. This sweet fellow always tells me he can't sleep well on his business trips when I'm not by his side... awwwwwwww... dearest dw, that's really really sweet and can you up the sweetness a notch by sacrificing one more night of sleep and let me sleep through tonight whilst you take over the kids...

It's going to be a red eye flight tomorrow. Jill is usually an easy flyer and I've told her numerous times that she MUST sleep on this flight else when she reaches Oz, she won't be able to enjoy herself. As for Jenson, I can only hope he will sleep & not go wild exploring every inch of the plane like what he did on our recent Hanoi trip . In any case, if all fails, there's always sedilex... which by the way, IS legitimate as he coughs alot especially at night cos I'm not one of those moms who use drugs to knock kids out on flights.

I love holidays, I work darn hard for them and I'm going to enjoy myself to the max! Gold Coast, here we come!