Sunday clean up

10 January 2016

Ok so today is get the house cleaned up and start putting routines for the kids in place,  I will get a menu plan written up so that when hubby and I get home we can don't have to wonder what we are going to cook for dinner, I am also going to be doing a heap of baking so that there are plenty of snacks to eat.  I figure if I can make Sunday baking day then when the kids go back to school they are going to have plenty of things to go in lunch boxes and they will never be able to complain that I don't do any baking for them, it comes with the added bonus of me being able to control their preservative,sugar intake.  Miss 10 starts to itch if she has to much sugar and to much processed snacks, I have yet to narrow down what food does it too her but I do know when I am baking it doesn't happen.

It is a great deal cooler today so hopefully that will give the firefighters battling a huge blaze down south some relief and get control of it.  It has burnt down 120 houses and has sadly taken two lives.  The town town that has been wiped off the face of the earth they are saying that they are not going to have power or water for three months.  The town where my in-laws are, the power company has been binging down generators so that they have some power.  Service stations are dry so they have no petrol and food is in short supply, it is still nobody in or out, they have sent some fire fighters from another state to come and give relief to the ones that have been going nonstop since Wednesday.  While they are battling that blaze another one has broken out on the south coast and there are fire fighters down there - that one was a lightning strike, there were two that were caused by lightning on Thursday that are under control now - lightning strike, so the emergency services here are stretched kinda thin.  The main thing they are concerned with is flare ups and ember strikes, the embers are flying so far ahead of the fire that they just get some sort of control then there is another fire front.