i woke up with a terrible stomach bug on saturday morning, knocked the ‘tracey’ right out of me, i reckon! sadly, i had to miss my sister’s birthday yum cha out in parramatta – and because Jovie was under the weather also (our first experience with midnight vomiting, poor Jojo… ), Regan stayed back to look after her while i battled out the rest of the day… Jasper had a good time at yum cha though! he was up playing with my sister, her boyfriend and my brother for HOURS and didn’t go down for a nap until after 5pm.. long day for him considering he was up at 6am..

yesterday, if you were in Sydney, how did you escape the heat? it got up to 43 degrees (celcius, about 106 farenheit) where we were yesterday – hiding out in my parents always-cold house. i did brave the outside a few times to run some errands .. it was like opening the oven door and sticking your whole body in it. there was a breeze coming through, and at first i thought ‘hooray!’ but then it felt like it got 10 degrees warmer in a second. nothing like a stinking hot gush of wind… yuck.

gladly, though, i’m feeling much better. not 100% but still functionable! hopefully i’ll shake it off soon… Jovie is much better also, which is awesome