Crazy Is As Crazy Does

Yesterday we gave someone, I will call them Tracey and Bruce ( because that is their names),  a hand. It was not a life saving kind of hand just a little something we could do to help.  Then we picked up our 'outdoor table' and we returned home and went about our day. We decided to have an outdoor movie night. We dragged the big extra TV onto the veranda.We actually have 6 TVs in the house not including the one on the wall in the lounge room only 2 are hooked up, they used to all be working in each bedroom. But I don't like a TV in every room it does not exactly encourage togetherness. My Beloved had even suggested that one for the bathroom was a good idea, until he saw my face, then acted as though he was joking... he wasn't.

He  told me last week he was thinking about bringing the large TV on to the veranda for summer movie nights. I'd told him he was not! The idea was suggested again yesterday and I said OK lets do it. After all it was his last night home after a week off work and first Friday night off in, he claims a year, but I say year maybe even 2 not including the Christmas break of course. So he set it up and then decided to take Misses Thinker, Independent, Little Miss and Mr Cheeky with him to have a swim at their nan's and then get a movie and pick the take out they wanted for tea. The Man Child and Biggest Miss have gone for the whole weekend and I commented to My Beloved about how it feels like we only have 5 children.  'I know!' he said. 'We're nearly there!' and laughed.

They finally arrived home at 7.30 and I was just starting to get to the 'Call the hospital and police for accidents' stage of worrying when they pulled up and we settled in to watch  Mirror Mirror in the front yard.

We were watching the movie when we saw lights from a car come up the driveway and I stared into the darkness, where I could make out two figures. I stared until I realised who was there and was pleasantly surprised (and I am not just saying that because they might read this ;p ).It was Tracey and Bruce. They had come to give us a thank you gift of chocolates and a bottle of rum. It was such a wonderfully kind thing to do and My Beloved looked at me confused. ('I only rolled a bit of wood off my trailer.' he said to me later We had helped Tracey drop something back to her place that morning with our trailer and My Beloved did not seem to understand why he needed a thank you of such a wonderful thing as rum. He also was so shocked at such 'thoughtful people'.) After establishing that they could not stay due to sleeping children in their car I seemed to take that as an invitation to  drag poor Tracey through my house out to the back to show her the back yard.

Movie is on and everyone is ready for a double movie 'marathon'.

Naturally (for us) the out door light was inoperable (even though it was on  every night this week) and in almost complete darkness I showed Tracey around whilst My Beloved and Bruce did what ever it is men do when they are away from their wives for five minutes, grin happily I imagine!) Soon I realised that perhaps it was time to shut up (something I am not particularly good at) and eventually we let them leave. Though I am sure the drive down our driveway was just as terrifying as the trip up it was...the driveway too, seems 'inoperable' at times. Yes, I know impassable is a better word for that sentence, but I don't care!

Littlest Miss thought the movie night was the most exciting thing to ever had happened in her life and squealed all bug eyed for ten minutes whilst jumping up and down. She was more entertaining then the movie for us.

After mentioning how kind and unnecessary the gifts were and how thoughtful both Tracey and Bruce were My Beloved said

'I hope they don't think we are crazy.'

'Err why would they think that?' I asked 'Well,I can see why people would think that about me in general but why this particular time?'

'Because we are watching a movie in the yard on a windy night.' he said.

'Well, when you put it like that it does sound a little crazy, but don't worry they have 7 kids as well, they'll get  it.'

'Yes, but it might seem REALLY crazy!'

'Ok. So having a pizza and movie night in the yard at your own home for free is insanity, but driving out of your way and paying to sit either in your car or on the grass and buying food to watch a movie at a drive in is not? Now lets put The Lorax on. It is getting late.'

I wonder how he will react when people come to visit us one day after I have painted a section of our back yard wall white and buy a projector to play movies on hot summer nights?

THANK YOU BRUCE & TRACEY!

It was a fun night. My only regret is that Mr Cheeky slept through it ( on the day bed all rugged up and warm) and I did not make popcorn... or choc tops. But thanks to our visitors we had chocolates (after I took the good ones out of course!! ;)