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Day 30

Hard to believe that we're on Day 30 already and we 'celebrated' with a truly normal day...

All the duPs were up by 6.30am - that's a VT holiday record! Dressed in our farmer's finest, we reported to the Fodder House to get to work on feeding the animals, replenishing the trays and changing the water. Of course, there's a lot more that goes on, but those are the tasks that the kids and I are given while P-J does the rest!

Fit Fodder

Jorja patrolled in her Jeep and Ethan travelled between the Courtyard with the Cows and the Wagon with the Chicken and all I heard was "Wake up Pig! Wake up!" Followed by "Eeuw, disgusting!" as he walked past the Cow poop. And then "Come catch me Chicken...". Fortunately there was no wet weather to add to that mix of supervisory duties...

I so much wanted to bake today, but as mentioned previously, we must work on spreading these treats out so that our blood sugar levels stay as normal as possible! I think tomorrow we'll try something again!

Instead, we tried our best to stay cool and calm in very hot and humid conditions - before it turned into a really loud and bright thunderstorm that shook the house.

We managed to squeeze in a Skype chat with Papu, Yaya, Aunty Dom, Aunty Annie, Tash and Matthew. Of all of them, Matthew seemed the most awake - even showing off his party hat from the day's festivities!



Well, after our zucchini lamb koftas and creamed spinach and pasta bake dinner -



All that was left for today was to bath and settle down in the family room, for some rainy weather family bonding time...



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