Yesterday we were cracking bon-bon’s eating stacks of food and getting more sand around our feet than a nesting turtle off Blacks Beach. But where has that time gone? It was only yesterday that we were seeing in the new year! What a night that was on Sunday at the Bluewater Quay! The Smurfs were brilliant! Time is certainly going too quickly.
The next thing you know we’ll be playing beach cricket at the harbour and cooking a few snags on the BBQ for Australia Day. That’s only days away.
I reckon the biggest thing right now for parents around Mackay and the Whitsundays is getting their children ready for the school year.
Maybe you’ve got your little one starting high school for the first time at Mackay North. You could even have a little one getting it ready for primary school at West Mackay. It doesn’t matter which school they are going to, having everything ready for the big day is huge.
Bag checks. Lunch boxes ready. The right sized shoes as your gems might have already grown out of them in the holidays. It can happen! Books, pencils, school uniforms and tech gear are all things that must be sorted and quickly.
The last thing you want is to try and work it out on Monday Jan 22. It’s not going to end very well at all. Do it now is my advice.
Think about it this way. Do it just like Grade 3 maths. Today is Jan 5. That means there’s only a couple of weeks until this ‘get back to school stuff’ becomes real. Not long really hey! Take out the 6 days of weekends that just leaves 11 days to sort it out. If you also account for a few meltdown days of perhaps 2 a week, that only leaves 7 days to get ready. That’s 7.
Not a lot of time to make sure you and the kids are all set to go into 2024. I hope it goes to plan.
Oh by the way, you might want to ask the family where you want to go camping for Easter time. It’ll be here before you know it, just like those hot cross buns on the shelves now. That’s another conversation. Have fun.
You can join Rob Kidd from 5am weekday mornings on 4MK 1026 AM in Mackay and Proserpine, 91.5FM in Airlie Beach or just ask your smart speaker to play 4MK on iHeartRadio!
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