The first Monday in May is Labour Day in Queensland. This public holiday used to fall around my birthday in March in Victoria, so I am sad that I don't get a long weekend for my birthday anymore! But hey, once May rolls around, it's nice to have this little break early in Term 2. The long weekend came after two weeks of the school term, and we had not quite recovered from our busy Easter holiday with my family, so the extra day off was been a good opportunity to catch up on some housework/life admin, while also having a few fun activities every day. I actually had a pretty social weekend - rare for me since moving to Queensland - where I've had to build a new social network from scratch! (Not especially easy in your 40s.) I have been lucky that the group of friends Ella developed through school has a great group of mum friends that I have started seeing outside of 'kid activities' a bit more this year.  The weekend kicked off on Saturday morning with our regular kid...