Our boys ...

Well as I posted previously, André was home in RSA for the Super 14 final between the Sharks and Bulls. We have recovered sufficiently by now to talk about the trauma, hehehe
André had a fabulous weekend at home - thanks Mommy for looking out for my boy - but we have to add, a great weekend considering !
Sadly our boys led for 80 minutes - yes a game of rugby IS meant to be 80 minutes. So you're saying well if we led for 80 minutes, we must have won the final and are over-the-moon ??? Well through some silly mistakes and a ref that played overtime :grrr: we lost due to a Bulls try with conversion after 83 minutes :boohoo:
It was a great weekend for my boy, well other than losing his phone at some stage of the evening - after the game. (So if anyone needs him .... you'll have to send your number and/or message to his email because he probably don't have your number no-more hehehe.)
He arrived back home rather tired but luckily had a day of leave available to recover.
Needless to say .... win or lose ....

2nd grade Aimee

Aimee's second grade teacher was leaving early this year due to attending a graduation ceremony in the US and for her to become naturalised (she is Russian by origin). So her class's student-led conferences were held earlier than the rest of the school. This was followed by a play they had put on describing their typical day at school.
Aimee has had a pretty decent year, finally has a little more enthusiasm in reading and hopefully with maturity, this and the desire to consistently do her best will increase.
These are photos from the conference with us and the performance. Video was taken using my still camera so quality was not fabulous :(. Enjoy anyway !

Going back in time a little ....

Okay so the days and well weeks leading up to my departure to SA for the study trip were pretty hectic.

We had a Family Carnival on the Wednesday evening before I left and some stupid twit got coerced into being put into the dunk tank.

Here with are photos of the trauma which my husband and children got great delight in witnessing :)

(and no those glasses were not a personal fashion statement !)

Of course the girls got to enjoy some jumping castle time, sadly mom was a little too soaked to join in :boohoo:

Oooo and the girls both joined in a mini-performance of a song or three learned in music class.

I'm back but my boy is gone :(

Well I got back from SA on Saturday night late from our study trip. Was an awesome trip and I will be posting photos, take a look on the kids blog, no point in posting them all here and there !
And we flew into action - well actually by the time André picked me up in the evening he pretty much had everything sorted.
You see we had agreed that if our Sharks won their semi, and got a home final, André would get to fly home for the game. So being his birthday weekend and all....how could I let my jealousy get in the way and refuse my boy ???
He left this afternoon and will be back early in the week.
So we're alone at home again but its not soooo bad (don't tell André though) because we are all just super busy. School year ends in less than a month and so we have yearbooks, graduations, report cards, student-led conferences, portfolios, all the typical end of year stuff to be worrying about. Yay means we'll be visiting home again soon !

Would like to make mention that it is exactly 1 year and 1 day since my sister Alison had her stroke ! She continues to prove just how marvelous she is and how great God is at her continued progress. Thankyou to all my family, Mommy especially for looking after each other, it helps us sleep a whole lot easier.

Not much else except GO Sharks for Saturday. As a South African I will say even if somehow the Sharks don't pull it off (I am on your side here boys, don't get me wrong), it is against The Bulls and so it will be a SA side winning the competition and thats a good thing in itself.

Will update again soon, til then, have a great weekend family and friends !

I'm off !

Okay so there hasn't been a posting in almost 2 weeks but I have an excuse. I leave today on our Student Study Trip to South Africa and Swaziland and well its been a little hair-raising. We have 11 students travelling on the trip ranging from 12-14 years old. We've had issues with getting visas but the real biggie was Tuesday night when I got a phonecall to say even though I had tickets issued and paid for, they had been cancelled. Gulf Air was stopping all long haul flights. Now we'd heard this was happening, it'd been in the news, but then they issued me tickets so ..... (In the news is that they are heavily in debt !) So mad scamble to find tickets Wednesday for our Friday departure ! We have tickets albeit $200 more per student - you can imagine how disgusted and angry I am with Gulf Air at the moment !
We leave at 5pm today and will be back late in Saturday the 12th. Expect an update then because somehow I can't see André getting on here inbetween making sure the girls don't demolish the house or kill each other and well then there's work too hehehe
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Have a great week everyone.