Even though I hear the birds singing
I lie her and pray
That when I open those curtains
I'll see a colour other than GREY!!!
But it wasn't meant to be ... so I thought girl! you have got to pull yourself out of this sad grey world ... despite the clouds touching my head !!! I ran around and filled the washing machine and bravely flicked the switch ... I figured even if we have to sit around with wet washing on the clothes airer all day I HAVE to find my way back into the bathroom through the mountains of dirty clothes!!! PMSL!!!
AND then slowly the grey turned to white and the white turned to blue and there in the sky was a huge big ball of SUNSHINE !!! Can you believe it the sun DOES shine here in South Africa !!!! And now 5 loads of washing later and the sun is still shining, the birds are singing and my day has changed into a BETTER colour !!! Bright lovely sunshiny yellow I think!!!
(Yes, guys, I think she has finally well and truly LOST IT!!!! Not like I ever had IT in the first place)
I've had another busy hectic week doing UM nothing !!! well it feels like nothing ... I can't remember what I did on Monday ... it was obviously soooo exciting !!! (Oh yes I remember now we doggy sat didn't we... ) Tuesday was spent as usual running around from early till late ... food shopping, then teaching at school, (we're still not finished those mini books and we're running out of time) homework and cooking (exciting what?)
Yesterday morning was a bit more exciting ... Year 6 (Kelsey's year group) as part of their EMS for this term had to go to Mugg & Bean (that's a chain of coffee shops here in SA) and the kids were given a budget, they had to order their own breakfast, pay their own bills and leave a tip etc ... I had volunteered to be a driver to take the kids back to school ... so dam it ... had to hang around waiting for them, what else was I gonna do but have breakfast too !!! (it's a tough life but someones gotta do it !!!) Kelsey then had a cricket match on yesterday afternoon ... it was bloody freezing ... there I was sitting with vest, long sleeve shirt, gillet, fleece AND jacket AND blankey wrapped around my legs !!! Unfortunately the boys didn't win but at least Kelsey got to bat this time round !!!!
He's writing year end exams at the moment and so most nights we have about 2 hours of studying !!! I really hope he does well in these exams ... his marks have been fairly good for the last 3 terms but they work on aggregates here, so all you need is 1 term with poor results and the whole years marks are affected !!! I'm only worried about 2 subjects and of course I have to try and keep positive for him ... You see here in SA if the kids don't PASS the year they remain in that year again, and I think he will really suffer if he gets left behind !!! After all he's been through this year ... BUT lets not think about that ... I just have to try and help him and encourage him as much as I can !!! (why doesn't anyone warn you about this kind of stress before you have kids???)
This morning I've spent time with some of the mum's committee 'collating' next years workbooks for the school ... before now I always wondered who got this wonderful task of putting all the classes workbooks together ... covering all the new reading books ...!!! And we've done that now for the last 3 Thursdays in a row and Kerry kindly informed us we've only done years 1 & 2 ... there's still more to be done for year 3 !!! (The joy of volunteering!!! ... mind you the conversations around the table are VERY varied and interesting !!! it it quite surprising what a bunch of women will talk about when they get together!!!)
Oh have to tell you Daisy a.k.a Hope now has ANOTHER name but June has said this is now officially final ... so her name is actually now Bella. And she's doing well, eating properly and looks like she's going to recover completely... which is great news.
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