13 Today ...

Wow it is soo hard to believe ... Kelsey is 13 today ... it feels like just yesterday that he was a new born baby ... and there I was so unsure of what I was supposed to do next !!!

We've had the most amazing, adventurous, fun-filled, stressed out, enjoyable 13 years ... I can hardly wait to see what the next 13 are going to be like :-)

Happy 13th Birthday Kelsey

Love from Mum & Dad...

Boy have we had a hectically crazy weekend ...

It started out with Sports Day on Friday ... we all went a little BLUE crazy ... to be expected from me this year ... this is Kelsey's last Sports Day at Primary School so the GR7's are allowed to dress up and go a little crazy ... seems the mum's think they can too ... LOL

Then we dashed home ... packed the car up ... only took us 4 hours !!! then we were off to The Berg for our camping trip ... 3 whole days of it !!! (Monday was a public holiday for us here in SA 'Women's Day')

All I can say in MAD !!! NEVER AGAIN ... if I ever had any doubts or misgivings about camping before this trip, it well and truly cured me of any stupid notions of camping again ... We arrived in the dark ... it was BLOODY freezing and we had no idea how to put the damned tent up ... some of the pieces were missing for the blow-up beds ... the air was damp !!! OMG it was miserable and so was I !!!! Mind you I was encouraged in my miserableness .. cos Stephen Juno's hubby was just as aggro about this whole camping thing and the stoopidity of pitching tents in the cold & the dark !!!!I hardly slept a wink the 1st night .... it was sooooooo cold ... even my eye balls were cold ... eventually I slept with 2 hot water bottles, my tracksuit (which I had a t-shirt & vest under that) my body warmer and a fleece jacket.... 2 duvets and 3 blankets ... long fluffy winter sox, I kept my gloves on AND my hat ... the 2nd night I pulled the hat down over my face I was that cold !!!! :-) ... Juno's girls slept in my tent with me ... and Kelsey shared a tent with Jason ... Kelsey (who NEVER complains of the cold) said he was FROZEN to the bone...

I have to say I just could not get my head into the "oh look at the beautiful scenery, oh this is luverly & quiet and we should be enjoying the beauty around us" MODE !!!! I figured if I moaned enough about it all I'll never get a second invite ... and if the others are daft enough to even think about inviting me !!! I'll just say NO THANKS !!! LOL...;-)

The mountains were beautiful though and during the day the sun shone so we were able to de-frost a little ... in fact Kelsey was stoopid enough to go swimming too !!!

Sunday night Cyndi decided to tell me about fan heater she has !!! great!!! So on the last night Kelsey moved into my tent with me ... Juno's girls moved into their tent with them (they had a heater for the baby) and we all got a better nights sleep BUT boy was I was soooo glad when Monday arrived and we could pack up ... only took us 2 hours to break everything down and squish everything back into the car ... and believe it or not but it took us a whole 38mins to unpack the car when we got home ... OK still have several full washing baskets ... but they'll empty eventually ...

Mum & Indi spent the weekend with Aunty June & Aunty Irena ... so we picked them up on Monday afternoon... and when we got back the weather here in Hillcrest was FREEZING !!!! And it still is ...

Monday night I received the worst ever phone call ... my bestest friend in the whole wide world, Nan phoned me to tell me her husband, Ben had died of a heart attack !!! Any of the regular blog readers will have heard me talk about Nan & Ben, they live up in Polokwane on the Game Reserve... Ben was called out to work on Monday evening as there was a bush fire, and he went with his crew to help fight the fire ... apparently he collapsed due to excessive smoke inhalation and the doctor was unable to save him ...

I can't believe this has happened and I am seriously struggling to come to terms with it all ... I don't understand ... WHY HIM???