Holey Cashmoley !!!

(oops sorry started writing this on Thursday ... didn't get it finished or posted !!! AND I'm finished this post on SUNDAY 25th !!!)

Look at the date ... where the heck has the last 2 weeks gone again ... AND where has the last 3 months gone ... ???

I mean it's the end of March ...well almost ... so that means my 3 months probation at work is almost up and there's no sign of me getting fired !!! well not yet ... and seeing as how we are officially on leave now until the 10th April ... I guess I'm not gonna get fired and my 3 months probation will officially be over by the time we go back to work !!!!

That and the fact that Paul arrives tonight marks the end of the 1st term of 2012, the 1st holidays for the year ... and the 1st school report for 2012 for SON-shine !!!! WOW ... where the hell has this first 1/4 gone ???

So how did SON-shine do ??? All his marks he has equaled or bettered EXCEPT for MATHS .... he has dropped from 80% right down to 48% and I am one very, very p'd off mum because of that .... BUT in fairness I am not laying 100% of the blame on him ... I blame a huge portion of that on the school ... the fact that for the first 3 weeks of the term they did not have a Maths teacher (shame the woman was diagnosed with Cancer and I know I should be a sympathetic person and feel sorry for this .... which I truly do feel sorry for the woman ... BUT the school should still have made an alternative plan and not left our kids for 3 weeks without a teacher) Kelsey says " but mum my Afrikaans has improved" because in the lessons they should have had maths they had an Afrikaans subs teacher !!! Well now I'm sure that will stand him in good stead for a future career in ????????????????

But as for the rest ... this term I left K to do all his own studying, his own projects and his own study programme... so (don't tell him but I am very, very proud of him) ... however he is disappointed because he did not come 1st in class this term .... 1st time since he started High School ... and this is because his maths marks dropped his aggregate !!!

As for me ... work has been exceptionally manic .. wait a minute I say that every time I write on my blog ... we were not supposed to break-up till Friday but the school had asked for special permission to have Thursday/Friday off .... you see we had a public holiday on Wednesday 21st ... Human Rights Day !!! and we just knew that most of the kids would not come back into school ... we only found out at 11am on Tuesday that the Dept. of Education had given us permission ... that means we have left A LOT of unfinished work at the office ... Oh well Sally will probably go in and do it ... but hell NOT me !!!!!

So now here I am on Sunday, this post is still not finished and published !!! ... and have yet more to add to it .... yes Paul arrived safely ... great to have him home ... just love the 'big suitcase' he always brings ... we now stocked up on the essentials .. oxo, Bisto gravy granules, Thornton's toffee ...although I'm not going to mention the fact that yet again he didn't bring me my Brazil Nut toffee ... oops did I mention it ??? and of course all the lovely crafty goodies that I've ordered over the last 3 months ... every time he gets here it's just like Christmas !!!!

Well my Thursday ladies will be happy ... they have some new thangs to buy LOL !!!

Of course K is always excited to have dad home... he's no longer the only man in the house ... and all the goodies dad brings for him LOL ...

Oh I have to tell you this ... about 2 weeks ago ... after SON-shine gets back from his little rugby tour ... he lost his cell-phone ...no actually what I should say is some bastard at school nicked it !!! His 'white'berry ... all the kids here have blackberry's ... they chat to each other on BBM ... no I don't profess to understand it all, so child of mine has been phone-less for the past 2 weeks ... no it was not insured and no I can't afford a new one for him ... so I chat to Paul ... he goes onto e-bay and manages to get K another 'White'berry at a decent price ... but I don't tell SON-shine, then Anne (a mate of mine who runs the quiz night at our local Keg) informs me that CellC (a phone service provider company) is sponsoring last week Tuesday's Quiz Night and they have 4 Blackberry's up for grabs !!! I tell SON-shine and he asks if we can go see if we can win him a phone (me laughingly says yes sure of course I can win him a phone !!!! ME the unluckiest person on planet earth, me who can't even win a bloody argument) WELL GUESS WHAT .... I won him a BLACKBERRY !!! I was sooo excited ... nearly burst Cyndi's eardrums screaming so loud when I won ... 1st thing I've ever won ... and something we actually wanted !!!

SO ... Paul arrives and K now has 3 Blackberry's !!! the one I won, the one dad bought him and a one Nigel gave to Paul that was lying around in the office !!!! From 0-3 in just a few short days !!!

Friday saw Paul & Kelsey out on the golf course at 8am ... bloody fools and it was a scorcher of a day ... of course Paul is over the moon that the weather is playing nicely for his trip ... I got to spend Friday till lunch time 'crafting', well doing prep for my classes this next week (then I joined them for lunch) ... and yesterday we were all at the High School catering at the Easter Sports Festival ... why oh why do I always say yes to these damned things ??? Making damned pancakes all day ... I must be mad !!! Oh and then we gonna do it all over again on Monday !!! Most definately MAD !!!!