So after the long holiday ... sadly Nan and the kids left on 3rd January ... Kelsey returned from his holidays on Saturday 5th January ... with the biggest smile on his face ... he's had an absoloute 'ball' away on THE FARM in The Berg !!!! Thank you Cheyne, Matthew and Kaelyn ... for spoiling him and making sure he had a great holiday...
Then it was almost back to reality ... I had to start getting ready for back to work on 10th for me and Kelsey was Back to School ...16th January.
Work for me started chaotically and it's still just as crazy a week later ... we have a new programme that the school is working to and this was supposed to 'make our lives easier' ... well it has'nt ... in fact I'm more than sure the workload has more than doubled !!!
Kelsey is now back and in Grade10... wow what a change ... he picked his subjects last year and he's slowly getting into the new routine of class numbers and period times and new teachers ... so far so good... he's thrilled with his choices and teachers except for 1 but true to form mum has sorted that out ... so here's hoping I have a fairly happy school boy ...
AND THEN ... our (Kelsey and mine) world came crashing down around us on 10th January 2013, not only was the light turned off at the end of my tunnel but the whole fucking tunnel was destroyed !!!... Paul, my husband, my soul mate and the man I love ... sent me an SMS message to tell me that HE has decided that my marriage of 16years and our realationship of 20years in OVER !!! YUP ... apparently he has 'fallen out of love' with me and "he can not see us ever living together as husband and wife anymore. And the best thing for us to do is for us to get on with our lives in our own seperate ways" ... and there you have it !!!
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Better LATE than NEVER...
I started writing this on the journey home from Nan's place on the 21st December with every intention of posting it on the blog as soon as we got home and I had access to the Internet ... but as you can see that didn't happen !!! All my good intentions and plans went to pieces once we got home !! So typical of me ... that's why I have to stick with my WORD for 2013... And CHANGE!!!!
Because no sooner where we home in Hillcrest then we were busy again but my damned land line phone decided it was retiring for the 'end of the World' and it hasn't worked since !!! Therefore ....no bloody Internet either !!! oh the joys of living in a 3rd world country !!!
So let me take you back to the beginning of my holidays and give you the full run down to date:
The journey to JHB was rather uneventful ...but incredibly long ... Suddenly son-shine forgot how to use all apple products so it was fun trying to find TB's place (that's where we were dropping granny off) without any sat nav and to discover when we did find out how to work it, it had not been charged and non of the stupid chargers were working in the car!!!It was fun ...not ... And when we finally got to TB's place I discovered that son-shine had not even brought a damned charger for any of the apple products...I-phone, I-pod or I-pad grrrrr....
Once we dropped granny off it was FUN part II ... Find Paul, he had arrived in SA sometime on Wednesday and had stayed with a mate of his till we got up there .. Eventually we found him and it was onto stage ? of the journey... T.G the trip from JHB to Mokopane went smooth ... But by the time we got to Nan's place K and I had been on the road for 13hours ... I was buggered.
As always it felt like coming home ... Lorraine & Andy were as ever welcoming, the kids were excited to see us and wow how they have both grown ... Dinner was Vetkoek and mince mmmmm and of course half a bottle of vino to wash it down.
All K wanted to do was get to bed so he could get up and get to Jembisa .... He was spending the week there with Alex in the bush doing ?..whatever it is boys do in the bush ... Saturday morning we did some food shopping and set off after lunch to drop K off... Of course one has to mention the weather at this stage ...it was BLOODY hot ! By late afternoon I think I was starting to dry out from all our rain in KZN...it was great seeing Meghan and Alex again ... And we met the others at Jembisa ... Gave Alex permission to work K hard and maybe "work" some of that teenager attitude out of him LOL....
Our first weekend there was a long weekend so Nan was off Monday as well ... She had to go back to work Tuesday but only till Thursday when she started her holidays ... Paul and I spent the days with Lorraine and the kids ... I don't think I have done so little or slept so much ... Maybe I needed it cos the more sleep I got the more I wanted ... And of course it was lovely and HOT !!! ...not hot enough for me to swim ... But it was almost there LOL !!! And nights were spent around the dinner table with all the family drinking plenty of liquids and putting the world to rights ... What a fantastic week...
K sent me a message on Monday night telling me he didn't want to come home he was having sooooo much fun !!! He tried all week to convince me to let him stay and even Thursday when we collected him it was "only fetch me late mum"
He made me very proud as Alex said he was so well behaved and even the guests at Jembisa said the place would not be the same without him !!! Well done my boy xxx
Then it was back down to Durban for Christmas ... Nan and the kids joined us for 2 weeks and we had the bestest time ever ... spent time at the beach, swam, slept lots and had a generally lazy and restful time.
As usual Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day was spent at June's with the 'gang' ... the Barker family, Jo-anne and Mark joining us for Christmas Eve Dinner (June's usual Christmas Eve Fare) the Archery's stayed overnight and Christmas Day morning was as every Christmas morning should be ... all about the kids and being spoilt by all, it was as always FANTASTIC ... breakfast for 'the gang' consisted of The Bell Family traditional Christmas morning Breakfast ... lots of yummy food... The Jackson family joined us on Christmas Day for a braai and it was nice catching up with old friends.
Sadly Paul left us earlier than usual ... he departed on the 27th back to the UK .......
Kelsey then went off up to the Berg with his friends for the New Year... and Nan, myselfand the kids were left to spend the remainder of her holidays together... more time on the beach, more eating, more swimming and sleeping. true to form the weather in Hillcrest showed Nan just how weird it is living on 'The MistBelt' !!!
New Years Eve it was just the girls ... June, Irena, Nan, Noreen and myself...with Nicki and Russell... we set ourselves up a buffet table... lots of glasses of wine and some excellent music ... and as it was typical NY Eve weather ...wet,wet,wet ... we hid ourselves in June's garage and we 'chilled' and mellowed out !!!June bought some 'animal friendly' fireworks for us to set off at midnight but that ended in a bit of a disaster as Irena said she believed the guy who sold her them was 'stoned' ... they made louder bangs and explosions than any other fireworks I've ever heard ... but hell we laughed !!!
A brilliant way to start 2013 ...laughter, good food, good wine and great friends ...
Because no sooner where we home in Hillcrest then we were busy again but my damned land line phone decided it was retiring for the 'end of the World' and it hasn't worked since !!! Therefore ....no bloody Internet either !!! oh the joys of living in a 3rd world country !!!
So let me take you back to the beginning of my holidays and give you the full run down to date:
The journey to JHB was rather uneventful ...but incredibly long ... Suddenly son-shine forgot how to use all apple products so it was fun trying to find TB's place (that's where we were dropping granny off) without any sat nav and to discover when we did find out how to work it, it had not been charged and non of the stupid chargers were working in the car!!!It was fun ...not ... And when we finally got to TB's place I discovered that son-shine had not even brought a damned charger for any of the apple products...I-phone, I-pod or I-pad grrrrr....
Once we dropped granny off it was FUN part II ... Find Paul, he had arrived in SA sometime on Wednesday and had stayed with a mate of his till we got up there .. Eventually we found him and it was onto stage ? of the journey... T.G the trip from JHB to Mokopane went smooth ... But by the time we got to Nan's place K and I had been on the road for 13hours ... I was buggered.
As always it felt like coming home ... Lorraine & Andy were as ever welcoming, the kids were excited to see us and wow how they have both grown ... Dinner was Vetkoek and mince mmmmm and of course half a bottle of vino to wash it down.
All K wanted to do was get to bed so he could get up and get to Jembisa .... He was spending the week there with Alex in the bush doing ?..whatever it is boys do in the bush ... Saturday morning we did some food shopping and set off after lunch to drop K off... Of course one has to mention the weather at this stage ...it was BLOODY hot ! By late afternoon I think I was starting to dry out from all our rain in KZN...it was great seeing Meghan and Alex again ... And we met the others at Jembisa ... Gave Alex permission to work K hard and maybe "work" some of that teenager attitude out of him LOL....
Our first weekend there was a long weekend so Nan was off Monday as well ... She had to go back to work Tuesday but only till Thursday when she started her holidays ... Paul and I spent the days with Lorraine and the kids ... I don't think I have done so little or slept so much ... Maybe I needed it cos the more sleep I got the more I wanted ... And of course it was lovely and HOT !!! ...not hot enough for me to swim ... But it was almost there LOL !!! And nights were spent around the dinner table with all the family drinking plenty of liquids and putting the world to rights ... What a fantastic week...
K sent me a message on Monday night telling me he didn't want to come home he was having sooooo much fun !!! He tried all week to convince me to let him stay and even Thursday when we collected him it was "only fetch me late mum"
He made me very proud as Alex said he was so well behaved and even the guests at Jembisa said the place would not be the same without him !!! Well done my boy xxx
Then it was back down to Durban for Christmas ... Nan and the kids joined us for 2 weeks and we had the bestest time ever ... spent time at the beach, swam, slept lots and had a generally lazy and restful time.
As usual Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day was spent at June's with the 'gang' ... the Barker family, Jo-anne and Mark joining us for Christmas Eve Dinner (June's usual Christmas Eve Fare) the Archery's stayed overnight and Christmas Day morning was as every Christmas morning should be ... all about the kids and being spoilt by all, it was as always FANTASTIC ... breakfast for 'the gang' consisted of The Bell Family traditional Christmas morning Breakfast ... lots of yummy food... The Jackson family joined us on Christmas Day for a braai and it was nice catching up with old friends.
Sadly Paul left us earlier than usual ... he departed on the 27th back to the UK .......
Kelsey then went off up to the Berg with his friends for the New Year... and Nan, myselfand the kids were left to spend the remainder of her holidays together... more time on the beach, more eating, more swimming and sleeping. true to form the weather in Hillcrest showed Nan just how weird it is living on 'The MistBelt' !!!
New Years Eve it was just the girls ... June, Irena, Nan, Noreen and myself...with Nicki and Russell... we set ourselves up a buffet table... lots of glasses of wine and some excellent music ... and as it was typical NY Eve weather ...wet,wet,wet ... we hid ourselves in June's garage and we 'chilled' and mellowed out !!!June bought some 'animal friendly' fireworks for us to set off at midnight but that ended in a bit of a disaster as Irena said she believed the guy who sold her them was 'stoned' ... they made louder bangs and explosions than any other fireworks I've ever heard ... but hell we laughed !!!
A brilliant way to start 2013 ...laughter, good food, good wine and great friends ...
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