Nearly 2 months since my last post - I can't believe it. So now I am thinking about time & where it flies off to & how do we try to control it….
I must have stopped counting how long we have been here a while ago now, so we are 3 and a half months in when I count it up. That seems incredible & also makes me panic a little because it shows that the 2 years is going to fly by!
Where are we up to? Long Boy is now in Argentina on a Spanish school trip - left yesterday at 6am from school, 20 of them & 2 teachers. Buenos Aires & Cordoba for 8 days. What a fantastic experience - my school trips were down to the local shopping centre with a clipboard to harass some unsuspecting pensioners innocently going about their business!
Squeeze has been partying with friends for the past 24 hours - popped home to replace her contact lenses & gone again. This has been a major surprise for us - the freedom & ease of the children's social lives - in Johannesburg! Creates it's own problems with balancing schoolwork, sleep, family time but we are getting there. Any normal family with teenagers has the same issues I am sure, wherever they live.
We have been travelling - that takes time! Time to plan, pack, travel & enjoy! Last trip was Cape Town - WOW! Will do a separate blog on that - it deserves it. Another trip next weekend - to Hazyview (minus Long Boy of course - sob!).
Last weekend Squeeze was dancing in Pretoria in a show called "A Galaxy Beyond Imagination" - wonderfully choreographed & produced by the Dance school she attends in Bryanston. Again, we had to pinch ourselves that 3 months in to this New Adventure, we were watching our daughter/sister more than holding her own on stage!
Bradley (had to lose the Lance nikname after the recent shocking news :(( ) is racing in the Momentum 94.7 cycle challenge tomorrow morning & is currently busy polishing his bike! He has been training hard & has lost weight as well as a lot of time in the gym! You have to admire him - when he sets his mind to something, he's off!
So where has my time gone over the last 2 months since I last wrote? Not sure really - heavily involved in Thokozani but that is only once a week, lunch & coffees take up a decent amount of time as does shopping & exploring the many, many retail outlets in Johannesburg. Then there is the vets (ear infection after too much swimming), ad hoc bits & bobs like losing 1 hour & 42 minutes trying to but $$ for Long Boy's jolly to South America, physio on my knee (another story) and so on. Same day to day things, just different location.
I also spend a lot of time taking photos of silly things - random things that catch my eye! Like the following:
Paperwork - that is another thing that takes up a lot of my time - as does queuing! But I am chilled, probably the most chilled I have been in a long time so let time tick on - do it's worst - because we are enjoying every minute of it!
I must have stopped counting how long we have been here a while ago now, so we are 3 and a half months in when I count it up. That seems incredible & also makes me panic a little because it shows that the 2 years is going to fly by!
Where are we up to? Long Boy is now in Argentina on a Spanish school trip - left yesterday at 6am from school, 20 of them & 2 teachers. Buenos Aires & Cordoba for 8 days. What a fantastic experience - my school trips were down to the local shopping centre with a clipboard to harass some unsuspecting pensioners innocently going about their business!
Squeeze has been partying with friends for the past 24 hours - popped home to replace her contact lenses & gone again. This has been a major surprise for us - the freedom & ease of the children's social lives - in Johannesburg! Creates it's own problems with balancing schoolwork, sleep, family time but we are getting there. Any normal family with teenagers has the same issues I am sure, wherever they live.
We have been travelling - that takes time! Time to plan, pack, travel & enjoy! Last trip was Cape Town - WOW! Will do a separate blog on that - it deserves it. Another trip next weekend - to Hazyview (minus Long Boy of course - sob!).
Scarborough, Western Cape
Squeeze in rehearsals
So where has my time gone over the last 2 months since I last wrote? Not sure really - heavily involved in Thokozani but that is only once a week, lunch & coffees take up a decent amount of time as does shopping & exploring the many, many retail outlets in Johannesburg. Then there is the vets (ear infection after too much swimming), ad hoc bits & bobs like losing 1 hour & 42 minutes trying to but $$ for Long Boy's jolly to South America, physio on my knee (another story) and so on. Same day to day things, just different location.
I also spend a lot of time taking photos of silly things - random things that catch my eye! Like the following:
Paperwork - that is another thing that takes up a lot of my time - as does queuing! But I am chilled, probably the most chilled I have been in a long time so let time tick on - do it's worst - because we are enjoying every minute of it!
