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!
Hi Annabelle,
ReplyDeleteNice to see you back.I hope you're all in good shape and happy with this new life.
Bisous de Bruxelles
Valérie
All well Valerie - HAppy New Year to you & the boys.
ReplyDeleteOne of my (many) New Year resolutions is to do weekly blog - just need to do some catching up first with all the amazing things we have seen & done! Watch this space! xxx