We have had a fairly 'normal' week (for us) with the usual traveling and household things that seem to constantly need attending to. One of the highlights was our Princess had athletics last week, Inter House, and she apparently said to her Mom that she was going to enter everything she could except for middle distance. Well she certainly made her mark by coming first in the High Jump setting a new school record of 1.42m, first in Long Jump and first in Shot Put and then the next day went on to break another school record in the 100m, it's definitely those long legs. As you can imagine after all the excitement and adrenalin Poppet had a beyond exhausted and strung out daughter by the time Friday night happened. We are SOO proud of your achievements Princess you are a star.
We have had a couple of challenges, what would a week be without one? Yesterday Jelly Bean took an extra shift to help out a colleague and so I said I would take her which meant leaving at 7am when it was still pitch black outside. I woke up to a migraine the likes of which I've never experienced before and then when I got back home it was to find my husband with a graze from under his nose to his mouth, he had been carrying the blow up mattress out to the garage and somehow tripped over something and landed flat on his tummy on the mattress but his face hit the cement ..... OUCH?
This afternoon we took the boys to Monkey Town and I must admit that I was surprised. I expected it to be super smelly and it wasn't, they have so many different breeds and types of monkeys, from Pygmy Marmosets to great big Chimpanzees. There were two small little monkeys that when I went newr the one just tilted its head and came up real close looking at me with such solemn eyes, the other was having a chat with me, every time I spoke to him he chirped a reply - be still my beating heart. Just as we were leaving there was another bigger monkey who just sat with her hand out of the enclosure wanting peanuts, we were not allowed to touch the animals but I held my hand out under hers and all she wanted was to hold hands, hers were so dry and warm, it as an amazing experience. So far Grandpa has been kite flying, walking the dogs, been to the beach, played TV games, card games, pick up stix and a number of other activities with our little Grandsons, still on the to do list is going to the shell beach, going fishing and to the Botanical Gardens, I will keep you updated in the next Blog on further news and adventures.
It took Sasha a day or two to get used to having little people around, although Max in true style was a devoted follower from almost th first hour, the cats however are a different story. Gemma just does her thing irrespective of who is around, Jasper tends to hide most of the day as he has never seen little people before and he is of course a real 'brave heart', not !!! haha.
Friends as I come to the end of this weeks Blog, we have two little, very tired boys who have just gone to bed, and four really tired adults who have collapsed with big mugs of hot tea. I pray you have a fantastic week and have many opportunities to make someone's day special by giving them a smile or a compliment, it costs us nothing to build up others and be the 'Jesus' that they see. Please be safe wherever you are and always be alert to your surroundings.
A very big ocean and two little boys.
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