this week has brought an end to our ‘winter’ vacation. we spent it at the beach and various other water locales. went to a beautiful litledestination called vuvale. good friends of our are developing a family resort on the coral coast and right now, it’s just their home situated on top of a fabulous view of some beautiful land boardered in papaya trees and a rainbow coloured assortment of beauganvillea. just outside of that view are the  waves  breaking  jsut offshore.  you can’t see the beach from there but  it’s only a 5 minute jaunt down the hill to a gorgeous white-sand beach, filled with  blue starfish and  an unfished environment.  for 20 years, fishing has been prohibited in this area. the  sealife is tremendous.  ahhh, was a great break from reality.  this week brought us into the last term of grade 2 for Alec and kindy for Elias. In January  Alec will be  entering GRADE 3! and Elias in GRADE 1 !  i’m still coming to grips with that.   This week also brought us VBS. a  wonderful after school even that every kid in this local area has been attending all week after school for a few hours.  I know, it’s a little  bit after vacation for the ‘vbs’ aspect of it but  it  is a great time for my 2 big boys. they are thrilled when they come home and watching them get involved in the action songs and crafts and activites reminded me of vbs growing up. yes, i got teary eyed. that’s why i didn’t stick around any longer. leave my boys to their own adventure. i felt that i had done something right.  that has not happened enuf in this parenting career!

this weekend we are having a bit of a bbq with some good friends and work mates of gerrys. we are also installing a door thru the boys room onto the back patio. that will be so handy. i still have hopes to paint the house (in and out) and get some sort of useful closet space. they are big into useless wardrobes here. Mine have wood sliding on wood for drawers and half the time you can’t open them anyway!  My Ikea wire sliding drawers are working out very well in my kitchen. just the small things make such a differance…

Today, i got to play with fire and water. i lit 2 fires in our yard and 1 got a little out of hand so i then got to play fireman and cool down some of my beloved plants! only the rubbishy weeds that i was trying to burn actually burnt but some of my hybrids might need a little recovery time!  my boys are catching up on their cartoon viewing before vbs just now and i will go and start dinner. having Waloo (fish) steaks and basmati rice and veggies. standard fare.  until next time. moce