Life Skills .....

This has become a common sight at our house ...... a load of boxes sitting at our front door ..... ready for dispatch.

My entrepreneurial sons have set up a business on Bid-or-Buy (the South African equivalent of ebay.) They are doing SOOOOO well and making some good moola. In this country of ours, we NEED to teach our kids to be leaders in business and to be their own boss!
Keep at it boys , you are learning some great life skills!

Not a good report ......

MrGee got some bad news about his kidneys last week. They have shrunk by 2 cm. This is not a good report. He has been put onto the waiting list for a kidney transplant and the hospital has booked him in for a talk on what is about to unfold. As you may know MrGee found out in March 2007 that he was in renal failure. It came as a shock and since then he has had to watch his diet, bring his cholesterol down, go onto blood pressure pills and up his cardio to prevent heart disease.

Please pray when you feel to .....

Wordless Wednesday - - - - WizzKids 76 pg Computer Studies Project is finished!

CoolDude turns ELEVEN !!!

CoolDude was DESPERATE for a bearded dragon for his birthday. Of course I was not that keen 'cause I don't shack-up well with reptiles or rodents. He was adamant that a bearded dragon would be the present of his dreams until .......... he stayed over at Thomas' house one night.

Thomas has two of these creatures. CoolDude came home the next day with his mind made up . He definitely DID NOT want a bearded dragon for his birthday present. " Mom Thomas' room stinks, and the whole night they kept scratching on the glass. I couldn't sleep at all!"

So the wise boy settled for a more sensible gift .... a 'super-dooper-graphics-card-thingy' which in the words of CoolDude, "Makes every other graphics card look pitifully sad!"



Cooldudes loves......

• to cook and bake
  
• red .... because Ferrari's are red!
  
• his sister dearly ... and is VERY protective over her
• music .... the loud and fast genre
• friends .... he is very social
• to make us laugh .... particularly when he does his funny leprechaun dance!
• expensive and smart cars ... he is the car guru!
• strategy computer games
• his six pack ..... and is very proud of it! hehe
• competitive swimming
• action movies .... Will Smith is his favourite actor.
  

We love you CoolDude ..... you are a very special boy !

!!Happy B-Day!!

Our 'Princess of Wonderland' is FIVE... yikes!

Still feeling traumatized from Miss Tanzi's fourth Birthday party(it bucketed down) , I decided to down scale this years celebration and to have her party at school, during school time. Nevertheless it was still a very special time where she was acknowledged and honoured by her peers. I could see she enjoyed being Queen amidst her subjects!!

They sang a few songs, did a beautiful worship dance to Jesus, and they played a round of musical chairs ...........

Then they did the cake ........ of course it was a princess castle .... just what Miss Tanzi had asked for. She kept her eye on Conner most of the time!!



~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TANZI-PANZI ~

Wahoooo ... It arrived !

I honestly squealed with delight when I saw this pink envelope sitting on the kitchen counter. I knew immediately what it was , and that it was for ME! The envelope was decorated with pretty stickers so I opened it carefully not to ruin it's look. What encouraging words written by a very special friend.



Just three months short of my 40th and I eventually get my first pen pal!
Thank you Jerelene ... I look forward to writing back and I'm excited about getting to know you better.

( I have a pen-pal, I have a pen-pal.)

Reaching out ...... ?

We own the old manor house within a small complex. The land surrounding the manor house was sub-divided into 13 plots and thirteen smaller homes were built. It is an ideal situation for our family as we feel less vulnerable then we would if we were living on a free holding. With MrGee being away every week, and with the crime in our country ,we feel it's the safer option.

The unfortunate part is ..... the thirteen houses that surround us are mainly owned by older, retired couples who feel that the complex should be run like a retirement village. PICKLES! ....... they can be PEDANTIC!
Do you remember when we felt obliged(or rather manipulated) into getting rid of Tiggy-Pooh? Well we couldn't go through with it. So, much to the horror of some of our neighbours, Tiggy is still with us.



One of the neighbours is particularly painful. They live in No 6. A couple of days ago Miss Tanzi came to me with a collection of things and asked me to pen some words to her papers.

The top picture says .... "No. 6 Dear People This letter is for you. from Tanna Gibbons"
The last piece of paper had two holes cut for eyes, and I had to write on it ....... " This is a mask for your eyes." Included in the collection was a 5c coin. Her instruction was to put these in No.6's post box.
Could this be her way of reaching out and trying to soften the ol' boogers? And the mask ? Perhaps a disguise to cover their shameful behaviour?(lol)

She cracks me up!

What's going on .......

This post is going to be a hotchpotch of our news.

• MrGee has managed to cut down his time away from the family during the week. He stays away for only one night a week now.
• Miss Tanzi wants us to move to the USA because the Jonas brothers live there!
• CoolDude has just had two blood vessels cauterized in his nose ..... good-bye to bloody noses at last.
• WizzKid is excelling in his IGCSE Computer Studies.
• I am back into my exercise program ...... Hallelujah!!!
• The boys use the word "RANDOM" way too often in a sentence!
• I overheard Miss Tanzi ask a friend "Do you know what gon@ds are?"
• The boys and I are learning about India, it's intriguing people, Hinduism, and their strange and shocking practices.
• We are reading "William Carey- Obliged to Go." - brilliant!!!
• Our family has been visiting another church for the past three weeks. It's a new Covenant Church called Glenridge and we are LOVING it!
• I have itchy fingers and desperate to do another room makeover ..... I'm sure MrGee will give me the go ahead soon.
• Miss Tanzi wants to be a Dolphin trainer and a water ballet dancer!
• Nelly, our domestic helper, has been off for 9 weeks now. I saw her yesterday, and I can see she is on the mend!
• CoolDude has decided NOT to get a bearded dragon for his 11th Birthday. (Wahooooo .... I don't do reptiles) He wants a certain graphics card for his computer.

So that's a small taste of what's happening in our happy corner.

xx

The smiles say it all.

The boys swimming club had there annual awards evening. Look what they achieved ....



WizzKid and Cooldude are extremely committed to their swimming. At the moment WizzKid swims a minimum of 12 hours per week and CoolDude swims about 6 hours each week.When they get rewarded like this , it makes it all worth while!!!!

Well done my handsome boys!

xx

Be careful little eyes what you see!

My kids ADORE movies ... Hubby LOVES movies ... I ENJOY movies. Having a 14 year old in the house has initiated many talks about the content of movies, and the age restrictions attached to these films.
My boys wanted to take friends to see G.I.Joe. So I told them that I would do a search on the internet to find out some info about this movie. I found a wonderful site, Christian Answers.Net , which reviews most of the major movies from a Christian perspective. I was so impressed with their in depth study of current movies. I have told my boys that from now on we will consult Christian Answers.Net before any of us lend our eyes to the big screen!!!!!

BTW ..... G.I.Joe got the nod. Had I read the write up for Transformers, I would never have allowed them to watch the movie!

xx