A positive note

I was reading one of my favourite blogs today and I decided that she had a very good point. Try to find the good in every day and write about that. So I am going to try and find the good in every day. Yes I will vent... part of living in SA but I will try to be more positive.

I have some truly exciting events coming up in the next few weeks. I will write about those as they happen but for now I will just tell you that I am jumping up and down like a 5 year old with excitement. Work wise I am slowly finding my feet and I have a few good offers of long term projects. Anybody need a copy writer or an editor? :)

E cried today because he didn't have swimming with Tim today but I am taking that as a good thing. He truly loves swimming now and is very confident in the water. It's great to watch him finding joy in a sport that I had such a passion for as a child.

Z got invited to her first birthday party.

We are all making friends and settling down here and its a wonderful feeling.

Lots of mush for today!!!

Tomorrow there will be a post on things to do this weekend on the North Coast.

P.S. wish me luck... I have a private Pilates class tomorrow. I feel very fancy but it was actually an offer from the Pilates studio. They will probably tell me my ass is too fat for Pilates:)

Hello Darkness

Today we had general maintenance on our local electrical supply. No power was scheduled from 8am to 4pm. Great idea for people that work from home. I was prepared and my laptop was fully charged. The battery died at 15:45 but I figured the power would be back on in a few minutes. Z decided that 4 was the perfect time to wee on me. So bath time for everyone. Luckily we still had some warm water. 5 arrived an we still didn't have power. Since we had load shedding last night from 4 - 6:30 and I didn't feel like giving the kids a cold dinner again, we headed off to KFC. Arrived back after 6 and the world was still dark. Dearest hubby believes in deep cycle batteries so we could watch recorded programs on TV. Kids watched Open Season and ate their very healthy dinner by solar light. Got kidlets off to bed and happily bathed after the pee incident. 7:30 the power finally came back on. Almost 12 hours after it was switched off. To make everything better we have load shedding from 10 -12:30 tonight. Life in Africa really is fun sometimes. At least I had a better day then some parents here. My kid is at a private school so we haven't been affected by the teachers strike. Our local government school had to shut its doors an send the kids home early after threats from striking teachers at the rural schools. Poor little mites must have been really frightened by the gathering strikers at their school gates. Police and local security companies kept them safe but I am sure it was still very scary. Now they have shut the school for the week to keep the pupils safe. What are working parents supposed to do? Some days, you just want to hang your head and cry. However tomorrow is another day and hopefully things get better here in SA.