A Birthday in Heaven - We Love You Guy Happy 14th

We miss this little fellow so much, even after all these years. It seems like only yesterday that this photo was taken. This is the first photo of Guy that I have scrapped, I used bits of two kits both made in memory of a little boy called Miles. I will do some more as I have many lovely photos hidden away in albums. However, I really wanted to post this here today.

A Fab Week

Credits: Back to Reality and Notebook Notations (peace sign) Little Dreamer Designs

Well it's been a very busy week or so but it's all good!

I've spent ages getting our computers sorted out, still ongoing but the main stuff is done. Scott has needed a computer for ages, with all his ICT course work he uses it for hours. Then we decided to get the wireless internet so that Jake could use his laptop upstairs. And I got a nice big external hard drive to back up to. It took me a while to get the security working for the router, not really knowing what I was doing so it's like learning another language. Well it's mostly fine, just got to work out how to share the printer but will leave that one till the weekend.

We had good friends visiting from Saudi Arabia (Hi y'all) It made for a busy weekend but it was great to have some fun for a change. Jake had his best buddy around for a sleep over and he had a great time.

Jake has had some hiccups at school, nothing too bad but it looks like he may drop French in favour of extra support time. I'm fine with it and he is over the moon,it's his least favourite subject. He will just have Spanish, which he loves, one language is plenty for him.

Scott is busy with his GCSE, he is going to resit a couple of papers. He is very close to going from an A to an A*. Not really sure how this resitting system works but he is keen, his science subjects are excellent.

My job is going really well, it's getting very busy now. Many of the issues from last year are getting sorted out and I'm looking forward to being able to make a difference at last.

My Hornsby Dyslexia course starts very soon, it's going to be tough fitting in the study time but I am so glad that I am doing it.

Other good news, My new washing machine arrives tomorrow (we are going to be soooo broke!)

I actually hate spending money on something like this but the old one was ancient, 2nd hand when we got it! I put some brand new pants in for a little wash before I wore them for the first time and they came out with marks all over so I had to hand wash them to clean them after the washing machine had done it's thing. Grant has tried to sort it out, cleaned it and serviced it but it's just busted! And on top of that it only fills half way, grrrrr!!

Time to go cook dinner, easy chicken satay. Grant and Scott are at the track doing whatever it is that they do there. No kart racing for a couple of more weeks but when it starts up again it will be hectic leading up to the Rotax Worlds.

OK......dinner.....

Everyone Back to Work/School

It's been a crazy couple of weeks! Finally the boys are both at school and I'm back to work (Grant didn't really get much of a break).

Jake loves college! He has had a great couple of days, he loves his Spanish teacher, not at all happy with the French teacher and the rest are all somewhere in between!

He should get plenty of help when he needs it, it will be interesting to see how he manages.

Scott has just gone back, year 11 for him. Scott has a big year with his GCSE exams later.

Last weekend Scott had a night race with the TAG class, bit of a disaster, a new clutch failed and effectively stuffed the whole meeting. He's eagerly awaiting the next race and an incident free meeting!!!!

Nice to see your comments!! I was having trouble making a reply, finally cleared and restarted my computer tonight and now it's working. Not sure what that was all about!

Dorene, I'm super busy now so have to make time for scrapbooking however it's relaxing and fun so I will always try to do something new. The two here were a bit rushed, almost forgot to take any photos at the race meeting. Scott and Jake would have loved to get up to Mt Hutt for some skiing, maybe next time. Nik was so proud of his skiing when he showed me his dvd. Great that the boys are enjoying themselves.

Andy and Raewyn, yes anything over 40c is too hot, the last couple of days have been great, high 30's with very strong dry winds. We have had to put up with a lot of blowing sand but the wind has been a nice change from the oppressive heat.

OK folks - -this is a bit of a short post, time to get to bed. It's been a busy evening because the boys both had a heap of school books to be covered and I wanted to get them all done. Time to get them doing their own I think! These 6am starts are a bit hard too!!