Family Traditions

In this day and age we all seem to lack any kind of family traditions. When I was growing up every year at Christmas time, my dad would climb up on the ladder and clean the chandeliers. Today I decided it was time to clean our chandelier again since all the sanding of the floors and the dust that flew around, it was filthy. Good ol James helped me, the Chris saw us and got involved and finally Rob got involved as well, fixing the light bits and bobs that were falling off.

Now remember the bit about a bandage and how it can fix anything, well James managed to 'hurt' his arm and this was the result where he bandaged himself up - poor thing, gets no sympathy from his parents.

Chris has gone off to a party in Polsmoor Prison - one of his friends from schools Zwele, lives on the premises, his dad is a prison warden. Dad's name is Temba, which of course had Rob in stitches of laughter since that was our ex-garden boys name, the one he fired for being drunk at work. In order for Chris to go to the party, he had to put in extra hard study hours, as you can see by the picture, he welcomed the excuse of Jess sitting on his books as a reason to stop studying for while.

On Saturday Rob and I both went for Body Stress Relief and the kids were with. James kept popping in to see what it was about, Mary then offered to give him a once over which he thoroughly enjoyed. She said he had a small amount of stress in his shoulders and warned us that he would either be a bit grumpy tomorrow or very tired - hopefully its the latter.

This weekend we had a total ban on TV for the kids, because of various issues but mostly from a study point of view. As a result, the studying was great, but the best was how much time the kids spent OUTSIDE playing. I have attached this video of them up the tree and what they were doing with themselves and the punching bag. When they come home today, they tackled it again, and some of my clients had their hearts in their throats, I can just imagine what they must talk about with their friends, telling them about this swimming teacher whose kids are competely mad!!




Rob spent most of Sunday completing the study. He found that the desk had initially been mounted too high, so that had to be lowered. As you can see from the photo's before and after, it has not taken us long to fill the shelves.

This evening Chris and I went off to visit his new school for an orientation evening - lets put it this way, it was a bit of an eye opener . . . also managed to drop R520 buying stationery for school, but now at least its done.

The insurance company sent around contractors who finished, supposedly, replacing Christopher's bedroom ceiling and repainting his entire room in 2 hours this morning. Whilst they definitely have painted (we can smell it) I am clueless as to whether they have replaced, or merely fixed the ceiling, so we will have to wait for Rob to come home and inspect it. In the meantime, the contractor wants his excess of R1200 to be paid to him IN CASH. Now of course the question springs to mind, what about the other 2 contractors, i.e the one doing the roof tiles and the one doing the floor, do each of them get an excess amount, as the way we understand it is the whole claim carries an excess of R1000 - so we await an answer from the insurance company on this one.

James and his friend Nic decided to act like clowns today and decided to create their gallery of photo's and here are some of the results.

this last one, shew Nic, not sure what is going on here?

Well off to a new restaurant in Noordhoek tomorrow morning for a business meeting, so looking forward to getting out of the office, but for now, its off to bed.