Time Flys By..

The past three weeks have flown by. SBS & his SH are with us which is fabulous. We are enjoying their company and their enthusiasm for adventure. They have many plans and it is exciting to wait and see what eventuates. Meanwhile, we are being treated to some yummy cooking and great company.

The kids’ dad is safely back in this country after his misadventure. It is great to have him back and to know that he is on the path to recovery even though he is facing a couple of more weeks in hospital. It may be a long path but at least it is now clear and he has his wonderful sons to cheer him up and cheer him on. I haven’t been to see him yet as I have a cold at the moment and that is the last thing he would need.

Two-and-a-bit weeks til the house move. It seems to have taken ages and then all of a sudden, it is nearly upon us. We tried our hand at a Garage Sale yesterday. Well that sucked!!! Didn’t sell much but did sell some of the main items so that’s good I guess. It is really weird putting bits and pieces of your life up for sale. The local Salvation Army shop will benefit from the remaining items. It is a good job I am not a shop owner as I kept saying oh well, $1 will do, or take all of them for $2!! Just as well it was a clearing up exercise and not a money making one. But there are a few happy families with some goodies they wouldn’t otherwise have got.

So much of the moving and packing is about Shelley. We have to move everything and look at everything with all the memories and the heightened sense of the permanency of death. She will not wear those shoes again, read those books again or play that card game again. It is all so devastating and hugely emotional, packing, repacking and making some decisions about letting some of her things go. I wept after her music box was chosen by a beautiful little girl. I was happy she had been the one to choose it, her eyes lit up as the the ballerina twirled and music played. It was the right thing to do – but it broke my heart all over again.

We are a funny household with all different hours of work and sleep. SBS works midnight til around 8am, I work all weird hours form 0430 starts to late afternoon starts. It is not a normal household by any means. At present two people are sleeping (it is midday) and two are up. I will probably have a sleep later!! It is like shift work all over again. But I love it. Everyone is free to do what they wish, when they wish. What more can anyone ask for. The only trouble is the outside world doesn’t realize we are on our own timeframes, so the phone still rings, door to door people still turn up anticipating a sale, whether of goods or a soul!! Ha ha the jokes on them. I am a non believer and not much of a purchaser either!!

Anyway my friends, will sign off just now and am in a writing mood so will post some more later today.

I feel very high tech, am sitting here doing a blogsite, (didn’t even know what they were a year ago!!) and listening to music on my iPod. Good grief Charlie Brown.

Arohanui

KG