Cheers.

This is the jacket that put the girl out to work. And while Spook monitored the poo situation and I cleaned toilets, she waltzed out to her lovely job where hot chocolate sales were down and she spent most of the day decorating packaging for the online business. In between times, she sat out in the sunny courtyard with her boss Cathy and her husband Tim. Cathy gave her a lovely t-shirt from the shop, beautifully wrapped of course and with a lovely note of appreciation. She got a whole heap of pressies and letters through the post and has had a terrific day. The lady in Amigos remembered her from The Kahu Youth night and made a bit of a fuss of her. She had the whole restaurant sing happy birhtday to her just as she was leaving.

Finn had his lonesome day and I left him a list of things he might do. Like write overdue thankyou letters for his birthday, tidy the living room, fold washing etc. I suggested there might be $10 in it for him. He managed to earn $2. But he was quite contented with his day. He phoned me at work to say that Anne and John had called round to ask if we wanted to go for a run at 4pm. I had been thinking a run would be good, but I think that a lot and still don't run so it was good to have a plan. It had been a fairly physical day already as we were in 2 teams of 2 at work and Mary issued a challenge to see who was fastest. She is a very competitive womand and her team won, but it fairly moved us along.

It rained a wee bit tonight for the first time in weeks. It had been warm and sunny earlier with strengthening Westerlies which were warm but eventually brought the rain. Think that might put the stoppers on a family ski day tomorrow.

We are watching Billy Elliot now.

grateful for:

independant children and their sense of humour - they are making me laugh a lot just now.