Dear Richard
There is just 1 week left of the semester, and I am SO ready
for it to end now! I thought that this week would be a bit lighter, but yet
again I’m disappointed… I’ve got lots of deadlines for the end of this week,
but then a lot of stuff will really, really be over… I hope!
A big move here last week was that Caleb finally had his
first haircut. At 2 and a half it’s about time, I guess, but it was a big thing
to cut off those curls! But he looks so gorgeous now still! And now his big
dark eyes are really standing out! So beautiful!
The kids were on holiday last week, although they still
carried on going to school. We took Josh to meet Carol, the aftercare lady, and
all of the kids seemed to like her.
I was lecturing the second years again, but thankfully the
traffic was lighter because of the school holidays, so it was all good :) And I
was lecturing financial analysis, which is a section that I really enjoy
lecturing, so it was way better than the previous week :) And I got to finish
off the week (the last time I’m lecturing the second years for the year) with a
video of the kids saying good luck for the exams, and then Josh spontaneously
added “And I wish you a merry Christmas” and that started off the others too.
The class really enjoyed it!
On Friday Andrew and I went to Charmaine Boreham’s birthday
party, and Chante Bird came and looked after the kids. It was the first time
that we’ve ever paid someone to babysit, and we weren’t sure how the kids would
react to her, but they really enjoyed it! So now we know that we have another
option if we want to go out :) We quite enjoyed the night out too, socialising
with members of the ward.
On Saturday we took the kids to the aquarium. It was a
long-awaited reward for the reward chart we did with them for being reverent
during prayers. They had to be reverent to for all of the prayers in the day to
get a sticker, and they had to get 20 stickers each. So it was well earned by
the time they all finished. And in general they are being more reverent now
after that whole reward chart process. But they absolutely loved the aquarium!
We haven’t gone for quite a few years, so it was the first time that Caleb had
really been, and Hannah was a baby last time, I think. And Josh is just at the
perfect age to appreciate it now! They didn’t want to leave, even though we
pretty much went around the whole aquarium twice!
I was asked to teach the adult Sunday School class
yesterday. So Andrew taught the YSA for me. It was really nice to teach a
different class, and they all seemed to get a lot out of the lesson. But it was
a real challenge to prepare, I must say! I definitely relied on the Spirit a
LOT with that lesson! It was on the different attributes of the Saviour that
Isaiah describes. It was really nice to discuss with the class :)
And then in the afternoon Andrew’s parents came to visit us,
and also Bernard’s mom, who has just moved down from Joburg. So we all had a
nice visit together. I also showed Andrew’s mom how to enter a whole lot of her
Strydom family history onto Family Search. She’s so excited to know about her
family and get the work done! And because it’s an old South African family
there is a lot of work that has been done in compiling the genealogy!
So we had quite a nice weekend, but now the craziness has
started again… I think I’ll be bringing work home to do quite a bit this week
:( But we’ll get through, like we always do!
Love you
Shelly
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