Russell News

Sorry for the late update on my blog, had a few problems with my computer. Charles very lovingly spent time on fixing it for me, while I was away at Dikhololo with my Mom, Matt and Ethan. But let’s start at the beginning of August… We decided to go away early this year for our 5th anniversary as we won’t be able to go in November due to me being pregnant and my due date a bit of a ‘wild card’. My mother very kindly and generously helped us to find and book a mid-week at Dikhololo for the second week of August (instead of our anniversary in November), and I was blessed again by her generosity by being invite to go back with her for the week after that with just the boys. (As Charles had to go back to work and Mathias couldn’t get leave) It’s always difficult to enjoy a holiday with Kids that are sick and it being winter and all our boys decided that the two holidays (Verloorenkloof and now Dikhololo) that we were on they had to get sick. I’m starting to think they get home sick, or th

We drove to Velorenkloof early (6am) Tuesday morning. After sitting in the car for 3 hours we arrived safely with a warm (well it was freezing) welcome from Uncle Al and Zoe. Ethan had just fallen asleep 5 mins before we arrived, (round about the same time I realised I had forgotten the two chickens in the freezer at home, which we needed for our special Christmas dinner) so we thought we could move him into his camp cot, but he woke and there was no way he was going to go back to sleep in this new room. Charles did a great job at unpacking the car. M@ and Zoe gave each other a big hug. M@ started to explore the surroundings. We were all getting hungry for lunch (even though it was only 9:30) as none of us had had breafast and started to explore the shaded braai area, which was a little cold for winter. But would be lovely for a hot Summers day. I started thinking of how nice it would be to have a similar braai area on my fantasy plot... (that I have been dreaming of) Then an hour l

This is what i picture my life to be. 3 Dinos running around. Matt 27 months Ethan 14 months and watch this space. Thanks for visiting my first blog, hope you enjoy it.