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Feeling a bit out of touch...

With my friends...

Hi guys, I know you're all out there, I saw Jayne on Saturday, and spoke to Jen yesterday, and spoke to Leah on msn on Friday or Saturday, I think... But I feel like it's been a while since I spoke/wrote to the rest of you, so just want to send a big Hiya! to everyone else out there!!!

It's funny, now that I have the laptop, I'm just not on the computer as much (hahaha, which makes me wonder if I can justify the outlay, but I'm sure this is just a temporary phenomenon)... It could also be that Dave is home all the time now too, which, while it means I can go out more freely without the bigger boys, it also means I'm less inclined to hope on the computer...

Been busy rearranging the house and that too, and then today we just got back to homeschooling group for the first time in a long time (a month, I think), and that was excellent! Such a lovely group of parents. Had a new mum today who just pulled her three boys out of school last week (in time for the CG holidays)... She was full of questions and enthusiasm, LOL... She has three boys aged 14, 10, and 7 - the two younger ones were there with her today. She was saying 6 kids were pulled out of the same school last week by their parents, and 5 were going to be homeschooled - her three plus two others, and then one was going to a different school - that's pretty interesting I think... There were only 130 students in the school before the 6 (constituting nearly 5% of the school's population) were pulled out!

What else... Oh yeah, I'm into bonus time in my minutes this month... I haven't been doing dedicated walks this past week or so, but I did hours and hours of walking with Bryn on me at Ikea on Saturday, so counted that... Then I definitely used a bunch of muscles putting up those shelves yesterday (and boy did I feel it this morning)... Then I did more walking with Bryn on me today - so I'm counting all of that, as it was all over and above all the normal kind of daily movement I do...

I hven't done much in the way of metaphysics these past couple of weeks, but like every other aspect of life, that waxes and wanes - so stay posted, LOL...

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Narelle said…
Hi! Still reading. You just keep posting. :o)
9:42 pm
Narelle said…
Ha! screening your comment. Hmmph. lol
9:42 pm
katef said…
Hi right back at you!
I am guessing we might see you guys on Friday if we can brave the heat and traffic!
5:47 pm
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