What would you do for your child?  Currently I'm sitting here with a blue hand that has lost feeling ages ago.  Why you should ask?  Well my 8 kg baby boy is sleeping, resting on this arm.  If I move it he will wake up.  The problem with that you should ask.  Well, he hasn't slept properly in days.  Waking at the slightest noise.  He is so tired.  I'm pretty convinced teething is at fault here.  Darn teeth.   So yes, I could let him wake up to send the blood rushing back into the veins.  I can't though.  I look at his peaceful face and I can't.  So I continue to work with only one hand.  A full bladder (yes you needed to know that) and a hungry tummy.

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Tommie and I were talking last night.  I was looking at some photos a friend of mine posted.  I miss the Cape.  I miss Cape Town.  We have never gone to Cape Town as a family.  We've been there on short trips with my folks, when they have gone to ride the Argus Cycle race but not just us.  So instead of doing the whole Margate vacation that we have done almost every single year, we will go to Cape Town this time.  Well, that is of course once we have enough money.  Once the tax season is over.  Once everything just falls into place.  I cannot wait. 

Can you see that I really really want and need a holiday?   I think it might have something to do with a friend of mine offering us a week in Durban at a ridiculously low rate and us not being able to take her up on the offer because of work. 

We took all the father's in the family out for breakfast yesterday  morning.  Of course this was to the Wimpy  (no surprise there right!?)   My brother and his family left straight after breakfast, while Tommie and Jason went to play golf.  Quintus played PlayStation and I got a few hours to do some work. 

After that Quintus decided that we should have a picnic.  Now in my mind, a picnic is where you sit on a blanket, under a lovely shady tree, eating sandwiches, cakes and the like while watching the clouds move by.   Mm...apparently my energetic son doesn't agree.  We ran and ran and ran some more.  It was fun though.  AS always it is fun to spend quality time with one of the kids.  Okay, we did have Zander with us - who ended up being the subject for Quintus's photography.

• This is what we gave Tommie for Father's Day.
• I baked us some cookies yesterday afternoon.  Nothing like the smile of freshly baked cookies.
• Someone close to me is going through a tough time.  I love her so dearly.  I wish I could just make things better for her.
• I have a huge headache today.  Why I always get clients with the most complicated tax problems on these days I don't know. lol  Murphy's law hey?
• I was thinking this morning that I truly hope my boys will one day do something that makes them happy and rich ... now that's not an easy combination but hey, I'm allowed to daydream right?
• I watched Ladder 49 last night.  It must be absolutely horrible to talk to someone, to hear him ask you to tell his loved ones how much he loves them.  How he will always "be" with them.  Knowing that this guy is going to die.  I cried buckets.
• Maybe that's why I have a headache today?

Dad

As a little little girl I always knew that you could fix my world.  As a 32 year old Mom, I still feel the same way.  Not matter what happens in my world, I know I can turn to you and you will just fix that for me.  You are my safety net.

I remember as a little girl I used to trust that you would catch me, as you threw me up into the air.  That you would hold on to me as you swung me around.  I remember you sitting with me one night as I was studying History in Standard Four.  You had such patience with me.  Much more than I had with myself.  I think it's still that way.

We went through some rough spots during my high school years but you went through endless trouble to build up our relationship.  Our years hiking together is   priceless to me.  Just you and me.  Blistered feet, sore legs, shoulders hurting from the backpacks and a bond no-one can break.  Sleeping together in a two man tent next to the Okavango river.  Taking baths on the edge of a cliff in Swaziland.  Taking a shower overlooking a river at the bottom of the Drakensberg.  Walking together in pouring rain.

We've been working together for close to six years now.  That's a long time.  Not once have we gotten upset with each other.  Or rather not once have you gotten upset with me. 

I love the kind of Grandfather you are.  How you take time to enjoy them, even when you are busy with a client.  How you proudly introduce them to clients or brag about their newest achievements.

I love you Dad.  I'm so glad that I got chosen to be your little girl. 

Happy happy Fathers Day 

Love

Ningkepoo.

It's always great to have all the family together.  Especially so for the kids.  They are having a blast.  Very loud but having fun.  I can't believe the combined energy of all these kids.  lol  They run non-stop.

We will hopefully today get some photos of our entire family.  Getting everyone., especially the kids to sit still for longer than a minute is close to impossible

However I can show you this photo so long.  It's my folks and all their grandchildren.  Yes FIVE grandsons

Today is a public holiday in South Africa.  Youth Day.  To read more about this tragic day you can go to Broom Girls blog.  She wrote all about it there.  It is shocking and sad what people had to go through to fight for their rights, to earn freedom.

Today is also the day that the Comrades are run in South Africa.  They used to run it on the 31st of May.  That used to be a public holiday - Republic day.  Also obviously my birthday.  I remember waking up early on my birthday and mostly watching the start of the Comrades.  I would watch it till everyone else has woken up and then again as the first runners would end.  Of course I couldn't stop myself from watching the end of it too...where they have to enforce the cut-off time and see some people miss getting a medal by mere seconds. 

My brother and his family will be visiting us this weekend.  Quintus and Jason has already been driving me crazy, asking me when they will arrive every two minutes.  I hope they get here soon lol

Best I get some work done before they get here.  Not sure how much I'll be able to do with them visiting and I really want to finish these financial statements that I'm currently busy with.

Oh and I need to get all the Father's Day gifts done.  The boys will be making Tommie a t-shirt again.  The one he sleeps in currently (with their foot prints on) is really worn out and we need to get one with Zander's little feet too.

Almost said what we will be doing for my dad and then I remembered that he reads my blog!! hahha  Hi Daddy!!