This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind… let it be something good. -Mac Anderson

Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!  I know that I am late in writing my blogs for the last few days, but yoh! I have been chasing my tail. Life just concertinas sometimes, and I get squished in the middle.

On Saturday Ken and I spent the day with dear friends of ours, who only recently bought their farm. They are living out at Belangary an what a beautiful home and farm they have. Absolutely stunning! Tinus and Marianne have not been out (they are also ex-South Africans) in Australia that long and so are only just shaking themselves in, but loving it. It was so good to catch up with all their news, and Marianne had made a lovely lunch for the four of us, and Tinus took us around his immaculate farm. It was a lovely day spent with a lovely couple. We got home at just after seven in the evening!

On Sunday, we got a lift into Wauchope with Noel and Sandra, which meant that we got to catch up with their news too. Always a good time together.

It was my turn to teach in Junior Church and there were only five ultra-revved up, high energy squirting everywhere young boys! But we had fun and they were really good, sitting still and listening to the lesson and then - it was great gushes of energy as I got them to play a ten pin bowling game, using plastic bottles marked with the Ten Commandments. They had to try and knock down as many as possible to great roars of delight from the other boys, then read out the commandment onone of the knocked down bottles, and show me the hand sign for that particular commandment. (That was something I had just taught them), and I was super impressed how quickly they remembered them!

From church it was home again, home again, jiggity-jog. When Ken and Koda had their siesta, I worked on the lessons I would be teaching at school and printing the drawings for them to colour in. I try to set some project that they can make during the year to give to someone. This year we are making Grocery Index Books for their Mums, Grans, Aunts or whoever, or a book of Knock-knock jokes.

On Monday we began with the letter “A” and the children really did their work well, neatly and quickly as they do enjoy creating something special for those they love. They knuckle down and give it their best.

I love Mondays as I get to spend them at school, and I feel very loved by all the children there. It is a privilege for me to be teaching them.

After school I went around to Karen and Paul’s to make sure that I had “all my ducks in a row” for looking after Karen’s mum from the end of this week for five days. Karen was working in her studio and she showed me all the things she is busy making, has made or will be making. Crazy woman, she is a delight to be with! Karen also gave me an enormous bag of fabrics to sort through and take whatever I wanted out of it. I shall do that on Tuesday after doing Cattle Work with Ken in the ‘yards.

In the late afternoon, I received a call from the school secretary to inform me that I had left a bag at school with my water bottles, lunchbox, makeup bag, and wallet in it! Lawdy Miss Clawdy! I am getting a trifle scatty me thinks! I shall have to fetch it after the Cattle Work tomorrow!

What lesson have I learnt? That when I fill my days with too many “To Do” things plus whatlife throws at me, my thinking gets fragmented and I become forgetful.

What am I grateful for? The times I get to spend with children.

My saying for today is …