Well here I am looking out my window and wondering what title to give this post. I thought of a few e.g. Today; Update; Fitness; Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. But none if them were quite right and then as I was looking and enjoying my view I came up my title ‘The Observer’, I am an observer, I always like to have a seat that allows me to see what is going on! At the table I can’t have my back to the main part of the room, in a waiting room I need to be at the far end so I can see the comings and goings of people…would you call that nosey? I say I am observant, i love to people watch, I think it is fascinating, I like to wonder about who they are, where they are from, what they might be thinking, how did we actually come to be in the same place at the same time? Anyway the reason for this title for today stems from the fact that I have moved my craft room around. We have had a couple of people stay recently and the way the room was meant always moving the sofa bed so it could be opened out. Now I have the room so we don’t need to do that. But even better I now have a view out the window. I have a lovely garden directly out the window and the road so I can see how many cars go up and down and road, or how many times the kids down the road zoom past on their bikes and scooters. Seriously I don’t have time for that, but I am pleased to have the ‘view’!
There has been a lot of activity in our house the past few weeks! Steve, Tobyn and Isaac have all be running. Steve for general fitness and to lose the love handles, Tobyn for fitness but also training for mini tris and weetbix tris, and Isaac because he has to keep up with his big brother! Tobyn has been doing really well and every time he goes out he manages to knock a few seconds off the previous time. Once a week he does an organised 7km run. Last year he wouldn’t run the whole way, this year he is doing really well. He could still do with pushing himself more but he is doing really well.
I have started practicing my Zumba routines and it is fantastic. It is hard to remember everything but every time I practice I feel better about it. Our classes start in the 2nd week of Feb, I can’t wait to see how well it goes here in little ole palmy, I have a good feeling about it!
The boys had swimming lessons last week. Isaac did well, he is so good at listening and doing what the teacher tells him to. He is however a typical boy and although he tries hard he hasn’t got the rhythm right yet. Tobyn’s teacher was pretty hopeless and after a week he really had not improved at all. I’s teacher is going to do an assessment on T this week to see where he is having problems and see if we can help rectify them. He is fantastic at breatstroke and backstroke and his butterfly was better than I expected, but his freestyle…ARGH, makes me want to tear my hair out! I won’t be putting him into term lessons this year, he has enough on his plate with 4 nights of dance, but I might still get him to do holiday classes. He is enjoying do triathlons and he needs to be a strong swimmer and breaststroke is not going to keep him up with the free stylers!
Steve and I celebrated 17 years of marriage on Sat…man where has that time gone? Steve took me to the local Japanese ‘pub’ something or rather ‘Yatai’ It was very nice…apart from the barely cooked beef, I am not a big fan of almost raw food! But the sushi and the shitake ake mushrooms, mmm!!!
On Sunday we had a lovely trip to Splash Planet with my bro and sister and family. We escaped the rain in Palmy and found the sun in Hastings. I was a bit hormanal so not in the best mood, but it was a great day. Next year I look forward to returning wearing my bikini with my new Zumba body…LOL!!! Here is a photo borrowed from my sister…
Splash Planet
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- Steve and Isaac on the obstacle course.
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- Splash Planet
So that is us in the past couple of weeks, til next time…
A Woman and her Boys 