wearying but worth it.

these past few days have been frantic. weekends especially. lots of leaving dos.

friday night i missed a housewarming party at odila's house because a dinner party went too late. saturday night i was hosting a games night at church and had to leave halfway through (i don't think anyone else noticed i was gone)because i had another dinner party that i was meant to be at that had started two hours earlier. i had two rush jobs for clients last week which kept me up late (worth it, but wearying). i am at school often, lots of end of year stuff. i have been going pretty full tilt since mid january, and i am so ready for relaxation. let's hope i find it soon.

magnificent and i walked into small world the other day for parent teacher interviews. rain was sheeting down and i was five minutes late. sebastian's teachers were our first stop. we sat down with miss rupa and miss viola and they told us that it had been a joy to see sebastian develop this year. they showed us his progress charts and stated how he has improved in several areas, and how he is a really really creative kid, as well as a very solid maths student. being a lefty doesn't make writing fun or easy for him, and he dislikes writing, but unlike at the beginning of the year, he loves art and craft. and he does. he comes home with spaceships, guns, houses, rockets, dinosaurs, and oh let's never forget the intestines he created (forever immortalised on youtube).

it was so good to hear them talk. i won't ever really KNOW if holding sebastian back was the right thing to do, because i have nothing to compare it to. but i do know that it hasn't really harmed him, except that he wishes he was in the same class as all his friends.

jasper's teachers were pleased to see us, told us that jasper had settled in well, that he had a few female friends in particular. any male friends? i asked hopefully? no, said his teachers, but we all agreed it was a very positive sign that jasper now agrees that he is a boy. yay jude! they had no concerns, so asked if we had questions. i asked about his stubborness and they said they had certainly seen evidence of it. they observed that he loves waterplay and reading books. except jasper's idea of waterplay is pouring water out of a teeny tea pot into a minscule cup and drinking it quickly. "he's a happy, well adjsted boy and watch out, he's going to be a heartbreaker," summed up one teacher. but she did say that jasper is a bit overwhelmed and tired of all the female attention. interesting.

i'll write about the girlie-whirlies tomorrow.

xotess