What a year this has been!
So when we last spoke I had been a
stay at home mom / consultant for seven days and just had a blast at my great Gatsby
themed party. Life was fun but also
about to change a lot. See after about
130 interviews, ok, only 13, I got my dream job at a bank. This bank is also based in Sandton, so I do
end up spending a lot of time in my lovely new automatic mini cooper S, the
really fast one, the one that goes WROOOOOOOM when you press the ‘s’
button.
No more gym in the middle of the
day, no more coffee dates and play dates and the like... more meetings, more
work and I love it.
On the kid front, Luka is a real
sweetie now and we are definitely keeping her.
She is in love with Princess Elsa, she lives and breathes that blue ice
princess, she sings “Let it go” from the top of her lungs day and night – that and
the SA national anthem. She wears her
Princess Elsa dress day and night and her current major insult is telling
someone that their hair is short and that they are not a princess. She is three years old and she has a bit of
an existential crisis going in the fact that she is both painfully shy and a
born performer at the same time. A real
girl who loves make up, nail polish and having her hair braided in the fishtail
fashion like friggen Princess Elsa.
Liam, oh Liam, the child of all
eternity. He cares about others, he
genuinely does. He loves playing rugby
and has a scrum cap that he wears regularly.
He wants to be a rugby player or a soccer player when he grows up. He has finally given up on women realising
that at the ripe old age of six, he is probably too
young to get married. He loves fishing and is obsessed with sports. He can often be found in the park close to home with a rugby ball, a soccer ball, a cricket bat, a hockey stick and a bike. He plays whatever is being played in the park at that stage. He has learned to read and write a little bit and when I return home from London we need to go and buy him a school uniform. Where did the time go. When did this precious baby turn into a slightly smelly all knees and knuckles little boy?
young to get married. He loves fishing and is obsessed with sports. He can often be found in the park close to home with a rugby ball, a soccer ball, a cricket bat, a hockey stick and a bike. He plays whatever is being played in the park at that stage. He has learned to read and write a little bit and when I return home from London we need to go and buy him a school uniform. Where did the time go. When did this precious baby turn into a slightly smelly all knees and knuckles little boy?
All I can say is that life is pretty
good and that despite this being a busy and challenging year we are all doing
very well. We are all healthy and happy
and winding down. We are counting the
Mondays until Christmas and we are almost packing our bags for Mozambique.
I love South Africa and our life
there, but man oh man the English know how to do winter. It is absolutely stunning here and the
Christmas decorations are breathtaking. There
is sparkle and joy around every corner and chestnuts roasting on open
fires. There is just something a tad sad
about a Santa Clause sweating in a read woolen suit back in South Africa. I wish that we had a proper winter that
merits woolen coats and mittens, we only have dreary dry Highveld and it is
not really that cold. The coffee shops
start to sell Christmas cheer in cups that look like Santa. Cups full of brownie lattes, hazelnut and
caramel lattes, ginger bread and orange hot chocolate. Maybe on second thought it is a good thing that
South Africans do not know how to winter as I would gain more than a couple of
kilograms. So for now I will count
myself lucky that I get to come and see this a couple of times a year.
So here we go yet again, countdown
to Christmas, new year, new school. Love
from London x
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