Sophie Honeywood

This week started off boiling hot. The temperature in the car was reading 45 degrees C and the pool was 31 degrees C. Needless to say we have all been fairly cranky and I have had 1 if not 2 pulling my hair out afternoons. The pool is always a life saver on those days, there doesn't seem much that nice blue water can't wash away! On Wednesday night we had a huge rainstorm. On our corrugated iron roof it sounded like the roof was caving in. We had two small people join us in bed who were scared of the rain. Bethany slept through it all, as normal. Thursday was much cooler and there was a miraculous transformation in all our temperaments and we ended up being quite nice to each other. Caleb had a good day because he found 3 huge snails in school and brought them home in a cardboard box. His neighbour Josiah found huge black millipedes, so they were both extremely happy. What followed was endless hours of happy play, digging holes for the snails, making houses for the snails, losing the snails, looking for the snails. Unfortunately they have all now escaped to better pastures. Caleb still lives in hope that he will find them again or he will bring some more home from school.

Even more exciting this week was the birth of my new niece Sophie Honeywood to my sister Rachel and her husband John. I have spent a fortune on texts to the poor parents asking for updates on what was happening. I even had a skpe phone call with my mum at 3am one morning just after the baby had been born. Incidentally skype works really well in the middle of the night. I also took a big step yesterday, for me anyway. I said I would never join facebook, but I know it will be where my brother int law will post pictures of the baby, so I gritted my teeth and joined. It has the bonus feature of making you feel really popular, for at least a day, as lots of people want to be friends with you. Not sure if I can be bothered to really spend a lot of time on it, but now at least I can look at baby photos!