Today was no different. Justin found out he would be missing the first two days of school in the third term and just about had a coronary. The fact that we saved R800 on the air tickets by coming back two days later than originally planned, was totally irrelevant. I finally managed to cure the 'my face looks like a slapped bum' look, by agreeing to take him to school the same day we come back, so officially he only misses one & half days of school instead of two. I suppose I should be relieved that he is so studious.
We then decided to make the best of the fantastic weather today and have a picnic at the Helderberg Nature Reserve. We invited out friends Gayle and Stuart to join us and off we went with great aspirations for a relaxing afternoon, not!! James decided that he was not going to share the ball we had taken with, so there was much screaming every time someone went near it. He insisted he needed to play with the cricket bat which was twice his size and which he insisted on holding above his head. This meant we had to keep taking it away from him for the fear he would knock himself out. That didn't go down very well. Then we asked our older lads to take him for a walk (peace at last), until he came back screaming because he had fallen. I gave up. There is just no way that we can ever go anywhere and not have any drama. I guess this comes from having so many children.
 James after his fall |  Our aspiring cricketer |
I guess the perfect families we see on tv with everyone frolicking and full of smiles don't really exist. We are a big family, we are all different and we all have our idiosyncrasies. After all was said and done though, we did enjoy our time today and have all agreed we had, had a fun time together this weekend. I guess that's what I love about family. We can be ourselves around each other and still have a good time together even if there always seems to be one....
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