Long time, no see or hear.....sorry

Hi all
Yes I've finally come back to my blog. Has taken me a bit to remember my login, but I've finally got it and can post again.....

I do apologise for those that keep checking on me! I'm here, but have been very busy as usual. I will try to post a little more often to keep all my friends up to date on what is happening here on the farm and in the studio.

To catch up a little with the family.....
My eldest, Emma, did choose to leave home and attend an International High School in Adelaide (2 hrs away from home by bus). She is living with a lovely christian family along with a Japanese and Chinese student. They have 2 daughters of their own that also attend the same school. She only has to walk out their back door & across the school oval to get to class each day! I think it was meant to be in the end..... the grandfather of this couple is a Uniting Church minister and actually married our current local Principal & her DH years ago. They also babysat their kids as they were growing up. THEN our local deputy principle was also from the same area and Emma's host parents were his supervisor at Youth Group. THEN another teacher at our local Christian school used to live with her host dad before they were both married!! All this was discovered as we got to know her host family before christmas last year.....

Emma has now had 6 mths at her new, much larger city school. Academically she is doing great with merit awards for her results for the first 2 terms. This week she phoned to tell me she got a credit in a Science competition that they encouraged her to enter. This means she is in the top 18% of all Yr 10 students in South Australia & Northern Territory. Not bad we think.....

We have struggled all weekend to sift through lots of information to try & choose her Yr 11 subjects for next year. To keep her options open for university etc when she is still struggling to even know what path she wants to take. Seems like they are telling her that she needs to do the top maths & physics though as she is coping with these extremely well.

Onto #2 son who turns 13 tomorrow! He is just cruising with study & mates and loves his motorbike. Would love a new one, but we just keep working on his Dad's 30 yr old Yamaha 175DT with new parts etc to keep it going all the time. He loves coming home most afternoons from school & going for a ride. He is also learning lots about maintenance, motors etc and can do a lot of the mechanical work himself now - so good life experiences.

#3 will be 10 next month & is still the most stubborn girly girl of the lot! Loves playing netball, being with friends and adores being with her big brother & they rarely fight thank goodness...

Quilting wise, I'm struggling to do much for myself and only just keep up with a few customer quilts. Have been very busy teaching, selling quilting machines etc which takes up all my time. Have not been home much this year due to all this, but it is all good!!

OK - this is probably more than enough to bore you all....will try to write more often in the future.
cheers
Tracey