Let's all do a happy dance!

I haven't written for ages again, and once again I haven't done much in the way of craft stuff..... but I am writing today because I am very happy.

Those of you that have been following the Rory saga will be pleased to know that at this stage things are looking up for this year. School starts again on Monday, so today we went up to the school to look at the class lists (Who the teacher is, which children are in the class and where the classroom is). We are very pleased with the result. Rory has the same teacher he had in Grade 1 - who is an absolute brilliant teacher and someone who really understands children with issues like rory's (her own adult child has severe ASD).

Also, a couple of the children who were really bullying and upsetting Rory last year have been moved into the other class - a composite class with older boys who will hopefully pull these children into line fairly quickly. This means that Rory no longer has these particular distractions while in the classroom. YEAY!!!

We also learnt (and here is the biggie) that during the holidays, the WHOLE school (well, all the classrooms) have been airconditioned!!!! so Rory can no longer use the excuse that he is hot and "prickly" to get out of doing work. I saw the principle, and since not many people were around, I said a big thank you to him and then gave him a kiss on the cheek. That man is a fantastic principle. He really looked at what did and didn't work last year and has really worked to sort it out. I think that he has done the best job he could and I am really pleased that he did.

We have all had a wonderfull holiday. Last week we went to Hervey Bay for 6 nights and had a brilliant time. We went snorkelling, fishing, yabbie pumping & swimming, We saw dolphins, turtles, an osprey, coral and fish. We dug pippis for lunch while on a glass bottom boat tour. We went to the Hervey Bay historical museum. We went to Maryborough and went for a ride on a train while there. Really great holiday!

This week Lachlan & I got 2 days to ourselves. Mum & Dad offered to have Rory at their place for a couple of days and one night before he went back to school. Not necessarily to give us a break (although that was a bonus) but because they wanted to spend a decent bit of time with him.

Dad picked Rory up at about 7:30am Tuesday morning. Buy 11:00am, after discussion about what to do with ourselves for two days, decided to go for a long drive - just to see the countryside - staying overnight somewhere. By 11:30am we were on our way. We ended up going down to Casino ( a town in Northern NSW) via Beaudesert, Rathdowney, around Mt Lindsay and Kyogle. Really pretty though at times precarious drive. We had a major stop in kyogle to take photos of a house that a relative of Lachlan's used to live in and check out a town that Lachlan's Parents often talked about. . Then we went on to Casino where we stayed the night and had a massive meal each at the local pub. You 'ought to have seen the size of Lachlans' rump steak!

In the morning we travelled to Lismore (where Lachlans' parents' lived for a couple of years after they were married) and found there a fantasic tourist information centre and childrens playground that Rory would absolutely love. We decided that we will go there for a holiday sometime. We then travelled onto Nimbin (the "pot" capital of australia - but no, we do not do that ourselves) A very pretty little town with very interesting people, but not somewhere we would like to stay. The Nimbin candle factory was great to have a look at though. The people there were very friendly and showed us how they made the candles, including ironing the pyramid ones to smooth them! We then went to Murwillimbah(?) for lunch and then another hour or so drive and we were home. It was a really great trip, gorgeous area and it was good to do it by ourselves. Rory would have been bored silly and we were able to have really good discussions that we would not have been able to have while Rory is around. I'm glad we took the opportunity.

Anyway, I am hearing thunder, so I had better finish up. Will write again when i have something else to write about! Till then, Love peace and Joy as always.