Drought breaker

The farmers and the gardener's are happy - it's raining! Not quite enough for the nutty people who like to canoe down the Leith in full spate, but we've had a good soaking over the past couple of days and you can hear the collective sigh of relief from farmers. Zach was hoping to be doing the Weetbix triathlon but we didn't get ourselves organised, and I'm pretty happy as it turned out, because even the parents were absolutely soaked in Mosgiel, despite shortening the event to a duathalon and reducing the length of the bike and run legs.
Janine had minor surgery on Friday to remove half her toe nail and deal with the ingrown toe nail once and for all. I'd been watching the infection all week, but the normal home remedys hadn't done much. She has been pretty miserable over the weekend but is feeling better this evening, and will be fine for school on Monday.
Katarina has been taking a more active role in creche at church, organising and preparing the lesson. It is lovely to see her taking a step up.
Hannah is coming on with her reading, she is very independent now, although she loves to be read too still. She is having homework each night now too, plus her recorder practice.
Zachary and I are in a recorder ensemble. The music is pretty challenging for him, but I am keen to keep him involved in music somehow. He'd like to do guitar, but his hands are still a little small.
I haven't seen much of Chris this week as it was one of those weeks with two evening meetings in Mosgiel so he stays over, rather than tripping backwards and forwards. The office is almost finished, we've been looking for curtains all over town, and managed to pick up the extra one we needed on sale at the Warehouse, which was a bit of a bonus.