Hi family!
I trust you are all looking up regularly and enjoying the family blog! Thanks Ralph for making it...and for contributing about 95% of the posts! It was over a week ago that you told Maurice to make sure I posted a juicy email to the blog, but I haven't gotten around to it till now. Maybe it was because I didn't have any juicy news to pass on... But to make up for my deliquency, I'lll try to make this as juicy as even the thirstiest among us could desire.
Anneke and Jo are singing loudly in my ear as I type. Or rather, Anneke is singing, and Jo is howling along as best he can. He's also trying to get in on the writing of this post, and every so often appears at my side to bang on the keyboard with his chubby little hand. He surely was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward! He's still waking us up at nights occasionally too... But I hope to wean him soon, and I hope that will help to get him to sleep through. All in all, he's been quite an adventure, and the best adjective I can think of for our Jo is "supersillious" (Yes, I know that word has a different meaning and spelling than that which I've attached to it! But I do so like to take small liberties with the english language when convenient!).
But back to news... I was supposed to be sharing something of interest! Well, one event of interest to me is that this summer I am looking forward to a whole new wardrobe. Maybe the men reading don't find that particularly exciting. They'd be more interested in home renovations, or something like that, perhaps... Well, we don't exactly have any home renovation projects planned, but I do plan to re-arrange my office (again!), probably sometime this fall.
Those are some of our future hopes and plans. As for current events... Anneke seemed to be coming down this the cold bug earlier this week, but whatever tiredness and coughing she was experiencing is gone now. My symptoms have been lingering a little longer and are of a more puzzling nature: fatigue, hot and cold spells, a decrease in memory, an increase in smellory (oops! another small liberty), a repugnance to those foods I usually like, and a very bad habit of not wanting to finish the last few bites of whatever is in my bowl.
If this news is not juicy enough for you, I invite you to read between the lines. I also leave it to you to form a diagnosis of my illness.
My Auntie Mary VanDyk would have done so at the first mention of weaning Joseph; the new wardrobe and the rearranging of furniture would merely have confirmed the matter, and the catalogue of symptoms would thus have been rendered completely unneccesary. But we do not all have the Steenhof intuition!
I hope this email has served to pique people's interest in the family blog!
Love Rachel
PS: "The blog is always changing; check the blog three, four times a day"!
PPS: By the way, neither my Auntie Mary nor anyone else need be informed of details of this post quite yet. :)
