One proud mum here :)

Forgive me for working backwards here but I have to. :) Today is Thursday and as usual on Thursdays we have playgroup which is held at the local school in their hall, nothing unuasual in that I know :) but when we were having our playgroup morning tea David (whom I know quite well through the Photographic society), the principal came up and asked me if we were interested in taking all the kids down to room three (the junior room) and the kids can sit with the other kids and listen to a story and posibly hear a song. Me being me said yes with out asking all the other mothers, (but luckily they thought it was a great idea.) David said that Jakes teacher would come and check up when she came out to check on the kids for morning tea. We got talking and she was saying how well Jake was doing at school, his reading has improved ten fold in the last couple of months and he has gone up a grade. This made me so proud, but any way 11.00 bell came and the kids went in side, we gathered up the preschoolers (13 of them) and went down to the class. What do I see but Jake sitting up the front of the class with a book. He read to their whole class and our 13 kids and 7 adults and didn't batter an eyelid. He read each page and then turned it around for everyone to see the pictures. For such a shy boy this is a huge step for him and me LOL. To make it even better I had my camera there :). Luckily. I was just over whelmed. Everyone clapped and cheered (particularly me, Olly and Abby :) ) Then we listened to another book read by the teacher and had a song. Everyone had a ball and they have decided it is going to be a weekly thing for the kids. I know for me the next time won't be as exciting or over whelminly heart warming as this one though.

Last night most of the playgroup ladies went out for a meal, it was like a going away drinks for me even though it is along way off before we go. But we decided that it could be a warm up and actually fit another one in before we go and if it all falls though then we will have another one to welcome me back to the area LOL. Any excuse will do us IYKWIM? Any way it was a great night, great meal, great company. Things were going well till I got home about 1.30 then what do I find? The house all locked up and I couldn't get in. "now what do I do?" Try and climb through a window with the thought of DH belting me with something across the head? Or wake him (here goes my thought of sneaking in and when he wakes tell him I have been home for hours). I knock gentley on the window calling his name. Bugger that wasn't working. I didn't want to wake the kids what do a do. So I decided I had to knock and yell at the same time, not gentley but yell loud. So I did. What a sight, DH stumbling out to the lounge moaning because he was asleep saying are you just home? I could hardley say "Oh no, I have been home for hours." Luckily no kids were woken in the ordeal, just a sleeping husband LOL.
Today we had some more great news. A very dear family friend was diagnosed last year about November with cancer. She had scans and had brain tumors and under went Radium treatment and scans proved that it did nothing for her. Now a friend of mine put me onto these tablets and I found I wasn't as listless on them, DH had no trouble with his gums while on them (before hand he had huge trouble with sore gums and teeth), my back was good as gold in the mornings, basically my whole body improved with even moles falling off. grosss I know :) They were also said to help with Cancer. I ordered some and when you order them you get to give them names of people and they will send them a bottle to try. Our dear friend got some about January and has been on them since. Well today she went back to get her scan results and three of her tumors have dissapeared, one has calcified and one has shrunk to half its size. The dr said he wanted to see her in 4 months but if she was feeling as good as she is now to ring him and tell him and they will push out the appointment. This wonderful lady was originally expected to be dead with in 6 weeks (about February). Now she is expected to see her birthday in August and the prognosis is looking pretty good. It really makes you believe in mirracles doesn't it? So right now I think I will have to go and have a celebratery drink for her. To those of you who are still reading. Well done and thanks for listening to me dribble on. Take care. Love and hugs always :)