We got the kids' passports!
Following our Pyjama Day at Home Affairs we went back and managed to get the passports done - in less than half an hour! I don't even know what to say about that: that we could be there 9 hours and get nothing done, and then be there 30 minutes and get everything done. And then to open them and find that Sam looked like a character in Blades of Glory, thanks to a hair and photo crop that would have been neater had he done it himself. I have no words.
We were in an accident
It was Mother's Day evening, and we were heading some from my folks when we were hit by a drunk driver. We are incredibly thankful that we did not get hit the intersection before when he was coming out of a side road. We are still very annoyed, however, that we got hit at all! The kids and I had to have whiplash treatment, and the subsequent expenses and inconveniences are a continuous headache! While we were saved by the tow-bar and the fact that we were driving a station-wagon, sadly, we have to get a new car.
We got a new niece/cousin!
On Tuesday 22nd May, Andel's brother and sister-in-law welcomed their third daughter, McKenzie Quin into the Klaasen family. She's a bit of a medical celebrity following the fact that when she was born it was discovered that she had a knot in her umbilical cord! She's perfect though, and such a sweet and compliant baby. She is not the least bit concerned about the fact that her older sister wants to move out because of her.
We are going on a holiday!
Yep, in this season of not planning, God has given us something to look forward to at the end of the year when we go to visit the Weber and Graham families in the UK.
And how's this for favour: we had originally found incredibly priced tickets going via Dubai. We probably would have booked them earlier if not for the fact that we needed passport numbers to do the booking, and the kids' passports were not ready yet. I checked every day. I kid you not. Finally, when the passports arrived, we were super excited to book - only to find that the ticket price had gone up by 30%. We were devastated, and ready to call it a day on our dreams of a white Christmas. Then, while looking for dates around our original dates, hoping to get something similar there, we found direct flights only a little more expensive than our original detour one.
It's nearly holidays so I'm hopeful I'll be better at sticking to our blogging goals. Check out Family Bucket List: Term 2 to see how we're doing with that and everything else.
