No Way José

Helllo Friends

This morning at 3am Joanna was woken by Rhys and the groundsman (Johnny). Her car had been stolen from the garage. While Rhys was on the phone to her he heard noises down the far side of their property and gave chase. He narrowly missed being shot when the robbers opened fire on him! I feel sick from all the "what might have beens" we have had lately!
The robbers escaped but abandoned Joanna's car in a nearby veld - its ignition was pulled out and the battery and spare wheel stolen. She was not allowed to look closely at what else may be missing because the police wanted to take it to the impound lot for fingerprinting etc.
She is so devestated. It is her only car and school starts on Monday. The insurance will only be able to help her once the police investigation is complete.

This is a picutre of us at the showing of Harry Potter on Wednesday

Mom has decided to cut her holiday at the sea short. Too many worries are making her crazy. They will be coming home a day early.

Last night I had a volunteers meeting and I got to share some beautiful things with them. Here is one of the things:

We do not choose to be born.
We do not choose our parents,
Or our times or country of birth,
Or the circumstances of our upbringing.
We do not—most of us—choose to die
But within all this realm of choicelessness
We do choose how we shall live—
Courageously or in cowardice,
Honorably or dishonorably,
With purpose or adrift.
We decide what is important and what is trivial
What makes us significant is what we do, ... Or refuse to do.
We decide and we choose
And so we give definition to ourselves.

By Joseph Epstein

The Tiger Boys went to the zoo with Mighty's Grade 1 teacher, Miss Schlebusch but they should be back soon because Ricoh's next Masterchef team is blessing us with Chicken Wraps for lunch today and the smell is simply divine as I write this. The renovations on the Creepy playroom are almost done and it looks fabulous! We are cleaning it up as the last coat of paint goes on so hopefully we can move back in over the weekend. Here are some pictures.

On Monday it is "Madiba" day. The day every South African is encouraged to give 67minutes of their time serving their community in honour of Nelson Mandela's 67 years he served the people. We are expecting 4 big groups already. One group is painting at the school, one is providing lunch and 2 others are coming to bring gifts of food and nursery items and spend time with the kids. It is sure to be a great day - one where we get to show people our beautfiul work and where we get to recieve a lot of love from the community.

We Love You All
Pippa