SHOPPING!

Shopping Kinshasa style has never been easy. For an interesting read, please look at my friend's blog, Kristen. She has explained it so well, except for the part where she gets to order clothes online, and luxury edible items! A diplomatic right!

http://kristen4d.blogspot.com/

CHOCAHOLICS!

It's friday late afternoon and I am so exhausted from this busy week of socialising, I need to get back to Cape Town just to chill! Lucky me, we are going in two weeks for RnR. The caption on the picture on the left is specifically intended for my American friend, Kristen. "This is so you darlin!" She is the queen of chocolate, any dessert to do the with the sinful ingredient, is made by madame herself. I cannot imagine how many calories I have consumed by eating her desserts alone. Today she made "Crack", which her sister named, because you could get hooked on it so easily, a mouth-watering sort of mini cake made from Oreos. Well I am not a fan of chocolate but she will certainly turn me into one very shortly.

I did Scrapbooking on Wednesday morning, and one of the girls made biscotti, which I'd much more prefer, a real appertiser for cappuccino. I brought home a few that she packed in especially for me. Later that afternoon, I decided to have one with my coffee, and found only one left, but it had been dipped in water. GUESS WHO?? Torden decided that he liked them to, I was so mad, I demanded he dry the last one out, and I tried to eat it later that evening, well I can assure you, it's not the same. Not one place I know of sells them, so I now have to wait a few weeks until I reach South Africa, and you know the feeling when you want something you can't have, you automatically want it MORE..............

Well up to date, I have sold a lot of our household goods, that is the greatest feeling, to be able to discard, sell and give-away! I feel like I'm on the reality tv show " CLEAN HOUSE", except, I don't get to keep the house, and I don't get a home makeover, I need to do that all by myself.

I also have an issue with Torden and his school. I dropped him off this morning at school, something I hardly do anymore, as Lepauld ( our driver), is quite capable and enjoys doing it, and it gives Torden a chance to speak a little French with him. I was immediately called aside by one of his teachers, to reprimand me for not spending enough time with Torden in the afternoon after school with his homework, and how I need to consider doing numbers with him, as he doesn't recognise the numbers 1 - 10. I mean, c'mon, the child is 4 years OLD. It's ridiculous the way they push the children. Besides he is in Montessori, where they are supposed to work at their own pace. And not be compared to children in his class his own age. She specifically mentioned his friend's name. I felt really bad at first, but after thinking about it seriously, I am MAD! I told his teacher from when he started getting homework that I am not going to push him, and I don't. He does some of his homework while eating breakfast before school, as he is so tired when he comes home from school which is from 8am - 2pm Mon - Fri. You know she even said that he should be aiming to write 1 - 100 soon. HA ha ha ha! I don't know what we are doing pushing our children like this, I know that things are bad around the world, but hey give us a break!

ANY COMMENTS PLEASE????

ICE-CREAM DATE

On Saturday, Torden went on his first date. Yes he is only 4 years old, but such a romantic at heart, ever since he discovered his masculinity about 2 years ago. He told me dozens of times that he wants to marry me, and his imagination takes him on the these "prince charades". That was until he saw the girl of his dreams last year on Valentine's Day, that is when I first heard about Selina. I came to pick him up from school, and he was sitting next to her on the bench.

I never knew however, that this beautiful little girl, was the daughter of the owner of a bakery/restaurant, who we knew very well. Well then word got out, and now it's been the standing joke, that Torden wants to marry her, and we need to pay a lot of money to her father one day. Yes it might seem over the top, but it's all very light-hearted.

It started off, with Torden receiving marbles for good-behaviour, and as soon as he receives 10 of them, he gets to choose what he wants to do, he chose to take Selina for an ice-cream. I arranged with her Mom last week to bring her over to Chantilly in the afternoon. They sat together and each chose their own flavour, all innocent, and enjoyed themselves tremendously. For the next 10 marbles, he wants to take his friend, Rudra for pizza! I think it's a great reward, and somehow the it works.

Bopping Lizard

I love the way you bop to the beat of nature,

your brightly coloured capes you wear, show off your true beauty,

some may think you ugly,

some may even be scared,

I think the Sun knows who to worship.