Wednesday, December 22, 2021

 December 2021


Ek het al weer so lank laas iets hier geskryf weet nie eens meer of dit die moeite werd is nie. Ek wil tog graag iets hou vir die kinders om eendag te lees. So ek moet seker oorslaan Engels toe sodat al my kinder my sal kan verstaan. :) 


So another year is nearing its end and so many things happend that I am tired just thinking of writing about all of it. It will be Christmas soon.... again .... Then it will be 2022.... I do not look forward to another year. I am tired.


Danie and Jeff putt up a greenhouse in Shutka.  It was many months of working on this thing

The kids enjoyed a summer day camp for a week at QSI with Young Life



Zane played baseball. until his knee injury got worse and now sport is kind of put on the side line until we have a solution of what to do.


The opening of the Greenhouse was in May


Chereni turned 6 this year and started school at the British Academy ( last year of Pre-school)

The kids got their covid shots


We had one date night this year!

Zane turned 17

Jac had another Space Birthday party at Matka

All the children are going to school. This is not an easy thing and was not an easy decision to make.  There are many ups and downs and we are not sure if school will be the answer for Jac. We might go back to homeschooling for grade 8. 


Danie had his birthday as well  

Neo-Rie and Bita got to see one another after more than a year apart and that was a happy reunion


Corona is still alive


Greenhouse is looking good


Jac and Zane finally has their own rooms and they are really happy about it


Some Fall Festivals and Pumpkin Patch photos







Zane was part of the MUN (Mini United Nations)







Growing some salads

And now it is Christmas 2021



We made some juice for Kalinka 



Liam came to visit for a week!



All the kids and Lucy in their QSI tops

Sveti Nikola Slava kay Beti


Looking after Mali for 3 weeks

Advent. Just waiting on Christmas now.

So this is what happend.... in short... in long is too long and too emotional draining to explain. 

Merry Christmas!





Monday, April 26, 2021

Nearing the end of another school year.

Christmas time , We did not do much, I tried to make it special to celebrate all the different traditions we could find, like a yule log cake for Germany, KFC from Japan, a Pinata from Mexico and some South African food for Christmas day.










This winter was not that cold, but we did go for some ice skating 




Neo-Rie turned 14 and we went for breakfast.







We decided to let a heart float over Skopje celebrating the new year



Neo-Rie took some friends to make a glass project for her birthday



We finally got to go to the mountains for a day




We bought two new hamsters. Corona and Sputnik. Due to tragic circumstances only Corona is left.



Danie started working on the Greenhouse project



We had another snow day.... It was cold




Took two of the kids for a lunch.



Took two of the kids to the Zoo


Celebrating Beti's 50th



Celebrating Zane's gotcha day 10 March


Chereni went off to school for 2 weeks. It was really grate.



Easter 2021






Helping Young Life and Girl Scouts clean the park



Helping Danie clean buckets for the green house




Spirit Day at QSI


Visiting Danie at the green house