Three sleeps to go...

...and I had pretty much forgotten that I'm playing guitar at the Opera House tomorrow with the rest of the Grade 5 kids as they perform 'Good Mother' as part of their mini-graduation ceremony. This was us in the initial stages of working on the song...not sure how it'll go tomorrow as we haven't rehearsed!

Four more sleeps...

...as we explained to our daughter over a very healthy breakfast of dry sweetened cereals, eaten out of a plastic lunch box, seated on a blue plastic footstool. (The packers took everything, and we are left with no plates.)

Concerned that the kids might react badly to everything disappearing, we elected not to join the staff party on Saturday night, and instead to stay home and be responsible parents. The kids are actually very happy. They play with empty cardboard boxes, they career around the echoey expanse that used to be our living room and they display no anxiety at all. Calidore slept through the night for the first time in a week!

The end in sight

They came. They saw. They packed. They took away my espresso machine. It’s touch and go. I may not survive.

Packing up and moving on

The packers arrive tomorrow morning. Everything gets boxed and taken away. It remains to be seen how the children will react. We'll have a week of living in an almost barren house - the kids have their beds, at least, but that's about it. We shall be living off take-away menus and plastic mugs. Oh my God - I'll have to pack away the espresso machine! That's it - we're staying!

Thou shalt not kill

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. ~Leo Tolstoy

Overload

School Reports, Presentation Day, DVD editing, Talent Show auditions, packing up the house, paperwork for the new jobs in Thailand, translating said paperwork, proof-reading other people's reports, cleaning up the computer for safe shipment, arranging transportation to an orphanage for donation of children's furniture and money raised, finishing that book I borrowed, completing the latest assignment in my Counselling Diploma before we leave, saying goodbyes to people and places who have been family and home for the last six years... 7 days to go.

Yep, I'm a bit stressed.

Relief

The 2007 PYP Exhibition is over! It's a great event, a culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people, but it's also a huge relief that it has finished, was a success and we can move on...A photo or two to follow perhaps when my laptop has finished crunching video files...Two weeks now until the off, and leaving the day we finish work is beginning to feel like a mistake.