The year is half gone....

It's crazy how time flies, I know we keep saying that and each year it seems to fly by even faster!!!  Age, it's creeping up on us.
I just realised now that I hadn't posted the previous post so it is a bit outdated - but hey it's still part of the history that made up the start of this year.
I did stay in Underberg... and we have tackled the project of building the restaurant with great gusto!!! lol  sorry, those are words that someone has recently used and its... oh nevermind, it's too long a story!  Anyway we are so close to completion and yet so far away from opening.  Money, money, money - wish it grew on all these beautiful oak trees around here.  Wayne (Craig's brother) moved up here at the begining of April and he's been handling the building while I've been busy with the marketing and trying to get The Old Hatchery put on the map so to speak.
We are almost through the long awaited soccer world cup being hosted on home soil.  I have to admit I have NEVER watched an entire soccer match until this event and I have become totally addicted... Don't know if I will carry on feeling this way when the rugby season kicks in again but hey it's been a lot of fun keeping up with Bafana Bafana and the rest of the teams and their crazy antics on the field.  Their rules are really weird and little unfair if you ask me.

This was taken at Rowen's school after Don Clarke and the Clutch Mullets won the BAFANA BAFANA song KICK IT UP....  what a fun!!

The charter season is going well.  Craig has done 2 trips to Bassas and one island cruise.  Some of the people are fantastic and others are ... well lets just leave it there shall we?  It's a means to an end right now and the sailing dream will not die, just the timing has to coincide with the rest of what goes on in our crazy life.
Craig gets home from current charter on Wednesday night, I can't wait!  It's been a long and lonely holiday for me.  The kids have all had a fantastic holiday, friends, cousins, boyfriends!!! so there's no complaints from them at least.

Back to school time

What do you do when faced with a really tough decision? 
I tend to get a bit tearful, irritable and willful!! It makes me feel like I'm sinking when in fact I should be swimming.  Anyway, if I hang in there long enough I get to grab onto the lifeline that someone throws in my direction.
Well just a week ago we were faced with one of these tough decisions.  Our charters start in April, we're planning to take Shannon & Rowen with us along with all their homeschooling books that we've collected.  We have 3 charters booked and each of them runs for 10 days at a time. 
Our original options looked like this:
Do we hire an aupair to come with us and base her and the kids on land whilst we're out at sea?
Do we hire a hostess to go along with Craig on charter whilst I stay behind on land with the kids?
Now we have a new option which is the one causing the tears, irritableness etc
Do I stay here in Underberg and send Rowen back to Underberg School?  He wants it.  Shannon will carry on with homeschooling as planned.
After much deliberation, we decided it would be in everyones best interests to let him stay at school.  Our first charter run is from April to June so Craig will just have to manage these ones on his own.  She is coping well with the homeschooling programme.
Megan is loving being at the Academy in Stellenbosch.
Time to put my Big Girl Panties on and just get on with things and see how it all pans out.