Tea

This week has been quite busy and we are rather tired, also because we’re not sleeping well. Caleb is having bad dreams at night, and often just as we’re going to bed he will cry and whine in his sleep, and then be quiet for a while and then start again. He’s fast asleep though, so not much can really be done. I don’t know why we’re not sleeping properly otherwise though, just can’t seem to get comfortable. Also, by 22h00 when I’m normally ready to turn in, I’m wide awake! Last night Nick went to bed at about 21h45 and I went down (after we watched a DVD together) to finish sorting the bookshelf. All the books are sorted and back on the shelf, and it looks much neater and more organized.

Yesterday I went out shopping in the morning (again, grocery shopping) and also to return the pair of pants Nick bought me for Christmas because they didn’t quite fit properly, so I managed to exchange them for a totally different colour and style, and also bought a top. It’s a struggle to find clothes though, there’s not much of a selection, so you take what you can get even if it isn’t that great! I have to alter the pants a bit around the waist and take them up. The top is a good fit, age 13-14. In the afternoon we went to Sandy Bay to visit a family in the church – Nick thought it would be nice if the boys and I came along too. Tea involved tea, savoury tarts, chocolate cake, Christmas cake, cream crackers with cheese and tomato and jaffa cakes. You would have thought there was a party of 10 people with the amount of food, but that’s usual. They gave us a quarter of a chocolate cake, a whole box of 24 jaffa cakes (those are delicious cookies with orange jam in the middle and dark chocolate on top), some of the savoury tartlets, and lots of bananas, nice ones, and the boys each £10. There are two types of bananas here – nice ones, smaller than the ones you get, but just a good few bites, and then smaller ones than those which aren’t so nice, which is the type we have planted – but that will take a few years to bear fruit anyway.