How are you all doing, well I hope. I have decided to compose one letter for everyone per week, I hope, and then respond to anything that may come during the week. Do not hold your breaths for too long, I must remind you that e-mail is new to me and as they say, new brooms sweep clean. Let's hope that I can keep up with a weekly letter!
I must admit that up until Friday I do not have much to report, some mad running around doing shopping for Malcolm's Friday departure to sunny S.A. I was really excited for him, I thought
it would be great fun catching up with whomever he could, and just being somewhere familiar. I longed to go with and felt rather homesick all of a sudden because I thought of you all more than usual.
Well Friday came and along with it the car to fetch Malcolm for his trip to JFK airport... and
suddenly I was not so brave and happy that he was going anymore! I pottered around at home doing the mandatory "chores" and then I took Kirstin to the park before going to fetch Jessica.
I was feeling so tearful walking Jess home, I felt like a real twit and I did not want the kids to see me bawl so I held back. I did realise that I was being rather dumb at some stage, probably while I was spending his hard earned money on groceries at A & P.
Anyway... on Saturday I did a few things around the house and then we went up to Jessica's school for the Osborn Fair. It was not as wonderful as I thought it would be, in fact I think that Bryandale's school fair was better than Osborn's. But the kids had fun, they had their hair spray painted, Jess had her nails done and Kirstin had her face painted. They had a silent auction and I bid on a couple of things, theatre tickets, tennis lessons and tickets to get into Mystic Sea Port. Did anyone see Mystic Pizza with Julia Roberts??? Well that is Mystic Sea Port and the pizza place she worked in as a waitress is really there. We were supposed to go there this weekend or next but we will have to wait for Malcolm's return. After the fair we just went home and made a pot of Jessica's favourite, stew.
Today (Sunday) there was window painting in Rye. Robin and Darota's kids each had a window so they invited me to come along and join them for pizza. Town was amazing, all these people painting shop windows all different colours and designs. It was really festive and the kids were happy to paint newspaper while Adam and Michael painted their windows. Kirstin also discovered sand and had a great time digging holes and making mud pies in her white dungarees! Next year I 
will definitely book a window for the kids to paint. I also had my first cream cheese bagel and it was delicious! After the windows were 
done we went back to Robin and Darotas place. Kirstin decided that she wanted to go in Robin's car so I said fine. I watched her go because I wanted to make sure she would not change her mind and come running after me and Michael, he is 7, put his arm around Kirstin and she put her arm around him and all I could see was the back of them with her two little pony tails bobbing along. It was a wonderful sight, especially because they did not see me watching them. One of those Kodak moments! We had tea and cake at their place and the kids all played outside and when it was time to go it took a while to get them together because the last thing they wanted to do was leave.Well things are not too bad, I have had two phone calls while I have been writing this letter so I do not feel so isolated because they were both friends we know here! I also got a message from my mom when I got home, do you know how awful it is to miss a call from someone from home! Anyway thank you for phoning Mommy! Well the kids are both in bed, but not falling asleep so I had better go and threaten them....
All in all we had a great weekend and I will speak to you all next week. Keep well and have fun in the sun. Oh by the way speaking of sun, today was 15 degrees (C) and that is a lovely warm day for this time of year...roll on winter!!!!!!!!
Lots of love
Nats
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