October 24 1999

Greetings friends and family!
How are you all keeping? Me, I am well as are my two rugrats, Malcolm is still wondering around the world so I am sure he is content!
After telling everybody that I would send a weekly newsletter I sat back and thought WHAT HAVE I DONE????? Exciting as moving to another country is, it all settles down into the routine so many of you keep "complaining" about! Well now my day to day drivvle can begin and perhaps you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy reading yours!
On Monday my "baby" started school to her sheer delight. When I took her into the building she said "bye mom" and turned to go into her class, but I stopped her and managed to get a very quick kiss before she disappeared into her new adventure. Her session is only 2h30min so it was not a long lonely morning for me. She had so much to tell me when I fetched her, her only disappointment was that it was to cold to play outside on the jungle gym (I secretly think that this is her sole purpose for wanting to go to school).
On Tuesday Kirstin woke up and was not too impressed to find out that she was not going to school. On Wednesday back to school, Kirstin was thrilled, except it rained so no playground.
On Thursday I went to fetch Jessica from school and Alice was going to a studio with her dad and wanted Jessica to go with her. Dave said it was fine, it was just a friends studio and off they went. And now Jessica is going to be in a catalogue "modeling" t shirts and she made $100! When she got the money she said "I don't get it" she just could not understand why she got paid to have fun. They just photograph them in a white T-shirt and then somehow (I guess computers) they show the other shirts on them. So it was a very exciting afternoon for her. Today, Friday Kirstin was back at school again, still no tears, and very happy because they went out on the jungle gyms. And now here I sit. This weekend Sharon and Brett are sleeping over on Saturday night so we will be drinking daiquiris as per usual. On Sunday morning I would like to go to Upper Crust Bagel Co. for breakfast so that they can see the window paintings and the town, because they are looking for a place to live. On Sunday evening Darota and I are taking the kids to Applebee's, sort of like a Spur, for dinner because Robin is going to Florida on business and flying Sunday afternoon. Oh another thing I did! I shopped on line at JC Pennys yesterday! I bought Kirstin a fall coat, Jess 2 pairs of pants and 2 long shirts and myself a cable knit jersey all for $100! The order gets delivered next week. It is so easy, the store is so huge that you can never find anything so it worked out better for me. I also have the catalogue which helps.
Anyway I had better go and sort out dinner and bath the kidlets so hope you all had a great weekend and have a wonderful week ahead. I will speak to you all next week.
Lotsa love
Nats