This is a Claytons' title..........

I swear, sometimes I have to laugh or I will just cry!

Son No 3 has gone and broken his hand. It happened at school today and he's done a top job of it. A displaced knuckle and a couple of snapped bones in the hand (his right one! The one he uses all the time!) now means we are travelling to Perth tomorrow for it to be operated on at the specialised children's hospital. He's going to have to have the bones wired to keep them together. How do I manage to have such klutzy kids? Seriously. I think this is like his third broken bone in just the last few years alone.

Band news: Much much better today. I can't believe how well things are going down now. I have been eating soft foods with no trouble at all and drinking lots of fluids. It's all going down so easily and not a slime in sight. So that's good news. I am hungry though. So much for waiting for days or weeks before it supposedly kicks back in - not for this little black duck. I ate a couple of weet-bix soaked in hot water and milk making it nice and soggy for my breakfast food. Usually this keeps me going for hours. By eleven am my stomach was growling, and I'm starving again. My stomach is probably trying to make up for the lack of food the past week. The hunger I can deal with though. It's really nice to eat something and not be scared by it, just knowing its going to threaten to come right back up with seconds or minutes. So all good on that score.

The other thing I want to say is WHAAAAAA.... no fair. I feel like the only six year old in the class not invited to the party. I'm talking about the Chigaco meet. Okay, I know technically I'm exaggerating.... course I was invited .. but why, oh why do I have to live on the other side of the world? It bites, it really does!! I keep thinking in a few days you girls will all be getting to meet and where am I? Stuck at home. So, in the spirit of 'Okay, I can't be there but I know you guys will miss me .. '  (haha) I want to wish you the best time in the world. Seriously. I hope you have a ball. I also hope if you ever, ever manage something this big again, well, next time I'm there. No way am I being left out again. Kinda brings me to tears, it sucks that bad....

Love to you all,
Have a blast
Cara xxxxx