Callum will be going on a school excursion to Canberra soon. I am so happy that he wants to go and that he is sort of looking forward to it. I am sure he will have a great time, because the itinerary sounds really exciting. Of course we will miss him heaps, but at the same time I am happy that he actually wants to go and decided all by himself that he would like to be part of the excursion. He has never been away from us for three days and so this is a big step. And in a way it is strange to imagine that he won’t be here for a whole three days. Well, the ‘Abnabelung’ has to start some time and the three days will pass quickly.

13 March 2008

So cricket is almost over and soccer commences in April. Callum’s team lost the semi-final, but according to the team that was partly due to the umpire making a bad decision at the end.

Conrad’s team lost the semi as well, but because they had been undefeated until then they actually are minor premier champions and will challenge the winner of the final. Weird rules, but we have to go along with them. We really don’t want to challenge the other team but have to do so according to association rules.

Conrad did the catch of the season in the semi and Callum got 5 wickets the weekend before, so they both have come a long way since they started playing cricket this year.

It will be strange not to see the cricket parents any more on a Saturday morning. Sometimes it was hard to get out of bed for the early matches, but it was nice nevertheless to sit in the park watching our boys play cricket. Unfortunatley Steven and hardly saw each other during those mornings, because we had two separate matches to go to and it was always hard to decide who is going to watch whom. But we stayed in contact via mobile phone and told each other what Callum or Conrad were doing on the field.