Special days made special

Today is a special day in South Africa - it's Springbok day and the start of the rugby world cup. As we are the current champions there is much excitement. Oh hec, even if we were bottom of the log, we SAffers are big on our rugby.So Go Bokke!

But last week Thursday and Friday held their own special moments - on Thursday the first of September it was Spring day at the Boys' school. They had to sport silly hats - I took the easy way out - let them both choose a hat and added a pipe cleaner and foam shape flower to it.

 On Friday the Princess had "Ouma en Oupa dag" - Grandparents day at her school where they showed their grandparents their classes, gave them a gift and a bit of a concert and then had picnic with them. As her other two grandparents live in Port Elizabeth, it was she and Oumie.

At the office we celebrated Casual day and Spring day like a lot of other South Africans -casual day is a fundraising initiative for several organizations for the disabled. The theme this year was "Be a rock star" - some of us at the office made our own little rock band

All in good sports all round.So do you celebrate these special days?

Hosted by Cecily and Lolli

Did I over react? You tell me.

So yesterday I freaked out - totally a bit. Our receptionist here at the office has been sitting coughing and wheezing for the last two weeks. Last week on Wednesday she went to the clinic where her medical aid prescribes her to go - Wednesday afternoon she sat drinking a pack of medicine. On Thursday it was a busy and short day and I never took any notice. Yesterday morning she sits here coughing her lungs out - so I ask her if she is not any better after all the medicine. She replies that no, she is not, but that she is only going this Wednesday to get her x-rays taken to confirm that she has tuberculosis (TB). I quietly freaked out inside myself! WTF! I have small children. My business partner has a 3 week old grandson. Our retired partner that has an office here is 89 years old. TB can be passed on like nothing and transferred on to someone else by you even if you are not sick. Why does she not tell us? Or stay at home? Did the doctor not educate her or am I over reacting? She is not actually on TB medicine yet - just normal cold and flu stuff.

I am so angry that we have been subjected to this! What's your opinion?
Edited to add: We did send her home until she can tell us if she has it or not.

Yeah, it's Casual Day

Today is a very special day in South Africa - it's Casual Day and we all buy a sticker for R10 and the money goes to several charities for people with disabilities. In our office we always celebrate Spring day on the same day with a braai with some of our neighboring offices. We all buy the stickers, but depending on the theme, some dress up or some not.

The theme this year: Dress for laughs on Friday 3 September. Wear your frown upside down and show off your
Casual Day sticker. Give everyone a reason to smile, support persons with disabilities and
make sure you wear your sticker.

So , presenting you with the usual suspects sure for a laugh in the office:

All about second chances...

Playing along with Cheryl.

So what makes my Monday? Well, I guess the fact that we are all alive and well certianly does. We had a little scare with Little man L yesterday, but enough about that. Then this morning my laptop's power supply exploded in my hand. I nearly wet (really!) myself but I am fine. Using old spare power supply at present.

Nope, what really makes my Monday is that two very sweet and very in love people got married on Saturday at the beautiful Diamond Hill. This was all about second chances too - second chance to love and be happy. I loved the one bit that the minister said in her service- God took a rib out of Adam - under his heart, which is a safe place for a woman to be. Not in his foot, to trample on his wife and not in his head so that she can sit on top of it. So, a few pictures to share - who does not love to look at wedding pics? (of course I am keeping the best one for 365)

 

The shoes thing - the groom, groomsmen and ring bearer all wore sneakers.

Ahww - cute - the flower girl and ring bearer.

 

The blessing.

The bridal bouquet was just stunning. All the flowers and table decorations by the groom's dad. The cute table gifts were salt an pepper pots for each couple.

 

I sucumed to a little Big Blue dress ( of which you can see very little here)

For dancing, the bride exchanged her beautiful shoes for silver sneakers - if you work for Superga, I guess it's cool!

Pheww!

I tell you guys, I can not understand how someone would willingly get themselves into the position to go to court. I have now been in the witness bench for a day and a half and I am completely exhausted. A expected cross examination to be tough, but the opposing advocate is a real piece of work. The judge twice instructed him to back down. I should be finished tomorrow mid day,so your continued prayers would be appreciated.

In other news, at least for the time Little man L is healthy and Hunter seems a lot better today.

It's D day

It's D-day for our court case. I am nervous but confident. Off course, in our not to great law system, it is no given that we will actually win with our solid case against some really unscrupulous people.

I would love to know that some prayers are being offered on our behalf.

And true to our style, last night had it's own little dramas to offer. More about that later.

Love

Edited to add: The case was postponed till Tuesday - no judge available today.

Here bunny, bunny...

So what makes my Monday today?

Do you see who is lurking there in amongst my office friends Asterix and co? A Lindt chocolate bunny - having survived the first week after Easter! Come to mamma! Hope you still have some Easter chocolate left to share.
So pop over to Cheryl's for some more positive sharings.

Two for Twosday - they start work early these days, don't they?

We had our youngest co-worker little Vutivi in the office yesterday - his nanny is sick and daddy brought him to the office to the delight of all. Remember our stork party at the office for the dad? This is my secretary Adele enjoying some play-time. He fell asleep in my arms later - oh, such a great feeling.

Head over to Deanna's to see who else is playing along today.