Here comes another weekend. We are gearing up for the taxi-ing, organisation, motivational roles my husband and I play - not only to our churches, but also for our kids!!!
Number 1 son had to find a work experience employer in car mechanics for a 4-week stint in November - hadn't done much, so we got onto it! In France, parents do a lot for their kids ; more than in Australia in terms of actually organizing things for them and paying for them until they get a full-time paid job, which could be at age 25 or over! He has rugby training Friday night and maybe he'll be selected for a game on Saturday. Then he has church and rehearsals on Sunday.
Number 2 son needs to find a work-experience place for 3 days, but has absolutely no idea of what he wants to do (apart from the Army! Is that a Christian thing to do ?????) So we are being motivational to try and get him organized! He has music then sport on Friday night. Church and rehearsals on Sunday.
Number 3 daughter has 2 lots of music commitments and a birthday party sleepover on Saturday, then rehearsals for the dance and the play for our Christmas presentation on Sunday.
I head for Lyon for my Christian Counselling course. This month the subject is 'Sexual Abuse' which promises to be a bit heavy and sad. However, we have been confronted by this drama in several different contexts, and 2 of those situations quite recently. I'm passing on my notes to Pascal because we need to be able to recognize these things and know to whom we should refer cases we become aware of.
Pascal will manage house and children until my return Saturday evening. Then he has to go all out to finish his preparations for Sunday!
Oh, and there is the World Cup rugby semi-final this weekend!!
AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE! GO! GO! GO!
