It has been a busy few days in the H house hold. Lets start with Friday and the good news. Got home with Mrs H to find that we had two notes from companies that had tried to deliver various things. One was my softball glove and the other from the home office. Cue a mad dash to first ring the delivery company for the glove to find out when I could pick it up or if they were going to re-deliver on Saturday. Turns out the next delivery were was on Monday so decided to go there on the Saturday to pick it up. Then a mad dash to the post office round the corner to pick up the envelope containing our passports which contains Mrs H’s new visa…….woo hoo . This means she is allowed to stay in the country without having to study and also mean’s she can work full time. Which we are really excited about.
Not much to report on Saturday except that CN decided to get up at 6am and make breakfast. Actually she did very well. Moved the plant of the table, opened the curtains, put all the cereals on the table, including milk. We have decide to not get annoyed at the early waking up and instead let her get up but she has to understand that we are not getting up then. Been doing this for a couple of days now and she is getting used to it. The only problem on this day was she decided to wash up her bowl first by using a whole bottle of washing up liquid. A short sharp word, a re-education and we hope it won’t happen again. I guess it could be worse she could have poured it over the carpet or in the fridge or something like that. It is amazing how independent she is becoming and we can’t really get cross when she is trying to do things on her own. We also popped out to get the glove. Then it was to friends for a small party, again CN doing very well by entertaining herself.
Sunday is game time. Now before I start I have to say how amazing my wife is. You see I am not used to someone sharing and supporting me in my adventures or sports. So I am really thrilled that Mrs H does this. I was a little concerned that I was being selfish by playing softball on Sunday. However Mrs H had a long talk to me on Saturday night and said that she was really glad I was doing it and that she enjoyed spending time with CN. So Sunday I packed the Girls a lovely Picnic and we all headed to the park. In my mind I was only going to play as long as both my girls were happy and as soon as one said they want to go I was prepared to leave. Anyway turns out that they were having so much fun It was never a problem. In fact it was me that said it was time to go.
So Softball. You see I am now part of a larger community and I am trying to integrate in the best way I know how. I wasn’t blessed with brains, good lucks or the ability to make small talk (especially in another language). However what I was blessed with was hand eye coordination. So in order to get to know people better I though I would join the Vcrew Softball game (well a knock about in a park). Having never played before it was all a bit un-natural having to use a glove to catch. Having watched baseball I knew some of the rules and had played the odd game (very badly). So this was the first time I had played proper and I really enjoyed it. Once I got used to using the glove (thanks Brunx) and that a forward defence is not used, I was in my element. 3 catches, 4 run outs/tags, Couple of basehits and one almighty bosh that saw 2 of our team home.
The only draw back is I ache so badly this morning.
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