A good week...

Last weekend was amazing!  To have Jake back with Michael and Cameron was just fantastic and their mom is keen for them to spend more time together going forward, which really made us super happy.  Jake landed up spending the evening with the boys too and I collected him at 10pm - they had so much fun together.  It was very bittersweet and it made my heart hurt a lot, but I believe that I have dealt with Marius' break up and I realised that I am really missing the boys most of all now.  It's been about 9 months since we split up and I think I will have a very different attitude towards relationships going forward - lessons have been learned over broken hearts.

Besides the excitement of Saturday, Jake had a scout competition on Sunday, which they did terribly in, but really enjoyed.  It was an orienteering competition, which is map work.  They spent the afternoon running around the Helderberg Nature Reserve and the weather was glorious, so he had tons of fun.  I ate sushi and drank wine at home on my own...

Jake's been doing a lot of extra rugby training, which has really started to boost his confidence in the game and he's already looking forward to next season.  He's got his heart set on making it to the first team and his "Saturday coach" is training him up to be a fly half.  He told me this week, that Jake's improved by 100% since he started the extra training.  They'll continue throughout summer too, so by next season he'll be fit and ready.

Jake continues to do swimming training.  He's doing really well at it, even if he doesn't always feel like the training sessions - mostly because he's not 100% swimming fit yet.  He trains twice a week for an hour at a time and yesterday managed to do 4kms with his team.  He still doesn't want to swim competitively, so just doing it for fitness, which I love.

I've begun walking on the treadmill at the gym again too while Jake trains.  Mostly just walking for now and I'm actually enjoying it quite a bit.  Gym is boring, but it's a whole hour that I sit alongside the pool and do nothing, so might as well walk.

This weekend is also set to be a pretty busy one.  I'm going out to dinner with a friend tonight and Jake's got training tomorrow as well as moving their scout goods out of storage and back into their hall (they had their hall's roof replaced).  Sunday so far seems to be free and we are looking forward to taking the day slowly and deciding what to do as we feel like it.  Jake's got a test next week, so I guess he'll have to study a bit too.

OK, better run.  Sending love and have a great weekend, Sue XXX