It has been a wild week as you can tell because I haven't been here at all. Monday was a day off for all of us and Levi and I and four other kids and two other parents went to the beach. Shorncliffe is about 25 minutes drive from Samford. Now all the adults made the same decision before leaving that it was too cold and the kids wouldn't swim. Yes it took the kids all of about 3.5 seconds to actually get in the water when we arrived!
They played beautifully together. They dug in the sand and they played in the water. They climbed on the rocks and jumped from them. They played all day without our having to correct them or direct them. I love beaches! Kids can just go and go and there are endless things to do. I spend time loving watching them. I get joy watching them. I see them running and jumping and digging, and I enjoy seeing how easy it is for them. There is such beauty in that ease. So many of the kids that I see struggle. They struggle to get up and walk, let alone freely run to the jetty and back! I get so much enjoyment realizing that there are kids out there not struggling! I get a warped view at times and need a day (or more) at the beach with Levi to realign my views again.
My computer has been acting up. It has been doing a really weird thing with scrolling and not allowing me to get to the bottom of any page. Luckily, one of the Mums that went to the beach is an IT legend and found an exact link describing a cure. It involved throwing out my mouse and buying a new one, but in the meantime, I haven't been able to access much!
Today my work mates and I went to the Ekka (the State fair) and helped out while Mick tried to break the world record for staying underwater on a single tank of air. Mick is the diver that helps with the Shark Bait kids and he was raising money for the program. I am really bad at these things. That many people is just a day in hell for me. But there are parts of our team that are, in fact, extroverted and they thrived. I did the media thing. I updated our page and twittered, sorry twitted. Oh that's right tweeted. Yes I can think of little reason to know what anyone is thinking during the day but I am happy to use it. Plus I got to chat to a friend in USA at the same time when there was space in the day. Mick didn't quite make it to the record. He missed it by 15 minutes. After 8 hours underwater it was a pity for him but he was a hero regardless. He put Shark Bait Kids at the fair and he raised money for us as well. I hope he can be proud of himself because we are!
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