Catch up!! -personal

For all of you wonderful people who look every day, week or at least every now and again to see if I have recorded any wise thoughts or more probably what is happening at Doncaster, this is for you.
All I seem to be doing is trying to catch up. Catch up the paper work, catch up with correspondence, catch up with the tradesmen who promise quotes but never deliver, catch up with other officers who seem to have a holiday without actually having holidays, or even catch up on sleep. December has once again been a time to run. Everything except the promised quotes for airconditioning repairs has gone well, ie caroling, kettling, christmas welfare, Catherine's exams etc
Next year sees us starting the year with each of our children looking forward to new initiatives. Ben started teaching secondary English half way through last year. He goes to the Make Change conference in New Zealand during January and returns home to start the school year.
Pete moves to the Training College to live in February when he begins his year as a member of the 614 order. This is a huge challenge for him but one he is looking forward to. We'll miss him around the house but hopefully we'll be able to catch up with him fairly often.
Catherine commences a Child Care course at TAFE and while this is what she wants to do she won't be able to go to NZ with Ben and her friends.
I get to go to Sydney in a few weeks time for a training course led by IHQ personal about preparing for Disaster Relief training.
Jennifer is busy trying to keep up with the rest of us as well as the corps.
On Monday the Bureau of Meterology is predicting a day of 41 degrees celsius. I'm conducting a private Committal service at Fawkner Crematorium and then a Memorial service for one of our former soldiers at Moonee Ponds Corps. We left there 12 years ago but I'd promised Dulcie I'd do it when the time came.
On top of that Jennifer and I will be attending the funeral service of a friend and former Public Relations colleague later that same day.

Yes I know I haven't said much about the corps or God or the cricket or...
Maybe that will come later!
Peter