Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

That's one of my favourite sayings at the minute. For Pauls birthday I bought him a Wii (the girls persuaded me he really wanted one!). He never used it and, in fact, it was in the box for weeks before they bullied him into setting it up for them. After that it had the odd bit of use but that was it....until now !!!!

Wii fit is the funniest thing I have ever seen. I have been in hysterics at Pauls attempt to hula hoop, Tallulah's fitness age and Nakita pretending to be a penguin capturing fish. Every school day Nakita gets up with Paul at 6am. She's always dressed, ready to go and watching telly when I get up which I have never liked. However now I never know what she is going to be doing ..... jogging, step aerobics, yoga, heading a football, skiing ........ it's incredible. After I've got them off to school it's my turn and I've seen my Wii fit age reduce from 57 (Paul told everyone he met about this hysterical fact) to 31 (I have the best one in the family) and even had to change into a sports bra for the jogging which left me pretty breathless. I love it !! If you are undecided  - get one, you won't regret it !!

One thing I have always done since we arrived in Oz is read The Sun online. To begin with it was so that I knew what my dad was on about when he rang but now I just like reading it to reinforce that we have done the right thing and keep the rose tinted specs off ! Well, yesterday I was reading it and came across an article on dyslexia and that a celeb guy promoting a form of treatment was actually on the board and paid to say the treatment was good. Anyway, I thought I'd check it out and stumbled upon the little known fact that the Dore centres have gone into receivership !! Nakita was due to be tested next week which is the first I'd have known when the centre was closed !! This has now thrown everything up in the air. We paid up front and are unable to claim any money back and Nakita can't be tested for improvement or given the next set of exercises. Paul and I had a big discussion about this last night. It's not as simple as 'oh well, nothing we can do, get over it' Nakita has never got a merit certificate or any other kind of recognition in school and really feels this. Dore was her opportunity to work towards, finish and truly achieve something that Tallulah couldn't. She would have got an award and a certficate which would have raised her self esteem incredibly from the very low level it's currently at.  So we have decided to act as if it hasn't happened. She is continuing her exercises and I will take her to the centre next week as she is expecting this...at that point I will just tell her it's nothing to worry about and I will ring and sort it out. We have enough exercise to last until the end of June, so another month. If nothing changes in that time then we will decide whether to restart the month or end it there and sort out a trophy for her and put a certificate in the post. It certainly won't be the same nor will she have the euphoric feeling she would have got but at least she won't be crushed.

Roll on the next challenge....I am ready for it !!

03:49 - Sun 1 June 2008