Where did that weekend go?  It seems like we hardly have the time to take a breath before we’re launched full throttle into the next week!

We achieved heaps of things on the weekend.  Saturday morning was given over to cleaning up after a week of laziness.  Our initial plan had been to meet with our educational psych for a catch up on Saturday and then a day trip to visit my folks on Sunday.  Plans changed though so that we were meeting with our psych on Sunday so we headed to the folks Saturday afternoon.  Hubby and I had words about my thesis.  I’m obsessing over small details at the moment and getting stressed by the big details at the same time. 

Me and the group are nowhere near ready to present to the cognitive scientists next Tuesday.  Nowhere near it.  But that’s what we’re doing.  I’ve spent the whole weekend trying to mush my project up into something presentable and I’m desperately hoping that my latest list of questions will satisfy my supervisor.  Anyway, I spent a fair bit of time on Saturday afternoon/evening chatting with my old man about the project and he really helped me express what I was thinking. 

I rang our psych Saturday night to organise a time to meet on Sunday and left a voicemail message for her.  I was pretty despondent by lunchtime on Sunday when I’d not heard back from her.  Around 2ish she rings me and asks why I didn’t call her!  Huh?  Voicemail never went through apparently!

So hubby and I raced home to pick up the MENSA application we need her to sign for Archie and then went and picked her up and whisked her off for coffee.  We had an amazing few hours with her.  I always feel reinvigorated when I’ve spent time with her.  She reminds me of why I’m doing this…why it’s important.  We had a quick chat about my current Honours project and decided that I just need to do it and then pretty much write it off but hopefully she’ll help guide me with a project for next year.

My only other really exciting news is that there’s a conference in July of next year and I mentioned that I’m looking at going to it.  Next thing you know I’m being told I WILL be going to it and that she’ll introduce me to her circle of friends – which includes some of the biggest names in gifted education in Australia.  So I’m feeling very blessed to have such an incredible mentor in my life.

All else is just bubbling along.  I’m looking at an online language program for Archie to try and enrich her at home.  SwitchedOnMom uses Powerspeak so I’m having a go at their free trial to see whether it suits Archie.

Oh, I just remember, Archie and I are off to see David Helfgott in August performing a solo recital.  We thought that seeing as she had just started Piano perhaps this opportunity will inspire her to keep going!  So it’s going to be a girls night out and we might even grab a meal out before the show.

Time to go get my girls from school.

Archie’s Mum