One minute there all scrunched up in your arms and the next minute you turn around and they're climbing up everything and anything insight. Noah is in fact an unaccomplished climber of furniture and is surprisingly sure footed. We were watching the Ibex on BBC One's 'Life' and noticing some similarities as the mountain goat charged up and down fearlessly on almost shear cliffs.
Cadan is also making us proud with his surprising venture into singing. He is in the school choir and will be singing at an event this weekend. If I'm honest I wasn't sure he'd stick with it but when I pick him up after choir practice his demeanor is always peaceful and happy. Perhaps it's the cathartic properties of group singing or the break from his usual crowd of friends. Which ever it is it seems to be doing him some good.
My news is that my job will be changing soon. It's been a long time coming really and a role that I've had my eye on for about ten years or so. I'll be running the Sylvia Beaufoy Youth Centre in Petworth with some responsibilities for some other youth service provision in the area. I'm really happy to be taking on this role but obviously really gutted to be giving up my present 'mobile' role. It's been two and a half years now, many projects and numerous young people. When I took on the role the project was at a low and I was fresh out of Uni. I've built up a staff team and seen things go from strength to strength. So it's kind of my baby. Just as hard as giving up my 'baby' is taking over someone else's 'baby'. It'll be quite a challenge but one I can't wait to get my teeth into.
In other news... I spent last weekend putting Nyoms products on the crafters site Etsy whilst Nyom ordered various things for Christmas presents on Amazon, Argos and Ebay. Christmas is strange thing really. Obviously there's the celebration of Jesus' birth but after that it seems to be an obligatory spending of buckets of cash. Not that I mind giving but is it really giving when we all feel obliged to do it? Is there an option? Could I just not give anything to anyone and maybe do it in March when I had a bit more money? No. People would be offended. I've often toyed with other ideas like no gifts just dinner parties to spend time with loved ones or spending limits or secret Santa but it's hard to overt a cultural tidal wave!
