Stupid computers!!

It's finally happened. We are suffering from computer issues.
We got a guy in last week to fix up both the laptop and the desktop and while he was here he connected up our new optus broadband. Now the computers work really well, but the internet is stuffed! It's like it doesn't work when the phones are plugged in but if we unplug them it's fine. What's doing with that! Anyway, we will have to call Optus tomorrow and see if we can figure out how to fix it. So that's why I haven't written for a while. No internet connection!
We are having family portraits done tomorrow so looking forward to that. We bought plain white tees for the boys so we can all be matching and then light blue ones for them to have shots done of just them. They should be good, a friend of Jason's from high school has offered to do them for us so we are quite excited. Also, they are doing my hair and make-up beforehand so I shouldn't look like a complete drip!!
Speaking of hair and makeup, I went to the MPA support group on Thursday night and the RPA film crew were there for Jay like we had been warned. They did a one on one interview with me so I got my 15 secs of fame, but of course I was looking very Judy. Trackies, t-shirt, jacket no make-up and hair pulled back in a pony tail. Just how you want to look on national TV!! Not that it really matters, they probably won't show it anyway and if they do I expect it will be incredibly short and only shoulders up so my trackies won't get a start!
We took Matt to the bereavement counsellor on Thursday too. That went really well. We were there for 2 hours but it flew. Matt didn't want to leave and can't wait to go back. We were thinking, when are they going to start counselling him, we've been here for nearly 2 hours and all they have done is played. Of course, we then found out that the play was the therapy and the counsellor found out all he needed to know in that time. The encouraging news was that Matt is behaving very normally for a 5 year old dealing with the loss of a parent. Apparently, we are doing something right because he doing all the right things as far as the stages he moves through. He talked about how Matt is already starting to exclude me from situations getting ready for my abscence and while that seems terrible and is sad for me, it is something he needs to do to be able to cope when I do go. He is still affectionate and loves me he is just cutting me out of future events in his mind. Which is pretty clever really. He also explained how they build memories of the parents with the kids. They will ask a question like, "How did your Mum feel when she had you?" The child will say, I don't know so the counsellor will then ask the Dad the question in front of the child. Apparently, children retain more when they are eavesdropping, so the memory of how Mum felt at their birth is born! Pretty amazing hey.
I think that's about it for now, oh don't forget to RSVP to Paul for the Glenmore trivia night next weekend if you are going. I think the RSVP is by today so technically you may have already missed out!!
Till next time xxxx

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP!