Lauren has settled in well to her new coaching squad and is starting to improve her times again. She is off to Hobart next week for the All Schools National Swimming Championships. She is close to some of the qualifying times for Paralympics but not there yet. I think her attitude has improved a lot. Earlier I think she just assumed she would make it. More recently, she has realised that she needs to work hard to achieve anything.

Karl continues to spend more of his time doing music and other activities than his HSC. He is involved in Antioch and as you would expected, he has gone straight into a 'leadership' role even though he is one of the youngest there. He started doing guitar lessons last week. Apparently this is in preparation for a weekend that they are running in July. It wouldn't surprise me if he was competent in such a short time.

I am up to my eyeballs in testing for some new software that is due to be released in July. It looks like it is going to be really successful.

I notice as I reread this and other contributions that almost all of what I call 'My Life' is really the things that I do for the kids. Most of what I do for myself is in my head. Books, websites, computer programs, daydreaming, hypnosis and people watching. I guess this is typical for an Introvert, but it doesn't quite seem right! Sometimes, I look at this as not doing anything for myself and resent the people around me (Donna and the kids). It seems obvious when I think about it that I do do plenty for myself.