A few random things discovered recently

1. Making Christmas cards with young children sounds like fun, but isn't.
2. An alpaca can make an interesting addition to a funeral.
3. My 7yo came top in her year at school in French, and I had no idea until I got her end-of-year report that she was doing so well.
   
4. The minute I mention taking a holiday is the minute clients desperately start needing jobs completed.
5. 5 hours a night is not enough enough sleep long term. The consequences are not pretty.
6. There are no guarantees any of us will see tomorrow.
7. Being almost mortgage-free is a massive relief.
8. My 5yo is teaching himself to read. It's early days, but he's recognising things like M at the beginning and k at the end of a word just might be his friend Mark's name. He managed to work out who was who in a list of his preschool classmates using this method. And he wrote all his Christmas cards by himself.

It's been an interesting week or two.