So... Michael Jackson has passed on to better things (we hope) and life for the rest of us goes on. Alyssa had a first major haircut today - it's sad in a way because my baby is all grown up and being a teenager. She looks really cute with her new short hair.

It's school holidays, which is really great. We get to sleep in almost every morning unless we have plans. I would have loved to go on holiday but our plans fell through and now everything local is booked out so I guess it's Joburg for the Joostes.

I've started working on what I hope to be doing with my life next. Not that being a wife and mother is not fulfilling, I just want to do more. I want to make a contribution to society as a whole. In all honesty I've been thinking about death and the fact that it comes to all of us and when it does, did you do everything that you wanted to? What will you be remembered for? I'm not thinking about saving the world from global warming or anything as life-changing as that but I have realised that maybe I have something to offer - goodness knows I have an opinion on just about everything (not always as bad a characteristic as you may think).

So wish me good luck and let's see where this new road takes me!!