What's happening in your world?

[Farseer]

It has long been a family tradition (one that I have carried into my 'new' family from my 'old' family) for us to head down to the creek on Christmas Eve to source a small gum tree and then decorate it after we place it in a decorated milking bucket with rocks.

I don't think I have ever had a fake tree , or even any other kind, and love the 'Australian-ness' of it...not to mention the lovely smell that it brings into our home. I fully imagine our children will carry it on, if their husbands and wives let them...

What else is happening? My second eldest son just found out his OP (Overall Position) score and the results of his QCS (Queensland Core Skills) test...all very exciting after the wait...and so I was finally able to reveal to him and my eldest son my own results from my ASAT (Australian Scholastic Aptitude Test) that I undertook so many years ago. I have made them wait SO LONG to find out...cruel, so cruel...and my eldest was rather annoyed that he had to wait an extra year! Now they both have a secret to keep from their much younger sister as she has far too long to go for me to make them wait that long! Their greatest concern has been that I would die before I did "the big reveal" and thus they'd never know what I got!

The number he received is nothing more than a number and he was always going to get into his first preference course at university. Terrible though when all of our years at school must come down to a number and, even worse, that society tends to then define us by it.