Well it has been a little while since I wrote here. Not a lot has been happening that is worth writing about.

A few of us have been sick, but all getting clear. Hubby is the only one left to get over it. Work has been great.

Kids are on holidays as of the end of the week, and it will be really noticeable now that both of us are working all week. So Brad has the 2nd week off, and mum will have Connor and Alex for Sun - Wed. Then Connor will be going to vacation care at the centre that I work. I think he is more excited about that than going to mums.

They will be going to the movies, and Mum has promised Connor a train ride cause he wants to go on a train. So mum asked me where to, and I said it didn't matter as long as it is by train. So don't know where she will take them.

Hope everyone is well.

Cheers Leisa

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other unused. Only one child played on the unused track, the rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the unused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the unused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?

Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make........ ........


Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the unused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place?

Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.

The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens.. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track! Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.

While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.

'Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and what's popular isn't always right.'

Everybody makes mistakes; that's why they put erasers on pencils.

I found this this morning and was very impressed by it. So I had to post it.

It is called Babble. It is a cross between scrabble and boggle. The current game has over 200 words to find.

Go to www.playbabble.com to have some fun!!

Hubby has tendonitis in his shoulder at the moment, with calcification fragments been dislodged and floating around, causing him great deal of pain and no movement in the shoulder. He has had since Wednesday off, and is getting it aspirated tomorrow, and a cortizone shot. I feel for him, although I can't help but laugh as it was done while looking at pimples on our eldest sons head. Now Dave is a lot taller than either of us, so he thinks it is ironic and we are not to touch his head again. I don't think so.

Work is going well. Kids are accepting the food I am preparing for them, although one or two are still stubborn and refuse. So I also refuse to make them something else. If it was a genuine problem with allergies or intolerances, or if the parents have told me that something really makes them hurl, then I will do something else. But when it is stubbornness and downright rudeness on their part - no.

Kids are doing ok, connor has a bit of a cold. It doesn't stop him from doing anything tho.

Better go look after hubby, mum and dad are coming for a visit with my nephew, so I might actually do a little cleanup too.