Nic: yep PM me

bath time / dinner making chaos here ATM

IK: love the holiday snaps... especially the Bum Series LOL

Mel: Sending Chelsea to a Catholic primary school doesn't sound crazy at all, but I'm saying that because we might end up doing the same so i'm biased . Our local primary does offer RE (religous education) but that might be very minimal (maybe 1 hour a week)... however if I continue being happy with our local church that might not matter so much as the boys will be able to join us there each Sunday as well. Verity's primary years religous education was more important because we didn't have a relationship with a local church at the time and were way too busy on the weekends when I was studying and working etc. So knowing that she was receiving several hours of multi-denominational spiritual education at her school, plus a weekly formal church service at her school was one of the reasons we were happy to pay the private ed fees. I agree IK, it doesn't often matter what spiritual education they recieve, just as long as there's something! So many kids go through life in the government education system recieving NOTHING! How scary is that? I understand the arguement separating church from state but geeze, religion is such a huge part of history... all religions... how can they exclude it totally? I also think our indigenous spirituality should be incorporated into RE... do kids hear much about that beyond a few legends? Ah no wonder the world's a mess... even if a person decides to be agnostic they need to know WHY they are choosing that path... not simply because they choose to be ignorant and that there's no "proof" of a superior entity. LOL I promised I wouldn't preach... if I'm offending anyone let me know... my point is that a child's spiritual education is just as important as it's academic and physical education... withold it and you're depriving them of an important facet of their lives.

okeydoke... gotta help DH calm Verity down... she's being silly and will end up waking Wade