Melbourne Magic

Tone and Tara flew off to Melbourne this morning to see the last specialist tomorrow morning. I think from the moment they arrived there they've been smothered in love and attention - I spoke to them for a few minutes on the phone and it sounds magical. Jean-Luc and Louise have been looking after them beautifully - they were ensconced in a Thai restaurant when I called. And Tara's very excited because one of the bike shops in Melbourne has given her an amazing new bicycle (through Jean-Luc and his special fund for Tara)...which will be the first two-wheeler she  ever gets to ride! (With the brace she was only ever able to ride a bike with trainer wheels.) Apparently Tara didn't stop grinning. She and Tone will also get to see Tone and Phil, the fabulous Jen Pinder and maybe even JT who happens to be over from LA for a quick MTV shoot.

Jadie, Cas and I had a fantastic day with one of their school friends; and then knifed our way into a Hairspray DVD (stupid shop locked it!) and listened to that brilliant line from Christopher Walken when he tells his (kind of overweight) daughter to enter the dance competition and follow her dreams, even tho' her mum has tried to dissuade her because she didn't wanna see her daughter hurt and rejected. You gotta risk all! It reminded me of a high school girl we met in Noosa who really wanted to be an entertainment journalist - so she was asking me for tips on making it in London - and her mum kept interrupting to say "but darling, don't be unrealistic; you'll just get your heart broken". Whew. Very relieved our mums never did that! Like Kahlil Gibran says - the higher you aim your bow, the higher the arrow will fly. And we've gotta bear that in mind with Tara (and all kids) where it's so tempting to wanna protect her from rejection or failure.  Thank goodness she's feisty and goes for it regardless of what we say half the time! OK, now we're off to get our own Thai...