I am so full of emotions tonight. It’s been tough letting go of my first born to a system where, due to numbers, children are molded to doing ‘x, y and z’ when told – how else would it be possible to contain so many free spirits within one room! The end term heralds in…
Author: BritMumInNZ
Counting down… party season!
The Christmas tree is up (with our usual eclectic collection of decorations, added to each year!), the advent calendar doors are being greeted with great excitement every morning (and they’re not even chocolate ones – what mean parents!), parcels have been arriving and swiftly hidden from prying eyes and we’re all looking forward to the…
Sounds Magic!
For the first time in five and a half year’s I got away for the weekend and left Dan to run riot with the girls. They had a blast at Staglands and Harcourt Park in Upper Hutt on the Saturday, so much so that they fell asleep on the return – woke at 5.30pm –…
Mission impossible – not!
Charli and Sophie love to climb. After ballet on Saturday morning we headed down the waterfront for a bit of adventure. Sophie gave it her best but found the stretches a little too much for her legs – though she’s so determined to give it a go every time we visit the wall! Charli was…
Christmas catering
Friends of old will know I’m not the best in the kitchen. It took me many years to get over my fear of going near the cooker (okay, it’s not THAT bad!) and baking, well, I was never going to go there! The only experience I had of baking was in ‘Home Economics’ at school…
School too easy?
UPDATE: Date Posted: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 Quick update – had a great meeting with our Charli’s teacher and it’s just so great to keep the lines of communication open and nip little problems in the bud before they escalate. We are so happy with the support the school is giving us. They really are…
ABBA – Spanning Generations
There is so much music that spans generations and holds a special place in the hearts of families. I was born in the early 1970’s in the height of ABBA mania. Every Thursday evening I’d stay up to watch ‘Top of the Pops’ and dance around my parents living room. Of all the songs I…
Tranquil evenings watering the garden
The ground is so thirsty at the moment and every evening I delight in nurturing the garden with water and observing the growth. The girls have been out painting in their Birthday suits, making obstacle courses and creating potions in the paddling pool with food colouring and glitter. The cooker is redundant and the BBQ…
Summer time and the living is easy…
The sound of children’s laughter fills the summer evening (and the occasional shout from a parent of ‘Cut that out right now!’). Babies cry and chortle. Bird song chirps in harmony with the joy of new life and plentiful food. Evening meals cooked on the BBQ arouse the taste-buds. The garden is thirsty for rain,…
Who needs alcohol?!
Just inject a shot of children into a home and let the craziness take hold. It all started when Sophie emerged from doing a painting… not on paper, but all over her face. She looked liked she’d dipped her head in a pot of paint and it was one of those moments when I could…
Sophie photographed by the wonderful Hay
This morning I had the pleasure of meeting a blogger friend! The wonderful Hay of ‘Where Karma meets Camera‘. We serendipitously met at Stables on the Park a weekend or so back, after I’d been following her blog for a while. Her photographs (visit Hay’s Fauxtography), combined with witty, thoughtful prose keeps me wanting for…
Q & A Time at the Christmas Parade with Sophie
16 November and Wellington’s annual Christmas Parade. Sophie and I arrived in town early and delighted in walking along the roads without having to stop for the traffic. We whiled away the time in the book store reading ‘Mr Men’ books and Christmas stories. Then we took a ride up the cable car – but…
Active Weekend – We CAN do it!
Last weekend was a whirl-wind of action and sunshine. Saturday was filled with the school fair and voting, but still left time for some fun at the local ‘Spray Pool‘. Sunday morning was full on at the Recreation Centre’s family time, with Charli adamant she would roller blade. She has the most incredible persistence, strong…
Drowning in a sea of paper
The lounge coffee table, once perfectly polished and gleaming, adorned with fresh flowers and a chosen book or two of the moment has long gone. Underneath are drawers of stickers, stamps, stencils and colouring books. The surface is pot holed and well loved. Glitter, scratches and pen marks hide under a ton of work in…