Wellington celebrated the Chinese New Year with a wonderful parade yesterday. Dragons, firecrackers and ornate costumes proceeded through the streets and along the waterfront. We started off the day with chocolate all round for Valentine’s Day (any excuse!). The shops are now laden with chocolate from November through to April, what with Christmas, Valentine’s Day […]
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Cheerleader Charli!
Charli has loved her first term of cheer-leading. All practice has been done behind closed doors, so it was a real treat to go to her end of term class today! Her ballet and jazz performance classes are at the weekend (but I get to peek in on those through an open door! – will […]
Remember the days of tying your shoe laces for the first time…
Do you remember those simple days? Tying your shoe laces for the first time felt like such a huge accomplishment. Charli brought home her first ever ‘homework’ book last week. She had a week to complete various tasks and one of them was to learn and practice tying shoe laces! Beautiful! She’s been quite good […]
Charli loves to dance
I sat outside Petite Ballet today chatting with the other Mums and feeling very reminiscent of my own dancing days. It felt strange to now be ‘the Mum on the bench’. The last time I was in a dance studio was when I was a young lass and it was me on the dance floor […]