My beautiful, free spirited, energetic, bright young Sophie. I love you with all my heart, as I do Charlotte and Alice. You probably won’t understand the depth of my love for you until you are much, much older. But a parent will do anything for their child’s happiness. When you started school at the beginning […]
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Exceptional, enabling, ever ready…
It’s all about ‘E’ on the home-schooling front this week. Whilst Sophie’s busy drawing extraordinary elephants, and exploring the earth with Alice, I am focusing on enhancing my energy levels to ensure I am enabled to entertain, educate and endure. How? Coffee (note the LONG ‘e’ sound there)… There’s nothing better than grinding up fresh […]
Things I’m Loving
Friendships near and far, always in my heart and often in my thoughts. Living in a city that feels more like a village, because of the nature of the people that live there. Winter sunshine and early signs of spring with ducklings and daffodils already seen! Beautiful scenery and clean air. Wellington, its hills, bays […]
Thing’s I’m Loving… Decision Made!
There’s been a niggling, nagging feeling for a while now that someone moved the cheese. We could have stayed and waited it out, to see if another delivery of the good stuff was going to arrive – but we probably would have got awfully hungry, lethargic, zoned out and depressed. From time to time life throws […]
Sophie has a ‘cold’… (warning – school rant!)
but we know it’s not ‘that’ bad. The reality is… she’s just started her second term of her school life. She’s moved classes and has a new teacher. There’s now twenty children in her small classroom. The children in the class are all getting used to each other and a new teacher. Five, of the […]
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 […]
An Olympian in the making?!
The girls have been very excited about the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Charli’s school are incorporating the games into their classes over the next two-week’s and she came home very excited yesterday. We got on-line and found tons of great print-offs and ideas; from learning the history of the games to modern day events. We’ve been […]
Making Real Friendships
Making real friends as an adult isn’t always easy (On the garden wall’s post ‘Stalking Frally‘ sums up many of my encounters of new friendships). I’ve made some beautiful friends over the last ten years I’ve lived in New Zealand; but sadly most of them have moved overseas. With renewed energy I put myself ‘out […]
There She Blows!
We got lucky and saw the whale today! The day started with Dan catching a bus to work, at 8.10am, and then Charlotte shouting at me, ‘Telephone! Telephone!’. I pelted downstairs (as I keep forgetting to set the ring tone to ring more than six times) and just grabbed the phone in time (to cheers […]
Charlotte started Montessori Pre-School last week. We lasted one week!