The week has ended and it’s been one of trails and challenges. A week I am glad to see the end of. A week where Dan has had customers shout at him, products copied and systems crash. A week where I’ve had a child reluctant to go to school, a meeting with her teacher, a […]
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The ebb and flow of the tides…
I feel on my heart, like the gravitational pull of a full moon. Those early years with our children, side by side, are like two hearts knotted in a binding beat. Night and day our breath is shared. Learning, growing, getting to know the spirit that drives every conscious and unconscious thought. As our children […]
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 […]
Weekend Highlights: from Football to a Doll House (with a car boot sale in between!)
Got to admire him… Partying till 1am (YouDo 4th Birthday), woken at 6am by his daughters jumping on him, spends the morning delivering flyers to advertise the school car boot sale, and then attempts a game of football. Twenty minutes into the game he’s injured and hobbles off the pitch. But his support crew stay […]
School Pick-up – the scenic route
Yesterday saw a return of the glowing ball in the sky, minus a southerly Antarctic chill. Since the clocks turned back at the weekend the weather has gone typically unpredictable. One day it is blowing a gail, pelting down horizontal rain and knocking toddlers off their feet, the next it’s warm enough to ditch the […]
Running with heart
SO admire our strong, little runner… Having come 2nd in her school cross-country, she was entered to run in the ‘Southern Zone’ against several other schools. She asked for a ‘big brekkie’ of scrambled eggs on toast and was more nervous about whether the school would have a yellow shirt small enough for her than […]
Running with Passion
Memories of school day athletics for many are ones best left in the recess of the brain. But for our local school I think there will be quite a few happy memories stored away. The weather was perfect and the children came onto the field with a spring of excitement. They’ve been practicing their cross […]
The Gallery – One Word – BEACH!
How lucky are these children?! They have NO IDEA! The WHOLE school spent the day at the BEACH today! There were sandcastle competitions between ‘Whanau’ groups, boogie boarding (classes taking it in turns to avoid total mayhem in the surf!) & picnics with obligatory sand in sandwiches. We all had a blast! Little Alice got […]
The Loveliness of Nature to Nurture
As I strolled through Zealandia with Alice this morning, I reminisced on the pre-school days when I used to bring Charlotte and Sophie to explore. I watched their little sister noticing words for the first time and so eager to learn in nature’s beautiful surrounds. Nature really is the best place to nurture. And as […]
Into the School Groove
Term time routines are all go here. The girls even have a dedicated calendar in the kitchen reminding us when their school library days are, what days they need to have trainers for cross country running, when guitar lesson day is for Charlotte and piano lesson day for Sophie (both new hobbies this term for […]
Things we’re loving…
It’s been a busy week getting used to school being back, Alice walking and enjoying the last week of Chinese Grandma & Granddad being with us (they fly home on Valentine’s Day). Thankfully Charlotte & Sophie have LOVED school this week (makes for a very happy Mama!) and we celebrated the end of the week […]
Things we are loving…
This week has been one of immense change. On Thursday the long, summer holidays came to an end. Charlotte and Sophie walked up to school (for Sophie the first day of her school life!) with school bags in hand. They were both full of first day excitement and both happy to be there. Sophie was […]
Charlotte’s ‘Happy Holidays’ gift at the end of the school year.
Last Friday, home from school with a nasty cough and feeling under the weather, Charlotte sat for ages making these beautiful little gifts for all her class mates… She couldn’t wait to share them out. Her school breaks up for the long summer holidays on Friday; but today she walked up to school with a […]
‘Angst’ in transition to school
Last night my four, going on five, year old daughter, Sophie told me, in her own words, ‘I feel too much pain going to Kindi as I am so sad to be saying goodbye. I don’t want to have the goodbye as it will just make me sadder. I have never felt like this. It […]