Posted in Charlotte on March 1st, 2010 6 Comments »
Charli has been cracking us up lately with her daily white-board updates outside her room. Here’s a few from the past week:
She also uses her whiteboard to vent her anger and on occasion puts up a sign to say who can and cannot enter her room! The other morning she was [...]
Posted in School hols on January 17th, 2010 3 Comments »
What to do on a wet and windy summer Saturday? Get out the paints and get messy! We spent two hour’s on Saturday morning stepping in plates of paint and then soaking our feet in buckets of warm, soapy water to create a huge ‘Welcome’ banner for Grandma and Granddad’s arrival from the [...]
Posted in Charlotte, School hols on January 12th, 2010 8 Comments »
It struck me this week how valuable the downtime of the long school holidays really are. I’ve watched Charli settle into the joy of no routine and having freedom to utilize her time to her own clock. She has grown so much in the past school year and learnt so much, but this [...]
Posted in Our pets, School hols on January 5th, 2010 5 Comments »
Five day’s into 2010…
The weather in Welly is being a tad dicey for us, but we’re grabbing the good and sheltering from the bad (wild winds + late pregnancy hormones = unpredictable mother who should come with a ‘handle with care’ label).
Monday morning on Oriental Parade was entertaining in high winds – cycling [...]
Posted in School hols on December 21st, 2009 4 Comments »
On Friday morning we awoke with no need to rush for the bell and all felt quite strange as a result. We’d become so used to ‘the system’ that we all felt a little lost and miffed as to what to do. We decided to get up and out as per usual and [...]