Posted in Charlotte, Sarah's Random Musings on May 5th, 2010 9 Comments »
Aren’t these supposed to be the golden years of innocence for our children? My daughter is coming home from school with murmurs of bullying. She’s not yet 7, but many of the children in her class are. I talk with other parents and hear of the talk of ‘gangs’ and one girl [...]
Posted in Charlotte on March 6th, 2010 2 Comments »
Charli’s entire school, of 180 pupils, walked down to the beach on Friday morning. Sophie and I picked her up just after lunch, as we knew she’d be pretty tired. She had a great time; though found the walk there quite tiring – carrying her heavy back-pack (bless, she is only a pint [...]
Posted in Baby, Charlotte, Sophie on February 11th, 2010 6 Comments »
Where has this week gone?
We’re back in the old routines of school and kindi and slowly adjusting. The girls have mostly been good for me in the morning; so I haven’t had too many drill sergeant major moments, but I do feel a little on edge with a rapid change in hormones. I’ve [...]
Posted in Baby, Charlotte, Sophie on February 4th, 2010 2 Comments »
I was having ‘going back to school’ dreams this week, apprehensive of how the girls would react after nearly seven week’s of freedom. But I needn’t have worried. They were super good for me getting out the door and bounded into school and kindi with great excitement. Charli ran on ahead and [...]
Posted in Charlotte on December 16th, 2009 4 Comments »
We had a lovely evening at Charli’s school tonight. It was the farewell to the seniors going onto Intermediate school. We feel very fortunate to have such an incredible school for our children to attend and the atmosphere tonight was so touching. The evening of singing, speeches and dashes of humour was [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sophie on December 4th, 2009 3 Comments »
The girls transformed the dinning table into their craft base last night. Glitter and sparkles still remain, as though we’ve had a visitation from the fairies. The reason? Christmas cards for their teachers.
Charli has done cards for the teacher aides, the headmaster and the school secretary. She’s really hoping to [...]
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