This week we are loving skipping in the garden, painting on canvas, experimenting with watercolours, planting seeds and re-stocking with library books. It seems my guys haven’t skipped enough as the skills were a little lacking so lots of fun had this week as they invented various skipping games. We really enjoyed using canvas […]
Whats most important, literacy, numeracy, the arts, the sciences? What should get a good allocation of time? Which takes priority? Our philosophy in our house – living your dream! Each day makes up our pathway through life, there is no dress rehearsal, there may not be a tomorrow. I really try to remember […]
The super exciting news for me this week is that I am back in my size 12 jeans – hooray, its been a long time coming… The not so good news is that perhaps I may have been in my size 10’s by now but our resident baker Fairy keeps tempting me with treats like […]
Some of the things Bean has been exploring this past month. From left to right, top to bottom. A couple of books he particularly favoured, ‘I Like Books‘ and ‘Peepo.’ Peepo is an old classic, the pictures are so detailed, Bean loved pointing to all the familiar objects for me to name. It also has […]
…Jobs in the garden, sunshine, discovering daisies, seeing a butterfly up close, licking the cake mix bowl, warm fairy cakes with jam inside, camps in the lounge, duvet afternoon watching Charlotte’s Webb, Bravewriter Blogs ‘Movie Wednesday,‘ idea, researching Dick Turpin, learning how to add perspective to drawings, ‘Daisy and the trouble with Christmas,’book and lots […]
My biggies have always fantasized about finding some treasure so there was excitement at the weekend when digging out an old tree stump Mermaid discovered a coin. Upon closer inspection we discovered it was in fact two shillings! Cue much research into old coins and their values. We discovered that two shillings was […]
During the School holidays I lose my biggies to the lure and fun of the great outdoors and their (school attending) friends. I love that they are still having a good old fashioned time outside in all weathers organising football tournaments, creating camps and choreographing music videos. I have been using the time to reflect […]
The Adventures Of 5 plus 1! 