1,2,3,4...

It's taken a while for this little gem to find its way into our lives*, but now it is here, and we bounced our way to school with its tune in our heads, it has to be shared some more!


Sam xx

* care of Miss M's brilliant new Year 1 teacher - a bloke! Hooray!

Life is good!

Things are going well -

The kindness of new neighbours - peaches fresh from the tree - and we have also been offered surplus produce from three other lovely neighbours,

 

G started a new job last week and is enjoying himself – he now sells sheds!

We have met some lovely people through Miss M’s involvement with Little Athletics,

I have been invited to join a local knitting club (and the word is they are a very entertaining bunch!)

G finished painting the two back bedrooms and they look beautiful,

We went camping in Walpole on the weekend,

Miss M passed her stage 2 swimming lessons,

 

I have never before experienced my three girls dressed, breakfasted and ready to go as early as they were today for their first day at their new school,

Misses E and J think their Kindy teacher is “very funny”,

M reckons she already has two new best friends,

And, most importantly, Miss J is satisfied it is okay to wear a non-yellow school uniform as long as she gets to wear yellow bows in her hair!

 

Life is good!

 

 

Hoping all is well with all of you!

 

Sam xx

Yellow

Yellow toes for my yellow-loving rose!

 

I wonder how she is going to cope with having to wear a green and blue uniform for the first time?

 

 

Sam xx

One of the best things about my life is that I get to watch my daughters grow up and be with them as they experience many firsts.

If they let you!

Miss M went to her first disco on Friday night, put on by her school and suitably age appropriate; it ran from 5.30 to 7pm. Very civilised! Preparations for the event were wonderfully painless; no fashion parades, no hair consultations, only "I want to look pretty". Right! We can do that! Bring out the flashing necklace!!

But when it came to who was to be her chaperone, me or her father, I was dumped!!

And so, with an inner silent sob of sadness, I bid her farewell as she left for the ball...er...disco.

Her baby days are well and truly behind her. *sob*

Sam xx

By the way, the disco was a great success with lots of excitement and energy, according to G. *grumble*


I can remember my first disco when I was in Year 8 - lots of Kim Wilde and Duran Duran. Can you remember yours?

Easter Parade

According to my eldest daughter, the making of an Easter Bonnet for the school Easter parade at assembly is a Very Important undertaking!

Great care must be taken in its creation.

Lining up for judging is also Very Important Business!



It's fun to see the many varied forms that cardboard, paper plates and tissue paper can take. And I love that it was obvious that so many of the older children in the school made their own hats and wore them with pride. They had a blast!

Great excitement was had by all, including me -

our family won three of the Easter Raffle prizes!!

Maybe I shouldn't have bought those Easter eggs yesterday, after all?

Happy Easter!

xx





Miss M's Easter Basket she made at school - a very clever use of a paper plate!