It has been a week of celebrating the beauty of nature.
♥ Loved learning of New Zealand’s native trees and the amazing variety of different trees the world over.
♥ Loved identifying different tree species in our garden at home and in Wellington’s Botanical Garden with Sophie and Alice. Sophie worked so enthusiastically and wrote up a good recount on our trip for her blog.
♥ Loved the joy of seeing seeds scattered in spring come to bloom in summer.
♥ Loved cutting fresh sweet pea flowers from our garden to fill a vase each day.
♥ Loved seeing Sophie happy and relaxed in learning at home. She’s been reading, writing and loving maths. She’s been drawing and creating, playing the piano and singing. She’s been wonderful with Alice too, sharing the love of learning and discovering.
♥ Loved dear Charlotte persevering through her second week of formal school. She ended last year on a high, so sad to break up for the long summer holiday.
She’s returned to goal setting and testing and feeling frustrated, but she’s persevering. She was shattered on Thursday and rested at home.
Nature charged her up and bathed her frustrations. She swam in the sea, played with the seaweed and discovered an eleven-armed star-fish at Scorching Bay.
♥ Loved collecting her from school this Friday and taking her to the Botanical Garden to let loose on the flying fox, ride on the cable car and eat gelato with her sisters!
♥ Loved seeing Alice delight in everything and talk with amazing sentences and vocabulary beyond her age. I am grappling with the reality she turns two on Thursday!
It seems such a long, long time ago that she was a newborn curled in my arms.
She has wisdom beyond her years (and a cheeky character combined!).
♥ Love, above all, the hard working, supportive man of our family who makes it possible for us to live as we do in such beauty, blessed with nature abound.
In Sophie’s words…
We all have our ups and downs, personal challenges and battles to fight, but knowing we have the love and support of each other helps us to keep strong and see the hard times through.
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Beautiful Sarah, such stunning pictures. Your girls look so content and at one with nature. Its a beautiful journey to follow you.
So happy Sophie is enjoying her homeschooling. You are truly an amazing Mum.
What a lovely read and just so proud of our three darling granchildren..and their amazing mummy and daddy!!….we miss you all but have been so lucky to spend such a lovely Summer together..look at all the photos you sent over and over again and the memories and love in all of them are just wonderful.Take care our loves.
Thank you so much Leonie, your words are so kind and make me feel so happy. It’s certainly busy with Sophie and Alice at home, but having Sophie happy makes it all worth while. We’ve had some fabulous sessions with a child psychologist and her assessment reveals she’s well above average in her thinking – but mixed with her natural predisposition to anxiety and her tender age of only just being 6 – she’s finding the full on class room environment overwhelming. It’s just wonderful to see her happy again and I feel in my heart this is the right thing for now. She’s meeting up with many of her friends locally too. Thank you again x
Gorgeous, gorgeous post. Such an inspiring message to acknowledge the tough bits but really celebrate the fabulousness of it all! Your photos are stunning – thank you for sharing your precious moments with us.
Lovely post Sarah! x
We all have our tough times and we are having some of our own right now. It is good to know that some things are working out well for you and to be reminded that we must hold on to our love for each other.
LOVE that first photo very nice
wtg to all your girls 🙂