Wellington from on high one sunny Saturday…
Family time in the beautiful natural sanctuaries that Wellington holds dear. Appreciated, loved, protected and nurtured by many that care…
Delighting in Alice’s awe of nature and forever expanding our own knowledge and appreciation.
Special time with our big school girl on Monday, who loves learning with a passion but finds that school just isn’t always enough and the ‘peer pressure’ can overwhelm her.
She is such a wonderful, self-driven, independent learner. She thrives given the opportunity, time and space to be creative. And sometimes the confines of a classroom and a textbook need to be given a break. Seeing a Pygmy Blue Whale skeleton and learning about native species in the wonderful exhibitions at Te Papa she is driven to learn with a passion.
Special time on Tuesday with our new school girl, who has settled in so well and needed a little breathing space. Nearing the end of Term 1 and 11 weeks is a long time for one so young.
Loving our daughters sharing and playing together. Loving seeing Alice look up to her sisters and try to do as they do (dependent on what they are doing!). Alice now likes to try and draw (in between taste testing the pens, chalks and crayons). Walls, tables, clothes beware!
Calm Friday mornings. Just Alice and I. Though we miss the rest of the family, we also love this special time. Watching the boats, the ducks and the sea-gulls. Pointing at the planes, the cars and the bikes.
Finishing off the week with a swim at the pools and looking forward to the weekend together.
Loving meeting wonderful people through this blog and being invited for scrumptious cake with home-made plum sauce, fresh cream and yoghurt (more on this story to come… thanks again Phil!). And loving this doll’s house (channeling Katherine Mansfield and her wonderful short story: The Doll’s House), which the girls loved too (and Sophie wrote about in her school news book). The girls are hoping to raise some funds to buy the doll’s house from our new friend Phil at the upcoming school car-boot sale.
Hoping for friendly weather for ‘Welly Walks the Walk for Christchurch‘ tomorrow!
Something to love, every day of the week.
What are you loving this week? Hope it’s been a good one for you x
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Loving reading this and wallowing in the glorious pictures of our lovely family…they are all so beautiful. We are so proud of Charlotte and Sophie’s love of learning…and adorable picture of Alice following in their footsteps and wanting to draw. Sunshine here today so off out now for a walk…be thinking of you on the ‘Welly walks for Christchurch’.
Always so much to love about our beautiful city and you and your beautiful family.
See ya on the morrow – looks like we might need some wet weather gear though! Think I’m gonna post my Welly Walk review for Lyrical Sunday. I’m both excited and nervous tonight…hope I can sleep!
Beautiful things you are loving – and your photos are stunning. Especially love the one of the boats in the water. Have a wonderful weekend!
Did you see on TV Sunday night I think it was about unschooling????
I usually sit on my hands re school/homeschooling but … there are lots of different options for education – we are very lucky in NZ to have choices.
Love Leanne
Hi Leanne,
I heard that was on and meant to watch it, but forgot! I would have been very interested. I might check online to see if I can view it. We are so lucky to have so many choices. You’ve probably read between the lines in this post and guessed I’m considering different options for Charlotte again.
Very best wishes, love Sarah
Thank you x
I haven’t written a poem yet! Charlotte is good at setting these challenges to keep my brain working! Thanks again for organising the walk and am so glad it was such a success. I so enjoyed participating.
I just have to get down sometime for a decent amount of time
LOVE that chaise lounge
LOVED reading this post and great photos too 🙂
I saw this and as a home schooling mum was mixed in my opinion
I believe the best weeks we have are when we do our correspondence lessons and mix them up with field trips 🙂 I can see by your blog how great home schooling would be for you and yours 🙂 Whatever you decide youve got my support 🙂
I think Charlotte is a prime candidate for unschooling. I would have loved to be unschooled myself – the opportunity to learn about the things I was truly interested in – the opportunity to socialise with children on my own terms – wonderful. Of course it requires careful thought and decision, how lucky Charlotte is to be blessed with wonderful parents like you and Dan to be considering such options for her and providing her with breathing space from school when she needs it. 🙂 xo
I hope the weather played ball. The cake, the dolls house the sisters – blissful moments and images! Thanks for sharing
Great meeting you all Sarah, and delighted the girls found such joy in something I had personally made. Loved the way Little Alice lumbered towards the dolls-house Godzilla-like, seized the furniture, and made off with it. Can see a future repossession career there! Biggest hit though was the electric stair lift. Could you accommodate one in your house? Best comment to me was from Sophie who said, “Your house is just like a doll’s house – only bigger!” Such wisdom…