Exceptional, enabling, ever ready…

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It’s all about ‘E’ on the home-schooling front this week.

Whilst Sophie’s busy drawing extraordinary elephants, and exploring the earth with Alice, I am focusing on enhancing my energy levels to ensure I am enabled to entertain, educate and endure.

How?

Coffee (note the LONG ‘e’ sound there)…

There’s nothing better than grinding up fresh coffee beans – the smell alone lifts up my endurance levels. And when you find a coffee cup as big as your head, you know you’re onto a winner (granted, having an egg head like mine makes finding the exact size coffee cup easy).

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And stopping to smell the flowers, like my young charges, helps (welcome ‘Spring’ to New Zealand on Thursday!).

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But most of the time they are energetic explorers…

At the Zoo

I have very little hope! Alice looks set to firmly follow in her sister Sophie’s footsteps. Climbing and exploring just comes effortlessly.

Alice at home in the garden

And whilst the elegant, elaborate elephants are stomping on the home-front…

Sophie's elephant

Charlotte is really getting into her stride at her exceptional, new school.

She also really enjoys her Daddy collecting her from school a few days a week, as she gets treated to her favourite afternoon tea and to hang out at his office (where she pretends to do her homework, whilst putting ‘codes’ for Dan’s team to break up on the whiteboard and playing giant Jenga!).

Charlotte's afternoon tea

Well, it’s time I exited out of here and closed my eyes for a while before I explode in a cloud of electronic particles.

Sarah x

P.S. Leave a comment with how many letter ‘e’s’ are in this post (not including the ones in the photographs) and I’ll randomly select a winner on Friday evening for a bag of coffee (let me know how you like it – fresh beans, ground for a plunger etc.).

If you don’t like coffee, I can stretch to tea…

If you don’t like tea, then gin? Water?! What else is there?!

This is in honour of the eight years I’ve been writing this blog and of course, the letter ‘e’ – because we all need a little something extra 🙂 x

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10 thoughts on “Exceptional, enabling, ever ready…”

  1. Michael wants to play but has only counted once so is going to come home and recount and see if he gets the same number after school…I am off to look at a new school for Elijah as I don’t think mainstream is going to work for him.  I’m going to be needing one of those LONG EEEE coffee’s too 😉

  2. O my goodness, i think I need a coffee to be able to focus to be able to do the counting!! Will try later as I would LOVE to win some coffee.
    Been so long since I ‘visited’ (most blogs, not just yours!!), your children are growing fast, especially Alice – so big now! She’s the same age as my littley i think (18 months?).
    Love the new header by the way, and lovely photos as usual
    Penny x

  4. Wow…8 years what an achievement. You know you were my original inspiration for ever starting a blog and for that I am always truly grateful. Loving your Exceptional post and I’d love a bag of coffee…mmmm coffee….mmmm my precious… but I must say I am too pushed for time to count all the ‘e’s so if I’m out of the running that’s OK 🙂

    p.s. Are you now making coffee at home with a machine these days – that looks like a very well-made home-made cuppa in that shot!

  5. Hi Meghan, I don’t think I can be bothered to count all the ‘e’s’ either 😉 !! I’ll do a random draw of everyone who comments here or on FB and be sure to send out a brew 🙂 Looking forward to seeing you on Friday 9 September round here and I’ll make you a cuppa if you like too?! Yes, I’m trying to make more of my own coffees at home and that is one of mine in the photo – still working on getting that ‘swirl’ thing on top 🙂

  7. Hi Penny, I know, busy days make blog viewing a luxury for me too. It was nice to drop by your blog and yes, Alice is now 18 months – wow, time flies!!! Don’t worry about counting all the ‘e’s’ – (seriously, you have enough to do! x). I’ll put you in the draw x Us mothers need our coffeeeeeeeee! x

  8. Congratulations on your blogging longevity – amazing how time flies. I can’t believe that it’s coming up to two years since we met in Wellington.  We really should do real coffee together more often although online hanging out takes much less effort.  I love reading all about your girls adventures even if I don’t comment every time.  The new hairdo is really lovely – hope you enjoy being the chic mama!

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