It is book week at school this week!
As part of the celebration for book week the school have a 'dress up' day, and parade!
The boy kidlet, chose to dress as Winnie the Pooh, and after a range of drama's, he ended up going as 'Winnie the Pooh, wearing Jeans'
As for the Big kidlet, her day is tomorrow and I am really pushing the boundaries!
I went Thrifting to try and find ANYTHING in Dark Green to make a hooded cloak out of!
I was excited to find a large adult calf length coat, made of 100% WOOL! In the perfect colour for $15! I spent the night last night (and some of today) tearing it apart at the seams, so I can recreate it into the perfect cloak. (Here's hoping)
Small kidlet is wanting to start school already and has to wait another year yet!
She is working hard at making herself heard and known, mostly in ways a lot more violent than I would like. I am trying to go gently and explain why we don't bite, kick, punch, throw things at people!
Oh My is she testing boundaries!
August 22, 2012
August 6, 2012
Unschool Monday
Although the kidlets attend the local Public School, today we are joining in with Unschool Monday over at Owlet!
Upon waking this morning to find this...
Big Kidlet decided that School was not for her, she wanted to stay home and play in the snow!
Her wish promptly granted by Dad...
They had fun playing for about 10 minutes before it was declared 'Too Cold' and they headed back inside.
All that remained was the foot prints in the Snow.
5 minutes warming in front of the fire, a hot chocolate and warm breakfast of toast and weetbix, had the younger 2 busting to go back out and the Big Kidlet convincing them it was a bad idea to get frozen again!
Head over to Owlet on the link above and join in :)
July 31, 2012
July is Birthday month...
So we have come to the end of July, and I am sooo thankful for it!
July is birthday month in my family. There are 6 parents/sisters/brothers/nieces/husbands... then there are even more extended family.
So that aside it happened to be that hubby and I both turned 30 this month!
We celebrated by throwing a Medieval fancy dress "60th" party, in the midst of 3 weeks worth of family sicknesses! Sensible? Maybe not! A Hell lot of FUN? Definitely.
So in the week leading up to said party, when I should have had all the costumes made and ready I found myself at spotlight buying all the material needed, so I could make 4 costumes in a week! And, hell's yes, I made it...
The Hubby and I in the matching costumes I made! (not the corset or his under clothes!)
Small girl in her Dragon Get up... courtesy of yours truly AGAIN!
Big girl in her Sorcerous dress... made by.. You guessed it Moi!
And the boy, being a knight, costume supplied by the cheapo store.. he did wear a cape that I made him for a while also!
So blog with pictures as promised!
July is birthday month in my family. There are 6 parents/sisters/brothers/nieces/husbands... then there are even more extended family.
So that aside it happened to be that hubby and I both turned 30 this month!
We celebrated by throwing a Medieval fancy dress "60th" party, in the midst of 3 weeks worth of family sicknesses! Sensible? Maybe not! A Hell lot of FUN? Definitely.
So in the week leading up to said party, when I should have had all the costumes made and ready I found myself at spotlight buying all the material needed, so I could make 4 costumes in a week! And, hell's yes, I made it...
The Hubby and I in the matching costumes I made! (not the corset or his under clothes!)
Small girl in her Dragon Get up... courtesy of yours truly AGAIN!
Big girl in her Sorcerous dress... made by.. You guessed it Moi!
And the boy, being a knight, costume supplied by the cheapo store.. he did wear a cape that I made him for a while also!
So blog with pictures as promised!
July 4, 2012
Of sun and choice?
The Winter Solstice was a time of contemplation for me and has seen me make a few steps toward major life changes, nothing to drastic to be down for now, but a gentle process of acceptance for things to come and letting go of the ways of old.
I have been sinking into depressive 'episodes' and having gentle and discreet panic attacks more and more often in the last few months and nothing is helping me get a handle on it.
The release of tension and stress involved in commitments I had made has helped. The acceptance of changes that I didn't want to make have done more good than stressing about the changes I wanted to resist, but really knew I wouldn't be able to for much longer.
Tax time here brings with it new financial challenges and concerns of where the money needs to go and what we should do versus what we want to do and finding the balance in all that lies ahead. It most certainly isn't easy.
New ideas, old ideas, ideas that you just know are not going to be applicable to your life, no matter how much you want them to be.
At almost 30, I can only hope that at some point in the next 20 years I will have made some progress toward leaving something behind for my children rather than leaving something behind that will only take away from what they are trying to achieve when the time comes.
It is hard to contemplate leaving things behind for anyone! Death is an unknown, the when, how, where of it all is just the beginning!
There is the what happens after, and not just for me, for my children.
Will I get to see the next generation grow?
Call me whatever you might but I just can't accept the fact that it all just ends, regardless of body state. I just can't even fathom the idea that we just disappear and never know what our children and grand children got up too.. or for that matter any of the family any of us leave behind.
Maybe we get to a point where it really doesn't matter to us what happens to everyone else?
Wow, this post went an entirely different direction than I originally planned it!
It was supposed to be up beat, about our growing light and the ever present sunshine my area of the world has been receiving through the depths of winter when it should be dark, cold and wet.
Oh well things change, weather included!
Next post promises to be more interesting with photo's, fun and laughter!
I have been sinking into depressive 'episodes' and having gentle and discreet panic attacks more and more often in the last few months and nothing is helping me get a handle on it.
The release of tension and stress involved in commitments I had made has helped. The acceptance of changes that I didn't want to make have done more good than stressing about the changes I wanted to resist, but really knew I wouldn't be able to for much longer.
Tax time here brings with it new financial challenges and concerns of where the money needs to go and what we should do versus what we want to do and finding the balance in all that lies ahead. It most certainly isn't easy.
New ideas, old ideas, ideas that you just know are not going to be applicable to your life, no matter how much you want them to be.
At almost 30, I can only hope that at some point in the next 20 years I will have made some progress toward leaving something behind for my children rather than leaving something behind that will only take away from what they are trying to achieve when the time comes.
It is hard to contemplate leaving things behind for anyone! Death is an unknown, the when, how, where of it all is just the beginning!
There is the what happens after, and not just for me, for my children.
Will I get to see the next generation grow?
Call me whatever you might but I just can't accept the fact that it all just ends, regardless of body state. I just can't even fathom the idea that we just disappear and never know what our children and grand children got up too.. or for that matter any of the family any of us leave behind.
Maybe we get to a point where it really doesn't matter to us what happens to everyone else?
Wow, this post went an entirely different direction than I originally planned it!
It was supposed to be up beat, about our growing light and the ever present sunshine my area of the world has been receiving through the depths of winter when it should be dark, cold and wet.
Oh well things change, weather included!
Next post promises to be more interesting with photo's, fun and laughter!
winter solitude
Into the depths of winter here, in terms of the cold at any rate! With the solstice passing us by last month and a small ritual to commit to leaving some attributes behind with the darkness and some new ones coming forth into the ever increasing light.
The business has taken a new course, I am stalling the changes a little because I am unsure as to how I want to step forward.
I have been looking into starting a 'real job' it is a while off. Hinging on a lot of outside factors, but there is a place I want to work, for stability, locality and monetary reasons! I am focusing my energies heavily on that pathway and I will not sway from that in my intentions but rather add to it.
So my little business will become more of a hobby, the intention being to share what I can do with the world around me and beyond.
I will create when I feel the pull towards creation and I will pull back from that as the need arises.
I have plans to start new projects and new lines of 'stock'!
I am in no rush to produce any of those, I will accept that when the time is right the opportunity will present itself to me.
I travel my web of life as it's string passes by many others sometimes connecting and other times traveling the same direction but never meeting. I trust that the things I need will forever be in my reach and at the right time the strings will connect.
May the circle of life keep turning.
The business has taken a new course, I am stalling the changes a little because I am unsure as to how I want to step forward.
I have been looking into starting a 'real job' it is a while off. Hinging on a lot of outside factors, but there is a place I want to work, for stability, locality and monetary reasons! I am focusing my energies heavily on that pathway and I will not sway from that in my intentions but rather add to it.
So my little business will become more of a hobby, the intention being to share what I can do with the world around me and beyond.
I will create when I feel the pull towards creation and I will pull back from that as the need arises.
I have plans to start new projects and new lines of 'stock'!
I am in no rush to produce any of those, I will accept that when the time is right the opportunity will present itself to me.
I travel my web of life as it's string passes by many others sometimes connecting and other times traveling the same direction but never meeting. I trust that the things I need will forever be in my reach and at the right time the strings will connect.
May the circle of life keep turning.
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