tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48942189310340873512024-03-05T20:41:03.014+13:00Treasures from HeavenFamily is: loving, time, devotion, SPECIAL, fun, a little bit CRAZY, exciting, hard work, ETERNAL, the greatest joy in my life.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-2880960147997711462018-01-07T22:14:00.000+13:002018-01-07T22:14:00.313+13:00Its 2018 where did the time go?It has been an incredibly long time since I oosted about our family and probably a reflection of the busy-ness of my brain, my life and our family life.<br />
We are now living in Dunedin and Tane has just finished his 3rd year at medical school. It has been an epic long time but what a relief we have time for rest and relaxation before another busy year commences.<br />
Josh has completed his 1st year at high school. The first 2 terms were a pretty bumpy ride as he struggled to find his place in the school and make friends. Now however he can say with a smile that he enjoyed school and he is definately looking forward to going back. He has found in his class a good bunch of boys who even if they do not have identical values, most certainly share Josh's intellect but also respect Joshua for his beliefs. Josh enjoys playo g the biolin and sailing. He is off to 2 regattas next week one in Wanaka and another in Queenst<br />
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Joseph and Anna spent their first year at Steiner school. Joseph also had a bit of a bumpy transition but that has settled nicely and he too has found a nice bunch of friends. One of the highlights of his year would have been turning 12 and getting ordained to the priesthood. He also was able to go to the temple for the first time with his dad. He was supposed to visit his Poppa Monty but started vomiting and had to stay with grandma Sharon. He also had a year 5 trip to the Olympics -Greek style which he loved.<br />
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Anna is now 10 years old. She loved her school from the start as well as her bew friends. However she has been a little tired of it during the winter and sometimes asks to be homeschooled still. She went for a school trip to quarantine island which she loved.<br />
Anna has a passion and talent for highland dancing. She loves it and was in the national competition and came 2nd in the jig. That was a great acomplishment. She is so graceful and strong. She continues to play the violin. And loves drawing and painting.<br />
Here is Anna and the girls at their 'Anne of green gables tea party' they had when I went to Wellington for my GP exam. It was put on by Hannah their nanny who Anna misses a lot now she has gone back to Arizona.<br />
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<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-2948456779446080152014-06-23T00:35:00.000+12:002014-06-23T00:35:53.598+12:00Daughters of the King<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">For our first princess night we read the book 'Daughter of the King by Rachel Nunes. I is a beautiful story about a girl who spends her life living like the daughter of the king that she is, so that when her life here on earth is over, she is able to stand in the presence of her Heavenly Father. This is a real treasure and a book we will read over and over again with our girls. For their activity, the girls </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tonight we learnt about Queen Esther. She
was a true princess because she was beautiful and virtuous. She was a righteous
leader. She prayed and fasted in a great time of need to petition the Lord to
save her and her people. She demonstrated great courage and selflessness by
entering the Kings presence without his permission. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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thyself that though shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
For if though altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there
enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and
thy father’s house shall be destroyed<b>: and who knoweth whether thou art come
to the kingdom for such a time as this?</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unto the king, which is not according to the law: and <b>if I perish, I perish</b>.”
(Esther 4:15). What amazing strength, trust, courage and integrity she
demonstrated. I love Queen Esther. She was a true princess. We can be like her
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tonight Annamaria earned a jewel or her
princess crown. During the week she had gone on a hike with Daddy and the other
children. They had gone late in the evening and as they were finishing Ella
became cold. Annamaria showed kindness to her little sister by giving up her
jacket so she could get warm. Kindness is the mark of a true princess. Well
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evening when she had been in the bath she had thrown a large bottle of shampoo
which accidentally hit Annamaria in the eye and made her cry. Ella was truly
sorrowful at having hurt her sister. She cuddled her to comfort her and even
tickled her to try and make her laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Heavenly Father she could learn about the courage of Queen Esther. It was a
beautiful heartfelt prayer. I am so blessed to have daughters who are learning
and internalising the gospel and understanding who they truly are and who God
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The boys have read a series of books called 'Knights of Right' which is a bit like a time travel series about 2 boys who go back in time to King Arthur's era. They both really enjoyed it. It teaches values, as well as how to cope with temptation and peer pressure. We used this book as a starting point for our own 'Knights of Right' evenings which we hold every Tuesday. </div>
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He discusses the disparate strands of manhood fierceness/firmness/strength/power and gentleness/compassion/kindness - can find healthy synthesis in the person of the knight and the code of chivalry. Society usually defines a man as either or, yet man needs to develop both sides of his character and to govern when to express these characteristics to truly become a knight. </div>
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We want our boys to know they must stand for truth and righteousness and if that meant show strength or power for the defence of someone helpless, then so be it. They also need their masculine firmness to inspire and lead. On the other hand they need to be compassionate and kind to their family and those in need, be sympathetic and recognise needs in others. There are many, many such examples of knights in the scriptures and church history.</div>
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We made a pledge of allegiance. Allegiance is another important aspect of our family culture. There are 4 main allegiances one may have: God, others, self and evil. As a family it is important that we teach our children allegiance to God comes before allegiance to self or others.</div>
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For our first ever activity, we learnt about the training of a knight, and how they begin as pages, progressing on to squires and then knights. We also learnt about the code of chivalry and these two aspects of man discussed by CS Lewis in his essay 'The Necessity of Chivalry'. We discussed examples of knights from the scriptures such as Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith and Paul. These are great men who exemplify firmness and power as well as compassion and meekness. As an activity, the boys made their code of chivalry appear old fashioned by staining it with tea water and then burning around the edges.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">For their second activity, as we are focusing on 'Stand for truth and righteousness, they learnt about the life of Joseph F. Smith and how he had the courage to stand up to some mob members when they were asking if he was a Mormon. I love his response</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Yes, siree; dyed in the wool; true blue, through and through.' </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-What would I give to hear my boys say the same in that situation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Last week as it was the Priesthood restoration commemoration, the boys learnt about the Priesthood restoration. They continued working on their swords, but this time got out the power tools. The thing I think they are really enjoying, is having time with mum and dad without the other children, and they get to have dessert!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Tonight, we had another amazing Knights of Right evening. Tane took the boys though an account of the Battle of Waterloo, and discussed the moves of Napolean, Wellington and the Prussians. Afterwards I read a quote from Howard W. Hunters Books - That we Might have Joy.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The final and
decisive battle of the Napoleonic Wars was fought on June 18, 1815, near
Brussels, Belgium, in the village of Waterloo. What is now known as the Battle
of Waterloo ranks as a great turning point in modern history and brought about
drastic changes in political boundaries and the power balance in Europe. At a
critical moment in this great battle between the forces of the French emperor,
Napoleon, and the allied forces under the command of the British general Arthur
Wellesley, better known as the Duke of Wellington, an anxious officer dashed
into the office of the duke with the message that unless the troops were
immediately withdrawn, they must yield before the larger French army.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The duke ordered,
“Stand firm!”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“But we shall all
perish,” replied the officer.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Stand firm!” again
was the answer of the duke.</span></blockquote>
Then we discussed Helaman 5:12 and 3 Nephi 6:14. The boys had a chance to discuss the qualities we need to develop if we need to stand for truth and righteousness.<br />
Be FIRM<br />
STEADFAST<br />
IMMOVABLE<br />
DILIGENT<br />
Keep the COMMANDMENTS<br />
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-86268082064126521942014-05-11T17:57:00.000+12:002014-05-11T17:57:07.743+12:00What we love about Grandma... for Mothers DayFor mothers day, we wanted to express our appreciation for Grandma Sharon. So here goes.<br />
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<b>From Sylvia</b><br />
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I love grandma Sharon so much because you are the best grandma ever.</div>
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Grandma Sharon is lovely because she bakes cookies.</div>
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I remember playing with grandma Sharon when I was a baby</div>
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Grandma Sharon is the best grandma in my life</div>
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I love her so much and she has a nice hairstyle</div>
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I like talking to grandma Sharon on the iPad.<br />
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<b>From Angela</b><br />
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As a very young child I lived with my mum Sharon, dad Gordon and my sister Deborah. My mother Sharon did a lot for me. She walked me to nursery, to speech therapy and church on Sundays. Sometimes on the way he we would stop at a bakery and get egg custards. Mum read to us all the time from ladybird books. She taught my sister and I to read. She did family home evenings and taught us basic gospel principles. At times my sister Deborah and I tried to surprise my mum. On one occasion we cut up red paper and put it all over the floor, we then hid behind the sofa and shouted, the lounge is on fire, when mum came in the room I shouted surprise, we are trying to trick you. We did the same with white paper pretending it was snow. I never realised that to my mum we were just making a huge mess. Deborah and I were excited when it was my mums birthday. We got some cocoa powder and margarine and put in into mums plastic bowl. We turned on the cooker and placed the bowl on the ring. Thinking mum would be excited as we were making a cake, we ended up getting shouted at and sent to bed. The bowl and it's contents had melted all over the cooker. I felt so sad for upsetting mum and making her cry. Now as a grown up I can only imagine how I would have felt if my child <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Sylvia</span> tried to cook a cake on her own. Not only would I have been upset about the mess, I would have been concerned about my child getting burnt. My mum used to take us to the park. We went on trips up the hill to fly kites and walks to the cemetery to look at family gravestones.<br />
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My mum sacrificed for me her whole life. She always looked after us and out meals on the table, she fought for me at school when I was bullied and stood up for me when children on the street for mean to me. My mother us always been an example of someone who loves the Saviour and has always taught us to keep the commandments and choose the right. As a teenager I wasn't always good and sometimes made my mum cry. I remember and regret this. She only ever cared and wanted what was best for me. My mum has always stayed active in the church and been a good example to me. She has set the example and taught me how to be a good mother. Mum was with me when I went through the temple for the first time. She helped to look after my daughter <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Sylvia</span> when I became a mother and has always down everything she can to help me.<br />
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My mum is more than a mother to me, she is my one of my bests friends. I can talk to her about anything, my good times, my bad times, my happy times and my sad times. We do live far away form one another but with modern technology we can still communicate every few weeks and the best thing is that I know I am sealed to my mum. This means I can be with my mum and the rest of my family in the eternities and what more could I want than to be with my best friends (my family members forever).<br />
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THANKYOU mum for being you. I love you and happy Mother's Day.<br />
Love your daughter Angela Key-Milnes</blockquote>
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<b>From Lily... </b><br />
Well she had nothing to say, but every time Grandma skypes her she has a big smile. She will love seeing Grandma later this month.<br />
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<b>From Ella-Rose</b><br />
What I love about Grandma<br />
Her cuddles<br />
I love her reading stories to me.<br />
When she does puzzles with me.<br />
I love playing with her.<br />
Dancing with Grandma.<br />
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<b>From Annamaria</b><br />
I like Grandma because plays game with me. I liked baking a cake with her for aunty Ruth's birthday.<br />
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<b>From Joseph</b><br />
What I like about Grandma is that she takes me to the movies and we go to the park together. She comes and visits me in New Zealand.<br />
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<b>From Joshua</b><br />
I liked going to the Maritime museum with Grandma. I like playing skip-bo and going to the park with Grandma.<br />
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<b>From Deborah</b><br />
I love my mum. She is the person who has had the greatest influence on my life. From the moment she first held me in her loving arms I have felt her warm influence over me. I have very fond memories of growing up in our small house at Pinder Oaks Cottages. I remember she would have little classes in the evenings where she would teach us how to cook and how to sew. One time when it was her birthday and she was upset becase she did not have a birthday cake, Angela and I decided to make one for her. We placed a plastic bowl on the stove-top and turned the ring on, we added flour and sugar, and to make it chocolatey we added Nutella. Needless to say, the cake and bowl began to melt on the stove-top. I remember you were upset about what we did, but I remember you lovingly sat us down and explained that we needed to follow a recipe and measure out our ingredients.<br />
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When Angela and I would quarrel and get sent to bed we would sometimes write letters of apology and then sneak downstairs and try and post them under the lounge-room door. I remember how my mum would always take the time to talk to us, if we had been naughty or disobedient to explain why we should not behave in that way She would also spend a lot of time with us at bedtime. It was funny that even though we had all afternoon to spend with her, we would usually mostly want to talk with her at bedtime and tell her all about our day. I think sometimes we just wanted to stay with you that little bit longer son we would think of all the extra things we could talk about.<br />
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My mum was very patient. She was a great example to me for doing family history. I printed out a 7 generation pedigree chart last week and found that every person was present on both my mum and dad's side and I know a lot of that work is thanks to the diligent efforts of my mum. She is an inspiration to me and because of her ongoing interest in family history as well as the recent talk in general conference by Elder Quinten L. Cook, we have decided to make our home a 'Family History Centre' every Sunday afternoon.<br />
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My mum always took us to church. We used to walk through the graveyard to get to church and walking to church was a nice way for us to bond together as a family.<br />
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As I grew older she supported me to play the flute and come to my concerts. You always helped me with my homework, ideas for my projects, and writing. But most importantly she taught me the gospel. She taught me how to pray and read scripture stories to us when we were little and helped us learn to read so that we could eventually read the scriptures for ourselves. She was an example of diligent service in the church, and was always active in callings in the primary, young womens or relief society as I was growing up. She always took us to church, no matter what, and the gospel just became a part of us. She taught us the gospel standards. She was a living example of her testimony of Jesus Christ. Always patient, kind and firm in the faith. These are the virtues that best describe my mum and that I try to cultivate so I can be more like her.<br />
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Although we were not rich in material things growing up, we were always richly encompassed by love, fun, and the gospel. I love you mum. You are an inspiration to me to be a good mum. Thank you for being equal to the task of being a great mother in Zion. xxxxxxxxxx<br />
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<b>From Tane</b></div>
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Sharon has the kindest heart I have ever met. She is always thinking of others especially her children and now her grandchildren.</div>
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Thank you for being the best mother, grandma and mother-in-law. :) xxxxxx</div>
Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-2285207197245743242014-05-11T00:57:00.001+12:002014-05-11T00:57:43.834+12:00Day out on the farmWe have friends from church who bought a 300 acre farm a year ago. It had no house on the property so over the past year they have built a shed for their family to live in. They moved in a few weeks ago and today we went and spent the day on their property. The children loved it. So far they have for 2 puppies, a border collie and a staffy, a kitten and 2 sheep. They are planning on getting chickens, beef cows and bees and intend to have an income from the property eventually, once all is up and running.<br />
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The boys especially liked playing with the puppies and did not fail to mention several times that they would love one. <br />
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The children enjoyed gathering wood for a camp fire, which we lit around 2.30pm. We put a lamb roast with potatoes and kumara in a dutch oven and put it on hot coals with hot coals in top. While that cooked, the children went exploring in the long grass, and had a turn shooting arrows at a target. The food was ready by 5.30pm and we had a super delicious meal. It made me want to go camping every night if we could eat a meal like that.<br />
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After dinner the children roasted marshmallows and we had lemon meringue pie and sponge-cake for dessert. Delicious. Thanks President. Joshua, Joseph and Tane did some target practice (in the pitch dark), trying to aim for a target on a tree. I think we will try to do it again, but in the daytime... will likely be more successful. Only Tane was able to hit the target.<br />
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Lily loved rolling in the dirt, as long as the puppies were not near her. If they did they wanted to kiss and slobber all over her but both she and Ella were terrified, so she had to be scooped up into mine or Daddy's arms.</div>
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Earlier this week Annamaria was teaching Ella how to do handstands. I love it when they work together as a team.</div>
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<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-79456774918980252702014-05-11T00:13:00.001+12:002014-05-11T00:13:03.423+12:00We love Ashie-BoyWe have the nicest neighbours. They have a pony. It does not live next door to us but lives in a paddock down the road. He is a white pony. Jordan is a 17 year old high school student and every Wednesday she teaches Annamaria horse riding. She shows her how to care for the pony by brushing him down and how to remove mud from in his hooves. She also gets to feed him, and put on his saddle, bridle and reins.<br />
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Annamaria would love to have a horse, and she is saving up. I think she has saved $32 so far. She sometimes does extra jobs so she can save more money. The only problem is we need a farm first.<br />
This week the rest of the children had a real treat because they all were able to have a turn riding Ash, including Lily. That was pretty fun. The funniest part was Lily had a big tantrum when she had to get off, and an even bigger tantrum when she had to take the riding helmet off. She just wanted to keep it on her.<br />
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Ella was super excited to get her turn. We only went to watch Annamaria so we could take some photos, so getting to have a ride was a surprise.</div>
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Joseph enjoyed himself, but thought it was a bit scary when Ash was trotting.</div>
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Joshua would love a horse as well. </div>
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Lily was all very serious when she was riding. She loved the horse and wanted to be involved in all the action, as long as his face did not come too close to her.<br />
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Lily having a tantrum on the floor when she had to get off the horse and take off the helmet.</div>
Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-36877910971402413092014-05-10T23:12:00.001+12:002014-05-10T23:12:23.799+12:00Mothers DayA favourite poem for Mothers Day<br />
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<b><i>THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE IS</i></b><br /> <b><i>THE HAND THAT RULES THE WORLD.</i></b></div>
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<span>B</span>LESSINGS on the hand of women!<br /> Angels guard its strength and grace.<br /> In the palace, cottage, hovel,<br /> Oh, no matter where the place;<br /> Would that never storms assailed it,<br /> Rainbows ever gently curled,<br /> For the hand that rocks the cradle<br /> Is the hand that rules the world.</div>
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Infancy's the tender fountain,<br /> Power may with beauty flow,<br /> Mothers first to guide the streamlets,<br /> From them souls unresting grow—<br /> Grow on for the good or evil,<br /> Sunshine streamed or evil hurled,<br /> For the hand that rocks the cradle<br /> Is the hand that rules the world.</div>
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Woman, how divine your mission,<br /> Here upon our natal sod;<br /> Keep—oh, keep the young heart open<br /> Always to the breath of God!<br /> All true trophies of the ages<br /> Are from mother-love impearled,<br /> For the hand that rocks the cradle<br /> Is the hand that rules the world.</div>
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<br /> Fathers, sons, and daughters cry,<br /> And the sacred song is mingled<br /> With the worship in the sky—<br /> Mingles where no tempest darkens,<br /> Rainbows evermore are hurled;<br /> For the hand that rocks the cradle<br /> Is the hand that rules the world.</div>
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I love being a mother. There is nothing more satisfying than stroking my baby's hair while she sleeps, or listening to my son talk to me about the battle of midway, or singing the children to sleep, or reading them stories at bedtime. Yes it is hard, tiring and exhausting at times, but isn't anything that is really worth doing well?</div>
Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-55720044862550461462014-05-04T01:29:00.000+12:002014-05-11T01:37:07.861+12:00Why I love Leadership Education a.k.a. Thomas Jefferson Education<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For home education we follow a philisophy called Thomas Jefferson Education (TJED) or Leadership Education. It is a fantastic way to bring up children in light and truth and to inspire them to learn. My youngest children are in CORE phase, where they are mainly learning right and wrong, good and bad, and work and play. My older two children are in Love of Learning phase, where we are inspiring them to fall in love with learning about a broad expanse of knowledge. Here are my highlights of this week doing TJED. </span><br />
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5. Sitting on my bed and glancing out the window I see Joseph teaching Annamaria how to throw a garden cane (javelin-style) in our little back garden. Had to grab the camera and get a quick pic of that. If they were stuck in school, they just would not have the time to develop these close relationships which I am relishing watching develop.</div>
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Here Joseph is showing Annamaria the correct way to hold and aim the garden cane.</div>
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We really enjoyed general conference. The kids have had a blast learning all the names of the apostles, especially when they turned it into a hand-clapping game.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-33138289289426360052014-03-02T02:16:00.000+13:002014-05-11T02:17:14.633+12:00Too cuteElla-Rose is so cute. She says 'Jesus kissed me'. I asked her where?, she points outside and says over there.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-3380072945779342392014-02-25T13:02:00.004+13:002014-02-25T14:13:25.583+13:00Reading the scripturesI was really surprised with my children this week. They each set their own goals with no prompting from us. It started with Joseph. He decided he wanted to read the Book of Mormon we started together and he has already read the first 10 chapters.<br />
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Annamaria started reading Genesis. She had some funny comments. First she thought it was pretty funny that 'Go said it was good' 3 times in one chapter. So I explained why he said it was good. Because God was creating a beautiful Earth for us and he had to make sure it was just right.<br />
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This morning she told me something else was funny in the Bible. She told me that God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful. She did not understand what that meant but we were able to talk about God wanting Adam and Eve to have children just like fruit trees bear fruit.<br />
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Last week we went to visit friends. They gave us a French Book of Mormon. Today Joshua told me he wanted to study the Book of Mormon in French. He made a start and I can hear him now reading verse for verse French then English.<br />
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They all also decided to enter the local agricultural show. They want to enter into the art, cooking, handicrafts, cake decorating, and woodwork sections. So we are going to be busy over the next few weeks.<br />
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Lily in her first pair of shoes. Too cute!</div>
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Anna doing leap-frog. She loves it.</div>
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Ella- looking simply gorgeous!</div>
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Our garden is becoming slowly productive. We are growing corn, basil, tomatoes, strawberries, chilli, lettuce, cucumber, beans and pumpkin. The kids take turns to water the garden.</div>
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Anna and Ella decided to make prices crowns.</div>
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Joshua is still loving his sailing, and planning on what boat to build.</div>
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It was the beginning of a desire for Joshua to learn to sail. He has also read the 12 books in the CS Forester series about Horatio Hornblower which is historical fiction set in the Napoleonic wars. He has also read Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, the first 2 books of the Imaginarium Geographica chronicles, and the Temeraire series.<br />
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With us moving it has taken a while to get him enrolled in a sailing club, but today, he finally had his first sailing lesson. Joseph also is learning to sail. First they had to learn to capsize the boats on land, then in shallow water and then in the deep water. After that... they were sailing. They were pretty lucky... there were meant to be 8 in their class with only 6 boats between them, but only Joshua, Joseph and 1 other child turned up, so they pretty much had a private lesson.<br />
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Joshua did very well the teacher was impressed with something he could do... something to do with changing hands... which she said her kids who have been sailing since October are only just learning how to do that... maybe sailing is going to be his sport. He was certainly very excited, when I checked in on him at 9pm last night he was wide awake as he was too excited to sleep, and at 10.30pm he was still excited thinking about sailing.<br />
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He was so happy afterwards... He loved it.<br />
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The teacher gave us forms and told us to fill them out if we wanted to carry on with the lessons. Tane and I just looked at each other and said, 'yes, we'll definately carry on'. We asked Joshua if it was harder than he expected... He said 'Yes, harder, but more fun!'<br />
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Joseph did well for his first lesson... he had a bit of trouble with the turning at first and capsized 3 times in a row, but then was up and running like his big brother.<br />
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Tane, Anna and Ella got to go for a ride in he motorboat, so they had a fun time too... and they all had a swim in the river in the end as well.<br />
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<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-74929103187136059952013-09-24T23:24:00.000+12:002013-09-24T23:24:06.755+12:00Homeschool ConcertThe kids had so much fun over the last 2 terms with their homeschool classes. In the first term, Anna did art and literacy and numeracy games, Josh did outdoor activities including archery, shooting and bushcraft. Joseph did BMX biking and go-karting. Both the boys also did cooking, and made some delicious treats. I was especially pleased with josh contributing to the class by suggesting a recipe and providing it to the class to make - ginger biscuits - one of his favourites to make at home.<br />
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This term Anna did a different art class as well as a dancing class. Joshua, unable to do his first choices, ended up doing digital photography and singing... that was not his favourite thing to do, but by the end of the first class, I could see him enjoying himself. They visited 3 rest homes and sung for them throughout the term. They sang fun songs like 'she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes' and 'You are my sunshine'. So who couldn't enjoy that. It was such a special experience for them to share their talents and get to talk with some of the old people in the rest homes.<br />
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Joseph did sports and cooking again. I think he mostly enjoyed eating what he made, and he also did not get his first choice of class.<br />
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On the last day of classes for the term, the children put on a concert/show and tell of what they had been doing during the term. Joshua's class sang - the singing was accompanied by homeschoolers also some by guitar, some by recorder and some by ukulele.<br />
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Anna performed her dance and really was excited about that... She said her best part of the day was 'dancing on the stage'.<br />
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Ella-Rose made a bunny mask in creche... besides playing with lego, trains, colouring and having<br />
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<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-73921720927775409842013-09-24T21:57:00.002+12:002013-09-24T21:57:52.423+12:00Square numbers and multiplication tablesOver the past few weeks we have been working on our times tables...<br />
I realised trying to get my kids to simply memorise these lists of facts was pretty boring... and they are pretty resistant to anything that is boring. So just through spontaneous activities we have been learning them.<br />
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It all started one afternoon when we were sitting on the steps outside. I grabbed the whiteboard marker and the whiteboard. While the kids ate afternoon tea, they took turns giving answers to the times tables on a multiplication chart. This was a really great way to see which times-tables they knew and which they needed to work on. After a while, I could see their interest was waning, but I could see they needed to work on the 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 12 times tables.<br />
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We went inside and I considered that 'done'. About an hour later, Anna-Maria came back inside to show me she had completed all the empty spaces... and they were all correct, except one. Because she did not know these ones she had worked them out so had taken a while. I was impressed with her concentration and determined attitude to complete the chart.<br />
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Ella wanted a turn with the board, so she drew a teddy bear.<br />
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Practising the times-tables and food seem to be a good combination for my kids. Even Ella wants to be quizzed if it means she gets crackers for swearing.<br />
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Last week we learnt square numbers, after they had practised them, we had a 'Who wants to be a millionaire?'-style quiz, with life-lines included... which made them feel it was okay not to have to get everything right, every-time.<br />
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This week we have been working on the nine times-tables, so we have been learning the tricks to remember these.<br />
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Also, I found a cool maths puzzle book from the library called '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=grapes%20of%20math&linkCode=ur2&tag=treasfromheav-20&url=search-alias%3Daps" target="_blank">The Grapes of Math</a>' by Greg Tang.<br />
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It is a really good book for encouraging/developing mental math strategies... for older kids. Joseph especially enjoyed it... I think because his basic maths facts were up to speed... Anna got a bit upset as she did not grasp one or two of the concepts initially, but she persisted and got there in the end. It is also good for younger kids, as they just like counting the objects or looking for patterns.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-14970882602356587222013-06-24T21:47:00.000+12:002013-06-24T21:47:19.336+12:00Homeschool StuffThe kids have been having a lot of fun learning a whole assortment of things during homeschool.<br />
One day they decided to make a pyramid with their duplo. They just had a whole lot of fun working together on this one... which is nice as sometimes lego can cause more trouble than fun.<br />
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Last week we went to an art class where the kids learnt to draw sports people. It was very good. The pictures the kids drew were also pretty good, but the boys were starting to tire towards the end, but Anna-Maria was in her element. She absolutely loved it. I picked up a few art books from a recent garage sale, one of Renoir's, Van Gogh's and Rembrant's paintings. Anna-Maria looked through the Van Gogh book, got paper and pencils and started copying his pictures of irises and roses. She just loved it.<br />
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She really loved art. There is not a day goes by without her (and Ella) drawing a large amount of pictures. So one of projects this term will be studying the impressionists and doings lots of art and painting. We have nearly got our learning cupboard sorted out so that our project work will be a lot easier.<br />
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Ella-Rose entertains herself and has already claimed the title of Monkey-Ella, but here is the evidence to prove she really is a monkey.<br />
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She also likes to be very involved in what Lily is doing.<br />
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Today I was asking Ella everybody's names. When she got to me, She knew I was mummy, but I told her my name was also Deborah, 'Mummy Deborah'. I pointed to her dad and asked who's that? She was obviously trying to think of his other name, grinned and said 'Daddy Boy!'<br />
<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-252236172429900092013-05-19T22:25:00.000+12:002013-05-19T22:25:07.631+12:00Lily is sitting up now, wow time flies...Little Lily is 7 months now, and she is sitting up, little cutie.<br />
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I managed to catch a couple of pics of Lily inflicting pain on Tane and Joshua. She has got such a tight grip, if she manages to get hold of you... it is like a death grip.<br />
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Ella loves to draw. She wanted to show me her piece of art. Annamaria drew her a tree to colour in.<br />
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Annamaria is very creative and loves art of all kinds. She loves drawing, colouring and painting.<br />
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This week we have been studying Narnia - The Last Battle. The boys in particular have really loved this series, but it is funny to see the effect our reading together has on Ella-Rose. She brings the book to me when it is time for kidschool saying 'Narney, Narney' and wants me to read it. This story in particular is so intriguing to me as I see so many paralleled between the conditions in Narnia and now in our society and the world in general.</div>
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The boys are learning handball at their sports group, which they love and they are on the same rugby team, both are playing very well so far this season. Joseph got player of the day for the first game of the season. They came home happy from their rugby training this week. One of the other kids mums makes doughnuts (Mama's doughnuts)... and they brought a stash for the players.</div>
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Joshua and Annamaria are flying through their 'Life of Fred' maths... it is a humorous curriculum based on the life of a 5 year old maths professor. It is a story but they learn maths principles as they read through the book. Joseph seems to be less fond of this style of learning, as I think he is the most hands on leaner of the group. </div>
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This week we are off to homeschool group and well as homeschool sports so the kids will have a very enjoyable week. Joshua is doing outdoor adventure and cooking, Joseph is doing BMX, go-karting and cooking, and Anna-maria is doing art and ball skills. She loves the art, but is less keen on the ball skills as she is one of the younger kids in the group and is a bit scared of the bigger boys. Ella-Rose gets to do movement and music and playgroup activities (painting/playing with toys) and I am taking a games class... which I have yet to prepare for.</div>
Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-78505708686042443162013-04-21T21:19:00.001+12:002013-04-21T21:19:39.143+12:00Random Family PicsThe kids got to go garage sale-ing (is that even a word?) with their pocket money. Anna-Maria wanted this princess veil. Joseph bought a gun. Joshua brought 3 items of Pumpkin Patch clothing and put them on Trademe. He has already made 500% on one of the items.<br />
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Lily-Grace is growing up so fast. She is happy playing with toys and can get all over the floor by rolling... no more lego or electrical cords on the floor.<br />
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-7939298737795278002013-04-21T21:18:00.000+12:002013-04-21T21:18:09.563+12:00Hamilton GardensWe decided to make the most of the last Monday before daylight savings ends and went to the Hamilton Gardens. The kids had a ball running though all the different gardens. They especially liked the edible gardens.<br />
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Beautiful Ella-Rose. She Couldn't resist touching the water.</div>
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<br />Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-67874489488729828922013-03-31T22:58:00.000+13:002013-04-21T21:28:39.443+12:00Yay we got the Camera back!Silly camera... flash-bulb blew and it took about 3 weeks to get it fixed. Oh well, now all our memories don't need to look like we are all sitting in a dark room.<br />
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Today we visited with friends who live on a lifestyle block. They had a few chickens who had not been laying and they were bullying the younger chickens and wanted to get rid of them so Tane volunteered to get rid of them. Well... the kids were ever so fascinated and wanted to watch them have their necks broken, but it was too gruesome for me.<br />
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Here are a few pics of the kids since we can now take pics again yay!. Ella is slowly getting better at playing with Lily. Probably 70 percent of the time with supervision she is manageable. It's just if she discovers Lily unprotected, then she's in trouble.<br />
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-75043238022014460652013-03-31T22:09:00.003+13:002013-03-31T22:09:47.448+13:00Happy Easter!Happy Easter everyone. Today was one of the best Easter's we have ever had. Last night, Tane and I stayed up late and made resurrection eggs. We got little plastic eggs, and placed scorched almonds in them. There were about 20 of them, but in 12 there were pictures of items that represented part of the Easter story.<br />
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Tane got up early and hid them in various locations around the garden, along with one larger egg for each child and a few marshmallow eggs.<br />
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The kids were up at 6.30 am and came running into our rooms pretty disappointed that there was no Easter eggs on their beds. We suggested maybe they were in the garden as maybe the Easter bunny was too busy to come inside. The kids went outside and just kind of stood there for a while... there were no Easter eggs in sight.<br />
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All of a sudden Anna-Maria bolted to an upside down bucket and flipped it over. Sure enough, underneath were 2 little plastic eggs... And the game was now on... all of a sudden 4 children sprung into action, running all over the front lawn trying to locate more eggs.<br />
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Anna-Maria looked in the mail-box and to her surprise there was the first large egg. She was so excited, but the others became discouraged. We suggested that maybe there was more than just one large egg... so they carried on looking, finding the other large eggs in the bushes, the pumpkin patch and the woodpile.<br />
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Ella was fascinated. Even when the bigger kids had enough of searching, she went back outside with a mouth full of chocolate in search for more eggs.<br />
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When the kids had gathered up their stash, they proceeded to divvy it up and opened all the plastic eggs to reveal the scorched almonds and the little pictures. As each picture was numbered and had a scripture reference, we could share the Easter story with the children as they ate their Easter eggs.<br />
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Celebrating Easter... the Resurrection of our Saviour was really Special!Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-19951588631469805282013-03-14T00:55:00.001+13:002013-03-26T23:06:18.187+13:00Little GemsWhile walking down a friends driveway and having to step aside because a car was coming past, Anna-Maria exclaims with a big smile 'Great! I didn't get run over!'<br />
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Today was swimming sports. It was so much fun. Anna-Maria and Ella were in the 5 & under group. Anna-Maria was a little upset when she was swimming in her races, but the other kids were walking & therefore faster than her. However she did get first place in a few races. Ella had fun playing with the flutterboard until she had enough of the water.<br />
Joseph came third in a few of his races. Josh struggles with speed but makes up for it in effort and enthusiasm. None of the boys wanted to get out at the end, even though the rest of us needed to eat as it was lunchtime.<br />
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Lily has been restarted on solids. Poor thing, she was really badly constipated and had to be put back on breastmilk only, but now things are fixed and she has her appetite back again. She gobbled up a small bowlful of stewed apple this evening.<br />
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Yesterday we went to the local library book-sale where they were selling off old books. We got some great books. Josh was straight to the bird section as he is wanting a lovebird. He found a book on lovebirds and one on budgies. I got a few travel books and and Italian cookbook for myself, and some war books for Tane. Ella-Rose got a book on the body and a Spot book (she really loves those at the moment). Anna-Maria found a really nice story about courage amid adversity (for kids - very beautifully written). Joseph got a dinosaur book and one about George and the Dragon. All-in all I think we bought about 40 books.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-29753551198378439032013-03-08T21:07:00.000+13:002013-03-08T21:07:15.000+13:00Random VideosThis video is from when we first moved to Australia last year... in fact the first few pics are from the airport. However unfortunately I only just figured out how to get it online so sorry its a wee bit late. It also has some pics from Ella-Rose's first birthday.<br />
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She has all of a sudden developed a love of books... I think it relates to the fact that we have stories together each day for at least an hour and longer if the kids can convince me otherwise. So she always wants to be the first in line to have stories read to her. She also runs round the house finding the narnia books and running up to me chanting 'narnia, narnia'. She knows it is something cool, even if she doesn't understand. She even jumped on Joshua's knee today with Dr Seuss and requested 'read me', which he did as I was pre-occupied with Lily.<br />
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At the moment we are reading 'Cheaper by the Dozen' as well as 'The Silver Chair'. The kids are splitting their sides... it is extremely funny, and also interesting as we are learning lot about another time and another place (USA early 1900s).<br />
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Ella-Rose loves swings and the park. She is also even getting a little better each week at going to nursery. So far she lasted 30 mins without needing to be brought to me. Slowly we are getting there and she is realising nursery is much more fun than mummy's class.<br />
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Lily loves kisses, she laughs a lot. I laugh too. She is gorgeous. She is such a great baby. I think she's going to be a thumb sucker. She just sucks her fingers and is off to sleep pretty quick, she barely cries - yay. She loves food... she took to food more readily than any of the other children.<br />
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We drove over to Thames to Butterfly house for a trip with the local homeschool group. We were off to a late start... waking up at 8am, which was the time I had sorted in my mind when we needed to leave, however having 2 littlies keeping me up overnight, I just kept on sleeping till the kids woke me up. So we were already running an hour late and jumped in the car at 9am. So we would have arrived there sooner, had the Navman been playing fair... it decided to take us on a nice big loop in the middle of the countryside for no real apparent reason.<br />
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On the way we also had to make a few stops for the kids to take pics of the wild turkeys that were congregating on the roads and flying over the car. And unfortunately the camera battery died after taking copious amounts of photos of the turkeys.<br />
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When we arrived we made our way straight into the butterfly house. now I had imagined this to be much like an reptile enclosure at the zoo, with different butterflies in separate displays behind glass, with nice labels as to which they were. Not this place, as soon as we walked in, it was like walking into a hot house, and there were butterflies everywhere... it was very cool. The kids loved it and tried picking up a variety of butterflies. There were monarchs, owl butterflies which were blue but when the wings were folded looked like a large eye. There was even one species from the Phillipines called the Mormon butterfly (cute).<br />
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One landed on my hand as I was holding a blue dummy. I held it close to Lily's face and she watched it intently as it opened and closed it's wings... that is until Ella-Rose decided to chase it away.<br />
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After the butterfly house we went to the beach at Te Puru... it began to rain as we pulled up, but the kids still had a short dip. As we were just down the road from Tane's parents we were able to call in and have dinner with Nana Noelene and Poppa Monty. They put on a lovely BBQ for us.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894218931034087351.post-20137207408889813592013-02-11T20:00:00.000+13:002013-02-12T20:59:07.063+13:00Blackberries and cows in the backyard... almostIt is really quite cool having a farm almost next door. The kids have discovered much to their delight, that the field is full of wild blackberry bushes. They want to go on an almost daily visit to pick the newly blackened blackberries. We could hear the cows mooing from the backyard so I took the kids over to see them, and they were not as close as I thought... a few paddocks over, but the kids still had fun looking at them through their binoculars. I love it because it reminds me of the trips to the woods we would take when I was younger growing up in Barnsley... and the blackberry picking and blackberry pies and blackberry jam my mum would make from the collection.<br />
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The girls looking at the cows</div>
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Little Lily trying to see whats going on too</div>
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Four kids having fun</div>
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Picking and tasting blackberries... yum!</div>
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As for Narnia, we are 3 chapters away from finishing 'Voyage of the Dawn Treader'. I can't believe I didn't read these when I was a kid. There are some really great values in there - in addition to the awesome adventures of course.<br />
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The shopping trip - what a disaster. I had wanted to get a freezer before Tane went away so I could fill it up and not have to take all the kids shopping for a big shop... or even not at all. However we were pretty busy and that ended up not happening. So today we were running pretty short on supplies... we were down to our last carrot after morning tea... you know you're low when the kids have to have carrots for tutti fruiti time.<br />
At first Joshua and Joseph decide to have some kind of crazy wrestling match in the supermarket. Talk about embarrassing. However I managed to distract them by sending them on search and find missions to various regions of the supermarket looking for items on our list. Phew survived after an hour and a half... with poor Lily intact, but it is impossible to have her and Ella-Rose in the same shopping trolley. Ella just wants to bite, scratch and basically terrorise her sister.<br />
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In the evening after dinner, we had our family home evening and planted our winter garden. Joseph chose brussel sprouts (or little soccer balls - as he calls them), Anna-Maria chose cauliflower - her favourite thing for dinner, Josh chose broccoli and I got pak choy, spinach and leeks. Unfortunately as the older kids were transplanting their seedlings, Ella-Rose decided to pull all the leek seedling out... so only a very small fraction of them were planted in the garden. Also mental note to myself... to make this garden work we need to get a soak hose tomorrow - the gardern is so dry, even despite multiple trips to the tap with buckets, it remains as dry as ever.<br />
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<b>Ella-Rose</b>: Has been practising counting. We have a funny game she likes to play on the trampoline. She jumps and we count to 10 and then splat - she splats onto the trampoline, has a giggle and then gets back onto her feet to start again. She is learning her colours by gardening. She is learning not to pick the green tomatoes but to wait until they are orange. We have some strange orange tomato variety. They are simply delicious and taste almost a cross between a tomato and an apricot if that is even possible.<br />
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<b>Joshua</b>: Is reading 'Call of the Wild'. Although he only needed to read 1 chapter today... he of course became immersed and didn't come up for air until I suggested we go outside to look at the cows. He really likes animals, so is also reading a book all about horses, the different breeds, purposes and how to look after a horse.... He also likes to look at the horses available on Trademe... and is dropping hints to me such as 'we need a paddock to put a horse in'.<br />
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<b>Joseph:</b> Is enjoying practising the piano and committing his pieces to memory. He played 'Set' with Anna-Maria. It is a really great game for pattern spotting, he was teaching Anna-Maria how to identify a set. She was initially frustrated, but in the end she managed to put a few good sets together. His homeschool goals consisted of 'lots of PE every day'. So today that consisted of lots and lots of bouncing on the trampoline.<br />
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<b>Anna-Maria:</b> Is the most motivated child. She wrote in her journal, practised her spelling words and played 'Set". She also had a really unfortunate accident today :( She was bouncing on the trampoline and moved back too far. As she came down she landed with each leg astride the bar and then fell onto the floor. Poor thing. She was beside herself, but after spending an hour in bed - doing paired reading with Joseph (Hansel and Gretel, & Bubbles) she was back to her normal self. She was happy because we put her new curtains up in her room. And I was happy to because they are much thicker and make the room much darker and hence it hopefully will be easier to convince the girls it really is bedtime even though the sun is still shining outside.<br />
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<b>Lily:</b> Had her first taste of solids today. She seemed to really enjoy it after the first 2 tsps of wondering what on earth is this new stuff. She had pear and banana with baby rice. She is also really enjoying trying to grab hanging toys and she is smiling and chuckling a lot.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273086500365353601noreply@blogger.com0