Rain!

We woke up this morning to a bit of drizzle. Help! After having lived in the Central Australian desert for the last 12 months, we have forgotten what to do with rainy days!

We still haven’t found a suitable house (although we have an application in for one, so fingers crossed and we’ll see what happens), so this means Molly hasn’t started school yet.

So we spent the morning indoors doing numbers and writing, and then learning about New Zealand birds, drawing pictures of huias, yellow-eyed penguins, kiwis and pukekos, and looking them up on the internet to see which colours we should use. Those of you who know Molly well will understand how much she enjoyed this activity!

We had a small window of sunshine around lunchtime, so took a quick trip out to a playpark, our 17^th one in Wellington. So now we only have 87 left to visit.

For the rest of the day, the kids were incredibly content playing indoors with their toys – I guess it’s a novelty to them as they’ve spent most of the last year being outdoors for most of their waking hours. Alfie has a new train set which is keeping him engrossed for hours each day, and Molly discovered a dolls’ house in the cupboard at our holiday home.

In the meantime Jake and I are also educating ourselves. Thanks to Saturday’s edition of the Dominion Post (which we’ve only just got round to reading), our word of the day has got to be “whakamarama” , meaning to clarify/interpret/translate - something we do a lot of in our family!!