So it’s summer and it’s the school holidays and it’s nearly Christmas, and this is what our lives are looking like these days...The kids are loving lots of bike trips and I am loving the fact that we frequently end up at the local cafe!
Molly walked straight in today and placed my order at the counter without even checking with me what I wanted. She got it right of course. Oops, perhaps we have been going a little bit too often....?
The Pohutakawa trees are starting to bloom (New Zealand's Christmas tree), the agapanthus are starting to bloom, the garden is blooming, Wellington is blooming, and despite our children's best efforts to strip all flower beds bare and fill up all our vases, cups and jars with their pickings, there's still plenty of colour everywhere.
The evenings are long and sunny, and the kids are allowed to stay up later than usual chasing bubbles on the deck, chalk drawing Christmas tree pictures all over the driveway, eating chocolate and watching Christmas movies.
We’re making use of all the beautiful walking tracks near our house...(and it's incredibly handy that the cafe is nearby afterwards!)
And we've been swimming as much as we can. At the last count I think as a family we've been in five different swimming pools in the last week. We've even visited the outdoor swimming pool a few times (it’s not quite the same as Alice Springs though – brrr!)...
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