We've had lots of very cool visitors this month from all corners of the world - Kevin, Hayden, Mark, Dan, Mark again, Tracey, Anton, Leigh-Anne, Debs - it's been brilliant to see you all!
Other than that Alfie and I continue
to enjoy our days off together, doing swimming and gymnastics, catching
up with friends, exploring and playing and making things.
We're on a mission to visit a new and/or different playpark every week at the moment and we're doing quite well. I'm happy so long as the sun's out and I have a flask of coffee and Alfie's happy so long as there's something to climb, something to hang upside down from, and something to jump off.
This month however, we’ve often had to wearily plod through our days very
slowly due to Alfie’s ongoing battles with eczema and nightmares which have been keeping us all up alot at night.
The eczema has involved countless trips to the doctor, a bucket load of creams and steroids, antibiotics (three doses in the last month), and we still can’t clear
it up.
On the plus side, we have turned a corner with the taniwha & monster
nightmares by making our very own dream catcher. It took us an entire day to
shop for the parts and put it all together, but Alfie came up with the fabulous
idea of putting a plastic eye in the middle (to look out for the bad dreams)
and 4 small round mirrors inside so that when the bad dreams are caught, they
see themselves and get scared and run away (!).
Now we've come out the other side of winter, Molly and Alfie are both spending most of their after school hours in the garden, blowing bubbles, playing on the swings, collecting bugs and leaves, and perfecting their swing tennis techniques. The house we live in is great because I have a perfect view from the kitchen window while I cook dinner - and it's not far to run when I have to break up yet another fight over who broke the swing tennis rules!
Molly’s school have been really busy this month studying
film/drama. Every single class has made a short movie (Molly’s class did “Snow
White and the 15 Dwarfs”) complete with casting, storyboards, acting and editing,
and culminating with a movie premiere in town. A real cinema was hired, they
all dressed up and walked up the red carpet and the movies were shown on the
big screen. Lots of fun and excitement all round.
Meanwhile Jake has spent over 50% of this month on various
holidays, oops sorry I mean business trips around the country, and we are all
missing him a lot.
Other than that, we're very focussed now on house hunting in every spare minute we get, and have been encouraged by all the new listings suddenly appearing now it's Spring. We have our eye on one in particular - but unfortunately we know that a few other people do as well! Still, there are lots of very lovely properties coming up at the moment so we are hoping we'll have some good news soon.
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