Such a neat day

Days like today are what I love about the unschooling lifestyle.

We got up and the kids watched a bit of TV while I checked in on the net.

After getting dressed, I decided to bottle my ginger beer that I'd mixed up and had brewing from a few days back. The kids were keen to help - so with Danielle holding the bottle steady and Nathan holding the funnel in place we filled them all up.

The kids then wandered off and built more train tracks down in Nathan's bedroom while I pottered around tidying up the kitchen.

We then snuggled up on Nathan's bed in the sun for half an hour and read The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith. Nathan and I started it last night and we were both keen to get back into it.

We then went down to the garden, let the chickens out and the kids started digging holes while I cleaned out the chickens coop, restocked it with food and water and added more straw to their nest. The kids shoo'd the chickens out of our vege plants.



Nathan started playing with a couple of tree branches that Simon had chopped down over the weekend and made himself a seesaw.

It then became his pet dog (apparently looked like one lol)...

Danielle's become a good little chicken herder and was able to round up the two girls and put them back in the coop before we went out for the afternoon (they usually free range when we're at home, but we tend to occasionally get roaming dogs and large cats).

The kids playing with their maraca's that they finished painting last night (we decided not to attach the handles as they were likely to come off at some point).


After lunch we headed off to the playground to meet with our unschooling group - to feed the ducks, play on the equipment and then over the sand dune to the beach for a while.

While dinner was cooking the kids were playing with the duplo and Nathan got out his dominoes and was lining them up to knock down.

Nathan and I finised The Water Horse at bedtime - what a cool story. We both really liked it.

An all round lovely day!