Out of the house day...

We headed off to do the grocery shopping this morning and a few new conversations were had - guide dogs, donations and petrol prices.

After getting home and putting away the chilled and frozen items we gathered together what we needed to go off to the local outdoor pools for meeting up with the homeschooling group. The kids had heaps of fun (even Danielle who fell under twice but was quickly plucked out by me before she took in any water - I'm consistently amazed at quickly and quietly and how little she struggles when she goes under...). Nathan was introduced to 4 other 5 year old boys and joined in a game with a bunch of other kids his age which was retrieving some battens that were tossed for them to bring back.

We came home and had a rest from all the sun by reading a bunch of books including some library books I'd grabbed for them last night. We then moved on and played a game where we took turns building beetles.

Once the day had cooled off and the garden was getting a bit of shade we went down to let the chickens out for a roam around while I resumed a little weeding and thinning of some carrots (which Danielle decided needed to eaten right there and then). Nathan had taken a small table, some paper and pencils down with him to do some drawing. He spent a while drawing under the shade of a tree and then climbed up his pear tree, found a comfy possie* and sat up there drawing and thinking for a while before announcing that he never wanted this tree cut down.


*I've just learnt something - I know that word is slang for position, but just googled the spelling since it's the first time I've written it and found out that it was made up during WWI by the Aussies (but was probably the Kiwi's who made it up...;)).