Yesterday was the kids last day at Playcentre. It coincided with the end of year breakup. We started there 18mths ago and it was when Nathan had just turned 4 and Danielle 2. We joined knowing that we were going to be homeschooling and I wanted us to attend a centre that was non-structured, child-led play and it was great being a parent co-operative. We have made some good friends over our time there who we will keep in touch with. I was reflecting the night before whether I had made the right decision for us to leave (Nathan could keep going as they have a homeschooling policy that would allow us to continue as long as we liked) but everything just felt "right" and no gut wrenching feeling that might tell me otherwise.

We were fortunate to have one of the mums who is a professional face painter come along and we had a wee shared morning tea to send my two plus one other off.


Last night we went for a walk around a few streets that had some Christmas Lights displayed. I had managed to get the kids to have an afternoon nap so they would be all bright and perky until dark (not till after 9pm). We came across one cool house where the guy who owns it was right into the whole thing, brought out a candy cane for the kids and a little glow-stick thing.

Today we had a quiet one at home as a break between a few busy days and some more to come.

Nathan wanted to make his own board game including a dice.

I was chatting on the phone and my lovely boy collected some flowers for the table.

Nathan was wanting to dig for potatoes today and came up with this lot.

Danielle's been right into the magnetix still and it's cool to see her skill with them developing.

Nathan *still* playing with his blocks that he got for his 1st birthday.

We spotted this lovely waterlily in our pond today. Seemed to appear totally out of the blue!