Catch up...again

I'd like to begin this entry, by mentioning that I'm not ready for October to be over.  I'm not ready yet to put up my Christmas decorations, or play Christmas carols in the morning to wake the kiddies up for school or have it playing in the car when I'm fetching them afterwards.  I'm just not ready.  This year has FLOWN by.  And it keeps flying.  And my mind is still trying to play catch up.  Where did 2010 go?  So many fantastic things have happened this year, I have such special memories from it all - its just gone too quickly. 

We look set to be Home schooling in 2011.  This decision was reached with lots of research, lots of prayers, lots of dialogue with friends and family, and lots and lots of thinking.  In fact, all the thinking has been driving me mad.  So now I'm trying NOT to think about it.  Or talk about it too much - since that gets the thinking about it started all over again. 

We decided to unplug DSTV(cable TV) this month. A pet hate has been watching the kids turn into zombies over the past few months as they tune in to TV and out of real life.  Tragic.  So TV time, and content is being tightly regulated once more. 

A weekend camping was the kick start to the months adventures, and got us in the holiday mood just before the start of term 4 of school.

We took off on an impromptu Temple visit and family visit this month and had a good time laughing (this does tend to be accompanied by screaming and crying too of course) and hanging out with big cousins (Renaldo, Kianu, Tiago & Sebastian) and special aunts (Claudette & Annette) and uncles (luis & Llewellyn).

A brief spate of illness knocked Miss Sophie off her feet for a few days - she does enjoy the excuse to sleep all day and stay in her PJ's so not too many complaints from her!  Phoebe and Brod have been competing on the key board in a game of 'I am better than you!'.  That little game has suitably exhausted our ear drums.  Noah & Jonah are still addicted to Playstation - sigh - they play as I type.  But since they've not played for the past few days, an hour or two today should not do too much damage?

And I've been walking a lot, talking a lot, listening, eating and sighing...a lot.  Painting, cleaning, working, sanding, thinking, washing and chatting alot.  

Brod is surfing right now, for the first time in what seems like months.  He certainly deserves his afternoon off:)

A pity that there's still a glitch with the picture uploader thingy on this blog - one little photo will have to do for now. 

 

Noah, belting out a song at the recent Beehive School concert - he was VENUS (the love planet) - look at the size of that mouth! Yip, the other kids didn't stand a chance - he WAS the loudest.