I haven't posted in awhile but I have a good excuse, possibly the best excuse ever.
Alice was on school holidays. To some parents this might not be something to celebrate, but I was excited about them. I take Alice to school every morning, 8am we have to leave by as school starts at 8:30. Then back by 3pm to pick her up. I sometimes feel like I'm back at school again. So I was anticipating these holidays as a holiday for me. Add to this the regular after school melt downs in the car I can safely say by the end of last term I was OVER IT.
I had some grand ideas about what we would do in the holidays, cooking perhaps, I'd work with Alice on her writing, we'd work on her sight words and cutting skills. Sounds lovely doesn't it? Must be the teacher in me...
Well the teacher in me went on holidays because we did nothing like that.
Instead we slept in, we danced, we put on a performance complete with rehearsals and choreographed routines. We went to the park, we had Alice's very best friend in the whole world sleep over, she stayed up late, she watched movies, she spent far to much time on the computer, she got her very own pink iPad. We went to the movies, celebrated Madeleine's 1st birthday and stayed in our pjs till lunch time some days.
It was awesome. And in return I was blessed with my happy, beautiful girl again. The girl I haven't much seen since she started school. She was so relaxed and just gorgeous. I have treasured these past two weeks spent with her.
As of this week we are back to reality, back to her being stressed by the end of the day and melting down in the car. But that's okay I have the memories of the past two weeks and that's enough. Until then...10 weeks to go until holidays!
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