Almost the end of another year. Where does the time go? But of course that’s the question this blog is designed to answer. Lots of end-of-school-year things this week, including multiple performances and award ceremonies. We even saw a presentation of the Gruffalo with Puff as one of the narrators. We had two lots of carols to go to, one at school, one in the community, which has made for a new record string of late nights for the kids.
At their school awards, both kids received an award. Huff for consistent effort, Puff for academics. It’s a little surreal to be the parent, rather than the child, at one of these things: Dad even had a seat down the front because of his P&C involvement.
We visited Grandma and Doc, and saw their Christmas tree. Huff helped out with it: she’s quite fascinated with such things this year.
Friday night we caught up with the kids’ uncle and aunt and cousins.
Sunday morning, to try and give Mum a quick sleep-in, Dad took the kids for what ended up being a 4km walk. It was enjoyable enough, but we didn’t find any ducks, and the kids were very keen to feed ducks if at all possible. Maybe next week.
Here is Huff’s improvised cape from one of the carols. services.
Our friends generously loaned us some glow sticks, and the kids arranged them in different patterns. I think this one was mostly called ‘moustache’.
And we finally managed to put up our tree. Puff and huff have done most of the decorating of our tree this year.
How quickly they grow up. We’re still reading through the Narnia chronicles – we’re nearly finished the Silver Chair now. The kids watched Kubo and the two strings, and (less well-advised) Who Framed Roger Rabbit this week, and enjoyed them well enough at the time. Onward with Christmas!