Someone else’s ideas We got some paint colour samples on those little cards and I made the comment that Helena “better DO something with them”… a friend of mine said she used them to make cards. Helena leapt on this idea. These are all for sale… I can get them for a special discount (the…
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Thanks Mr Pound (21.10.18)
We visited the Wellington City Art Gallery and saw Patrick Pound’s On Reflection. Helena’s first response was “this is boring” I think brought on by thinking about the cafe later on and knowing about the drawing station that she has always liked visiting…. after a few drawings approach number two, this time maybe she was…
Nana’s steps
Helena and I have been meaning to “do” Nana’s steps for years… years! We did (painted a white line on the edge) our neighbor’s steps years ago having walked down her many steps in the dark and been a little afraid of missing a step, particularly scary if you are little. I think of us…
the weird stuff kids do (25.09.18)
These are called springs. You make them by folding, Helena can now do this extreeeemly quickly and with her eyes shut. There is now a basket of 80 of them “two more sets of 10 and there will be 100” sitting on her desk, as well as some cut card waiting for her to make…
a normal day (20.09.18)
Some context: I leave Helena to do what she will with her day. I am attempting to see what she will independently do. I don’t tell her this but after a while every time the alarm goes she says “ask me what I’m doing mummy”… I want to know how long she sustains a period…
Te Wiki o te Reo Mâori
What we did; I brought a book Mâori at home which has made me laugh and laugh. Helena will surely be learning Kia tika te noho (sit properly) and Kâti te whakapîoioi tûru (Stop swinging on your chair)… but perhaps not the one I can’t find right now about buying a dog! using the Mâori…
not growing out of things (19.09.18)
Pirates…. Helena has been into pirates since, well ages… er 3 ish? I have no idea where she heard of them. I asked her why she liked them years ago and she said something like “because they are fierce” not even she knew how she knew that. I made her a pirate outfit (with instruction)…
it’s all about the process but I wish I had cleaners….
the table we eat all our meals at between meals….. the bedroom floor… the desk that can’t be used due to the mess created while using it…. Last week our virtue was cleanliness (partly a er sort of joke…) but the house was somewhat cleaner for that week. It is a hard road to navigate…
four out of five isn’t bad (14.09.18)
it says – Read books go to the library play do the garden Happy Fish printing Today I said we really should finish up stuff however Helena wanted me to read to her so I said “put it on a list” and went and got dressed… then I came out to find this and weirdly…
you can’t escape the wheels of commerce (09.18)
We went tramping, which is a many hours walk up a big hill carrying everything you need… all to stay in a nice one room hut with no electricity, or kitchen and an outside loo with a spectacular view (“you care about views Mummy, I don’t”). I often wonder why people go tramping, especially with…
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