Photos in the Garden

I love photos! Particularly photos of people. And I often try to capture the normal every day moments of our lives for us to keep. Yesterday was a perfect opportunity!

After a morning math and counting and writing and reading and cleaning we were quite ravenous when lunch time arrived. It has also been a tad cooler with the continual light rain we’ve been having and a nice warm lunch of beans on toast hit the spot perfectly!

Dieter and I were preparing for stock deliveries of playdough and chalk later in the afternoon when Annelie texted to say she was going to the Botanical Gardens with her 3 little boys and would love us to join them. I love spontaneity! It didn’t take long for us to restructure our plans and get everyone in the car. On the way to the Botanical Gardens we dropped Ryan and Jed off at the library to get some new books (Jed even managed to read 2 thinner books too while they were there!)

Dieter dropped Ethan, Aimee and I off at the Gardens before heading off to visit various nursery schools and toy shops in town. We had about an hour and half to spend with Annelie and her boys before we had to head across town to Ryan and Ethan’s 4 o’clock football practice. I am so grateful it didn’t rain at that time and we could all be outdoors! We arrived at the Gardens first and so Ethan, Aimee and I walked clockwise around the small dam there and I quickly took my camera out to capture them in action – and they loved it!

Oh this is fun!

He, he ... silly, silly!

Little eyes taking EVERYTHING in as we look for mice, birds, flowers

Beauties!

"one of me by myself, please Mom!'

Watching the girls and their Dad feed bread to the HUGE fish

I didn’t realise Annelie had baked a batch of delicious choc-chip muffins – that was just the cherry on top of a really love time together, her and I talking non-stop (well, almost! It’s a bit hard to do when you have small children in your care!) and the children running all over the open grass areas and climbing trees together. It was lovely to see them again after so long and to be able to chat freely!

When we got to football practice I managed to convince Dieter to hang around for the hour rather than head home. That was great because we got to spend time with other friends waiting for their children.

So often, people are anti-homeschooling because of the idea that homeschooled children don’t get enough socialisation. Nobody ever stops to consider the parents! I love the socialisation that happened in my day yesterday and it did a lot to fill up my emotional tank! And I know that our children all had great fun too!