Easter Holidays

The Easter Holidays allowed the kiddies to gather their wits after a busy term full of activities. In Mummy terms it gave me time to catch up on housework and finish preparing the garden for Spring.

My favourite Cadet people.

My baby Robin Hood.

Two weeks worth of books read by Monkey Girl, AKA Bookworm.

MUD

Ballet Girl spent the weekend on an Adventure Training Course with the Cadets.

My cousin paid us a visit.

The Boy had a Bonfire Birthday Party which he shared with two cousins and an uncle.

 Topping up the bird feeders.

 Play-dough.

Cooking in his new pirate chef outfit. How happy can one little boy be?!

 I spent many many days over the holidays in charge of ten children or more. Fun for the kiddies!

We've been brightening up our house.

Making bread.

Gardening.

Fixing a patchy lawn.

Rummikub.  Best game ever.

Mud pies and sand cookies.

Learning about rabbits and hares at the Forest Centre.

Our sweet pea seeds have grown!

Victoria Sponge

Superhero club.

Hanging out with friends.

Watching the herons in their nest.

Replanting the pumpkin seedlings into bigger pots. 

Playing Chopin to the seedlings to make them grow!

Following instructions to make Panda Girl's new bed.

Ice cream parlour with cardboard cones and shaving cream.

Easter

We've had a few preparatory weeks for Easter and the children have done some cute, work ready to countdown through Holy Week.

Wildlife Mix and Pain au Chocolat

The two big girls did a smashing job weeding and preparing the trellis flowerbed while The Boy visited the asthma nurse for his yearly review.

We chose a wildlife mix for this flowerbed and I can't WAIT to see how it turns out!

An hour later it was ready for seed sprinkling.

We sowed lettuce, carrots and spinach in Grandad's Veggie Patch

Making pain au chocolat.

Workbooks

And a visit to the library.

Also this week, the girls had a unit review at Sea Cadets, The Boy had his last football training session inside, before he goes onto grass after Easter, and three gym classes and thirteen dance classes happened.

Easter break here we come :)

Pink Mix and Blue Mix

Our next step was weeding and raking the rose flowerbed and sowing a pink flower mix.

We chose a blue flower mix for the flowerbed close to the house.

In the afternoon the children sowed violas and sweetpeas to start growing indoors.

Marigolds and onions.

And a super giant pumpkin to harvest in October.