Lily's fist dance recital

Last week on Thursday and Saturday Lily had her first dance recital!  It went very well, and she had a great time.  I didn't get to watch, as there had to be a supervising adult attending the child in the dressing room, but Greg and Oliver watched on Thursday night and said it was a wonderful performance.  I will buy the DVD so I can see it.  We were very proud of her.  I expected a few nerves or even for her to want to back out, but there was nothing like that.  The dance organization does a really good job with the kids, and it has lifted her confidence even more.  The hardest part of the whole thing for me was doing her hair!  Those little buns were hard to get right!

Greg gave Lily some roses before her dance on Thursday, she felt so special! 

 Lily in her dance costume, minus her ballet slippers!  She was an owl for the show.

Lily with her brother, they are growing up fast! 

Spring in Scotland

Well, Spring has officially sprung, and here is Scotland that seems to mean that the weather can be either beautiful and warm, where you don't even need a jacket, or freezing to where you need all your winter gear back on.  Or some days you can have all the seasons in the space of two hours!  It takes some getting used to, and a bit of organizing to make sure you have the appropriate clothes on the kids before sending them off to school. 

Not too long ago the field across from our driveway was empty and we took walks around it, but now the farmer has moved in a flock of sheep.  This makes me ridiculously happy to look out the window and see the sheep in the morning!  They are big fat sheep, I am hoping they will have lambs for us to look at before long.

 This is a picture of our house with the daffodils in front of the windows.  It is a very nice place to live, and I am very happy to live out of town a bit for the space and character of the place.

 A close up of our daffodils.  They look so happy and spring like.  There are plots of daffodils and other flowers popping up all over the city, like little fairies went around and just decided that under this tree, and in the middle of that field… would be good spots for flowers.  They are in the most peculiar places sometimes, but it does put a smile on your face when you see them pop up with all their color.

 This morning we woke up to a very frosty and foggy morning.  Can you spy the sheep?  They were so still this morning trying to stay warm.  Hopefully we won't have too many more mornings like this.

Have a great springy week everyone!

It's been a long time...

Like over a YEAR!  I doubt anyone even checks this anymore!  But I do miss it, and I am disappointed that I can't come on here and see everything that happened this last year!  So I am going to try and do better, way better.
Here is what has happened in roughly the last year.  Firstly we moved, to Scotland.  We left Australia last march for New Hampshire, and the kids and I were in the US until July, when we flew into Aberdeen for what I am told was an unusually warm and nice Scottish summer!  I am hoping that the next one is as nice.  Greg found us a terrific house here, in the country, but 3 minutes out of town, perfect!  The kids both started school last August, Lily is in P1, Oliver is in Nursery.  As far as we can tell P1 is considered first grade here, but we would consider it kindergarten, with a bit extra.  Lily has settled into school life very well, as expected.  She loves going and seeing her friends, and is now sharing about her day when she gets home.  Oliver is getting ready to go to P1 next year, he is in half days (sometimes that is not long enough for us both!)  He has all the teachers wrapped around his finger!  We are happy with the school here, and the local community, it feels very comfortable.
We had what was for us, a long winter, with very short days.  I found the short days to be the hardest part, especially when they were full of rain, clouds, and wind.  Apparently it likes to snow here, but not this year, so everyone tells us we were lucky to have a mild winter.  I would have preferred snow though, at least then you can go outside!  Ahh, but winter is over and spring is here.  There are sheep in the field in front of our house, all the daffodils are blooming, our days are longer again, the wind is taking a break, and the sun has been shining.  We are looking forward to exploring the castles and forests that are all over this area on the weekends.
Here's to being back to blogging, see you in a few days!