2018-01-07 09:14
It has been an incredibly long time since I oosted about our family and probably a reflection of the busy-ness of my brain, my life and our family life.We are now living in Dunedin and Tane… Read More
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2014-06-22 12:35
To help the girls understand their divine nature and potential, we have a girls only evening, where they learn how to be a 'true princess', as they are daughter of a Heavenly King- their Hea… Read More
2014-05-20 12:34
As our boys are emerging from Core phase and are progressing through Love of Learning phase, we really feel the need to continue to help them develop their core values, as well as helping th… Read More
2014-05-11 05:57
For mothers day, we wanted to express our appreciation for Grandma Sharon. So here goes.From SylviaI love grandma Sharon so much because you are the best grandma ever.Grandma Sharon is lovel… Read More
2014-05-10 14:17
Ella-Rose is so cute. She says 'Jesus kissed me'. I asked her where?, she points outside and says over there Read More
2014-05-10 13:37
For home education we follow a philisophy called Thomas Jefferson Education (TJED) or Leadership Education. It is a fantastic way to bring up children in light and truth and to inspire them… Read More
2014-05-10 13:17
We really enjoyed general conference. The kids have had a blast learning all the names of the apostles, especially when they turned it into a hand-clapping game Read More
2014-05-10 12:57
We have friends from church who bought a 300 acre farm a year ago. It had no house on the property so over the past year they have built a shed for their family to live in. They moved in a f… Read More
2014-05-10 12:13
We have the nicest neighbours. They have a pony. It does not live next door to us but lives in a paddock down the road. He is a white pony. Jordan is a 17 year old high school student and ev… Read More
2014-05-10 11:12
A favourite poem for Mothers Day William Ross Wallace (1819-1881)THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE IS THE HAND THAT RULES THE WORLD. BLESSINGS on… Read More
2014-02-25 01:13
I was really surprised with my children this week. They each set their own goals with no prompting from us. It started with Joseph. He decided he wanted to read the Book of Mormon we s… Read More
2014-01-11 12:55
Joshua has had an awesome year or reading sailing books. He read the 12 books in the Arthur Ransome series - Swallows and Amazons. That was a book my Grandfather had read to my mum when she… Read More
2013-09-24 11:24
The kids had so much fun over the last 2 terms with their homeschool classes. In the first term, Anna did art and literacy and numeracy games, Josh did outdoor activities including archery… Read More
2013-09-24 09:57
Over the past few weeks we have been working on our times tables...I realised trying to get my kids to simply memorise these lists of facts was pretty boring... and they are pretty resistant… Read More
2013-06-24 09:47
The kids have been having a lot of fun learning a whole assortment of things during homeschool.One day they decided to make a pyramid with their duplo. They just had a whole lot of fun worki… Read More
2013-05-19 10:25
Little Lily is 7 months now, and she is sitting up, little cutie.I managed to catch a couple of pics of Lily inflicting pain on Tane and Joshua. She has got such a tight grip, if she manages… Read More
2013-04-21 09:28
Silly camera... flash-bulb blew and it took about 3 weeks to get it fixed. Oh well, now all our memories don't need to look like we are all sitting in a dark room.Today we visited… Read More
2013-04-21 09:19
The kids got to go garage sale-ing (is that even a word?) with their pocket money. Anna-Maria wanted this princess veil. Joseph bought a gun. Joshua brought 3 items of Pumpkin Patch clothing… Read More
2013-04-21 09:18
We decided to make the most of the last Monday before daylight savings ends and went to the Hamilton Gardens. The kids had a ball running though all the different gardens. They especially li… Read More
2013-03-31 09:09
Happy Easter everyone. Today was one of the best Easter's we have ever had. Last night, Tane and I stayed up late and made resurrection eggs. We got little plastic eggs, and placed scorched… Read More
2013-03-26 10:06
While walking down a friends driveway and having to step aside because a car was coming past, Anna-Maria exclaims with a big smile 'Great! I didn't get run over!'I should think so!Today was… Read More
2013-03-08 08:07
This video is from when we first moved to Australia last year... in fact the first few pics are from the airport. However unfortunately I only just figured out how to get it online… Read More
2013-02-28 12:18
Ella-Rose having her own kind of fun!She has all of a sudden developed a love of books... I think it relates to the fact that we have stories together each day for at least an hour and longe… Read More
2013-02-28 11:09
We drove over to Thames to Butterfly house for a trip with the local homeschool group. We were off to a late start... waking up at 8am, which was the time I had sorted in my mind when we nee… Read More
2013-02-12 07:59
It is really quite cool having a farm almost next door. The kids have discovered much to their delight, that the field is full of wild blackberry bushes. They want to go on an almost daily v… Read More
2013-02-11 09:40
2013-02-11 09:40
Yesterday we went to Paeroa. Tane had to be dropped off with the army as he was going on an annual field exercise (which interpreted means 7 days of survival in the bush with not much to eat… Read More
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