Lazy summer days

Tractors......

Dining al fresco, naked.

The beautiful hammock

My new exciting home made washing powder

Luxury camping with the Baileys....

Making tea of course.

The small delicious cousins, and Auntie Emsy

Meeting up with cousins in Dorset before they headed off to start their adventure in Africa.....

Another beautiful autumn week......

We have been well and truly blessed with another week of glorious autumn sunshine. Thomas is really getting into his fresh juices, so we start out by picking beetroot from the garden and juicing it along with carrot, apple and ginger, which makes a beautiful rich juice to start the day on. Both thomas, and now George are professional juicers! check out the pics!

This week has well and truly flown. This morning we woke up and explored flower fairies, which are new to us. We have ordered a book second hand from amazon and eagerly await its arrival. Thomas skipped around, chatting endlessly about where the fairies would be, how to find them, and even caught a few and made beds for them from petals. That was the morning gone.......

In the afternoon we went along to our new art group with 4 other boys, two of which we are getting to know from forest

school.

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Forest school is really great now. Thomas is growing in confidence and really seems to be enjoying being with the others. He was shy at first, and was slow and cautious joining in. I'm glad we persevered........

Here are some pictures of monday at forest school. The theme was nuts, which were sorted, planted, and labeled with witteled hazel sticks. This includes of course

the famous three R's reading writing and arithmatic!!!! We dug the potatoes, collected tin

der and shared lunch over a fire.

Sorting the nuts

planting the nuts........

whittling and labeling the planted nuts.

We've been out to a friendship group for lunch today, mama's I know through our La Leche League, and their youngest children. Its beautiful to watch Thomas's friendships grow. I guess one of the first questions people ask about home schooling is often regarding social life. Its wonderful, to watch him develop lovely relationships with other children. He has great social skills, maybe takes him a short while to warm up, and he definately enjoys playing with one friend at a time. He does need his friendships, and gets very excited about meeting up with friends. We are blessed to have live on a street with different aged children who so far love playing together, especially on bikes, scooters and skate boards. His growing skills and friendships feel organic, and safe. Through reading playful parenting I have gained trust, watching boys play. Its such a huge honour and priviledge to be on this journey with my family...

Here is a pic of a wood pecker we spotted on our lawn at lunch time.

Ok. I'm struggling with this blog, to make it look nice! It took me all night last night to do yesterdays blog! and I didn't get much on in the way of pics. I like the idea of this blog being a bit of a photo diary of our adventures. So here are a few more pics of yesterdays a pirate play with Anna our neighbour down by the stream.