Beach day

I’m always so keen to get back to the beach after the winter and to our little spot on Portstewart Strand.

 

Walking the causeway coast with friends

One of the clear highlights of 2021 for me was getting to host friends from Bishop’s Stortford, here in N.Ireland. 

Together we walked part of the Causeway Coast over two days, staying overnight in Portstewart.

I’m really hoping it becomes an annual event.

 

Ezra is 5

 

Ezra - our number lover, colour lover, always got something to say, big hugger, player of random toys, loves animals and always wants to win!

Baby chicks

 

He’s getting good at breeding little chicks.

Lj breaks her arm

 So, it has been a long time…but I’m determined to catch up!

Way back in August 2021 Lj broke her arm, near her elbow. The first broken bone in our house and caused     by stopping her brother from running off, falling over the top of him and landing badly.

The pain was so bad when being x rayed she fainted and fainted again when the nurse put her sling on.

Thankfully all healed well, she did start her new school in a sling but was back to cart wheeling within weeks.

Ezra goes back to school

This week all P1-P3 children in N.I. went back to school for the first time since Christmas. Out of our four kids it is Ezra who I felt was missing out the most by not being at school. He has a wonderful teacher and he loves school and P1 feels like such a foundation year for learning phonics and beginning to read. He is a bright little spark and thankfully picks things up easily but he did not like structured reading and writing with me.

World Book Day

 Without a doubt, Ezra’s favourite book is ‘Where’s Wally?’. He loves an activity based book much more than a story book. So of course we had to turn a potato into Wally for WBD.

I sent Calvin to choose his favourite book, he, unlike Ezra, loves story books and every day we read the same ones over and over until I can bear it no longer and introduce a new one. So it was no surprise that he choose ‘The night before Christmas’ as his favourite book, which we are still reading regularly in March!