Living Arrows 2018 (16/53)
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran
I’m really enjoying Donna’s weekly link up, and feel it’s really motivated me to update you on my weekly news.
Last week was a wet and chilly start to the Summer term! Yet it was still a motivating and quick start to the new term. Daisy was bright and breezy all week, with talks of new friendships and a desire to join in another after school club. She also enjoyed making wartime biscuits and learning all about WW2. So her week was topped off by being star of the week, for her attitude to learning and giving 100%.
Teddy wrote his full name for the first time, and my it had a lovely little flourish to it!
Finlay just quietly and happily got on with his first week, looking forward to some lazy screen time at the weekend that he has enjoyed on our slow starts in the holidays.
As for Florence I think she may just have enjoyed having Mummy all to herself when Teddy was in preschool!
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This year our “what we are reading’ round up will slightly change in the fact the kids are going to write here their own book reviews. This will cut out my grown-up take on the books and also encourage some basic comprehension skills in our Tweens. 
You may think that Florence being the fourth baby would have an extensive wardrobe of hand me downs, well unfortunately after Teddy who we thought would be our last was born we offloaded the majority of baby and toddler clothes to friends and charity. 
First we had our big boy’s 12th Birthday. This number makes me nearly as emotional as the run up to secondary school, as this is his final year before becoming a teenager, such a big milestone that I’m not sure I’m ready for, but that’s another blog post for the future. For now I’m going to relish the fact he wanted to spend the day with his own family at the local trampoline park and had a lovely meal out at the end of the day. He loves everything Lego and was lucky to have some lovely presents and cards from friends and family, and has watched umpteen movies on these rainy days on his portable DVD player that we bought him.
Easter Weekend came and we had an extended family gathering at our house, the kids were so excited and mucked in making the table extra long and tidying up ready for our guests. The presence of my brother always makes the kids excited and at the end of a busy fun day we were all gathered round their favourite film Paddington 2 with lots of chocolate!