End of year madness!

The end of the school year is always a very busy time, now with 2 schools as well as my own, it is even more so.

I am happy and relieved to say that school is over for 2010 and hopefully things can quieten down a bit (ha ha!) but here's some of what we've been up to in the last 2 weeks:

Abigail's Christmas "concert" was a lovely informal family picnic. We were serenaded by a wonderful band called Off the record and the foundation phase girls sang a few carols. It was a lovely evening even though it drizzled a bit - some of us came prepared! They all had a wonderful time, it was a lot less stressful now that Niave can run a play happily without getting into too much trouble!

A couple of days later it was Niaves nativity concert.

She was an angel and she was not happy about her halo! It was fluffy and tickly and even though it wasn't going to touch her head she was not happy. Her teacher managed to get her to wear it but it came off straight afterwards - no chance for photo's!

Here are some of the others, they were very sweet.

During the week there were lots of fun activities - cake and treat sale (Niave), an outing to the circus (Abigail), a water slide day and a fun gala for the foundation phase to name but a few, I don't have pictures except for the end of the gala. There was a parent/child race but even though I took a along my togs I was forbidden to swim!

She had fun though!!

Abigail goes to grade 3 next year and after being with Mrs. Bergstedt for 2 years they have got to know each other very well:

On Friday afternoon we went out with the Carters for milkshakes to celebrate the start of the holidays:

On Friday night we had the Noddy Party. For the last couple of years we've been going to Uncle Willie's Christmas party but we didn't get our invite this year so we decided to try the Noddy Party which is almost identical but you can book and pay online. I think I prefer Uncle Willies but the kids had fun and they got to receive their gift from Father Christmas. We'll try to get back to Uncle Willies next year.

Hay fights.

Watching the magician.

Noddy and Big Ears brought ice-creams.

Father Christmas brought presents! A little doll (+ accessories) for Niave and a new game, Secret Code for Abigail. We have been playing it a LOT!

On Saturday night Grant and I went to the Cape Town Gospel Choir's Christmas concert. It was brilliant and even though our seats weren't great we enjoyed it very much. On Sunday night we had the Carol Service at church followed by a Christmas Night Market. It was also very enjoyable.

And so we begin the long summer holidays...