Author Archives: sarah
Home-schooling a science theme through the ages
I lead a preschool group at our church called Junior Jivers. It was a big decision for me to take it on, bearing in mind I have four children tagging along with me wherever I go. Four children for whom I bare the sole blame if they grow up to be uneducated heathens. Continue reading
Exploring the Globe
I have been meaning to write about this for a long time, I just can’t seem to find a gap in the doing things to actually write about the things that we are doing. Continue reading
My Little Gymnasts
We have four little gymnasts in our family. These are photos from the display day they had at the end of last year Continue reading
Christmas 2011
I tried to take a Christmas morning photo of all of the kids, but Eli doesn’t do photos and Lilly doesn’t do standing still. We didn’t start opening gifts this … Continue reading
Sculpture by the Sea 2011
Every year the coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama Beach hosts an exhibition of fun and whimsy, contemplation and reflection, art in the open to open our minds. Continue reading
Sabi’s Doctor Who Doll
Our Littlest daughter Sabrina just turned three, along with Fish Berries and chocolate (her vitamins) all she asked for her birthday was Doctor Who. Continue reading
How to Make a Dalek Smash Cake
This is the cake I made for Elijah and Sabrina’s Doctor Who themed birthday party. It is by no means an expertly or elaborately decorated cake but it is fun and reasonable achievable even if you don’t have mad cake making skills. Continue reading
Doctor Who Birthday Party
The invitations, no name but they are Tardis blue (If you look closely at the stamps we have two from the moon landing, one from the Queen, one from a … Continue reading
Guess who just turned three?
Lani, Eli and Lilly wanted to surprise Sabi with her own “on her actual birthday” cake, even though her party will be at the end of November with Eli’s. I let them do the whole thing themselves, right down to finding the ingredients at the supermarket. Continue reading
The Amazon at home
Our church has been laying new carpet. This means the biggest cardboard rolls we’ve ever gotten our hands on are just laying around the place and since we are studying the continent of South America, and looking closely at Brazil, when I saw them I immediately thought tree trunks. Continue reading