Ask the professionals....anyone?

Hello lovelies! Well I thought it was a while since I posed a life altering question so when better than a Friday night!

I was just wondering if anyone has had experience with Montessori education? As you know the Madam is three and an energetic, inquisitive bundle of three she is. We have a local Montessori school that a few kids from playgroup go too and it sounds like it may be beneficial in keeping her stimulated. I am also hoping to find a way of her being a bit more 'social' with other kids as she prefers adults most of the time - I am thinking that's an only child thing?

Anyway any advice, as always, will be much appreciated xx

Look what I found....

I love this room especially what I thought were fridge magnets but could be plates on the bunk bed ( I can't remember where I found this but will put the link up asap)





I would love to live here

My little matryoshka

 

See I can make stuff! Yes I cheated - it was actually an already printed pattern (you didn't guess that did you?) but I did sew it together and stuff it. My little matryoshka doll is my pride and joy from a realitively mad cap disorganised (again) week. Luckily madam loves it....

My place & yours!

The lovely Vic over at Punky & Me is now the reigning Queen of My place & yours! I was too much of a slacker to join in last year but this year I will put my butt into gear and participate - it's really cool to see how many bloggers there are that have scaringly similar or inspiringly different tastes than me! The theme for this week is

What I'm reading!

Books wise I'm making my way through the books below :






Elizabeth Gilberts Eat, Pray, Love and Bill Grangers cook book EveryDay. I have read them both before but I find that in different ways they are both the kind of books that give me soul food. Whether it be reading about Elizabeth falling in love in Italy or finding spirituality or Bill managing to feed all three daughters dynamically healthy food whilst nursing a hangover from a beautiful dinner party - it just makes me hopeful that one day I will find that balance of organisation, fulfilment and white wine dinner parties! Either that or I will still be re - reading these books.

Summer flowers

My favourite flower - I don't know why - they just always make me happy. I think they are tiger lillies. When the Mr and I first moved in with each other we would always go to the central market and he would buy them for me.

I love them.......

This is part of the summer series hosted over at Che & Fidel....follow the links from there and check out the rest of summer....

The Tour Down Under at my place!

 

The madam and I ventured into our 'frontyard' this morning and went to stage 5 (I think) of The Tour Down Under which is actually pretty cool. We are locals so it is just down our street which means there is no driving in or out today so we just walked down and checked it out. We got there a bit early so the most we saw was the first part of the riders going round - apperently there were five more sightings to go.

We wandered around and it was brilliant to see our little 'village' transformed into party central. We had markets , music, giveaways and after talking with a few locals it looked like it was going to be a profitable day all round. I don't really know much about cycling and I only really know Lance Armstrong because he has dated a few famous girls and has his foundation but it was still pretty inspiring to see all the cyclists doing their thing. It is also pretty cool how most of SA digs out the lycra whenever the tour is on!

The Madam has been holding tight on an Aussie flag (the boxing kangaroo one!) because she knew she could wave it for the riders. I just didn't realise quite how many people, that weren't officially racing, would be lycra clad sweating their way around this morning. Between them and the largish police presence the madam got a little mixed up about which bike riders were meant to recieve her cheers and so gave them all an earful of 'Go Aussie bike riders! Go, GO, GO' (purely her own invention).

A good day to share with my madam x

I......

Someday I would love to be talented enough (which therefore means recognised enough) to be invited to this

I just read this book and it was excellent - a great life story of brotherhood, family, difficult circumstances with some highly talented fellas and a few laughs thrown in.

I think the pants on the lady on the left (the big flowy ones) are stunning - and they are Italian women so they are obviously very exotic! I love these pants, I would love to wear them, I would love not to look like a member of Playschool when I wore them.

I would love to live in this house - I think it would satisfy me morally, ethically, astetically and it would just make you wake up with a smile.

Now I think it is about wine time, don't you?