37/365 Gifts from the Garden

Tonight I made a salad for dinner which included lettuce, tomatoes and celery that Devin had grown.  There was something kind of cool about going out to the garden and picking fresh vegetables for our dinner.

36/365 Happiness is...

... Black Doris plums and my favourite lollies imported from the USA.  I adore Black Doris plums and get frustrated with the fact that they can be quite hard to get.  Fortunately we found these at a roadside market garden stall over in Hobsonville.  As for the lollies - there are no yummier jelly beans then Jelly Bellys as far as I'm concerned, and I love anything in the Skittles and Wonka range.  I was very excited to discover The Candyman in Mount Eden as they have all my favourite brands with varieties that you just can't get in NZ. Yum!

35/365 Brotherly Love

Found these two just hanging out together on top of the barbeque.  I love that they are such good mates.

34/365 First Day

Rohi and Pythagoras just hanging out in the Newsletter container after a day of being passed from child to child as we got to meet our new class members.

33/365 Back to School Eve.

Today was spent attending meetings at school and finishing off my last minute preparation for school.  Had fun punching out all the letters and assembling this title for my "Topic" wall.  The hardest part was stopping the dog walking all over it while it was spread out on the lounge floor.

32/365 Conference

First "Teacher Only" day of the year was spent here.  Murray Gadd was the keynote speaker and was awesome as always.  In the afternoon we went to workshops. I attended one workshop and presented one as well.  Had fun catching up with old friends, although I was still exhausted from being sick.  Couldn't eat the lovely lunch that was provided either.

31/365 Preparation

Still in bed - feeling better but rather tired.  I actually have to present at a Cluster School's conference on Written Language tomorrow (#1 of 2 Teacher Only Days before school resumes on Thursday).  Could be interesting.  Being the good wee thing that I am I sat in bed today and worked on my presentation and some planning in between sleeping.

30/365 My Little Friends

Day 2 of being stuck in bed feeling very sorry for myself - so much for being well rested before school starts.  This is another cellphone photo - this is my 2 cats who sat on the bed with me all day and kept me company.

29/365 Rehydrating

Loss of TV signal became the least of my problems on Friday night as less than 30mins later I started what was to become several horrid hours of a gastric illness.  Needless to say today was spent lying around trying to replace all the fluid I'd lost.  It took the best part of 24 hours to get through that one bottle of Powerade - my stomach wasn't up to much more.

28/365 Rain Fade

Weather conditions messed up our Friday night TV viewing.  Initially it was rain fade - eventually it became total loss of signal due to stormy conditions and now signal won't come back!!  No TV until Tuesday thanks to the public holiday on Monday.