Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: The end of an era

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

10 December 2009

The end of an era

Tomorrow is Nat's final day of pre-prep (kindy). He has loved it! And because of the free-and-easy nature of the teachers, I have loved the year too.

Nat has had some wonderful experiences this year including:

Playing all day, every day with the Mobilo - his favourite pastime.

Crazy Hair Day! Some kids had teasing and coloured spray and weird stuff goin' on. Nat just had Wax. His was an Awesome Hair day.

Learning about the postal service - addressing a letter to himself, posting it and seeing it turn up in the letterbox at home. Enjoying the visit from Postie Martin who came and let the kids sit on his bike.

Excursion to the town library and the Fire Station, sitting in a fire engine.

Goodbye Kindy! It's been great. Off to Prep in 2010!

5 comments:

Allegro ma non troppo said...: We had a breakup day today, too. I guess a lot of us Aussie mums did. It was sad.; 10 December, 2009 22:18
Swift Jan said...: Congratulations Nat on graduating :)

Gee he looks like hid Daddy with cRaZy hair!!; 11 December, 2009 05:57
Jen said...: Wow, what a great year he has had!; 11 December, 2009 06:09
Tracy P. said...: Glad he had such a fun year! And even bigger things ahead. Joy!; 11 December, 2009 06:42
Scurrette said...: I was gonna say the same thing. He looks so much like his pappa bear in the hair photo!

Aphid #1 finishes too. Hooray for Prep next year!; 11 December, 2009 07:15

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In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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10 December 2009

The end of an era

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