What a lot of FUN

It's been sooo cool living in the "great outdoors" checking out the different caravan parks and their facilities!! It's now the children's new job, well Hannah does it best when she runs and checks them out and then reports back to me. In the report she says how many toilets there are and how many showers! It's fun and I love then checking it out with her once we've set up! At Tin Can Bay she was most excited when reporting that there was a BATH!!

So that night it was splashing and laughing and playing together! I love them all sooo much!
Smiles The Torrents's

All packed up

It was quite an effort to pack all our belongings for our holiday. We really didn't know how much to bring the fact that we were buying our camp-a-van in Brisbane. Pots and pans, bedding, clothes, pantry items, bikes, tools, chairs, table..... etc etc!!! Allan left Tassie with our car full of things and then the children and I had the rest of our stuff, toys and clothes and the like.
Well with a "Allan" speciality tarp cover this is what our car looked like before heading to get our caravan!

Our little peas in a very squishy, squashy pod!

I had our Thermo Mix on my lap! Yes we even brought that!!!
It's great for camping!

Thankfully we only had to travel like this for just over an hour!! The children did sooo well, their legs were very, nearly up to their armpits and Esther and Sophia couldn't even see each other for things piled high!! It sure was a drive to remember!!! Once at our new van we all un-folded and headed for Landsborough.
More on our adventure soon.....
Smiles The Torrents's

Such a lovely place

We had the most wonderful time with our dear friends the Jordan's! They just recently moved to Brisbane and so we were able to check out their new home and have a good old catch up!!!

Zeke LOVES Mr Jordan's "old" space Lego!

The children especially had a fabulous time playing outside in the warm of the QLD sun with all of Emma and Luke's cool toys!!!

Sophia in the Little Red Car! It was all about taking turns with this one,
everyone wanted a go!

Esther's first time with sand... and liking it!!
Before this trip she would wiggle and squirm when anywhere near sand
but with this little sand table set up she actually grew to LOVE IT!!
It was wonderful to watch her change her thoughts about it all!

Sending HUGE hugs to you lovely Jordan family..... we miss you!!!
Smiles The Torrents's

And we're OFF

waiting at the Launceston airport for our plane

WOW what a week it has been!!!! I can't even begin to say how much fun we are having on our holiday, it really is like summer over in QLD! I love it!!! So I thought I'd start at the beginning and show you our take off....

Zeke climbing the plane stairs

the children and I said goodbye to Allan on Tuesday as he left to go on the boat and we flew over the next day! I packed for the children some wonderful little "plane" bags which had a toy, pad, markers, plasticine and a lolly pop! THey LOVED them when I gave it to them all once taken off!
On the other side of the 2 1/2 hrs we landed safely in Brisbane where the wonderful Philip met us and we caught a taxi to the Jordan's!!! We all had a great time of catching up before hitting the hay!

Esther was sooo excited, she kept saying "plane! Plane! Plane!"

I'll be back again soon with some more holiday stories to tell!!
Until then,
Smiles The Torrents's

Term 2 going well!

I can't believe how quickly the time is flying!!!
I have good news for any of you wonderful people who visit my family blog and that is this term so far is going great!!!!! Oh it feels sooo good to have unit studies organized and projects taken care of, direction in learning and children eager to learn!!!!! Also they are taking part in the Premiers Reading challenge which has been super too!!!!

We are off to QLD in only 16 more days and in that visit we will be going to the Zoo so to start we are doing a LAPBOOK (see here) on Australian animals. I hope to show some pic's soon of all what my treasures have been doing but until then I just wanted to say HI and I'm thinking of you!!!

Smiles The Torrents's

Sophia's sweet second {#seven}

I really don't know how Sophia does it, sometimes she captures the most wonderful moments and I think this is one of them. Zeke playing pac-man on my phone

Hope this weekend coming finds you well and enjoying family time, restfulness and even perhaps some "computer time" as my children love to call it!!
Smiles The Torrents's :)

A question

I'm sure I'm not the only one but sometimes it sure feels like it when "life" gets in the way and you find yourself looking back and realizing that....."Oh dear we haven't done much "school" lately?!?"
Well this is how I've been feeling in this last month! It was supposed to be better when I got back from my trip but instead it's continued..... just doing a little here and there but not seeming to be ticking all the right "Schooling" boxes at all!!!!
What is it that speaks to me saying that I'm not schooling my children if they're not sitting at the table writing this and marking that?!?! Have they been learning ANYTHING in this last month or have I just waisted these precious children's minds to playing and visiting family from afar and simply getting the housework done?!!

What do you do in these moments?? I'd love to hear!
Smiles The Torrents's :)