My how time flies!!

Gosh - it HAS been a while since my last post hasn't it. Let's see, what has happened recently. I had the first lot of contact courses for the 20th century literature and Speaking papers. That went well apart from Kieran getting cellulitis and being admitted overnight to Wellington hospital. Oh, that was a fun time for everyone. I was stuck in Palmerston and Chris, Cameron and Kieran were in Wellington. It was a really long drive back home as I was only able to leave the contact course at 3:30. 

Since then we have had Kieran reading in leaps and bounds. He has gone from level 1 to level 10 in 15 weeks of school, and his maths is fabulous. Cameron is doing very well too. He can count to 100, count in 2's up to 20 and has begun to understand fractions. I had my last contact course a week ago. I caught the Naked Bus to Palmerston North. We got a good deal for the fare and it only cost $30. The course went well and I flew back so I got home at 7:30 Wednesday night.... for some reason Chris wasn't keen for me to take 10 hours to get home haha. Apparently the boys were little devils while I was away. We have had some lovely weather recently - lots of rainbow days. 

I have enrolled for my last 2 papers and will complete my degree in November this year. I am really looking forward to finishing haha. I managed to maintain a B average for the 4 papers which I am pleased about haha. I am struggling with how I will manage to do full time study next year as I don't have enough kindy hours to allow me to get into town, attend lectures and get back for kindy pickup. I will talk to Auckland Uni about this and then hit up the kindy for a few 9-3 sessions as I need them as otherwise we will have to do PORSE etc. I have decided on Auckland over Massey as Auckland has an option to do the qual in 18 months. This would mean I did the academic part of the course in 2014 and the practicum in the first part of 2015. I would finish just as Cam entered school, which is awesome as I want to work after Cam has been in school for about 6 months as otherwise he will be shoved into before school care, school, and after school care - which will be a long day for a little boy. I am now back to helping out kindy, am doing reading assistance at Oratia, am doing mainly music and of course I have the occasional minuting job to fill up my free time. I have also decided to take up the Goodreads challenge of reading 200 books this year. I think I am at 50 books so far haha. 

The boys have been doing so well in their swimming lessons. We had Cameron on Tuesday and Kieran on Saturday but had them moved together as petrol was getting a little expensive. It is now school holidays for 2 weeks and I am trying to organise playdates for Kieran. We will be taking advantage of any dry sunny days to head out to various playgrounds, particularly ones with skate ramp facilities. Thankfully Cameron's kindy runs through the school holidays - yay!!!