One week into Term One

I just love routines. Everyone has gone back to school happily enough, helped by a day trip for the Opoho kids on Friday and Janine has a Fun Day on Tuesday. The big girls are cracking into their homework. We've had a bit of a shift around in the sleeping arrangements so that Janine can have her own room upstairs and the two youngest are sharing a room, divided of course, and this seems to be working OK so far. Chris has started back at work and Mosgiel seemed pleased to see us on Sunday - we also had a picnic out at North Taieri.
Zach is back into his normal routine as well, with plenty of phone calls wanting him to come and play. He had a swimming party on Saturday with his friends who are twins, and another party coming up next weekend. We are also back into cricket and he caught and bowled a player this week for the first time - awesome!!! He seems to have had a growth spurt over the summer as those trousers which were OK in December are looking a bit short now! He is a reluctant short wearer which is a pity because he is going up rather than out at the moment.
Hannah is also elongating rapidly at the moment, and her clothes are showing the same dysfuntional set of symptoms. And I am just not going to comment on the height of Katarina and Janine....
The garden has had a bit of a clear out again, with cheap and cheerful bits going in the front, seeds for winter veges planted and the compost bin has been moved. Chris recruited the neighbour's oldest son to help bang the fence back together, although there isn't much you can do about rotton fence posts but replace them. Eventually.