Meandering through March

South Canterbury is a lovely place to spend autumn in; there are lots of trees starting to turn, but the days are mostly still warm enough to enjoy outside.
Janine went to her first school social this week, dragged along by her group of friends. Neither of our girls were much interested last year, nor were their friends. Katarina is still not much interested, but Janine went, and seemed to have a good time. Katarina is having a bit of a growth spurt, her appetite has increased! We went to "Tutu's on tour" on Saturday night which was fab, and she towered over me - wearing my wedding shoes I might add!!! Zach also saw some of the program as he was able to attend a dance workshop they ran. The show was brilliant, well worth going to. They did a whole variety of stuff from medieval to classic through to modern and post-modern; the costumes were wonderful and I am still thinking about all the assumptions and worldviews tied up in each style. There was a fair bit of showing off too incoroporated in the choreography, lots of fun!
Zach also played the intro to "Be the centre" on the recorder for me this week; Chris and I undertook a pulpit swop with St Paul's and as I was playing guitar, it was a bit tricky to do that piece. Hannah, Zach and I have joined the young orchestra; poor Hannah is a bit swamped with all the new music, but she needs a challenge and there isn't really anyone else at her level on recorder. There is one in her class on Saturday, but he is much better, and more Zach's age too. The orchestra now has a whole recorder section which it didn't last year, so it will take people a while to catch up with the implications.
Chris is still working on technology things as well as trying to keep prepared for the raft of meetings this week; the best ones are the ones involving young people, of course!