It's been a while......and Story Stones

I was going to start by apologising for my tardiness in adding to my posts, but then I thought......heck, WHY?

Initially, the reason the writing this blog was to help me review just exactly what I had been up to all day when I flopped down having finally got the wee ones off to sleep.
It still is that to me, but sometimes....often, real life is just so darn busy I don't find the time to sit and cogitate on what I am so darn busy with!

I am thrilled to think some other mums and friends out there might pop in for a peek at what we get up to, but I don't feel pressured by it, think I'm going to make a living from it or often, don't have time for it.

Hopefully when I do post something it might be interesting or even useful to someone out there. I am certainly not going to put a post up every day or every week just to be regular.

Right, enough ranting......................what have we been doing?

Well, we have had family gatherings, tree planting, fence building and animal wrangling.

We have been putting in many more natives and fruit trees - we love the cherubs being able to wander around in the summer and autumn, eating directly from the trees - and improving fencing to keep the cows from getting to our garden or the little stream by the citrus orchard. We have also increased the livestock count by adding pet lambs to our happy home and the cherubs are thrilled. The little woolly fellas think they're dogs and go hurtling around the paddock with our big pawed sofa hogger.
The cherubs are in to books big time - one is learning to read and the other has really switched on to the power of her imagination. So many library visits later.....

Phew.....

Well, today I got to have a go at making story stones with the cherubs. I saw some ideas on pinterest and thought - How cool is that? So I got the cherubs to choose pictures from stickers, fabric and magazines and we each made up a set of stones as practice.

We used:

• polished pebbles - you could scavenge them from beaches, your driveway etc
• PVA glue - it's nontoxic, washable and dries clear
• sources of pictures
• Scissors for fabric, scissors for paper

GO WILD!

The idea is to choose, whether blindly or knowingly, say 3 stones and using the 3 pictures tell a story to everyone else. It can be done as a competition, winner of best story gets a prize - say a new book?
Can be used on camp overs, parties and in the car. (Of course mum and dad can always make more adult versions for their friends ;) )