Ebb and Floe

We have had mammoth high tides this week. Matt insists it's global warming. I must admit I am concerned about the prospect of the house flooding in a storm now. It's a bit hard to keep the geese off the lawn when it turns into a wet land. The boys love it and run out to go fishing when they get home from school. Remi even says he chooses his seat on the bus so he can see the water when he goes past to see how the tide is.

Ella has been having a lot of separation anxiety this week. She is fine until the bus comes. It goes past us, turns around and comes back on our side of the street. As soon as she sees the bus she starts "gulping" as she calls it. She gets butterflies and by the time the bus is back to us she is in tears. It breaks my heart to put her on the bus crying. Yesterday she said "I just want to stay with you mummy". Fortunately there's no one to see my tears as I walk home. She was better this morning, but it is such a huge challenge for her. She took to school in Sydney so easily, but I think it was because we had spent so much time at school before she started that it was all so familiar to her. This is all foreign to her...and me. But I have been up to the school a few times this week for meetings and it really is a lovely school. And she comes home very happy in the afternoons. And I have now volunteered to do a number of different things up at the school, so I think it will help her to know I'm around.