The Family Routine

I haven't blogged yet this week. A good sign perhaps of life getting a little fuller. It is certainly more structured since Maja has been in school. My days have slipped into a pleasing rhythm of cycling Maja to school, some stuff in between and collecting her again.
I will talk about Maja first! We were all tired last weekend but we managed to get to a shul called Bonai Shalom. We were welcomed and well fed (which is par for the course at a shul!)
Later, we spent some time in the afternoon chilling in the hot tub. With snow in the garden it really was glorious! Maja had goggles on and managed to spend most of the time under water.
Monday was Presidents Day, so no school and Maja had two exciting events.She was invited to a birthday party in the afternoon and straight after had her first Boulder swimming lesson! The party was out of town in a sort of bouncy castle style inflatable assault course...designed for maximum excitement and exhaustion!
With swimming immediately after, Maja slept well that night.
She continues to enjoy school, coming home singing in Spanish and she has maths homework once a week. I notice that over here the Kindergarten curriculum seems to be very maths based whereas we concentrate a little more on literacy skills.
Monkey bars are still a great pleasure for Maja. We have them in the little play park in our neighbourhood and in the Kindergarten playground. She is practising hard and getting really good!
Jonathan is settling into a work routine but seems to have a better work life balance. He went skiing on Tuesday with some collegues and the dept have an away day on Friday....which involves skiing, pizza and beer!!
Oh, and I have found a running partner and a race to train for! I am also taking a couple of classes a week. One in Torah study, the other in Kabballah.... no daytime telly for me!
I am volunteering in Maja's class tomorrow so that will give me some insight into what she is doing at school.