Thursday 6 March 2014

To have a dress up day


It's the World Book day today and everyone at school, including the teachers, were asked to come in dressed up as their favourite book character. It was a great atmosphere in the school yard this morning and we saw some amazing creations.

M wanted to dress up as Alice in Wonderland, and we thought the Swedish "Madicken" pinny would do for the dress and pinny Alice look. Her friends were Merida and the Black Cat. 

Growing up in Sweden some of the book characters are not familiar to me but I'm sure I'll learn through M.




Monday 3 March 2014

To read

I love to read. Nothing beats a good book and this is something I really want to pass on to M, my love of books, all sorts. I remember reading everything I could find, from a very young age, trawling through my parents' books, my grandparents' and so on. I remember the fairy tales, and I remember reading Roald Dahl. So even if we can do most things on an ipad, or a Kindle, it really can't really beat a "proper" book. When I saw the special edition of The Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, with fantastic illustrations, I had to order it for M. It arrived today and she was delighted, as I had hoped.

As I'm also still on a mission to make the most of London, I booked tickets for Matilda the Musical as an Easter treat - and so we are as prepared as possible, I also ordered the book Matilda.

Think I'm as excited as M.