Why the holidays are important?

So, we are at the start of another school year (oh yah, Happy New Year) and everyone’s kinda grumpy about it. There used to be a time when the adults were happy the school year was starting again, given it signaled that the madness and mayhem of free and unstructured time was ending. However, when your kids get older, you’ll start to realise the holidays are really the only opportunity of the year that you get to spend quality time with one another – this is because during the school term, projects, homework, assignments, exams, rehearsals, training and so on get in the way of everything and moments of togetherness and fleeting and rare.

Staying up late to watch the fireworks is better than staying up late to watch the EPL.

I think we made use of our holiday quite well – spending some quality time, overseas and locally, with the kids, and also with the extended family, grandparents and cousins included.

Back to school!!