Walking to School

I've been walking Beth to school each day this week. It's really nice, though today was freezing cold.  I also go up afterwards and wait for her - the new protocol to collect your child is you wait outside the gate, the teachers all look at see which adults they recognise and then send out a child when they see an adult they know.  I must say I'm quite impressed that they can remember each parent and which child is theirs.  I'd never remember, I have trouble enough remembering my children. Ok that's not quite true.

Anyway it's nice to walk up with Beth and have a chat to her, though she seems to enjoy playing "pretend" games, which consist of her telling me 500 time "Just pretend that I'm...." followed by something.  The thing is she spends SO much time explaining what we have to pretend that we never get to play the game.  Doesn't matter, it's good fun.  Tuesday she spent the walk back telling me how much loves trees and how she wished she could travel the world to hug each tree and tell them how thankful she is for them.  I mentioned this to the family WhatsApp and the message came back that she definitely has some Tasmanian in her...

Anyway, back to work.