I've begun to look forward to the start of term! I love all of the excitement and magic that comes along with christmas but now it's all over the children are just restless and suffering from a bit of cabin fever. Keeping them both occupied is not that easy - they both have such different needs and poor old Toby just can't bear being outside when it's dreary, cold and wet. So it was lovely yesterday to have a change of scenery. Amy and I joined the others from her ballet school and headed into London to the Royal Opera House to see the Nutcracker.
It was wonderful! I have taken Amy to the ballet before but she was only 4 and she didn't really appreciate sitting still for so long. Now that she's a sophisticated 8 year old she found the whole performance riveting and I think I spent as much time watching her face as I spent watching the performance. To see her so entranced was a really precious thing.
We didn't get home til midnight so today we're having a pyjama day and listening to a CD of Tchaikovsky's music - all in all a good end to the christmas hols!
