Getting creative for Father's day

This week started off nicely with a nice early finish. It was a bit of a novelty to leave for work during an amazing sunrise and walk back during sunset for the first time. The sky was a beautiful pink and blue mixture with highlights of orange. I went off taking photos and Nick did wonder what took me so long to come home when he had seen me ten minutes before walking towards the house. I couldn't miss this opportunity to take some snaps. Tikka the dog has so much hair on her head now that she is struggling to see. Bruce put her hair in an adorable top knot to give her a day of free sight. They plan to get her groomed but it's finding the time when the farm is so busy. I had two days off this week and used one of the days to visit Ashburton up north. Most of the day was spent trying to sort out my phone and it was a rather frustrating visit. The town is also very far away so it did feel a little disappointing that I didn't enjoy the trip when I'd gone all that way. I did get my phone sorted so that is a bonus at least. I came back from my days off and spent most of the next day working my way through a mammoth amount of washing. I was rather pleased and proud of my clean washing tower that Candy came home to. Candy came back early one day this week and went on a walk with the girls around the garden and to see the chickens. Cassidy came back into the house saying my name with flowers in her hand from the garden. It was a very sweet gesture and they have taken pride of place on our table in an empty pasta sauce jar because clearly Jono has never been bought flowers so we don't own a vase, surprisingly. On this Sunday it is Father's day in New Zealand so Candy asked me to help the girls to make something for Bruce. I spent a lot of time thinking about it and knew I wanted to use the girls hand and feet prints in some way and it had to of course be farm themed. I found the idea of tractors using feet and cows using hands. Actually doing the prints for them was very challenging; I spent a long time making brown paint from Cassidy's 4 paint colours for the cows and finally we were ready to go. We did Cassidy's first and after a practice go came the real thing and luckily it went well apart from a blank space in the centre of her foot. After an instant wipe down I set her up to paint Bruce a picture to give him while I did Eliza. Eliza hated it so it was a matter of going as quick as possible but we managed it although her foot print was higher then I planned. After they'd dried I added in all the extra paint and pen detail and they were complete, one cow themed card and one tractor picture. To say Bruce loved them would be such an understatement. They've been put up in his office already and I do feel the Nanny they get in next year has a lot to live up to! It was lovely getting creative again but just a shame it's quite stressful with children!Read more