school holidays

I love the school holidays, it's not just that I have my kiddos around for company (that novelty can wear off quite quickly!), but there's the added bonus of no routine - aaah ... You see I've never been much of a routine person (it drives my husband up the wall ...), I prefer to go with the flow, leave my options open, so if something fun pops up it's easy to accommodate change. OK, what I'm really saying is that I'm pretty disorganised, but it sounds a heck of a lot cooler if I dress up my failings to sound more like floaty bohemian spontaneity.

I find it so easy to slip into the holiday flow, lazy mornings, late lunches, long day trips and delayed bedtimes, the problems only arise once school starts again. I just can't get back into the rhythm, always running late, hollering at the kiddos to hurry up, sprinting to school, faffing around and achieving nothing, it doesn't sound so bohemian and floaty now does it?! 

So we are now at the end of the second week back after the school halfterm hols, and at last there is some semblance of order in the eskimo*rose household. All is calm, my chores are done, and Elsie is happily playing with her little friend ... time for a cuppa and a moment to sort through the photos I took during our visit to my mum's ...

Freddie wears: cozy hoody [M&S], skinny jeans [John Lewis], trainers [Nike]
Nellie wears: her favourite coat ever [mini Boden], cute vintage kilt [find similar here], ribbed tights [Next], orange natives - the cool alternative to crocs [alexandalexa]
Elsie wears: A-line coat [Zara], knitted dress [mini Boden], stripy tights [Next], thrifted Postman Pat wellies