AEIOU link party June 2012

Greetings all,

Welcome to this month's AEIOU: a mid-month-link-party of self-belief, improvement, acceptance, love & learning!!  It's a get together to celebrate life's highlights.  Your AEIOU might go a little something like this . . . 

Awesome – something you baked/ created/ photographed/ a bargain you found

Exciting – share your news/ event/ holiday/ a gorgeous butterflies-in-tummy moment

Interesting – teach us information/ discovery/ facts/ a chance to show off your quirky side

Opportunity – embrace the unknown/ put yourself out there/ show off a new experience

Understanding – learning to appreciate/ forgive/ love/ unleash what helps you grow
. . . you might like to do a full AEIOU or just one or two particular themes . . .

To kick things off, here is my AEIOU for June.

Awesome - i constantly find surprise images the children take on my camera.  Isn't this incredible . . . a breath taking sunset against our new car.  What 10 year old thinks to grab the camera & photograph this beauty?? 

Exciting - unexpected parcels of love in the mail, thank you Tania & Jane!!

 Interesting - my husband is making up all sorts of delicious, interesting & spontaneous juice combinations with the new juicer . . . think celery, carrot & apple . . . i'm his happy taste tester.  Note to self: use a straw, or you go out in public with a big orange smile!!

Opportunity - i love these new Le Creuset casserole dishes & have plans to really enjoy dinner for the rest of the year because MY HUSBAND HAS BEEN POSTED BACK TO CANBERRA UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!  I can't believe this unpresedented opportunity either, takes the edge off living apart for 4 years!!

 Understanding - this sweet girl has the most understanding teacher, we are blessed to have her educating our children.  She's one of those guitar playing, ethereal teachers who is strict but lovely & kind to the children . . . even spends her lunch hour & after school coaching children who are struggling with a topic (in our case spelling) from the goodness of her heart.  She's only in her 2nd year of teaching yet understands children innately, an incredibly gifted & natural teacher.  Anyway, she has been teaching our 3rd girl to practise the weekly spelling list in a very different manner - rainbow words - where you write each letter of a word in a different colour, over & over, building muscle memory in your fingers.  Sure enough, since our daughter has applied this method to her learning, she has had only one spelling mistake in the past month + she's willing to attempt more words on the list, beyond the 20 recommended (some weeks there are up to 30 or 40 words)!!  Teachers play such a pivotal role in children's lives, every child deserves a super special teacher at least once in primary school.  FYI true to form, her twin sister has experienced a mid year teacher change, 5th year in a row at this school, yet copes brilliantly, always said she could teach herself.  We're so extra proud of our children when they triumph through a challenge.  I'm not a natural speller so totally emphasise with my daughter.  Our other children are robots, see the word once, it's locked into their memory forever.  I wish!!  

Love Posie