I scored a free booster seat off the local Freecycle yahoo group - for the Teen MOPS group. After I picked it up yesterday, I dropped it off to Laurel [MOPSNZ President] at the MOPSNZ offices at Holy Trinity Church, Forest Lake, Hamilton.

What a great little setup - bright office in behind screens and Laurel has labelled boxes and folders all set up on shelves. She's so organised - I was like that once, but then the Triffids [piles of papers] overtook my ability to sort, file, toss, put into folders! Not helped by the seemingly endless, though diminishing, set of writing deadlines and homeschooling my children.

Anyway it was great to meet up again with Rose H who has been a giving supporter of MOPS in NZ throughout the 10 plus years - ably printing, typing, and copying on our behalf. She has been a friendly voice on the end of the phone when some drama developed for me round publishing time in the early days especially. Laurel and Rose are the centrepiece of the garden of MOPS in NZ!

My eyes wandered over the titles of MOPS books stacked up. Books by Keri Wyatt Kent - Oxygen, Breathing - Elisa Morgan's The Orchard, What Every Mom Needs. Check out the MOPShop at www.mops.org - excellent resources for mothers of preschoolers - and her supporters. I have 'Oxygen' at present so you should see some evidence on my having read it come out in the various articles I write. Just as if you've been in Laurel's sphere, you will have read about 'Breathing'!

Winter is here, the hugg boots are on these mornings, as are the heaters - on these foggy Hamilton days. Looking forward to sun this afternoon, as some home educators come here for a folk dancing 'class'.

cheers,
Johanna
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