World Thinking Day
Posted by Stewart in Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 22. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
Today is World Thinking Day. If you have a Girl Guide or Scout in your house you probably already know all about it. Started back in 1926 February 22nd is spent each year by millions of girls around the world reflecting on their associations with each other and how they through Guiding/Scouting can have a [...]
Valentine’s Day at the G’s…
Posted by Stewart in Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 14. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
Sydney’s still home getting over her cold so we didn’t go all out this Valentine’s Day. She left two valentines on the fridge for Anita & I and we had a few presents to open from back home. Sydney got some books, a hair clip, personalized necklace, and a giganto ring from us and some [...]
Valentines & Runny Noses…
Posted by Stewart in Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 13. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
So all last week Sydney was a bit sniffly. It happens and for whatever reason its been unseasonably cold here so between that, swimming, the other million things the girls does all week she just got a little run down. That cascaded into a full blown cold and a few days at home to recover. [...]
First Annual FOG Father Daughter Valentine Formal
Posted by Stewart in Anita-centric, Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 11. Feb, 2012 | 2 Comments
So last night was the big night – the first annual Friends of Guiding Father Daughter Valentine Formal. It was a HUGE hit! The girls came in their finest party dresses, dad’s in tuxes, there were prom pictures, a lavish buffet (full of spaghetti and chicken tenders so even the youngest had something to enjoy), [...]
Getting ready before the formal
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 11. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
So yesterday was the 1st Annual FOG Father Daughter Valentine Formal. It was lots-o-fun but more on that later. Anita and Jennifer had to go early to get things set up and that meant the girls had to go as well. Fortunately they worked a room into their deal with the Crowne Plaza so they [...]
Girlguiding District Sleepover – Day 2
Posted by Stewart in Anita-centric, Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 27. Jan, 2012 | 1 Comment
So after dealing with the gate guards not letting in the delivery guys before 9AM everything else today went off without a hitch. Before we had arrived the girls had already finished the yard sale – Syd didn’t find anything that she couldn’t live without. When we rolled in just before noon there were tons [...]
Girlguiding District Sleepover – Day 1
Posted by Stewart in Anita-centric, Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 26. Jan, 2012 | 1 Comment
Well folks it’s pretty late. The sleepover got off to a great start. The girls as bouncing around to the DJ fueled by Sprite and cookies so they should be a BLAST for the leaders tonight! Everything that had to be delivered tonight made it – and in fact everything was early which completely threw [...]
After school in Lego City
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, Lego, World-o-Sydney on 26. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
Tonight is the Guiding Sleepover in celebration of British Girlguides in Foreign Countries being 100 years old. Anita has been organizing it for the last couple of weeks in her capacity with FOG – not for nothing but catering dinner, snack, breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and cake for 100+ girls is not exactly a cake [...]
The Water Cycle
Posted by Stewart in Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 24. Jan, 2012 | 1 Comment
Sydney’s class is studying weather in science and specifically this week – the water cycle. Their assignment was to make a poster that described the entire cycle. They had to label it using their vocab words then use the definitions on the poster too. Check out what my Sweetpea came up with. She sketched out [...]
Sydney and her cats…
Posted by Stewart in Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 22. Jan, 2012 | 1 Comment
So ever since we moved into the Villa Al Godwin III there have been a clowder of neighborhood cats that have decided they live in front of our house. When we first moved in there were a couple. Since then momma has had two litters that we’ve seen and the number has grown substantially. Since the [...]