Beetroots Purple and Onions White

Okay so I have the school harvest song in my head! I know it drives a lot of the parents crazy as the kids sing it every year without fail at harvest, but I can't help it - I like it!

Cauliflowers fluffy and cabbages green
Strawberries sweeter than any I've seen
Beetroot purple and Onion white
All grow steadily day and night!
The apples are ripe, the plums are red.
Broad beans are sleeping in their blankety beds!!

... and it goes on for 3 verses and I know all the words! LOL

Middle School Harvest Festival today - definitely a lot more organised than the lower school chaos and the children did us parents proud!! Sorry for the obscure shaped photo of Megan here but obviously I have to chop out the other children in the pic to be able to post it online!! This is the best shot I managed to get without the other girl's paper covering Megan's face completely!!

Cauliflowers Fluffy and Cabbages Green

I am such a sucker for school performances. There's just something so adorable about the sound of kids singing that reduces this grown woman to a snivelling heap!

Today was totally unique though! I hadn't realised it at the time, but I sat all the way through Nathan's Harvest Festival performance today without actually worrying myself silly that he was about to get up and start spinning around in circles or doing rolly pollys, kicking people in the process and generally creating mayhem! I sat there and watched proudly as my boy sat beautifully while the other children did their bits, he SANG (I was close enough to hear that there was definitely musical noises coming out of his mouth!) and he took part doing all the actions. He also seemed to really take pride in himself too.

Since Nathan was diagnosed with ADHD and Aspergers (high functioning autism) it has made some of his more errr "unique" behaviours a little more acceptable because knowing that it's not just him being beligerant and that it's actually his brain chemistry and unique makeup .... well it's another tick in the "I'm not a bad mother who can't always control her son" box!!

I am incredibly lucky that he goes to a very good school where there is excellent support for him, and they always have a Harvest Festival performance ... well, two actually! First school today and Middle school (Megan's) tomorrow. I love how they do put a lot of emphasis on the real meaning behind harvest time and that it's not just about collecting food to give to the less fortunate, but about trying to eat seasonally and how our food is made from the land. Ack it's the greenie in me!

Anyway - my boy made me proud today. Life is good :-)