sorry about that.
Hump day Weds, and on the way to a week off, so looking forward to that. Really, really looking forward to that. More than you can imagine.
Anyway, so what have we been up to since I last blogged? Um, would help if I could remember when I last blogged….grief, that [...]
there wasn’t much to forgive
By contrast – my first response from Ms Engels:
Thank you for your email which has finally come to me rather round the houses.
I have received a number of emails via the Writetothem website, but I have no record of receiving anything from you, so I’m sorry that this is [...]
This is the sort of thing I’m talking about. Everyone is out there getting rich off the web (well OK, maybe not rich precisely, but go with me, I’m feeling very down atm).
And Merry and Kris have nanoed to success – while my success lies in realising that nano was one step too far [...]
I’ve been in a bad mood for several days now. I’ve come home and ranted at Tim, who has wisely refused to argue about anything with me.
There are lots of things contributing to this. Part of it is the time of year – I don’t like miserable grey weather, and I’m seeing a [...]
although I’d still like to know how a child who can do logic puzzles designed for much older children and adults can struggle over 1 add 2….and as for concentration span! aargh….
Anyway, she’s racing through her exeter maths without the slightest demurral, although we struggled rather on a question about colouring in every second [...]
it reminds me why we are doing this.
So far this morning, Small climbed up to the table and wrote in his maths book unprompted , Big and I discussed the Exeter maths question that we didn’t understand yesterday (and she got the hang of negative numbers instantly, probably because we didn’t make a [...]
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Because it’s worth sharing.
comments from Trog, Sarah and Joyce. Sorry guys.
And in the time I was dealing with the 864 spam that were in there as well, I got another 20 spam! Really don’t understand why they do it – I suppose that there *are* websites that allow spam through but I still don’t think it’s [...]
is not going to be a quick or easy solution it would appear. Big is of the opinion that if I am here, I am here solely for her entertainment. And Small, somewhere in the last few months has become much less self contained than he used to be – more tantrums for the [...]
Lin (again And we’re working on the ringcode, aren’t we Katy?)
Sarah and
Louise
This here ring is getting big these days
No, no no!
with apologies to the author of Rattletrap car
Small has entered a new phase. He is adoring school. He is coming out with new words there – mainly names of other children, which is new behaviour in and of itself. He is smily and happy and cooperative, and everyone loves [...]
You know, if I’d been aiming to finish on a particular word tonight, I wouldn’t have been able to do it
Oh, and isn’t Tesco scary?
Off to bed now – working from home in the morning around a dentist appt, so looking forward to a whole half hour extra in bed
while no one was looking
Bit of reading (very little bit, very tired girl again tonight), and also some personal stuff, when Tim managed to set off the smoke alarm before they fell asleep. We’ve never had a fire drill – in effect we did tonight. It worked rather well actually, think [...]
4.
1 to Big, 2 to Small, and 1 to me This is no way to spend a weekend.
Yesterday was pleasant but pplful, which I think then had a knock on effect to today. But how else are we supposed to do it? Calm children, but no friends, because [...]
This morning, Big has tiny pop on. Phil Collins is singing.
“Where’s my ass?” asked Big.
“Um, what?” So I listened to the song. ” ‘Take a look through my eyes’ he’s saying.”
So now she doesn’t understand how you can look through someone else’s eyes. Sometimes you just can’t win.
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A couple of nights [...]
Not.
Have just left Small screaming himself to sleep after he had hysterics on being extracted from the bath. Honestly, I thought he was going to choke himself, he was yelling and coughing and crying in such confusion. Poor child, just too tired for words.
I know how he feels – much better [...]
on nano
and blogging.
Came home early Monday as wasn’t feeling well, don’t think I already blogged that? Yesterday had horrendous trip up as M1 closed – nearly two hours door to door and then sad children at school, I think because of the journey more than anything else. They certainly seemed to [...]
is passworded purely because it’s got names and identifying type stuff in it. If I haven’t sent a password (bunged together an email to ppl who I could, off the top of my head, remember as commenting recently!) and you want one, feel free to comment here or mail me direct.
