Making it up

I am a good mother.  Big has been wanting to sew for ages, from this cloth pattern thing that mother got her for Christmas.  It’s got Woman’s weekly 1991 on it, but I can’t find anything about it on t’interweb, so you’ll just have to use your imagination. Ah, I tried some more, and I found something similar on Ebay

So we got out her sewing machine, and it was very much a joint effort. It’s not a fantastic machine, although it coped surprisingly well with all the corners, and she did very well with controlling its speed towards my fingers

I’ve finished it off for her tonight, and I anticipate she’s going to want to do more tomorrow.  There are quite a few more dolls on the sheet, so it should keep us occupied for a while.

Small played on the computer for a while - I’m frequently amazed at his mouse skills and overall control.  I know he spends quite a bit of time cbeebies, and tonight he was playing on Adiboo, a game that Big has played for a while. He’s surprisingly good at pretty much everything, and he enjoys just getting on with it. Prime candidate for this home education lark if you ask me

Have enjoyed broadening my horizons on the feminism topic in the post below, will have to continue reading around the subject.  I do think there are some issues to think about, but then there are with pretty much every approach you take to life - we didn’t take home education on board without due consideration, Tim and I didn’t waltz lightly back off to work either. All good fun anyway.

Right, as I slept in til 10 am this morning, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m still a touch run down, and I’m clearing off to bed now.  Will have to see how much of my todo list I can clear tomorrow - today has mainly been about relaxing, and you know what?  I don’t feel the slightest bit guilty about that.  I think I had it coming

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