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Monthly Archives: August 2009
cause and effect or bribery and punishment?
First day of the new system, it appears that the children had a rather different idea to how it was going to work than I did. Our system doesn’t involve boxes per child prestacked with work – I’m nowhere near … Continue reading
Free ebook – 1 day only.
Drawing for beginners. Got the link via Clare, but her blog doesn’t seem to be responding just now, although her rss feed is. Bizarre.
Something’s got to change.
Another day of petty squabbling and far too much screen time, with reluctance to go outside (it did rain somewhat, which didn’t help) which culminated in tears at bedtime when Small wanted to play as they barely had all day, … Continue reading
swimming and wayside school.
We’ve got two more morning swimming lessons before it switches back to evenings, and I can hardly wait. Small is not a morning person. Well, I’m not a morning person either, but I don’t actually throw tantrums about it. Not … Continue reading
Days not to dwell on
Monday was one of those days. By about 10 o’clock I was offering Big out on brightkite – she was in a foul mood for no apparent reason, and any interchange with her resulted in screaming and wailing or stropping … Continue reading
two hours on my own
although why I spent them in Sainsburys I can’t imagine! That was the afternoon though. The morning passed in the standard haze of ‘putering and refereeing small squabbles about who had overrun their turn and so on. Won a knitting … Continue reading
A little art appreciation in the morning.
It was the last day of the local art group’s art exhibition yesterday, so I decided that we were going to make it down there, and organised a family walk out. Beautiful weather – very sunny and hot again. Kids … Continue reading
and so to Friday.
Had invited Big’s friend C round for a playdate, but didn’t tell the children til this morning as I couldn’t stand the steadily mounting excitement pitch that I would have had, nor the disappointment if she didn’t turn up. Was … Continue reading
Maths in the morning, maths in the evening
a little bit of time-travelling in between A good way to spend a Thursday. Kids started the day with putering, but soon drifted towards their maths books, aided by Tim and me taking them out to the garage to find … Continue reading
Deliveries, friends and a trip to the beach.
Got up this morning to find two deliveries in the porch – maths books from Maths no problem and our new veg box from Abel and Cole. The veg box scared me slightly, so I left it in the kitchen … Continue reading
swimming, putering and HE courtesy of Tesco.
Swimming first thing this morning, which necessitated waking up Small and dragging him out of bed. Shouldn’t have bothered, as according to the leisure centre he doesn’t exist – there was no letter for him for his next block of … Continue reading
hovercraft, puters and stuff
Didn’t have a good night’s sleep last night, so was reluctant to start the day today. Am told by Tim that I missed Small strumming his guitar this morning, but there you go. Once I was down and breakfasted, the … Continue reading
Washing baby clothes.
It doesn’t tend to rain here for long, so Sunday was sunny again. This would of course explain why the children spent most of the day attached to the computer yet again. This will wear off, won’t it? At some … Continue reading
Slightly soggy Saturday with science and music.
Occasionally, it rains here. Sometimes it rains quite a lot. Saturday was a rainy day – every now and then it dropped a lot of water, and then there were dry patches. Small is taking off with his Science School … Continue reading
Little brother
Have you read The Children’s Story (online version)? Or 1984? Do you read xkcd? If you do, you might have noticed the name Cory Doctorow features. But you might not know who he is, as despite the fact that he … Continue reading
Toilet seats and archaeology
The standard process for anything that Small breaks is that he has to fix it, or help fix it at least, and that there’s no computer or tv til he does. So Friday morning involved Small and me making our … Continue reading
Yet another Harry Potter day
Once more the best part of a day disappeared to Harry Potter. This was the first time we’d seen one at the cinema, and while I’m glad we’d had the experience, I didn’t think it was the best of the … Continue reading
Wednesday questing.
Can’t remember the morning. That might have been the day that I tried out a couple of PMC questions on the children, and really regretted it. Honestly, a couple of reasonably straightforward slightly puzzly questions and they both went into … Continue reading
Swimming and midwife.
Our swimming lessons are now in the morning, the idea being that during the holidays you get them over with, and also the pool is then open for public swimming in the afternoon. Must actually take the children swimming at … Continue reading
Sunday sulks running in to Monday.
Mainly mine, it has to be said. I’d spent the Saturday at FoH indulging the children, and as such had done none of the things I wanted to do, not even a wander through the little shopping area, much less … Continue reading
