Yesterday didn’t feel like much of a Saturday. Knowing that my assignment was due in but not finished, I set the alarm (shock, horrors, I hate having the alarm go off on a weekend). I got up and got on, and texted to find out what time I was due at school for the meeting, [...]
This week Tim has been away in Suffolk, which has meant his standard evening task of reading bedtime stories has fallen to me. I don’t really remember when bedtime stories became his job, but they usually are, and tbh, I quite enjoy that - after a full day of children it’s quite nice to have [...]
Time, 18.30. Location, bedroom.
Small: can we watch another episode of Doctor Who?
Me: are you going to want something to eat tonight?
Small: yes.
Me: then I don’t think there’s time - another episode of Doctor who will take you to quarter past seven, and that’s too late to be eating when you need to have a bath [...]
Tonight was Big’s Brownie promise, and I’m sorry, but I can’t post any pictures. No, I didn’t forget the camera. No, I didn’t run out of batteries, nor did they ban pictures for bizarre child protection purposes. I wasn’t too late, we weren’t locked out of the room. Oh, it’s way better than that [...]
At the weekend I found a diary that I kept for around 18 months in the late 90s. It details a relationship or two, a job or two, my state of mind, and most particularly, at least to my state of mind tonight, it details the evening when I called my parents’ house to find [...]
another car load of stuff.
I don’t think of us as particularly materialistic (stop sniggering at the back there) yet the amount of stuff is phenomenal, granted a lot of it is books, or things I should have got rid of but haven’t, but even so. Today I bagged up another bag of rubbish [...]
Two months ago, I posted about Small’s reading. I talked about whole word recognition, and how that’s what we were focussing on.
We didn’t tell Small that. Somewhere since then, pretty much unaided, especially as he didn’t come to school that much in holiday club, he decided that he would get phonics, figure out most [...]
started by the fact that I didn’t surface until 12.30, as I was finishing off my book, The Margarets Not sure that I can be bothered to write a separate book review post (although I ought, as there are a couple of other books I’ve read that I haven’t reviewed yet. But there you) [...]
of our new school attendance pattern, and I think it’s gone pretty well all round. Big is now going four days a week, and Small three, so they’re both back to flexi-schooling, which I think suits them both well. Big is slightly unimpressed that Small gets a whole day of Daddy to himself, but seems [...]
Quite worrying that before I post I have to read the last post to work out what we’ve been doing…
I can’t actually remember Saturday terribly well. Ah yes. Big made her first purse out of the wool we’d bought on Friday, so we went down to the shop again to buy some more of a [...]
Today I found the right motivation to teach Small some more maths. I informed him that if he could count his own money out of the pile, he could have the same pocket money at Big gets (£1 a week) rather than the 50p he’s been getting. It took an hour, but he counted out [...]
Right-brained Children in a Left-brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child Jeffrey Freed.
Borrowed this one from Kirsty following ponderings on Small, who most definitely doesn’t fit into standard assessments of learning styles or behaviours. I don’t know whether he’s right brained though, as he cheated on the test I gave him to find [...]
In blogging. I will regret that if I don’t catch up a little as it will be a week I can’t remember. So some highlights, or at least memory prompts.
Walking - I’ve walked to friend’s house to feed her cat 5 times, but not Thursday as it was really rather wet. I feel good about [...]
I did attempt to locate Bil and the children, but got no response to text or calls, so when C called up to invite us over to meltham instead, it seemed a good idea. We loaded up with sunsuits, suncream, sunhats and towels and went and sat in the garden, with Pimms and home made [...]
done. And home again. Big is playing chess with Tim, and Small is learning backgammon from me (his choice) except he’s gone for a comfort break.
It’s been a very long day and I have a stinking headache - I may be back later, but if not I just wanted to say thank you to everyone [...]
I keep thinking I’ve cried about enough and then someone says something nice, or I catch the eye of another member of the family and I’m crying all over again. Then again, we did difficult things today - went to the funeral home and saw the body in a coffin. I really didn’t want to [...]
Big is learning something new atm. She’s learning how to deal with another child coming in to her group seemingly as a rival. Big is used to being the biggest, the most helpful, the child who can do things for the staff to help other children. And now we have another girl who is bigger, [...]
the start of my morning was very similar to Jan’s apart from the fact that we don’t have a dishwasher so that was more of a manual operation. Oh, and the children had already got themselves up and breakfasted. Oh, and we don’t have a dog.
OK, so I did washing and breadmaking
The [...]
We’ve had two birthdays this week, as mentioned previously, so there have been drawn out celebrations. After thursday, which was multiply blogged, on friday we met my mother at M’hell, partly for the purposes of buying wedding wear as my sister’s nuptials are approaching. (This is my sole remaining unmarried sister, so unless they [...]
“Too many tweets! We’ll try to lighten the load and have things back to normal soon.”
Wonder how many of the tweets are to do with it not working properly? They really don’t seem to be scaling very well - anyone got any other recommendations?
Didn’t make it out to the scrapstore - given that Small [...]