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 [...]
when you leave your laptop switched off
It’s still switched off. I’m borrowing Tim’s machine, while he’s out shopping and the grots are bathing. I’ve really enjoyed the freedom, haven’t felt that the day got away from me at all. Well, apart from the first hour or so I spent sleeping [...]
to claim the day has improved? Perhaps I’d better stick with it’s improving
After a traumatic half hour on Small’s part, when someone mentioned lunch to him, and he realised he hadn’t had breakfast (it *was* offered, but he was too busy being read to, then drawing, then dancing :roll:) and of course, [...]
handy at least!
It’s not quite 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning. The tv is playing to itself (must replace it with music). Big is sitting at the newly cleared art table doing more parchment embossing and decorating. Small is doing a paint by numbers at the dining room table. Apparently all [...]
we have shoes, well actually boots, for Big. I’ve lost count of how many shoe shops we’ve been in and didn’t even try to count how many pairs of shoes we’ve tried on - it’s taken 3 weekends to sort this out! And then, icing on the cake, machine refused my credit card! [...]
courtesy of 1000 Playthinks
Found this the other night when I was tidying, and decided I’d inflict it on Big. Expected her to wail and moan and wriggle, instead she practically ripped it out of my hand and we started working through the puzzles difficulty level 1. We got to one about [...]
Tonight Big read Night You Were Born (Orchard Picturebooks) to me. We got it at the library earlier this week, when they were selling off lots of books, 6 for £1. And as you know, we’ve a shortage of books here
Anyway, tonight we talked about punctuation marks, I said things like [...]
Apart from dictating her experiment today, Big has done lots of work on maths. Completely unprompted and with only a little guidance at that - she found a box of post office toys (tried to find a link, but elc appear to have discontinued it so as to be able to fit in more [...]
Purpose
We wanted to do an experiment to see how the sun heats different coloured things up differently.
Hyphothesis
We expected the black jar to be the warmest.
Materials.
We had three clear glass jars. A sheet of black card, and a sheet of foil.
Method.
We put 1 pint of water in each jar. We measured the temperature of the [...]
to Big reading her own bedtime story (Kitty Helps Out (Kitty & Cat Lift the Flap S.)) out loud to Tim
The hands off approach is finally paying dividends. I know she’s cracked it by herself, she knows she’s cracked it by herself, and she is getting more and more adventurous on what [...]
It’s been a busy morning, with Small playing happily on cbeebies with Mr Tumble, having previously done some fabric land game he found. He came charging in with instructions that he’d printed out about paper weaving, so I got him the bits he needed and he did a tiny bit of that, before declaring [...]
Has been rather up and down. She seems somewhat emotional and confrontational atm, and I’ve been somewhat preoccupied with some work I needed to finish. It’s not a good combination
Nevertheless, we’ve had some good times today. I particularly enjoyed setting her up on the laptop to work on some more [...]
Bit of an anti-climax actually. Tim and I off out to work, and Sarah in charge of the children. Despite my best efforts I didn’t get back particularly early, but Big tells me she had a good day. We did family presents after her bath, and she was thrilled with a rainbow [...]
Celebration part the third! This is getting to be one long celebration, and Big is loving every little bit of it.
Having her oldest friend stay overnight, as he has done rather a lot of times in the past, ought to be straightforward and it did used to be. However, we didn’t used to [...]
given that presents on Thursday night count as part one
Long day though first, as there was lots to be done. Small had a hearing appt first thing this morning, so he and I were out bright and early (well, 9.30, which is bright and early for a Saturday I think ) [...]