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Mixed weather, mixed day.
I hadn’t realised how weather reliant my children’s moods are – I know the sunshine affects me, but really hadn’t clicked on how much it changes them. So this morning, while it bucketed down, they watched mindless tv mainly, although … Continue reading
Fingertips head stand
Just seen this on tv and think it’s a possible present make so dumping it here so we don’t forget the link
Incidental education
During the day, Small in particular often asks peculiar questions or indulges in brief conversations that seem like they’ve gone nowhere, but then days or weeks later crop up again in his thinking. There is no way that I can … Continue reading
edited highlights
mainly because blow by blow of how dreadful I feel isn’t interesting to me, and I’m sure it isn’t interesting to you either! Small wrote a story entitled “The story of Pregnancy” – it’s only a page long, but I … Continue reading
Expensive day
With Big due to go to Brownies tonight, thought I ought to go out and get her something different for her footwear than the boots she’s been wearing all winter. As she’s usually very quick to tell me if there’s … Continue reading
Library, gardening and Weakest link.
Yesterday, after lying around feeling sorry for myself for a while (which seems to be a common theme among my friends atm ) I pulled myself together and took the children to the library. Big decided she wanted to have … Continue reading
Sunny day with added playdough.
Once again the main focus to the day as far as the children were concerned was playdough. They played a long (approx 2 1/2 hour) game which involved them making things and selling them in their imaginary shop. Eventually they … Continue reading
And another day passes
Tim and Small finished putting the curtain rail back up this morning and thus the computer/ tv ban was over, so they celebrated with a viewing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I saw a game, Harry Potter … Continue reading
working out which way is up
Actually did some stuff with/for the kids today – unpacked five boxes labelled craft shelves in the hope of finding the cards, and only found one kit, but it was enough to get them both set up making birthday cards … Continue reading
Traumatised cat.
When I opened the ladder up to our loft bedroom last night, I realised that the cat had once again expressed his displeasure with the move in the standard way, fortunately this time on the spare quilt rather than on … Continue reading
spinning in circles.
Yesterday I got organised in the morning and took Tim’s car into town, drove it round the town centre three times, then gave up, parked it in a vacant space on a cross road, and carried four box loads of … Continue reading
Add one child, makes for an easy day
Big and E were dropped off just before 10 yesterday morning, and barring a brief attitudinal outburst from Big just before lunch, life was very easy yesterday. The girls played together beautifully, and Small bounced in and out, sometimes with … Continue reading
Mon night onwards.
On Mon evening, Small put his geometry set to new and innovative uses, digging holes in his pj top, before moving on to his hand Half baked plans for dropping him at mother’s Tues evening so that I could both … Continue reading
Yet another weekend.
I was very tired yesterday, not least because Tim and I stayed up unfeasibly late the night before catching up on TV (As an aside I highly recommend Big Bang Theory – Season 1 [2007] especially for those of us … Continue reading
A bit of decluttering.
There has been a heap of stuff in the kitchen here since shortly after we moved in. I’m not quite sure how it started, things have been taken away and other things added, but it was unnecessary, and today I … Continue reading
And tomorrow?
The last question of tonight, from both children, was exactly the same as last night. What will we do tomorrow? But first, what did we do today? Well, I had a lazy morning feeling sorry for myself. I’m having a … Continue reading
Soft skills
Small appears to have missed out on development of a lot of so called soft skills so far. Not that I think many 5 year old boys have many of them tbh, but it is particularly disappointing that three years … Continue reading
Resistance is futile.
Small is continuing with his reading – he has been practising (probably without realising it) while reading his new Power Rangers Annual 2009: Operation Overdrive (Annual) (£1 from Tesco bargain. Although I wish I’d bought more copies of the Doctor … Continue reading
A very quiet day
Today has been a very quiet day, not least because when I went to get up to sort out the table Small had “poured milk all over!”, I made it to the landing, grabbed my dressing gown off the rail … Continue reading
Defensive orgo planning
For pretty much as long as she has been able to talk, Big’s last question of the day has been “what are we doing tomorrow?” and my standard answer is “I don’t know yet”. I’m not a person who lives … Continue reading
