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Ages and stages and a proud mummy moment.

Posted on Tue Feb 15 2011 by Jax

We had another of those days today. One of those milestones that creep up on you, that you don’t know will hit you til it does. Big went for her first fixed braces fitting, and suddenly she looks teen in … Continue reading →

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AFK

Posted on Thu May 13 2010 by Jax

Aargh, days are slipping by without blogging again! Tim was away for a couple of nights at the beginning of the week, which cut down drastically on my (evening) computing time. It also meant a convoluted set of logistics for … Continue reading →

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Quick round up.

Posted on Sat Dec 5 2009 by Jax

While soa is happy in her bouncy chair. She’s increasingly awake and alert during the day, and also increasingly happy to be separated from me for more than a minute at a time. It’s not many minutes though, so I’m … Continue reading →

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Still trying hard.

Posted on Wed Oct 28 2009 by Jax

Didn’t get through our routine bits yesterday due to an early morning appt for Tim and myself, but did on Mon and today. Regular maths is giving Big confidence to attempt sums while out and about – she worked out … Continue reading →

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Never off duty

Posted on Mon Oct 26 2009 by Jax

for reasons that we won’t go into in detail here, Big was banned from gameboy, tv and computer today in a triple whammy never seen before. And as we don’t do sit down work on a Sunday, this meant I … Continue reading →

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Long day and late night.

Posted on Sun Oct 11 2009 by Jax

Not quite sure how the children entertained themselves for most of yesterday, as Tim and I were busy sorting and reorganising to move ourselves down from the loft bedroom. It was beginning to get a bit silly me climbing the … Continue reading →

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Another week sails by.

Posted on Sat Oct 10 2009 by Jax

Wednesday was Maths, English and comparative religion. Well, comparative in that we compared it to the theory of evolution we’d looked at over the previous couple of days Small didn’t think much of it, he likes evolution, and keeps drawing … Continue reading →

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More idioms, new shoes and rhyming slang at the dinner table.

Posted on Wed Oct 7 2009 by Jax

Children did maths and English first off – more work on idioms for Big, trying to draw humorous pictures to illustrate various idioms. Not sure about the humour value of the pictures, but it did get her thinking about the … Continue reading →

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A day of two halves…

Posted on Fri Sep 25 2009 by Jax

So let’s talk about the nice bits Big settled quickly to her work again this morning – it seems possible that I’ve now found the right level of things to be working with her on both spelling and handwriting so … Continue reading →

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Orford castle.

Posted on Fri Sep 25 2009 by Jax

After a couple of days off working due to our hectic social life I was quite pleased with the children’s attitudes yesterday. Small did a sheet on telling time, plus a maths practice, and some reading, while Big did some … Continue reading →

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Turnaround Tuesday.

Posted on Thu Sep 24 2009 by Jax

Tuesday was Forest School, which surprised me as it has more often been on Thursdays before. Just as well I’d checked my calendar an evening or two before, otherwise we’d have missed it completely, and that would have been very … Continue reading →

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autonomy vs peace and quiet…

Posted on Sat Sep 19 2009 by Jax

I have been waiting since January for my children to deschool, stop watching endless CBBC or playing on mind numbing websites, for them to show and develop some interests and learn to get along instead of screeching and bickering all … Continue reading →

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Iron education and swimming.

Posted on Sun Sep 13 2009 by Jax

On Friday I decided I needed to get to the bottom of my blood test results and understand whether I needed medication or not, and whether my preferred option of homebirth was a realistic one. So I nerved myself up … Continue reading →

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And on to September.

Posted on Wed Sep 2 2009 by Jax

Swimming has reverted to evenings, which should make for an easier Tuesday. Maybe. Certainly yesterday seemed easier, but that might have been because I got to lunchtime and keeled over, retiring to bed for a couple of hours! Children played … Continue reading →

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If it’s Friday it must be Framlingham (again :) )

Posted on Mon Aug 31 2009 by Jax

Friday heralded our last time travellers trip to Framlingham for the summer. We’d already finished the passports and put them in the post, and Small’s bag arrived in the morning. It’s not desperately exciting, but it will serve to remind … Continue reading →

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Forest school and swimming.

Posted on Sun Aug 30 2009 by Jax

Falling behind in blogging again, it really won’t do! End of the month Thursday, so it was Forest School. I thought I’d got up in ample time to get us ready to go, but I had, as usual, underestimated the … Continue reading →

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Swimming, beach and quiet afternoon.

Posted on Wed Aug 26 2009 by Jax

Last Tuesday morning swim – next week it reverts to evening sessions. Got up to find that the loo wouldn’t flush, didn’t appear to be refilling with water. Odd, but assumed it would be something Tim would sort out. (Yes, … Continue reading →

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5 children, 2 puters, 1 website.

Posted on Sun Aug 23 2009 by Jax

Not a particularly good combination for a harmonious morning! Despite their late night, all children were up reasonably early, although the preteens were the last, unsurprisingly. They mainly managed to play on moshi monsters – there was an attempt to … Continue reading →

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Questseekers and cousins.

Posted on Sat Aug 22 2009 by Jax

Friday morning, we managed to locate all library books, and persuade Small that he needed to take some of them back. He was not very happy about this. He hasn’t read quite a few of them – he tends to … Continue reading →

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Maths, Time travelling and scanning

Posted on Thu Aug 20 2009 by Jax

Can’t quite remember how I got into the battle with Big Wednesday morning over her maths, but we did. From being thrilled with the new books, she’s now back into full resistant maths is boring mode. But I put my … Continue reading →

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