I love my daughter
She woke me this morning by asking me where the first man and woman came from, which lead to a good discussion about how various ppl believe different things, skirted quickly over a variety of creation stories, and landed on a discussion of the theory of evolution. Had to [...]
off the path
Newest addition is cute, although he didn’t seem to be in a mood for cuddles today - never mind, an excuse to go back! (Like we *need* an excuse, :grin:) And as ever, a lovely time had by adults, chatting, and children, playing. Didn’t see Big dressed up in [...]
And can’t help wondering if it’s because I encouraged a workbook session or two
We’re back to the Exeter maths. There’s been reading as well, sitting gazing blankly at class tv (she watched two episodes, back to back, of a spelling show!) A little more string art, this is obviously going to take [...]
finished with:
“And now I’m going to go work on some graphics. And study some java. Maybe do the washing up. Package up some ebay parcels.”
I thought I’d update you I washed up. Worked on some graphics. Didn’t do the parcels last night, but did get them posted today anyway. Didn’t [...]
hm, my blog appears to have disappeared under a welter of political links and news stories. Not quite sure how *that* happened.
So what have we been doing? Well, took Small for his slightly belated MMR this morning - he was ever so good. I think he understands rather more than he lets [...]
That’s no good, I won’t be able to remember a thing
Let’s see, Big stayed at Barbara’s after our group on Monday, and was brought back Tues afternoon. I spent Tues morning decluttering, reasonably successfully, and it must have catching, as Tim got to work on the back bedroom.
Barbara came round [...]
And I’ve already had a thought provoking discussion with Tim about abortion and feminism, done some weaving with Big and a jigsaw with Small. Doesn’t sound like much I know, but I didn’t wake up til nearly 11
My body clock is completely out of whack with what the clocks on the wall [...]
today Big read another page of her book (we’re onto Goldilocks now) and I teased her into listening to some poetry. She really enjoyed it - after we’d done the first poem, with her sitting, eyes closed, to listen, she chose two more. Good stuff - she picked up on some unfamiliar words [...]
of mine never work out.
We did some maths (Exeter of course ), we did some reading, we did more Studydog. You’re right Merry, that’s starting to look like a blogring curriculum!
We didn’t do a whole lot else. I did hear her learning some Spanish from Dora, and Small [...]
I seem to be permanently a day behind!
Let’s see, we’ve had a really lazy day. Feeling a bit rough myself, and sky’s really grey, so pjs were the order of the day, and taking it easy.
Lots of imaginative play meant that the floor went missing very early on, and didn’t reappear til I finally [...]
and requests for hothousing.
It was an odd day yesterday.
Um, struggling to remember much of it - the drawback of regular blogging I think, as usually I don’t have to apply my memory, I can just read back. Do know that my parents popped round, seemed to be wanting to discuss the HE thing, but [...]
Better get a cup of tea and a chair, it’s a long one
Been a lovely day today, which is a huge improvement on the rest of the week. Well, it was OK when Mimi was round the other day, the smalls were no trouble, but Big and I are going through one [...]
to blog about these things tomorrow.
Small and birds, cats, dogs and ppl.
Small likes animals. He quite likes ppl, but he is squealingly happy to see animals. We walked to the post office on Weds (posted the Hesfes form, yippee!) and every few steps he would stop, smiling, to point at a cat, or [...]
We’ll start with the darker ones so that we can end on a high note.
Major achievement - getting through the day without throttling either child or bursting into tears. Not quite sure what’s the matter with me atm, must be partly stress related to the fact that I *still* haven’t heard about the results [...]
don’t disturb him! He’s only sitting quietly doing a jigsaw all by himself for the very first time (one of those peg board ones, think I got it for £1 at Hesfes last year!) Of course, the flash of the camera disturbed him, and there seem to be some pieces missing, so I [...]
Well, there’s been oodles of education all over the place today, plenty of touchy feely moments and even some laughter and craft. And despite that, I’ve got two kids in meltdown, presumably at least partly affected by my own mood drop (yes, I still want to crawl off and cry, even though I’ve just [...]
We’ve cuisenaire rods out on the table and pattern blocks all over the floor (watch where you tread in bare feet round here!) Big is doing number bonds up to ten without blinking (although we haven’t called them that, we’ve called them patterns and sums ) as well as a bit of multiplication [...]
Got a better nights sleep - made Tim sleep next to Small Mooched around a bit trying to get motivated - Big didn’t want to do anything, and I’ve gone off trying to force the point. I think part of the problem is that I engage in the debate, and by doing [...]
with a family row.
Not our little family here - it appears my decision not to trek up the road to meet up today didn’t go down well. Oh well - I felt the decision was justified when Big went into meltdown this afternoon *despite* (or maybe because??) me not turning on the [...]
we were hoping for two!
Still, very glad to hear that you made it home safely, and that all is well. Don’t blame you for that decision at all, and even Big seemed to understand.
Took me ages to get started this morning - needed to tidy up and stuff and instead found another job advert [...]