My children are very similar, and very different.
I’m often accused of cloning, which I find amusing now that they are growing up – Big’s hair has darkened and her blue eyes are now brown. Small is still blond and blue eyed, but they are so very obviously brother and sister. Stick their half sibling there [...]
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 day.
I’ve run out of patience
Maybe I don’t respond in the right way [...]
I’ve driven past the signs to Sutton Hoo lots of times on our way to Framlingham Castle, but somehow I hadn’t registered that it’s really very close to us, linking it in my mind with Framlingham, which is about a half hour away.
Anyway, with this weekend being Heritage Open Days weekend, and therefore Sutton Hoo [...]
and where did the summer go? Blink and you miss it. Although I’m hopeful that we’ll stay warm and dry for a little longer, I’m quite disturbed at how the evenings are drawing in already.
Monday was a mainly quiet day as is usually required after visitors for rest and recuperation, however restful the visitors have [...]
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 foot down and required her to do some – I feel that she needs to [...]
Swimming first thing this morning, which necessitated waking up Small and dragging him out of bed. Shouldn’t have bothered, as according to the leisure centre he doesn’t exist – there was no letter for him for his next block of lessons.
Eventually got to the bottom of it with A the swimming lesson coordinator. Well, she [...]
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 by plans, and my children are, so I figure that this time around with home [...]
It was an Open University Open Event in Leeds today. I don’t like driving into Leeds. I really didn’t like the idea of driving into Leeds with two children in the car shouting helpful comments like “you’ve gone the wrong way” and “You’re lost aren’t you?” so by the time Tim left around lunchtime I’d [...]
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 [...]
Good:
Primary geography sparking off map activity this morning, lots of jigsaw activity for both of them, including the 20 Word Puzzles that we’ve had for ages (that’ll be a reading activity then), cooking tea together.
Getting an hour on my own with Small in the library (aw, he took his book to the counter himself, handed [...]
Big was out for the night Friday night, then I picked her up for swimming Saturday morning. Slight glitch was that it was her teacher’s birthday so she’d taken a day off, and there was a standin. The good news is that this was the chap who taught Big in the summer, lovely [...]
but boy did it take some doing. I think my next project for the year is going to have to be sorting out his sleeping patterns – I’ve just spent two nights away from home, and I didn’t get any evening time without children to talk with adults. Hohum. Apart from that, [...]
until I got around to ticking the category list!
How did we fit so much in?
Up very early is one clue, as it was Big’s swimming lesson at 9.40 this morning. She and I fell out before and after, although she managed extremely well during (and I did make sure I told her so, even [...]
