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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Putting it here so I can find it again
300g strong white flour (bread flour)
1 sachet of dried yeast
Dessertspoonish of sugar
Dessertspoonish of salt
Mix into a dough with warm water, about half a pint possibly. I do it by eye. So put a little warm water in, mix it round, keep adding a bit at [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After yesterday’s less than educational offerings, determined to do better today. So imagine my joy at all of this being self determined! I think the pictures speak for themselves
in case there is anyone else out there as utterly misguided as me. Don’t try to go shopping and for a haircut with two small children, not when the shopping and haircut are kind of time critical.
It’s been a long day. Started this morning with Big deciding that today, the day [...]
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 [...]
Small is just full of cold - I hauled myself upstairs and steamed myself gently in the shower for a bit and that seemed to help. Once done with that, rolled up my sleeves, metaphorically speaking, and cracked on.
Big did lunch again, while I was showering, and after it we successfully made cinnamon scented [...]
Well, today I have learnt that the work rate of a four year old is nowhere *near* that of a 34 year old. In the time it took me to make 10 hama stars, Big assembled the rest of one card….mind I have got it down to a star a minute (which I know [...]
As we seem to have fitted an awful lot in.
Think Big was doing her maths workbook before I’d finished breakfast. Turns out that the first couple of easy pages were breaking you in gently, by page 4 it’s onto series with missing bits, but she got the hang of it fairly well. Tim [...]
that I don’t learn from my mistakes.
Today I have tried really hard. I have wet washing on the line (sigh) and wet washing in the machine (bigger sigh), the kitchen is trashed again, but was clean and clear before I started preparing our home cooked tea, and I shifted another bit of paperwork before [...]
after I got another decent night on the pullout bed. Apart from the backache
Mainly today we’ve pottered. Finally got around to doing some more work on Big’s scales - I’m taking piccies as we go along. We played the piano a bit - by a stroke of luck I opened [...]
from the other side of 7 hours sleep?
Horrendous evening trying to get Small to bed last night, resulted in me in tears downstairs after 45 minutes of trying to settle him, while Tim did finally succeed. Really couldn’t face another night of the wriggling, writhing, hair pulling and scratching, so went and slept on [...]
Not done much with the children today - instead with the help of Claire we’ve excavated the dining room!
We even found a piano in there….
There’s an awful lot of books too, but you knew that already.
Small is very quiet and sorry for himself - full of cold and possibly teething as well. [...]
Employing the head in sand approach to the financial situation again here, but hey, it’s working for me
Bad night with Small - he went down at about 7.45 last night, but was restless all evening, Tim settled him down then came down for a coffee and I was working on the computer. [...]
I should have done some shopping. We’ve got friends coming round tomorrow, I should have done some tidying. I have lots of work to do, I should have done some of that. (Well, OK, I did do some).
I also broke the blogring, but come on - did anyone notice? And it’s [...]
It’s quarter past seven and Small is in bed asleep - unheard of! Big is upstairs with Tim having her bedtime story, and I am savouring the silence…
Let’s see, we didn’t do everything I’d hoped for, but we did a fair bit. Big did some more of her workbook, filled in a form [...]
