the start of my morning was very similar to Jan’s apart from the fact that we don’t have a dishwasher so that was more of a manual operation. Oh, and the children had already got themselves up and breakfasted. Oh, and we don’t have a dog.
OK, so I did washing and breadmaking
The [...]
end of first week with new member of staff on board - we’ve got by through quite a challenging week so that’s gone fairly well. I’m beginning to feel on top of classroom management on some days - for some reason Thursday seems to go a bit pear shaped, obviously need to work harder then. [...]
First of all, gather your children into an ellipse, sitting on chairs in the children’s house. Then you can start
The 29th May 2003 was a very special day - that was the day that Small was born! We’re going to do a birthday walk - what do we need?
A candle. [...]
We’ve had two birthdays this week, as mentioned previously, so there have been drawn out celebrations. After thursday, which was multiply blogged, on friday we met my mother at M’hell, partly for the purposes of buying wedding wear as my sister’s nuptials are approaching. (This is my sole remaining unmarried sister, so unless they [...]
5 years old today. Haven’t told him he doesn’t actually notch up 5 years til this evening, as I don’t think he could have waited that long for presents!
He did wait until after 9, which surprised me rather, I’d expected to be woken up shortly after 7, but there you go. And now [...]
“Too many tweets! We’ll try to lighten the load and have things back to normal soon.”
Wonder how many of the tweets are to do with it not working properly? They really don’t seem to be scaling very well - anyone got any other recommendations?
Didn’t make it out to the scrapstore - given that Small [...]
when you leave your laptop switched off
It’s still switched off. I’m borrowing Tim’s machine, while he’s out shopping and the grots are bathing. I’ve really enjoyed the freedom, haven’t felt that the day got away from me at all. Well, apart from the first hour or so I spent sleeping [...]
this morning, Small has learnt from numberjacks that 6 can be split into two 3s. (I’m not going to promise that he knows he can do that with six things mind )
Big is sitting on the floor counting her money and exchanging pounds in change for pound coins. Her arithmetic is improving [...]
The other day we bought BRIO 32807 Bob the Builder Builder System: Scoop for Small. It arrived very quickly, and is sitting in its nice anonymous Amazon box waiting for wrapping.
However this morning, watching Milkshake, Small has seen Kid K’nex - Bucket of Buddies - 70pc on an advert. Very politely he said [...]
to claim the day has improved? Perhaps I’d better stick with it’s improving
After a traumatic half hour on Small’s part, when someone mentioned lunch to him, and he realised he hadn’t had breakfast (it *was* offered, but he was too busy being read to, then drawing, then dancing :roll:) and of course, [...]
Our children are morning ppl. Tim and I are night owls. This has often resulted in the children getting up and breakfasting and watching tv on their own and us staggering down an hour or two later, which then sets the pattern for a bad day.
Wanting to break the pattern, we’ve decided that [...]
handy at least!
It’s not quite 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning. The tv is playing to itself (must replace it with music). Big is sitting at the newly cleared art table doing more parchment embossing and decorating. Small is doing a paint by numbers at the dining room table. Apparently all [...]
we have shoes, well actually boots, for Big. I’ve lost count of how many shoe shops we’ve been in and didn’t even try to count how many pairs of shoes we’ve tried on - it’s taken 3 weekends to sort this out! And then, icing on the cake, machine refused my credit card! [...]
This morning Sarah-the-speech-therapist came around to assess Small’s progress. We know he is making astounding progress - this is a child who was to all intents and purposes non verbal at the start of this year, who now has a vocabulary I wouldn’t dream of trying to count, and who structures long sentences (I [...]
Apart from dictating her experiment today, Big has done lots of work on maths. Completely unprompted and with only a little guidance at that - she found a box of post office toys (tried to find a link, but elc appear to have discontinued it so as to be able to fit in more [...]
where would I be?
‘cos I can’t find it. I don’t need it to renew my insurance, regular readers will know that I did that three weeks ago. But I need the renewal sheet as it has evidence of my no claims bonus on it, and my new company needs that evidence. And [...]
This afternoon I got the afternoon I’d been looking forward to having yesterday, iyswim I dragged myself out of bed and mediated between screaming children (Big had decided to get dressed, which meant Small wanted to get dressed, but Big wasn’t doing it right (he doesn’t like having his ears touched much)) then [...]
Small wanted a different cd on the puter
Oh, I wish I’d had a camera!
Big was asking Small how many slices of toast he wanted for lunch.
Very carefully, and reasonably clearly “2 slices”. Then with much concentration, he managed to hold up two fingers just to be sure!
It’s been a busy morning, with Small playing happily on cbeebies with Mr Tumble, having previously done some fabric land game he found. He came charging in with instructions that he’d printed out about paper weaving, so I got him the bits he needed and he did a tiny bit of that, before declaring [...]