There have been gaps in the archives of this blog before. They always make me a little sad, when I look back and I don’t have the reminders of our day to day life.
I haven’t even been keeping up with my snippets post, and that’s a real shame. Small said the other day that he would be able to check when he first solved one of his cubes, and I had to admit I haven’t been keeping notes. So I need to put that right.
So where are we now? How about some summer snippets to catch you all up?
Big finished her exams and we all headed off for our first stint in 1593. Right after that was NCS, which involved a fair bit of toing and froing. Now she’s making the most of some unscheduled time catching up with friends before her life guarding course starts. While all that’s been going on, the rest of us fitted in the zoo, a couple of beach trips, and even a London outing for the little ones.
Small has computer club a couple of times a week, and his current passion is cubing. He can solve his 3×3 in under 30 seconds, and the 4×4 is now a timed excursion rather than the several days it took first time around (I still feel kind of guilty about that, I was trying to put it in a pattern, not scramble it!) He’s working towards his first iGCSE, and has a cram week next week, which I think he’s rather looking forward to. Of course, it might be the gaming marathon right after it that’s really attractive 😉
Smallest has taken up guitar lessons with a home education group. She’s even practising most days. Without her picks which disappeared about a day after they arrived, obviously. She’s also practising reading, and has lost another tooth.
Tigerboy oddly, is the one who seems to be changing least at the moment. I say oddly because at 4 you’d kind of expect all kinds of developing to be going on. I’m guessing that we’re heading for some kind of leap some time very soon. Should be fun.
As for me, as may have been apparent, I’ve been going through a depression cycle. I’ve had them all my life, and I kind of assumed that once I had my autism diagnosis I’d flick a switch of self understanding and acceptance and all would be well.
Apparently it doesn’t work that way. Who’d a thunk it?
What does happen is I’ve a little less patience with a world that expects me to conform to particular behaviours and stereotypes. I’ve a little less willingness to expend energy passing for normal, but I’ve spent so many years going through the motions that I’m not quite sure what to do instead.
So I’ve been allowing myself to explore who I am, what I’m interested in, what I want to do. And at the moment, that’s art, photography and sketching. I’ve started to upload some of my photos to redbubble to see if I can get to the point of making an income at all. I’m not convinced my photos are a good enough quality, but I can’t afford a DSLR at the moment so we’ll just have to make do for now.
In terms of drawing, I’m practising portraits. This one looks OK but not enough like who it’s supposed to be. (You can have a guess who it is if you like, I’m not expecting any right answers though.)
So there you go, that’s you all caught up. Have you missed us?
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