Category: Home Ed Life
Happy Birthday Small
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 they…
Bamboozled Shrug Thing
The title is by Tim 😀 The shrug is by me, for Big. It’s based on the bamboozled shrug I linked to a week or so back, and I got it out of the Crochet pattern-a-day calendar. I’m quite chuffed with it – I used the king cole pure baby dk I bought before Christmas.…
Look!
In the sidebar, I did it! Finished the never-ending shawl 🙂 Only a week late, as Big is already fond of pointing out. 😉 Ah well. Got other things to do tonight, like eat and sleep, so I’ll wish you all a very happy new year, and sign off til 2007 😀 eta piccie taken…
A day of packages
I had so many good intentions today. Well, at least I got the car serviced 🙂 Let’s see. I wanted to clear out bits of the dining room – Tim managed to hoover in there at least. I pulled a couple of bits out and I have a big pile of stuff to drop off…
teaching themselves
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 rapidly…
Pester power
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 “I…
Tired of being tired.
Yesterday, after a reasonably good start to the day, I took a break to do some crochet on my tapestry purse. I did a whole ‘nother round! (Must find some wip plugin bars so that I can display this stuff and keep myself on target ETA in the sidebar, marked on the hook 🙂 ).…
I think I know
why Big doesn’t get to do anything much else once she starts on writing. 15 minutes in, and we’ve got once sentence written out. 30 minutes reading took 45 today by the time she’d fallen off the sofa, crawled around the room and so on. :wall:
getting out of bed the other side
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 reading…
some more of that making
You may recall a few weeks ago that I was pondering making a few things. So far I’ve made a hat, out of really rather gorgeous wool, as I said I’d started a little while back. Today Big and I branched out into the wired bead crochet. Well, OK, the first one I did was…