Category: Neurodivergence in Children
Losing track of the days
The children are doing a lot of reading atm, both working on their HP books. Small is about halfway through book 1 now, and Big is racing through book 4. They’ve watched some tv, though I have noticed that the frequency and amount of TV watching has dropped off steadily, from being pretty much constant…
Weekends and weekdays, all flowing together.
Given that neither Tim or I are working outside the home atm, the pattern to life here is somewhat fluid. Weekends are slightly more marked in that they are our chances to see the ppl who do work, relatives and friends both, and we made our most of our chances with a ppl filled time…
Family film evening
A little package arrived this morning, containing Harry Potter Years 1-5 Box Set. The children were very excited. We had a look at the first film, hoping to plan a film evening, and discovered it’s 147 minutes long, so the evening has had to start earlier than I’d hoped really! Earlier in the day we…
Geology, black bags and backward names.
We went off to school to pick up the car and timed it so that the kids at school were just finished lunch so that Big and Small could have running around time. It went well – I kept a close eye on Small who can very easily get carried away but he was headed…
A Harry Potter household.
We travelled back from edge-of-country house to middle-of-country house much later than hoped for yesterday afternoon, given complete waffling around rather than rapid packing yesterday morning. We were accompanied by the dulcet tones of Stephen Fry again, and arrived home with only 10 minutes to go, so the children sat rapt in the living room…
Sunday swimming
Another lovely lie in, although I awoke to perfectly horrid weather, rain lashing down and winds howling or something to that effect. Certainly not a day for walking to libraries or swimming pools, and the birdwatch was a bit of a washout too, though we did get a flock of seagulls at one point. The…
A weekend.
We left CP and headed for the edge of the country, with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Stephen Fry of course, keeping us company. We stopped briefly at a Tescos for lunch – unimpressive, but I bet it was a bit cheaper than Starbucks 😉 Then on to grandfather’s house. The plan…
Things other ppl forgot to tell me.
Got a voicemail from D, stepfather yesterday. Apparently it’s the coroner’s inquest for my sister today, which obviously I can’t go to as I’m in CP, but various other family members are going to. Felt very excluded and emotional for a bit, but that was all wiped out when Big had a major tantrum (think…
Harry Potter and swimming.
Despite heckling and all the rest of it, I did go to bed positively early last night. I then laid there for hours listening to a computer rebooting itself with monotonous regularity and eventually got disturbed by Tim coming to bed and shutting it down. I then got up at 7 o’clock this morning. I’ll…
A bit of decluttering.
There has been a heap of stuff in the kitchen here since shortly after we moved in. I’m not quite sure how it started, things have been taken away and other things added, but it was unnecessary, and today I dealt with it. This despite feeling for most of the day that what I really…