mainly because blow by blow of how dreadful I feel isn’t interesting to me, and I’m sure it isn’t interesting to you either!
Small wrote a story entitled “The story of Pregnancy” – it’s only a page long, but I loved the end “the baby cryed in his mind.” It was completely unprompted, and I love how his spelling, writing and punctuation is all developing completely of his own accord. He frequently corrects Big’s spelling (which goes down about as well as you’d expect 😉 ) and very rarely requires or requests any assistance.
They’ve both done more maths from their books – he’s now doing subtraction using a number line which he liked, while she avoided more of the timed tasks and did something else entirely, which was fine by me, I can do without the stress of her getting all wound up over whether she’s going to get them right or not!
Big watched Timewatch Young Victoria which Tim and I had prewatched and didn’t find desperately well put together, but she really enjoyed. Then again, it had that magic ingredient, Victoria 🙂 She’s also watched some more Victorian Farm
which she loves and we’ve discussed more about the architecture around her interest in dolls houses. I keep meaning to have another try at the miniature crochet – really wish I’d picked myself up the magnifying glass we saw at the range the other day, as it would make the attempt quite a bit easier.
Neither of them seems to be doing much reading atm – Big has finished all the Harry Potters now, and seems rather at a loss as to what to read next. Small has just ground to a halt, we have a fear that maybe he’s done reading now, and that was that 😉
We’re looking into calligraphy sets for Big as we feel that may be a way to marry up her craft interests (she makes really beautiful cards now) with her and our desire to improve her handwriting in a relatively painless way. I feel a trip to the range coming on very soon 🙂
I’m loving sitting in the reclining chair in the living room, reading books, and watching the birds skitting about the garden. Even today in the wind and rain there have been quite a few out there – we’ve several woodpigeons, a family of blackbirds, a robin and Tim says he’s seen two wrens.
I’ve done loads of reading recently – having located the Fantasy section at the library I felt I really should make use of it. I’ve read Robin Hobb’s Soldier son trilogy
Take a Thief
by Mercedes Lackey – I don’t think of these as great literature, but they are good yarns, and I know I’ll get a good couple of hours enjoyment out of any of her books 🙂 Oh, and A Song for Summer
which I loved, even though, or maybe because, it made me cry. Not a suitable read aloud for younger children though I don’t think, as it goes into some quite adult themes – I found it in the teenage section of the library. Eva Ibbotson is rapidly becoming a must read author in my mind though, she really writes beautiful stories, very well told.
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