Sorry for blog silence, but in rather a rush we moved house last weekend, and didn’t get teh internets back until Thurs evening. And at that point, the lovely 4 Mb broadband resolutely declined to play with our current wireless router, and the free one from Virgin is currently languishing in a lynx depot somewhere in Pudsey! (it’s not very free either given how many phone calls I’ve made from my mobile attempting to release it 🙁 )
The house is working out fine, although some furnishing to store clothing would be useful and Tim will be heading south later today to see what he can find. The children are happy that the tv-puter is working though, as without it “we couldn’t watch Batman!” (good to see they have their priorities straight 🙄 They are thrilled to have found the duplo and that’s currently all over the living room floor.
Work is fine too, although I’ve been really glad of the much shorter journey – a montessori children’s house with up to 23 children in it is a very much more tiring beast than a montessori children’s house with only 6 as it was the last couple of weeks. I’ve met nearly all the children now – there’s just one still on holiday apparently, and after a few embarassing moments with names I’m beginning to get the hang of those too. Had a lovely afternoon yesterday as most of the group were out in the garden or playground and I just had a couple in the room with me so we got on with some great extension work with some of the materials. Then gradually more children got tired and came in and they just joined in, and for the first time I could really see how it could all work with minimal adult input as they built on what each other had done and you could just see them all learning and loving it.
Aw. Wish I could talk in more detail but not something that’s appropriate about other children than my own!
But, speaking of my own, they are generally adapting to the change, both have learnt to call me Jax at school 🙂 Small is being somewhat challenging atm, but that’s only to be expected, and I’m hoping to really indulge him this weekend and hope that helps him feel more settled next week. We’re going to do a week of earlies hoping that we can get away around 5 (instead of 6, 7, or one evening 8!) and that will give them more time to themselves as well.
Once Tim gets the wireless router and beats it into submission I hope to be able to spend some time bloghopping and catching up with everyone else’s lives (looking forward to seeing what tents everyone has bought!) – I’ve felt really out of the loop this week. Didn’t realise how reliant on the internet I really am :/
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