one day and counting

one day to go.

tomorrow is dd’s last day at nursery. She didn’t really want to go today, but I’ve got visions of tantrums if she didn’t go and then realised that she wasn’t going again, so I eventually got her there for lunchtime. Then I tootled off to hobbycraft and bought craft supplies for camp next week – have offered to do a session making felt bracelets or foam monsters (or some such) or do some paper folding. Quite looking forward to it…

aargh….dp has just come in from outside with white hair instead of grey – it’s snowing! This could make the whole camp thing a bit more difficult!

Anyway, bumped into the mother of dd’s best friend at nursery as I was going to pick up tonight, so managed to have a little chat. Hoping to keep in touch with them, but aware that it is going to be a lot of work to do it – they live in Sheffield, both parents work, and H is in nursery two days and pre-school another two. Like her mother said, it’s going to be school holidays. She was somewhat in awe of the idea that we are going to home-educate, but was of the opinion that dd would be fine as “she has two intelligent parents”. Nice to hear she thinks we are bright, but was trying to explain that we don’t really intend to do much in the way of teaching at least to begin with. Still, there you go.

Well, I’m actually avoiding several work emails that I need to do, so I’d better clear off and sort them. Then there’s dps nappy and maybe it will even be bed time.


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