Perspective

or lack thereof.

Big is still at the stage where every time she draws a picture we get an inch along the bottom of ground, a sun in the sky (which if it’s coloured in is an inch of blue across the top) and 80% of the paper left white. We’re looking right now at doing the texere yarns competition – our summer colour way thread pack arrived this morning, and she’s planning a wildflower meadow. I’m thinking of getting some aida to sew stuff onto [pause, actually I seem to remember some green in our craft box, which will be ideal as if it shows through, it’ll show through as green 🙂 ] and then I’m going to do some crochet poppies to stand out in three d and so on, but I’m failing to demonstrate what I can see quite clearly.

I’ve shown her lots of pictures of wildflower meadows, none of which have big white bits, but each time she goes back to her paper and resolutely adds another flower to the bottom.

Is this a stage she needs to work through by herself or is there anything I can do to help? Ought to get out one of the drawing with children books that are lying around the place really – the last thing I want to do is damage her enthusiasm, but the big white patch really winds me up!

In other news, I’m slowly catching on to rumblings in the home ed community of concern of another government initiative that may impact on our freedom to education as we see fit. I’m not on any home ed lists atm other than EarlyYearsHE, due to the fact that we flexi school, and also when I’m at work, I’m there 5 days a week. Doesn’t leave a lot of time for list reading. But this sounds like something I need to know about and be active about – does anyone have any info they can share with me? I’ve already left comments on a couple of blogs that have mentioned it in the hopes that someone will enlighten me.

Small still isn’t overly well – he didn’t get up til gone 11 today, which is unheard of. He then proceeded to eat three bowls of cereal mind, so I don’t think he’s overly ill either! I didn’t get up very early today – had a stinking headache, and as I could, I slept it off rather than taking anything. Getting slightly worried about my projected return to work – my role is not stress free by any stretch of the imagination, and two weeks out has reminded me how much I like not being at work too. Don’t get me wrong, I like working, but I wish there were a better way to balance our life. Unspoken plans to have another baby and then take time off on maternity look less and less likely to come to fruition, so I think I need to be working on another way forward. I know once I’m back in work, I’ll hide these feelings even from myself and drown them in devotion to the cause, so I’m blogging them partly to remind myself.

hohum.

Must sort out some bits this afternoon, and make a start on some more making.