{remembering} on this day, 21 years ago, I became a parent for the first time. Today is the first birthday with that offspring not here, but we zoomed together to make cinnamon buns, and had breakfast with her sitting on a screen at the table.
{playing} my zombie game. I play one of these settlement building team games on my phone, and have for a long time now. And tonight we had one of the team events, and I tried out my new headset and joined voice chat, and we lost horribly, but it was still fun.
{thinking} about how to crochet a sphere. I think I’m going to follow this guide for the sphere for my first pokemon make, which will be Voltorb.
{eating} leftover cinnamon buns and chocolate. Oops.
{reading} The Midnight Guardians to the kids at bedtime, and not very much else (keep up with our bedtime readalouds via this #affiliate bookshop list). Not quite sure where my focus us. Probably off killing zombies.
{shopping} for an elderly neighbour and online for books for igcse. (Why is it that one of the very few books that I managed to get around to clearing out of the house is the book that next offspring needs? Honestly. I got rid of it as I assumed that if smaller children got around to this course that the syllabus would have changed!)
{wishing} I’d kept up these posts.
{keeping} a daily art practice up courtesy of 642 Tiny things to draw (found in a charity shop over a year ago) #affiliate bookshop button for more info (and to try out bookshop affiliate buttons)
{snapshots}
Big is now out in the big wide world at university, but visiting home regularly by video call. So while not being able to see her regularly is kind of difficult, at least we’re still in touch.
(NotSo)SmallTeen is remotely colleging a couple days a week, which is not ideal for a performance music course, but does at least give him some kind of structure.
Smallest is struggling slightly with lack of social activities, but that’s a common problem for many people right now I think, she has started auditing a GCSE course, and has branched out into digital art (you can find her (supervised) on insta here.
Tigerboy is at the needs to find a focus/ interest stage of development, and is keeping up a long running streak on duolingo, reading widely and learning to code.
I’m contemplating trying out some game development – I keep looking at this unity bundle for game development (#affiliate link) – but I would need to source a different machine, as you can’t code on a Chromebook. And then I wonder about getting an apple machine of some description, so that Smallest could try out Apple art, and NSST could do some of his music stuff on the DAWs they use in college, and then I run round in circles trying to determine what machine would be a good buy and buy nothing.
In other news, a very wonderful imaginary person sent me a rainbow tape whale. So that was good.
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